The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-02
JUDGES HoXES.
How the Members Of the Supreme
Court act When Of Duty.

Although the supreme court OF the
United States is the most solemn body
in the world, the nine men who COM
pose it are not unlike other men when
once they have thrown aside their
robes and have said good-by for the
day to the great judges chairs.
All of the judges have comfortable
home lives. and most of them own fine |
mansions in Washington where they |
must spend the rest of their lives by
virtue Of their Office, which is for life.
They receive an annual salary OF ten
thousand dollars and after few years
of judgeshjp they fall into the easy
way of thinking which was expressed
to me by one of the most honorable
Judges himself Il have only my sala-
ry' and ! spend every cent of it. But
there is big insurance upon my life
and that will provide for the wife and
children in perpetuity | think"
All the judges have families and it
has been suggested that, if the presi-
dent we're to appoint a Judge who had
never married, 1t would be putting a
premium upon bachelor-hood which
would bode badly for the home inter
ests of the country.
Chief Justice Melville H. Fuller was
appointed by President Cleveland IN
1888. He has mansion on the corner
of Eighteenth street and Massachu-
setts avenue. 1t is one of the largest
houses IN Washington, and it would
be an easy thing to lose yourself in It..
From the outside it attracts the yisl-
tors gaze from its aristocratic and ex-
elusive appearance Inside the rooms
are monsters. Every room on the
ground floor could be used as a ball
room; and alf are furnished in dark
Oriental tapestries and hanglngs
Heavy velvet and Turkish carpets Gov
: er the floor, and when you walk The
only sound you near is your own RUS
tie
, On the next floor Is the chief JUS
+ tees library and it is by far the lar
gest and most luxurious Of any library
9 of the justices OF the Supreme court
1t has eight windows, and you coulC
o easily divide it up into five very com
, Portable rooms. Judge Fuller's desl
faces three windows and shining acros
!. il s;dewise are three more. The desl
itself is long solid fat-topped desk
The top is usually Uttered with paper
and a stack of legal books. Betweel
the windows and around every avalla
BILE wall space are book cases filled wit
precious volumes. And over the doc
as YOU enter is a liie-slzed portrait {
the late Judge Blatchford.
h Judge Fuller has eight chlldrel
= seven daughters and one son. Thre
% Of the daughters are married, one
% still in school and the other three al
+, recognized bellies of their set. The so
is the baby of the family He Is onl
thirteen and goes to school.
Judge George Shiras, appointed b
Harrison In '92, is one of the mo
a pleasing gentlemen you will meet IN
life time.
Judge Shiras has magnificent sui
Of apartments in the Arlington hot
on the third floor, comprising seve
rooms. There is a fine reception roor
a beautiful large parlor overlooking Il
park ana there are the Judges slee
ing room. his study, his library al
two rooms sacred to Mrs. Sliras. 4
furnished with things picked up
travel.
m The Judge has two sons, both pra
ticinp law in Pittsburgh, and he is We
proud Of being the grandfather OF
o0 vounr man in kits. The child
IL George Shiras, third. And until t
ry death last summer, of Judge Sh'r
gh father, he was George Shiras the foIirt
bo The Judge says that MOTEL lite does :,
meet his ideas of home 50 he is nes
N tiating for handsome house III t
lei fashionable part OF Washington IL
MS. which he moves th is year.
eat Judge Horace Grey lives IN lal
nd square house on | street Outside ii
. plain. but inside it is all luxury, ev
to tho Ruttons which greet YOU as y