The sun., 1895-12-27
JUDGE MooRE,s $4,000 FEE.
A Graceful Recognition of His Service 20
Kings County.

| Graceful Recognition of His Service to
Kings County.
| Probably the only judicial Christmas present
| given In this locality this season was the one re-
ceved by County Judge Henry A. Moore of
Brooklyn, who lies very i'll Mt the Clarendon
| Hotel. 1t was in the form of n $4,000 check
presented by Lawyer Jerc. a. Weinberg in be-
| half Of the Board of Supervisors Of Kings
county. who unanimously voted tho money. In
n sense the gift was a payment OF an old debt but
much more it was a testimonial Of the regard
| felt by men OF all parties In Brooklyn for the
| Judge who has spent twenty seven years of his
life on the bench. In a few days. If he lives so
| long. Judge Moore's tenure Of office will expire
| by time Limitation, for he is nearly 20 years
| old.
| In Brooklyn politics there has been for years
| no man of more marked Individuality than
Judge Moore. He was not politician IN the
ordinary meaning of the term. At no time
while he was County Judge has he taken any
active part in party politics. and while he has
always been n Democrat both parties have
united upon him year after year Cor tho place
he holds. Personally he has always been quiet
in his habits: good deal OF n domestic man.
From his homo to the court room in the morn
ing, from the court room to his home In the
afternoon, 10 the club for n short time in the
evening. ana then back home again, such was his
daily programme. varying little for years. On the
days when the court was not in session he would
spend his afternoons walking with Mrs. Moore,
both OF them being good pedestrians. Among
lawyers Judge Moore has always beon very
popular because OF the impartialty Of his con-
duct OIL the bench and because OF his kindly
consideration of the younger lawyers who came
before him. TO professional criminals he is a
terror His memory for faces and circum-
stances and the connection between them was
remarkable. and there was little chance for an
offender who had once been before him to plead
primum tempus on second arraignment,
though years might have passed and the Grim
inal might be greatly changed in appearance.
On the other hand he was lunient where he saw
anv chance for reformation. Sound, kindly
advice W ith light sentences was q frequent COM
bination In his court.
patience was the effort of citizens to shirk jury
duty. He held jury duty TO be above business
or incapacity.
Are you SO deaf as to be unable to hear Or
dinary testimony ~ he once asked man who
had pleaded defective hearing.
Yes, your Honor, think am" was the re-
You are excused" said Judge Moore. turning
his head away. but when the juror jumped up
with alacrity he was ordered to sit down. and
was treated to scathing arragnment for his
OF late years Judge Moore's main interests
ciety he cares nothing and for the activity OF
politics less. So devoted was he TO his duty as
q Judge that no considered the drawing of ju-
rors for which n County Judge may collect fees.
as part of his proper work, for which he was
paid in his salary. All told, the fees which he
has foregone would amount to about 500. 900.
His Christmas present is sort OF back paymeng
for this unclaimed sum. AS he has lived we'll
up to his income the money was needed now
that that income viii lapse. He had put great
deal of money into a very valuable library.
the Hotel Regent when he moved there. 1t was
utterly destroyed in the great fire that burned
the Regent and tho Tabernacle.
Judge MoOres one standing complaint against
Brooklyn WAS its ll-yentilated Court House:
He used to say that his court room contained
air that was half poison, and that every person
who entered the place shortened bis life with
every breath. Whenever he was i'll he blamed
10 to the air OF that court ROOM This was one
reason fer his urging his old friend Bernard
York not to run for County Judge Mt the last
election. There was another reason too.
"If you run you'll be elected. and then you
and can't go into partnership when my term Is
over"
York ran and was defeated. Judge Moore is
hyin