The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-10
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NEW LEGAL LIGHTS
Thirty-TWo Diplomas Given
AS Attorneys and Coun-
sellors-at-LaW
ABOUT 1000 AT THE BAR
Lawyers Increasing at the Rate
of Seyenty-Five Per ADnum
"A Solitary Woman.
ABOUT 1000 AT THE BAR
Special to the jersey CITY Neus.

Special to the Jersey City Ners.
TRENTON, Nov. 10, 1S96.-New Jerseys
| list of lawyers was augmented yesterday
by the names of thirty-two young men
who successfully passed the written and
oral examinations for a-ttorney-at-law.
There were only ten attorneys who took
the counsellors' examinations. The sue
cessful candidates in the two classes. with
their addresses. are as follows
Admitted as attorneys-at-law:-Joseph
A. Duffy, Jersey City; Harry Meyers,
| Passaic; Robert M. Clark, Plainfield;
Thomas L. Raymond. Newark; George W.
Bird, Plainfield; Irving L. Brady, Plain
field; A. P. Konkle, Chatham; John j.
Hoppin, Newark; Gustavus NJ. Belfatto,
| Newark; Abram H. Cornish, Phinfield;
Richard B. Duyekinck, Morristown;
| Marion H. Henderson, Newark; Freder-
lex J. Faulks, Elizabeth; Joseph Garri-
| son, Newark; Charles r. Farquhar, Pater-
son; VIM. +. Garrison, Pemberton; John
Sherman, Newark: Joseph H.. Lefferts,
Passaic Marshal Miller, Belvidere; Doug
las d. T. Story, Jersey City; j. Emil
Walscheid. Town of Union; Patrick J.
Dolly. Jersey City; Walter Collins, Jer-
sey City: Michael Sugrue. Newark; How
ard c. Grifhths, Jersey City; Leo Erd-
wurm, Jersey City; Randall B. Lewis.
Paterson; John F. Cahill. Newark; Sam
uel Schleimer, Elizabeth; Walter R. Hud-
| son, Paterson; Wilbur Var Houten. Pater-
son; Lewis r. McCulloch, Hoboken.
Admitted as counsellors-at-law:-A. J.
Brunson. Elizabeth; Thomas P. McKenna.
Long Branch; Ernest F. Keer, Newark;
Horace c. Giece, Newark; William H
Lytle, Princeton; John T. Brown, Eliza
beth; Frank Weight. Newark; jeremiah
A. Herman, Elizabeth; James R. Nugent,
Newark; Frederic E.. Chamberlain, Jersey
City.
The attorneys examination was con-
Quoted by William D. DAILY. w. B. voor-
hees n Chauncey G. Parker, and the
| counsellors' examination by Francis J..
| Swayze and Alan H. Strong.
The young men admitted yesterday
bring New Jerseys Est of lawyers UP to
the twentieth hundred mark. There is a
lawyer for every 900 Inhabitants. or one
for every 200 citizens. OF the member at
the bar, there are upwards of 400 who
do not practice. but nave gone into some
ether business. and about 800 more who
do praetice-just when and where the
records do not show. And notwithstand-
| ing that we have enough lawyers and even
to spare, the making of new lawyers goes
on with more or less activity. The rate
| of increase is about rs a year.
Many VINO take the attorney examina-
ton never become counsellors. The list
| of applicants for the former examination
always comprises from % to IS names,
1 while those who aspire to become coun-
| sellers seldom number over a dozen at
any examination. 1t is an interesting fact
| thaf ar man xUhn hq yro hAan a,0vafad
to the judiciary in recent years were not
counsellors. This was the case when SEN
ator Werts was appointed to the Supreme
| Court bench. He was not a counsellor at
the time, and a few days before he was
sworn into Office he was made a coun-
sellor by grace. Senator William d. DAILY,
of Hudson was made a district Judge be-
fore he was a counsellor. Robert S.
| Hudspeth, although Corporation Attorney
for Jersey City, was only an attorney at
| law, and he became a counsellor so that
Hudson county to succeed Job Lippincott.
Trenton has upwards of 100 lawyers,
and nearly a score of young Trentonians
are about ready to make their debut.
There is only one Jersey girl who can
go into court and defend her sisters or
brothers, as the case may be. She is
| Miss Mary Philbrooke, of Jersey City.
1t is only a short time since she appear
ed as attorney In a divorce case in Hud-
son county. Miss Philbrook came to
| Trenton a couple of winters ago, and.
3AiAS AEa1o A&o q va tlSoC ctAlC Ills
females to be admitted to practice at the
bar. Last winter she had a bill passed
allowing members of the gentler sex to
be made masters-or mistresses-in Chan
Gerry. 1t is quite probable that Miss Phil
brook will succeed at the coming session
in having a law enacted to permit Jer-
sey girl lawyers to be admitted as coun-
s%ellors. Whether she has Bench aspira-
tons or not Is not known.
There are numerous other young Jersey
girls who are studying Blackstone, and it
ryi1l nfalu h a ypoffnf IF q ~ fxrn
when we may expect to see the fair
sex arguing for the rights of man.
What a strange contrast will be the
lavender-scented court rooms of the fu-
ture with the tobacco-smelling atmos-
phere that now permeates many of them
In Trenton some OF the brightest men of
lawyers. and the Grand DID Man" of
the Bar, is Mercer Beasley, Chief JUS
tice. He was made an attorney in 1888
and a counsellor. In 1912, and is now in his
Justice fer thirty-two years, and is sti.l
a very lively old gentleman. who thinks
n no onlg,o Of s srd z 7, up . al H. night dgr i to finish finish
belief tina the chief Justice writes an
opinion today with as much clearness and
He ge'G is "a a 81 graduate Of fPe Princeton Ta' IN a he
class Of 1885, and Is one of half a dozen
survivors Of that class. His hobby is
Himself an amateur. but there are few
experts that can handle the chisel with
better effect.
Attorney General Stockton began his
legal career in 1S47. He has for almost a
generation been the law officer OF the
State. He has figured prominently in poll
tics. In the United States Senate and in
the diplomatic service. He is still to be
found every day at his desk in the State
House. The Attorney Generals official
term is drawing to a close. There is no
doubt but that he will be succeeded by
a Republican. and it is understood that
he VIII continue to practice, notwithstand-
ing that he IS seventy Years Of age.
Few Jerseymen AVE the extended reputa-
ton OF George NJ. Robson. He was born
IN Warren county, Of an old New Jersey
family. and became an attorney at law
IN 1851. He hung out his first Single in
Jersey city, and was then made 'Proseau-
tor Of the Pleas in Camden county. He
became prominent in national politics.
and was made Secretary Of the Navy I'M
der General Grant. Probable few men.
with the exception of James G.. Blaine.
have figured SO conspicuously in the funny
publications. He was q target
for the catoonists and car.ca.
tursts who were active at the time
CT Grant, administration Robson ran
for Congress and me- his political death.
Colonel Morris r.. Hamilton, the oracle
Of the State Library, is one Of the old
lawyers Of the State. He was admitted
in 1S4s, but abandoned law for newspaper
work. and IL devotinR his leisure hours
to writing q history OF New Jersey.
Justice Bennett Van syckel. who lives
On GreenWood avenue. Is considered one
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