The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-04
WINE |A--W|T TOO
Hudson County Bar Dimes
Daintily and Talks En-
tertainingly.
GREAT GATHERING OF LUMINARIES
Chief Justice Magic and Judge
Collins the Guests of
Honor.
NEW STORIES FROM NEW YORK
Judge Goodrich Tells Stories and
Otto Grouse Cracks Jokes
The New Governor
Heard From.

Once a year the lawyers of Hudson
county leave their clients alone, drop
their law books and briefs and rush off
to the Hotel Washington to eat a good
dinner, sass the judges and nominate
governors. Last night all these things
took place. and in the history of the
Hudson County Bar Association never
was there so large an attendance at the
annual roast. This was because it was
designed as a compliment to Chief Justice
Magic and Justice Gilbert Collins, as we'll
as the tenth celebration: for, as Otto
Grouse pleasantly put it, 1.-The association
dimes annually and drinks perennially."
The dinner was also remarkable for the
many distinguished people present and
the excellence Of the speeches.
The president of the association, Mr..
Charles H. Hartshorne, was absent be-
cause of sickness at home, and Mr.. Flavel
MCGEE took his place, having on his
right and left Chief Justice w. ]. Magic,
Justice. Gilbert Collins, Acting Governor
Foster NJ. Voorhees,, Justice JOB H. Lip
pincott, Justice Jonathan Dixon, Chief
Justice w. w. Goodrich of the Appellate
Division of the New York Supreme Court,
Judge Franklin Fort of Newark. James
II. Clifford of the New York Bar, Senator
William NJ. Johnson of Bergen and Mr..
Ctso Grouse.
Dclow the salt sat ~ex-Judge Lewis of
Paterson, Judge Atwater of Elizabeth.
Judge John A. Blair, Judge James S.
Erwin. Judge Joseph D. Bedle, Judge
Abel L. Smith, ex-Judge A. @. Garretson,
ex-Judge Puster, Judge Chas. W. Parker,
Justice Potts. r. ]. Wortendyke. Charles
L. Carrick. George G. Tenant, John w.
Heck, Marshall Van Wrinkle, R. f. Rabe,
John A. Nugent, j.. L. Keller. r.
O. Babbitt. Isaac Romaine, c. Chris
lie, E. W. Demarest, Horace Robertson,
Charles H. Biohm. Henry S. White, John
wahl Queen, E. S. Cowles. William A.
Lewis, o. Callaghan. John S. Mabon, c..
De r. Leonard, James F. Fielder, Will
lam r. Barricklo, Leon Albeit, Robert
L. Fleming, Alexander C. Young, James
B. ~yredenburgh, w. H. Speer. Jr., Chas.
c. Black, Max 7. Rosenberg, A. c. Wall,
De Witt Van Buskirk. Clarence Linn,
Henry ~Traphagen, Randolph Parmly,
james Anderson. Peter James, Pierre F.
Cook, James Palmer, John Griffin, War
rem Dixon, Randolph Perkins, C. W.. Wen
ner, Joseph A. Duffy, Robert Carey, Ham
ilton Wallis. William D. Edwards. Will
idm u. PuIuSteurmJdIHeS L NOftHIups L.
A. Schumann, Charles B. Hughes, John J.
Mulvaney, Washington B. Williams, Guy
l. Edwords, Isaac S.. Taylor, James A.
Gordon. John S. McMaster. James H.
1sbills. George l.. Record, William F.
Midlige. Henry v. Condict, Mungo Cur
RE. E. A. S. Mann, Frederick Frambach,
Max Salinger. Randolph Bedle. A. L.
Drayton. w. c. Cudhpp, James F.. Bowen.
w. G. E. See, Isaac F. Goldenhorn, NJ.
Curley, Walter Collins, Spencer Weart,
+. Stuhr, JOIN Weller. G. Flaacke, -
Rurode and r. NJ. Babbitt.
This was the dinner served
Huitres Amontillado
Blue Points on Deep Shell
Lake State Celery
Consomme Printaniere Royal
Sailed Almonds Crescent Olives
Hothouse Cucumbers
Poisson Haul Sauterne.
Boiled Kennebec Salmon
Lobster Sauce
Sliced Tomatoes
Pommes on Surprises
Tenderloin of Beef
Larded a la Jardiniere
French Peas
Lobster a la Newburgh
Roman Punch
Philadelphia SQUAD on roast
Potato Croquettes
Fried Hominy Currant Jelly
Glaces Tortoni Bon Bons ...
Entremets Liqueurs
Fromages Toasted Biscuit Fruits
Cafe Havana Cigars
Gentlemen of the Hudson county bar, .
began Mr.. MCGEE when speech time ar
rived. lit is my pleasure to welcome you
to our annual dinner, on which OCCASION,
as you know, we invite our Judges SO
that we can talk back at them and sass
them, Gaughter) We have with us the
Chief Justice whom we delight to honor.
Justice Collins. whom. we all know and
esteem, and our new Governor. We don't
often get a chance at him, but we've got
it tonight. 1~Laughter.) Some things
might be said and some left unsaid. The
practice of the law wags on in this State.
as we all expect it to, for New Jersey
has a good reputation for justice. and /
don't think we ought to change our
ways Mr.. MCGEE referred briefly to the
Constitutional amendments and before in
ter regretting absence from Chancellor
McGill.
Mr. Justice Collins on rising to respond
to the toast of 1.-THE Responsibilities of
the Bar was loudly applauded and he
began with a motto of Joseph Choate,
who. at a recent dinner given to United
States Judges, said. wv are all lawyers
here except the Judges" That antithesis,
said Mr.. Collins. would serve to bring
before his audience the fact that the
Judges were first of all lawyers. Just as
the Government of England consisted Of
a committee of the House of Commons,
so the judges are simply a committee of
the bar. Judges have no special training,
for they step from the forum to the bar
AIN England" Mr.. Collins continued,
when there was a plethora of business
the sergeants-at-law tried causes, and in
America the system is much the same
with referees in the courts of law and
special masters in the equity courts. SO
thai judges are chosen to administer a
science which they before exempliied.
Then o lawyers in a sense are the
judges. because they. make the laws prac-
tically. The responsibilities Of the bar
are threefold: the lawyer. citizen and
man. AS lawyers it is our duty to help
the court to develop the law, argue with
earnest zeal and with -anspare sin
certify Cloud aughter and some one
shouted Don't get PERSONALLY
If 1 thought retorted the Justice, 1T
manifested your true sentiments / would
despair of the Hudson county bar.
Proceeding, the speaker said the bar
stood for liberty and no popular move
ment ever succeeded without them.
Lawyers have always stood on the side
Of right a. freedom and 1t beloved