The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-03
LAWYERS Dine.
Annual Gathering Of the
Hudson County Bar As
sociation Last Night.
Mr.. PITNEY'S DECENNIAL
Bright Speeches From Able
Men.-Mr. Edwards Urges
Consolidation.

meet together. eat a good dinner and taik
shop. That was what took place las'
night when the members of the Bar Asso-
citation sat in the dining hall of the Hotel
Washington. They had with them as
guests Judges, who, having laid aside de-
crees and decisions, simply confined them
selves to opinions on the good things set
before then.
Mr. Charles H. Hartshorne presided,
having on his right Vice Chancellor pit
ney, Joseph Coult of Newark Washing
ton B. Williams and Judge H. M. Nevius.
To his left were:-Judge William J.
Gaynor of Brooklyn, Supreme Court JUS
tees Jonathan Dixon, Gilbert Collins and
Job H Lippincott; F'lavel MCGEE, Charles
D. Thompson, James B. Vredenburgh, M.
r. Rosenberg Otto Grouse, Charles l..
Carrick, John S. McMaster, George l..
Record, Edward Manners, H. V. Condict,
A. I. Drayton, w. F. Midlige, Charles
Kelley, Charles c. Black, Mungo Currie,
w. B. Gilmore Albert C. Wall. J. Herbert
Potts. John Griffin, ]. W. r. Besson, Con-
gressman-elect DAILY, James P. Gordon,
Max Salinger, John A. Nugent, George G..
Tenant, Robert Laurence R. Wander
Water, Edward O'Callaghan, Charles B.
Hughes, S. C. Mount, Henry Traphagen,
W. B. williams, J. W. Heck, Earle Insley,
Charles H. Jackson, ex-Judge Hudspeth,
ex-Judge Puster, Robert Carey, Joseph A.
Duffy, w. c. Fisk, Walter Collins, Charles
E. Hendrickson, Jr., Charles H. Blohm,
Elmer Demarest, Horace Robertson,
Prosecutor ]. S. Erwin, Judge Blair r. j.
Wortendyke, Walter L. McDermott,
Mervyn Armstrong, Lndley Garrison,
James MeManus, w. R. Barricklo, James
E. Pyle, De Witt Van Buskirk Judge
Charles W. Parker. Spencer Weart. John
W. Queen, Theodore Rurode.
This was the excellent repast, furnished
in Hotel Waldorf style:-
Huitres Amontillado
Blue Points on Half Shell
Lake State Celery
Consomme, Printaniere Royal
Poisson Haut sauterne
Boiled Kennebec Salmon,
Lobster Salad
Sliced Tomatoes Pommes Natural
Tenderloin of Beef,
Larded la Jardiniere
French Peas Pomme Croquettes
Chicken Pattie La Refine
Roman Punch
Roti Moet & Chandon
Philadelphia SQUAD on Toast
Fried Hominy Currant Jelly
Lettuce. French Dressing
Dessert
Tortoni Ice Cream Bon Bons
Entremets Liqueurs
Fromages Toasted Biscuit Fruits
Cafe Havana Cigars
AS the walters were moving around
with cigars and coffee, President Harts-
horne began the opening address by say
ing that lawyers had little play. He
then, like Mr.. Wegg, dropped into poetry
and tackled the expansion subject. Con-
cerning this, he said, large proportion
of lawyers shrank from wandering into
complicated, foreign policy 1t was a
crisis of great moment, and he feared
that it was not to the country's inter-
est to take seat in the council of ma
tions with arms in her hands. Turning
to professional topics, Mr.. Hartshorne
discussed at great length the question of
procedure and prefaced it with an in
quiry as to what Anglo-Saxons had done
for the mills of justice. The law of
procedure, he said, consisted of inflexi-
bility, mu4.4ruu1nous forms, fiction and
unwritten rule. These were means to
an end only and should not be allowed
to defeat the ends of Justice. Mr.. Harts-
horne's speech bristled with references
to such thrilling subjects as detinue,
replevin and trover. 1t was all very
learned, very able and very soothing to
the lawyers.
When Vice Chancellor Pitney was in
troduced to reply to ''An Equitable
al IA Ia oh bp
cradle judge to the echo. There was no
mistake about the welcome, and when si-
lence came the Vice Chancellor thanked
them for the compliment. He quietly
twitted some of the remarks, compliment
ed the committee. and then launched into
a breezy plain talk of ten years as an
equity judge.
'NThese Bar Associations" said Mr.. Pit
ney, 'are most important part of the
social structure. The bar sets the pace
for the honesty of the whole community.
Without an honest bar there can be no
bench. I remember that Judge Vreden-
burgh once told some one that a lawyer
should be the honestest man because he
is hearing discussed both sides of every
moral question, and if he isn't honest
there is something decidedly wrong. For
ten years 1 have been among you on the
Equity bench and if the Equity Bench
hasn't improved the Equity Bar has.
(Laughter) And particularly those who
have practiced before me. (Renewed
laughter), they are better today than
they were ten years ago. (Cheers.)
The Vice Chancellor spoke of the an
cient chancery practice when evidence
was taken before a master written out in
longhand, adjourned and postponed ad
infinitum, and what with the expenses of
taking testimony and delays it was a
costly and tedious procedure. He spoke
TO Chancellor Zabriskie about a plan to
relieve him of the heavy work and the re-
suit was that the bill which Mr.. Pitney
drew creating Vice Chancellor became
the law of today.
'The new method of trying cases
greatly increased these cases so rapidly
that Chancellor Runyon was overrun and
then Chancellor McGill who was obliged
to appoint more Vice Chancellors and
was fool enough to appoint me. daughter
and cries of you're all right.
sThirty years ago Chancellor did the
work, today 1t requires Chancellor and
five Vice Chancellors to dispose of the
work and If 1t wasn't for the engagements
of counsel in the common law courts,
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