Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-30
IN THE HOTEL LOBBIES.

| GUIDED.
IN THE HOTEL LOBBIES.
| I'VE have justice of the peace down in
| our part of the country who has the most
original ways Of Interpreting the law" said
Judge L. ]. Mckay of Virginia in the lobby
| of the Arlington last night. "It seems that
| he was once a gay young man and spent
many of his evenings playing euchre,' the
| judge continued, land he was so popular
| that he was made president Of the county
| euchre club. After the great American
| game came to take the place of the right
| and left bowers the euchre club was turned
| into a debating society, the same officers
| being continued in the new organization.
| Now, the young man of whom l speak be-
| came a great exponent of parliamentary
law. He would rule any one of his oppo-
nents off the floor at any time, and
vince the club that he right about it,
whether he was or not. That set the peo-
| pie to thinking, and they decided that a
| man with such a good understanding of
| the general fitness of things ought to be
| in a more exalted position than a mere
| clerk in the country store the position the
| young man was holding. SO they dubbed
| together and had him appointed a justice
| of the peace
| at so happened that the first case the
| new Justice was called upon to decide con-
Cerneu Sucn a private matter that every
| one but the parties directly interested in
| the suit and their attorneys Were excluded
| from the court. The defendant for
| tunate enough to retain two lawyers to
| plead his cause, while the plaintiff had only
one. After the court had called the as
| semblage of five persons to order he listened
in dignified silence to the statements of the
| opposing counsel. asking no question, but
giving all concerned to understand that he
was thoroughly familiar with the law in
| the case. Finally one of the attorneys for
| the defense rose and said:
| ""Your honor, 1 move that the defendant
| be dismissed. You have heard the state
| ment of the distinguished attorney for the
| plaintiff and are fully acquainted with the
| facts
Before the lawyer had taken his seat his
| associate in the said:
l second that motion, your honor
1t has been moved and seconded that
| the defendant be dismissed bawled out his
| honor at the top of his voice. Gentlemen.
are you ready for the question:
"'Question" called both attorneys for the
defense at once, while the opposing counsel
| stood aghast.
Then said the justice, 'all who are in
| favor of that motion will signify their as
| sent by saying aye"
The two counsel and the defendant
yelled, Aye.
And those opposed will say NO
The plaintiff and his attorney vocifer-
ated No.
1.-The ayes" appear to have 1.-THE
"Ayes'' have It, continued the justice, and
| the defendant Is dismissed
The case was decided quite as well as it
would have been had the law been con-
strued according to conventional methods,
and the parliamentary training of the JUS
tice stood him in good stead"
Senator Spooner was kept busy the other
evening receiving the congratulations of his
friends who fiocked about him in the lobby
of his hotel The senator's recent speech
before his colleagues has attracted great
deal of attention and the faithful repub-
lcans gathered to make merry
Il had the facts all right" he told them
but certainly had hard time delivering
that speech. and l do not think it sounded
very Well. 1t was a sort of continued-in-
our-next affair. and required a great deal
of physical strength. l commenced to
speak Wednesday and not permitted
to finish until late Friday afternoon
Well. its almost all over now. 1 think
Congress will adjourn the 9th. OF course
you can never tell. l had talk with SEN
ator Allison yesterday and he told me the
appropriation bills would be out of the
way by that time, and there is nothing
else to keep There will be no Phillip
pine legislation this session; the democrats
Will not let us pass anything of the kind.
There is strong democratic opposition to
the Nicaraguan bill. too, although that is
not generally known"
These variety comedians who talk about
modations in a barber chair would have
seen something calculated to make their
hair stand on end had they loafed around
this hosteiry the first part of the week.
the clerk OF a large uptown hotel vouch-
Safed to a Star reporter. IF the barber
shop had been as large as the dining room
the proprietor of this house would have
been a few dollars richer today. 1 have
never seen such a crowd in all my ten
years of experience a manipulation of
the bell boy. We had prepared to receive
a throng with the Shriners, but we did not
calculate on the mob that came here clam
ofing for accommodations.
I'VE did the best we could, though. We
put men out of rooms for the benefit of
women with small children. and every room
had more occupants than it ever had be-
fore In some instances we placed two
double beds in a room. and by putting them
side by side made room for six people.
Tuesday night was the worst of the entire
week. The rooms were filed, the barber
shop was filed. the lobby chairs were
crowded. and when a company of belated
fez wearers came in from the banquet and
wanted sleeping accommodations we placed
them in the billiard room. Yes. sir! They
slept on the billiard and pool tables and
put their collars and cuffs in the pockets.
That Is fact. 1 have heard the knock-a-
bouts talk about such things but they
should have been here" and his adjectives
ran out
Mr.. Jules Won Mayhoff of New York.
brother-in-law of Representative Levy Of
that city. Is in the city for few days, and
Is stopping at the Arlington
IT only came down to look on during the
expiring hours of this session of Congress-"
he said last night washington is beau
tiful city in May, and I try to get down
here, for few days at least each year.
have no political or commercial business to
transact. and am simply taking a needed
rest from the cares Of business