New-York tribune., 1901-11-17
GOSSIP OF THE BOROUGH

The recent election in Brooklyn has furnished
striking example Of what earnest young man
may accomplish in New-York without either money
friends TO boost him up the ladder of success
Raymond V. Ingerson, who was elected as magis-
trate-at-large the fusion ticket. was practically
unknown when the campaign opened He was
a young lawyer, without any practice and without
influential friends He now has an office which
will pay him salary of $500 year for six years
and furnish him unlimited opportunity for making
valua BILE friends and doing something for humanity
which worth while. Ingersoll graduate
from Amherst College in the class Of 81 Without
money TO carry his law studies he came TO
New-York and went into University Settlement
work which offered field FOR congenial labor. At
the time. ii gave him opportunity Of earn
ing something to assist him in his course in the
New-York Law School. There he partially paid his
way by acting assistant monitor A hard stu
dent ne was graduated with honor in the spring of
1900. and in July of that year admitted to the
BE him to establish law practice, Young IngersoH
turned to University Settlement work and became me
Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Interested in good government. !nserson allied
himself with the Citizens Union movement in the
lid Assembly District, q heavily Democratic dis
trict and elected delegate to the convention.
Largely by chance. he was chosen as a member OF
the nominating committee of forty by Michael j.
FIaherty. the chairman of the Citizens Union in
that way Ingersoll became acquainted with the
leaders In the movement and was placed on the
conference committee OF 1--WE, which WreStIed with
Lieutenant Governor Woodruff for the privilege of
naming r. Ross Appleton as candidate for borough
president. At these conferences IngersOlls ability
and Judgment recognized Finally the distri-
button of various offices gave the selection of
the candidate for magistrate-at-large to the Citi-
Union This honor was not sought and there
aspirants for the nomination among the
members of the Citizens Union. 1t had almost been
decided to relinqush the right this nomination.
when one of the Citizens Union leaders said to In
IngersoI replied that he was. but had had little
experience and did feel capable of taking such
a nomination Much against his will. Ingersoll
night and day he worked for the success OF the
fusion ticket. on the stump. in the and in
bly, District IngersOl labored with such good effect
that the normal Democratic majority was cut
election the young man awoke TO fnd himself saIe-
a n elected b to good 9Ge o for which many an Older
In spite of his youth and inexperience. those who
know him predict that Ingersoll will be most sue
bright mind he has made the most of his edu,,
catonal advantages. An instinctively Just and
duties of a police magistrate by the University
Settlement work among the class of people with
whom he will have largely to deal.
An anecdote told by Ingersoll himself of his first
client will example of his kindly and
charitable disposition. Just after he admitted
to the bar one OF the unfortunates in whom the
workers of the Maxwell House had been inter-
ested got into the clutches of the law. Ingersoll
volunteered defend him in the police court. In
client fined $40 Chasrined at his own failure,
and sorry for the unfortunate client, who saw Jail
pay the fne-Ingersoll took the last SO note in
his pocketbook and handed 1t to the court clerk
gerson has been the means of saving many poor
man unjustly entrapped in the meshes OF the law.