Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-10-27
THEWATCHRUNS(OURT.
DEAD SEAMAN'S EFFECT
has EARNED A REPUTATION
BY THIS THE COURT ROOM CLOCK
is sET-AN EXAMPLE TO THE
JUDICIARY TIME
PIECES.

One can rarely find two clocks in
the Judiciary building which are OF
one mind as to the time of day.
! To begin with, the big clock in the
tower is often OFF, requiring constant
coaxing and encouragement. Even its
four faces don't always agree, and
Ithen the old time.piece Is at outs with
itself like a twofaced man confronted
unexpectedly with his bi.faciality.
Causes of irregularity in the tower
clock are numerous, more numerous
than the minute marks on its face.
! Once a mynah bird perched on the
minute hand as 1t recorded the quar-.
ter.hour, and set II on seven minutes.
Once cheerful idiot, of the species
which writes nonsense on white walls
In jury rooms. let a string with a loop
and weight over the top of the tower
and, catching the point of the minute
hand after much industrious fishing
drew II taut and made 1t fast, causing
the big hand to be held stationary for
hours, until the string was removed.
Usually, however, the large ticker's
mistakes are due to very commonplace
causes.
In the Supreme Court room an hon.
disappearing, openfaced clock loafs
by the hour-having nothing to do but
"kill time. When Supreme Court Is
In session this clock is set to rights
before the Justices take the bench.
Now that the Territorial grand jury
is holding sessions in this apartment
II has to keep fairly straight, for the
grand Jurors are not wasting time.
Y Bailiff Ellis is the guardian of the
handsome mural time.recorder in
Judge Gears criminal court. He sets
It every morning by his own pocket
chronometer BY the way, why Is 1t
that witness so often glances uncon.
sciously at the court room clock when
being questioned in regard to dates,
days OF the month, seasons, years? A
prisoner, just sentenced, will some.
times stare, dazed, at the clock.
The clock in the United States Mar.
shal's Office has registered 9:52, wheth.
er a. m. or p. m, It Is Of course impos.
sible to tell, for several days.
1t is evidently out of order. U. S.
Marshal +. r. Hendry and Deputy Win.
ter have been so rushed with impor.
tant work lately they probably have
little time to spare setting clocks. Be.
sides, they both carry handsome peck.
ct pieces and invariably consult them
when the question of the hour is con.
cerned.
The time.piece of greatest reliability
In the building (private gold watches
, and fobs here not considered as figur.
ing in the Competition). is a large.
plain, silver.cased. old.fashioned watch
In the office of the Clerk of the United
States District Court. This watch was
once the property of sailor. Jack
has no use for 1t now for he is where
time is no more. Jack has gone
aloft"
When the owner was alive this faith
full old timc.pieCe, probably the only
reminder OF home and loved ones
which he carried with him to sea, trav
eled thousands OF miles with him over
the oceans of the world. Then he set
II by the sun. When the brave sailor
went to his watery grave in the dis
charge of his perilous duties, his few
effects were taken care of and later
came into the hands of the Federal
Court.
When the clerks office Is opened uI
in the morning the dead seaman's old
silver watch, with Identifying tag at
tached, Is the first thing taken from
the big safe. II Is placed on the desk
J OF Clerk w. b. Mailing. open, and there
remains all day, to be consulted by all
in the office, to regulate the large clock
, on the wall, to correct the watches OF
} many lawyers and others who, having
business there, incidentally inquire as
to the correct time.
1t is required that all such articles
in the keeping of the court shall BIZ
locked in the safe when the Office II
closed Occasionally Mr.. Mailing will
close the safe in the evening inadver
Itently leaving out the time-piece of tn,
departed mariners. Then he remem
bers and needs must open the grea
steel box to put away the property o
him who has exchanged time for eter
nifty.
] This faithful time-keeper controls
the setting OF the Federal court room
clock, so that the time Of the sitting o
the United States Court Is guided b,
: an unhandsome but reliable old exhibi
in the case of one who followed the Sc
and whom the sea has claimed. Thi
modest watch is an example for tn
many big clocks In the Judiciary builC
ing which are always requiring after