The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-02
JUSTICE IN SECLCSION.
Magistrate Pool Finds Repose Under JEFF
fers0n Market Clock.

Magistrate Pool held court last week in
the private room under the red clock
tower of jefferson Market In the old
court room the bench was deserted. No
nfallible arbiter Of the lesser destinies
sat behind it. No John Foley. holder Of
the scales and sometimes he throws a
good word into the merciful side--stood
before 1t. No prisoner, trembling, de-
fart, or indifferent, waited at the iron bar
with the light from the high narrow win
dows searching out the lines on the brow
that give the lie to the lips denial. The
stale and pitiful excuse Of drunkards or
women of the streets il no longer heard. and
the accusing voice Of the man with the
shield on his coat is hushed. Only the re-
current roar Of the elevated trains outside
the windows invades the Magistrates
court
The clerks sit behind the bench writing
oomy laiI.ts, with q policeman or two Oh.
the 9th er sGe. The + Ollie emen wear their
helmets low, and the lain clothes me-.
their hats. On the other side Of the high
iron lattice the benches are filled with wit
nesses and TetitioLers Of every sort.
twisted assageway, straigt and mar
row, but many there he that find it, leads
from the old court room into the lew.
The ewI. ess is | OF obvious. Two tables
laced at right angles, fill up most OF the
room. Both are relics OF the black walnut
tai lie, which is urder the gothic, stained
glass windows. The prise. ers ,approa'
the angle formed by the two tables. The,
T ever arrive at the angle. for they are
blocked by two broad based armchairs.
Rather, thev used to be chairs; but now like
Bottom. they are translated. They are the
bar and John Foley is the bartender
Ii witness from Harlem or the sol tn
side attempts to sit down in one OF those
z, ardian chairs, Foley. whiris the chair
abo, with one hand and the witness abol
with the other
Officer" said Magistrate Pool, after one
OF these performances, cant 20, t, m those
chairs Upside down, or do something to
NO, j. dye, what's the good'" retu rned
Foley. Amt ! watching emf j won't
let them do any h, 1T. :,
B, t. after long Watching, John decided
that the Magistrate was right. He Is not
a Great re Of set notions.
"Wc'll try standin' EN- on their heads
saws J I'M 50 over they went with their
z ar. Ian legs waving willy in the air.
They look like a colonial stockade. b,
they are still the bar.
The light from the gothic windows falls
on the ancient tables, revealing, b. not
hars.ly, the many marks OF honorable
- and the long k ie wo, nds In Il Q
/ 18th tops. Magistrate Pool g, ards the
,a,les while John watches over the bar.
One prisoner brl shed the black VAIN.
with Lnhnllowed garments.
Get away from or furniture COM
manded the Magistrate.
Prisoners are brol ght In to this silent
rel.quary OF j, stice one by one. Now
and again n m, filed obj rgation comes
IRON withoL t, b. these are lost in the cold
official air. Even the lang age Of the
market place cannot live here.
HE done it" said a careless witness.
Did it," corrected Magistrate Pool.
I'VE was fight n" declared a small boy,
with his mind on the combat.
Fighting comes the voice OF authority.
with emphasis on the ing
There are many minds as to the desira-
bility Of the changed court. Perhaps the
most vital statement Of the situation is
from a vacation in his native Germany
not long ago. The Emperor. it is privately
rumored, begged him to give up the Use
of the English language.
mo, your Matchesty," said Klein, Il
couldn't consent to such seq ifce. e'en to
please you. ] will trink init you In Deutsch,
nut the English lankwitch iss the most
comfortable lankwitch in which to chew
tobacco on cart
This is what Klein saws about the innova-
ton in jefferson Market:
TOO many micropes in here for the
Chutch healt'. Besitas, he has Il more
cvot in the oddcr room and he can accumu-
late his thoughts better. Besites. We can
speak louder out here and 1t is much easier
therefore to write the gomblaints.
New Lighthouse Lantern,