The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-19
new JUDGE, NEW MAGISTRATES
GOV. HUGHES SENDS WHITMAN TO
GENERAL SESSIONS BENCH.
The Mayor Appoints Corriwab, Droege and
GIIroy Magistrates lnder the Night
Court Act and 10 Going to Maine on
vacation with New Vacancy 20 Pin.

Court Act and 10 Going TO Maine on
vacation With New Vacancy 90 FtIi.
Gov. Hughes made City Magistrate
Charles S. Whitman a Judge Of the Court
If General Sessions yesterday and thus. 80
the Magistrate is advised. created imnno-
da tely a vacancy on the Magistrates bench.
which the Charter says shall be filed within
thirty days. The Mayor expects TO start
this morning on his vacation. which 10 to
Inst until August 20 unless he should make
q trip back 20 town before that date. Still
there is no penalty for failing to MI the
vacancy in thirty days. or II the Mayor
.,ays away thirty days Acting Mayor
MCGOWAN can appoint. The chances are
tina, the vacancy will be filed on August 81.
II is understood that Judge Whitman will
qualify to-day. Gov. Hughes does not
intend 10 Ali at present the other vacancy
on the General Sessions bench.
The appointment came to Magistrate
Whitman unsolicited. He knew nothing
Of the Governors intention to name him
until he received Q message yesterday
from the Governors secretary. The term
to which he Is appointed expires on January
I. His term as City Magistrate has seven
years TO run, at $1,000 q year. but he will
accept the appointment.
He was appointed q Magistrate by
Mayor Low in 1908. He had been selected
By Corporation Counsel Hves to watch
legislation in Albany and he acquitted
himself Of his duties there 90 well that
Mayor Low made him his confidential
legal adviser. He has fought the bond
mans graft from the day Of his appoint
ment, and his crowning achievement In
the isht came only the other day. when
Gov. Hughes signed tho night police court
bill. Magistrate whitman drew this bill
and was the leading spirit behind the fight
that was made for ito passage in tho Legis-
ature. .
Although a Junior member Of the Board
OF Magistrates Mr.. Whitman was elected
president last February. He 10 q Re-
publican, but never has been an active
worker. He was selected to head the
board as a compromise candidate. There
had been a deadlock for several weeks
between the Mcclellan and Murphy men.
The retirement Of Magistrate Whitman
will give the Mcclellan men an oppor-
tunity to elect a president. They will be
in the majority now with the two new APP
continents which have been made under
the night police court act.
Magistrate Whitman 10 30 years old.
He was graduated from Amherst College
with high honors and studied law In this
civ while he was teaching in Adelphi Col
lese. Brooklyn. He IL a member OF the
Union League, University, City and Re
publican clube.
Mavor Mcclellan named yesterday
the three new Magistrates provided for in
the night court bill. The men appointed
are Joseph z. Corrigan and OttoH. Droegeof
Manhattan and Eugene @. Gilroy Of Queens.
Thew are appointed for full terms OF ten
years at $1,000 a year.
MIR. Corrigan was graduated from Seton
Hall in 1895 and from the Columbia law
school in 1901. He was admitted to the
hsr the same year. He was appointed
pennty Assistant District Attorney In 1908
and served in that capacity up to the time
OF his appointment. He h . member Of
The Bar Association. tho City Club and
the Tammany general committee. He
r. a Catholic. and nephew Of the late Arch
bisbop Corrigan. He was Endorsed by
District Attorney Jerome and other MEM
hers 81 the bar.
Mr.. Droege was graduated from the
University Of Maryland In 1890 and admitted
10 the bar the same year. He practised
law in the Office o! John P. POI OF Baltimore
and moved to this city In 1898. where he
has been engaged in the practice OF law
since. He is a resident Of the Eighteenth
Assembly district and Is a member OF
the wyandotte Club and OF the Tammany
general committee Of the district. He
is also a member OF the Arion, the New
York Maennerchor, the Liederkranz and
the Plattdeutscher societies. Among his
indorsers are ex-senator Henry Gassaway
Davis Of West Virginia. Herman Rtdder.
Francis l.. Wellman, Prof. Henry Wood
Of Johns Hopkins University. Hugo Sohmer.
Senator Rayner Of Maryland. Edgar Allan
Poe and s. johnson Poe.
Mr.. Gilroy Is a lawyer living at Far
Rockaway and Ia the third son OF Mayor
Thomas F. Gilroy. He 10 80 years old,
was born in New York and was graduated
from the New York Law School in 1900.
He practised In Manhattan until a short
time ago, when he moved TO Far Rocka-
way He is a member OF the regular
Queens county Democratic organization
and a bachelor
Mayor Mcclellan will pass his vacation
az a village on the beach about fifteen miles
from Bath, Me. When he gets back he will
GET TO work on the budget.
We are going to have q hard task OF II
this year" the Mayor said, -in getting out
a budget that will even half way satisfy the
heads of the departments. Not only must
We provide the s25. 900. 900 for the Fourth
avenue subway in Brooklyn, but 81. Ooo.o oO
will be required for the bridge subway loop
in this borough and provision must be made
Tor the building OF the bridge loop in Brook
lyn. In addition there are many other
public improvements which are impera-
nTely needed. When all these things are
considered and the fact that the city 10 not
financially well on IL means that the sharpest
pruning knife We can find will have to be
used on the department estimates
On the assumption that Gov. Hughes