Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-13

gress made the appropriation providing Tor
the new building 1t provided for the tear
ing down Of the old Police Court building
at 9th and D streets for the purchase and
tearing down of the adjoining building, the
old Webster law building, where Daniel
Webster had resided and worked, and for
the erection of modern court building on
the ground made vacant. The appropra-
ton made possible expenditure of $780,
600 for the new building.
Saturday August 5, 1905, the Police
Court held it's last sessions in the old build
ing, and that afternoon the furniture was
removed to temporary quarters on 10th
street between D and E streets. The fol-
lowing Monday morning, the sessions be-
gan there and have continued there until
the present. Just before the removal, how
ever, work was begun in tearing down the
Webster building, and the dismantlement of
the old court building was begun shortly
afterward. The work of building the new
structure was hurried, the contract calling
for completion by January last. The
Commissioners formally accepted the build
ing a few days before that, and the trans
fer of the sessions to the new building
awaits the placing of furniture in the court
rooms and offices of the new quarters.
Nothing Extravagaat or Gaudy.
AS regards the exterior of the new build
ing, there is nothing extravagant or gaudy.
Its outside appearance is simple, but i'm
posing. The building is of brown colored
brick and appears from the street to be
four stories high 1t faces d street. The
main entrance to the building, with three
double doors, is on that street. The ap-
preach to the doors is by three stone steps
from the wide brick sidewalk in front.
small door east of the main doorWays is
the entrance for the judges, and a private
stairway leads from the door to the judges
private rooms.
The ground floor of the structure is given
I'm, To In tIal hraSe ,nnt cot
mace rooms, record vaults, toilet rooms and
offices of the janitor and engineer and
their assistants. The second floor is used
for the District of Columbia branch of the
court and the offices attached therete and
the clerks offices. The meZZanine floor is
to be used by the assistant United States
attorney. financial clerk and others. and
the second floor will be used by the United
States branch of the court and for offices
of officials attached thereto. In general
arrangement, the floors are like those in
the old building. which the new one has
replaced.
Entering the front doors, the visitor of
the court finds himself in long hallway
running east and west, about fifteen feet
wide. At the east end of the hallway is
the room for the matron and the ladies'
retiring room, and in the rear are the
offices of the engineer and his assistants.
Back of the wall, which faces the entrance,
are the furnaces, two large boilers that
will keep steam heat through the entire
building and will furnish the necessary
power for running the ventilating fans that
keep the air stirring all over the struc-
ture. At the west end of the entrance
hallway is the Office of the superintendent
of the building, James ughes, the mems
toilet, and in the rear-though there is no
passageway through-the vaults for the
records of the court.
Mounting the stairway at the west end Of
the hallway, to the first oflor, the visitor
finds himself in a spacious corridor, which
runs along three sides of the building.
Along the 9th street side five offices, the
first two. the public and private Office of
the Assistant Corporation Counsel, James
Pugh. jr., being on the corner it is large,
airy and light; the third room the office of
the warrant clerk, L. F. Englesby: the
fourth room. the private office of Chief
Clerk Joseph Y. Potts, and the large rear
room of the suite, the general clerks Of
fee. to be used by Chief Deputy Clerk N
c. Harper and Deputy Clerks ]. B. Peyton
and B. F. Locraft
Private Office of Judge.
On the east side of the building, on the
first floor are four rooms, the front one is
the private office of Judge Ivory G.. Kim
ball. now presiding over the District branch
of the court the second is the jury room
for the District Court; the third and fourth