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governor preceding the term of Alexander
Shepherd. the Municipal Offices were re-
moved from the courthouse. The ac-
curately filed documents giving ready ac.
cess to records of old cases. the almost
faultless system of docketing and the
handling of legal papers i'm the courts OF
the District at the present day are not
the contamination Of systematized labor
dating from the time when the building
was placed i'm use as the local hall Of
Justice.
Until after the civil war conditions
existed in the local courthouse which.
I'm the light OF the later-day arrange
ments for transacting legal business.
cause one to wonder how, clogged by
negligence and carelessness as, they
We're. the wheels Of justice could revoIye
at all.
For many years the system of filing
papers in the courthouse lacked even an
excuse for existing. and once filed a
paper was practically removed from ac-
feasibility.
During that era of the DEVELOPMENT OF
the courts of the District boys and young
men were employed as filing clerks and
ignorant of legal process. added to their
incapability an utter lack of attention
to business.
file document i'm those days he might
do soft he chose a judicious time find
one of the young clerks behind the desk
to attend to his wants. If not. what
a large goods box which stood at the
main entrance. Most of the papers in
equity cases found refuge i'm this docu-
mentary burying ground. Once en-
which soon found lodgment in the box.
the recovery of a single paper required
days of searching.
Papers Safer at Home.
Many Of the leading lawyers recog-
nized tho of
business upon this plan. and so. instead
of placing papers relating to cases which
they happened to have i'm hand in the
common receptacle. carried them to their
homes or to their offices.
when Lawyer Marbury died." said
one of the oldest employees at the local
courts a few days ago. mo less than a
wagonload OF papers which should have
been filed in the courthouse were taken
from his Office
And the time when the. front door or
the courthouse had no lock save n largo
boulder set against the doors to kccn
them from blowing open, is we'll within
the memory of the older residents of the
District.
When r. ]. Meigs. who is still identi-
of the court March %. 1853. he found
the goods-box file undisturbed and the
lax conditions existing. The commission
appointed by President Lincoln had at
that time taken up its labors toward
the reorganizing of the system. and Mr.
Meigs set himself the task of arranging
the papers for file.
For twenty-one years the work of fill
ing the accumulation of documents went
on. until in 1888 the records were COM
pieted and the foundation laid for the
present system. Mr.. Meigs personally
Is said to have handled every paper filed
in the courthouse up to that date Five
clerks of the court have ruled at filing
rooms since 1S02-Uriah Forrest until
July 80. 1905; William Brent from July
81. 1906, to December Is. 1s4s; John a.
Smith from December l9. 1913. TO March
90. 1868; r. J. Meigs from March 81.
1853, to October 10. 1891, and John r.
Young. the present clerk. who took his
ONCE October 20, 1891.
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usual with the coveted understood crus-

usual with the coveted understood crus-
taceans.
One of the biggest resorts in the New
Meadows river. which has always made a
speciality Of its shore dinners with broiled
live or boiled Holsters. using an immense
numb>r each week of the summer. will
hereafter handle only legal length lob
sters-but 1t raises the price of the dinner.
Already the fishermen are being COM
PEELED to use their ingenuity In conduct
ing the traffic. AS every union man Is TO
all intents and purposes a warden. 1T is.
as one fisherman put 1t. damned hard to
tell who's with ye or agin ye.'
In some sections of the bay wardens and
fishermen go about armed. While law
enforcers and lawbreakers have both
threatened to blow each others heads OF.
so far there has fortunately been no
bloodshed. But the feeling is growing.
The pots of union men have been cut
loose, skiffs have been mysteriously
smashed. motor boats used by the fisher
men sunk at their moorings and other UNI
pleasantries perpetrated that grow more
and more serious in character as the
fight progresses.
The fishermen invent all sorts of
schemes for getting the short Holsters to
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their customers. A favorite way is to
place a bag containing a dozen or so
Holsters in some cool crevice between big
rocks along the shore known only to fisher
man and customer 7 The latter can hap
pen along a little later. put the Holsters
into an old valse or some such receptacle
and carry them away without attracting
attention. But where so many are now
on the lookout a man known to be en-
gagged in the business would have a hard
time delivering Holsters without being
spotted.
Fist fights between union and non-union
men are frequent. and if Commissioner
Donohue sticks to his determination To
put the short lohstermen out of bust
ness II is believed that he has the fight OF
his life on his hands. The union may even
tuaIly do the business and make IL impos-
sible for the summer visitor TO buy his lit
tie Holsters. but as the situation is at
present. with forces about evenly divided.
the non-union men say. Don't worry.
we'll get 'em for you, as long as we're
sure you're all right
And the average summer visitor who
comes into prohibition Maine generally
knows how to convince a fisherman that
he is ''all right"
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about two feet long and about an inch in
diameter.
THAT is the identical bar a negro named
BURGESS removed from ventilator in the
mems pen about ten years ago." he said.
THAT hole always caused me worry;
now It's built up. That day Burgess. a
tall. yellow negro. behaved a lot better
than usual, and while / was sitting In my
chair here I saw a shadow. which l knew
to be his from it's height, cast on the
wall
Immediately suspicioning what he was
up to. I went to my locker and got my
gun, for a bar of iron that size is a
dangerous weapon. Then / sneaked into
the outer corridor and waited for him to
come through the opening.
II waited. but he didn't appear. and so
/ went back into the cell corridor and
looked into his place Of confinement. He
was sitting there quietly. and there was
no sign Of the bar
"'Go behind that chimney and get that
bar Of iron.' I ordered him, and without a
word he did so. He had evidently changed
his plan. and had not the piece of iron
have hidden 1t in his sleeve or down his
back. From either place Of concealment
he could readily have drawn 1t and
smashed my skull while he was getting
into the van at the courthouse or out Of 1t
at the Jail"
Safer to 90 Unarmed.
"Why do you never carry gun or
blackjack when dealing with such men?"
the deputy was asked.
Long experience has shown me that 1t
is too easy. when a man is handwriting a
lot of prisoners. for one to get behind him
and disarm him before he knows it.
Those" said MIR. jim, holding up a
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having unlawful relations with Mrs.
Sickles. wave a handkerchief to the wom-
an as she stood in her room in Jackson
Square, west of Lafayette Park. The con-
gresham. Selling weapon. rushed from
the house and pursued Key through the
park to the front of the club. Then. protect
ing his body behind a tree. which still
stands there. he deliberately shot the man
he accused of running his home. He was
acquitted.
The killing of Representative Talby of
Kentucky took place in the House wing
of the Capitol about fifteen years ago.
Kincade had published certain deroga-
tory stories about the member which
Talby resented He is said to have threat
ened Kincade. On the morning of the
murder Talby had just emerged from the
restaurant in the House basement and
was ascending the stairs which lead to
the entrance Of Statuary Hall. 1t was al
legged at the trial that Kincade appeared
in the lower corridor and. standing at the
foot of the steps. fired the shot which
ended the representatives. life. Kincade's
was one Of the two instances where bail
was ever taken in the District i'm murder
cases
The case of Howard Schneider who in
1902 killed his wife and her brother in their
home on @ street. is still too fresh in the
minds of residents to need any summary
as is the CantyRye case. which hap
pened about eight years ago. Both the
principals in this affair were brokers. and
Rye was shot while near the corner of 14th
and F streets northwest. following the re-
f,lsal on the part of the murdered broker
to disburse some funds left with him by
Canty.
Mystery Still Unsolved.
Maurice Adler. hardly more than a boy,
about fifteen or eighteen years ago. was
shot in the Old Marble Saloon, formerly
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hunger. Moreover. he had come from lit

hunger. Moreover. he had come from lit
tie and was content.
But by a curious contradiction. though
he fed to get away from his native coun-
try the gypsy held to the native custom
tenaciousy. He scorned to learn the
language and customs of those whose
domains he Travelled. He remained CLAN
nish he guarded his own tongue: what lit
tie religion he believed i'm he continued to
practice. In vain various governments
as a solution Of the problem sought to
educate them. to make citizens OF the
dark-skinned wanderers. to force them to
pay taxes and become part of the civilized
communities. The gypsy was loyal to his
life in the open:' he smiled alike at prom
Uses or menace.
His cart was his cradle. his home, his
hospital and his bier.
From the old tribal days descended a
fixed belief in the authority of the head
of the house. The father is master of
the family, and over the fathers reigns
the chief of the band. whose dictates
are obeyed and vino has the power OF
inf;cting punishments either by personal
chastisement, quarantine or Punishment
from the camp, the kind of penalty de-
pending largely, of course, on the gravity
of the crime.
Gypsies are not bandits. Not even their
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%RP HII.L the visitors to the Maine
seacoast resorts this sum-
NA< mer be able to purchase for
w nominal sum the succulent
little lobster of illegal size. or
must they pay the prevailing high prices
for the ful-grown crustacean?
Not such a terribly vital matter. per-
haps. but more important than it appears
on its face.
Small. But Sueculent.
For years and years it is safe to say
that seven-eighths of the Maine lobster
fishermen have done thriving business
during the summer months by supplying
short Holsters to the cottagers on the
hundreds of islands and along the coast
The price has varied from 80 cents to LOO
a dozen. and. while these Holsters are
small. the meat is deliciously tender and
sweet
And some of these so-called Shorts
are very nearly Of legal size. measuring
alfxfh0z way from six or seven to eight.
nine and even ten inches in length. AL
though the wardens now have a new way
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4 poor and harmless sailor:
i miss my grOg at every meal:
Here comes the blooming jailer.


Cheer up. boys. down with sorrow:
Beef today soup tomorrow.
] had for my dinner. ochone. ochone.
One ounce of mutton and three ounce of bone
Love is a great thing" writes an Ital-
ian philosopher, but hunger surps sses
everything"
At the end of a borrowed book a CON-
vict wrote:
I'm parted from you for seven long year.
ALI Jones.
The book fell into the hands of another
convict at a later date, and beneath the
goodbye to Lucy he wrote:
II I.ucy, dear. is like most gals
She'll have few signs means.
But soon will find among your pals
Another Alfred Jones.
His Own Epitaph.
On the wall of his cell one thief wrote
the epitaph for his own monument. He
first drew the design for the monument
and under this wrote:
Hefe lies, the body Of poor Tulac. who. tired
of stealing in this world, goes to steal In an
other His happy relatives have erected this
memorial
Also on the wall of his cell an Italian
prisoner made this inscription:
oh. thieves. our profession is ruined by those
rascally Judges; but c0urage-forward.
Crutchy Quinn, who was well acquaint-
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less than 10000 in Europe. and it must
be remembered that this enormous total
has been reached in spite of the fact that
for large part of his history the gypsy
has been an object of suspicion and of
persecution in many countries.
In consequence of the unwillingness of
the gypsy to give statistics ABOUT himself
it has not been easy to ascertain the
totals in the various countries. But In
anticipation of the conference at Berne
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Written for The Star

n LWAYS a wanderer on the face
~ OF the earth the gypsy is once
more to face persecution.
The united effort of Europe Is
to be exerted to drive from the
continent this mysterious nomadic race of
beings, whose life has been the inspiration
of great literature and stirring music.
NO home but the road. no life but
pleasure, no roof but the sky" the
gypsy's dream Of happiness is no longer
to be realized in Europe. for next June
a conference of representatives Of all the
powers will meet at Berne to decide on
the best means of getting rid for all time
of the picturesque bands of strolling peo-
pie whose history goes away back to the
most remote ages.
II is a need for a universal system Of
policing the continent that has forced re-
pressive measures to be adopted against
the gypsies.
Recent attacks. successful and unsuc-
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Feeling Runs High.

mecca. and there is market for every
lobster and as many again as can be
caught in its blue waters.
Feeling Runs High.
Therefore while a few small branches of
the union have been established at differ
ent points in the bay. the average fisher
man shrugs his shoulders in disdain and
sarcastically remarks that what God put
into the is for man to take out regard
less of its size. color or family history.
And this means war. Perhaps not just
the brand that Gen. Sherman referred to
in his notable remark, but a bitter strug-
gle surely exists between the wardens and
the fishermen that is likely to end in
bloodshed. as feeling is very bitter among
the non-union men,
Commissioner of Sea and Shore Fish
cries James Donohue of Rockland Is
against the non-union lobster fishermen.
With the aid of the union members the
commissioner believes he-can practically
stamp out the short lobster traffic The
non-union fishermen on the other hand.
say that cottagers will be supplied as
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Of measuring the bodies of the Holsters, 1t
is practically the same as the old law.
which required that the lobster must
measure not less than ten and one-half
inches from tip to tip.
So. while some Of these illegal length
Holsters contain nearly as much meat as
the lobster Of legal length. it is apparent
that the only market for them is through
some such channel as the summer visitor.
When the vacationist comes to the
Maine coast the first thing he wants is
lobster. and he wants his fill of them. If
he is obliged to buy the legal length crus-
tacean at the current quotation per pound.
two fairly good-sized ones will probably
spoil a dollar bill for him. Therefore. ii
is going to make quite a difference to him
whether he is to do this or whether he is
to stand in with some native lobsterman
and get a dozen nearly as large for IS
cents.
Formed Lobster Union.
The lobster wardens have fought the
''shcrt" 1obsterrnen almost from time i'm
memorial with but Indifferent success.
The Maine fisherman is a pretty foxy
proposition when it comes to handling
short Holsters. and there is good deal of
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mecca. and there is a market for every
lobster and many again can be
caught in its blue waters.
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Mystery Still Unsolved.

Maurice Adler. hardly more than boy,
about fifteen or eighteen years ago, was
shot in the Old Marble Saloon, formerly
The daily tribune., 1908-06-25
ROCKEFELLER WILL
TELL LIFE STORY

New York, June 25-John d.
Rockefeller, according to an announce.
ment has decided to give to the world
his own story Of his life. 1t will be
published serially in New York
magazine, beginning in October.
II have come to see, Mr.. Rookie.
fel)er said to the publishers, in ex-
planation Of this step, when the idea
was discussed, that II my family
and friends want some record of
things which may shed light on mat
ters that have been somewha discuss.
ed, 1t is right that should yield to
their advice and In this informal way
go over again some OF the events
which have made life interesting to
me. "
Mr.. RockefelIer's autobiography
is to be published under the title OF
Some Random Reminiscenc es OF
Men and Events" "
The daily tribune., 1908-06-25

teau game and fish preserve cover
ing an area of 1000 acres of forest
and water stretches, spot that ap.
peals to an angler and charms the
sportsman.
President Roosevelt in acknowled. :.
ing his election as an honorary mem
ber wrote to the officers of the club
II deeply appreciate the oompli-
ment you have conferred upon me and
/ accept with pleasure the honorary
membership in the Interstate club. 1t
appeals to me AS n sportsman-it ap-
peals to me still more because of Its
purpose to bring inconstantly and
increasingly closer re lations all our
people from every part of this great
Union. -
The daily tribune., 1908-06-25
TROUBLE IN REPUBLIC
STEEL WORKS DOUBTED

New York. June 25-No conhrma
ton Of the report that the Republic
Iron and steel company of Pittsburg
has decided to break with its union
employees unless the Amalgamated
association employees accept cut
said to be 33 l.3 per cent. could be
obtained here.
No statement was Forthcoming
from the Steel corporation. An i'm.
preston prevails here In steel circles
that tine differences between the Re.
public company and its workmen will
be satisfactorily arranged.
The daily tribune., 1908-06-25
RE.FINANCIhG PLAN OF
WESTINGHOUSE COMPANY

New York. June 25-The re.ad-
justment committee OF the westing
house Electric and Manufacturing
company decided Mt "a meeting today
to aid In the confirmation OF the plan
Of tho merchandise creditors for u rc.
financing Of the company. The com :
mitteo will issue circulars explaining
the plan and will moet again Friday
TO take final action.
The daily tribune., 1908-06-25
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baby carriage out OF date The ALL
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