The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-07-30
SECOND JUDGE
HAS ARRIVED
lrrom rhursday.s Advertlser.l


Judge George w. Woodruff, recently
appointed second Judge of the United
States District Court for the District
of Hawaii arrived on the Mongolia
yesterday morning, accompanied by
Mrs. Woodruff, and is already at home
in the city. He went almost immedi.
ately to the Judiciary building to meet
and get acquainted with those who are
to work with him. He held sort of
informal reception in the court room,
at which all the members of the Fed.
eral Judiciary department were present.
A more formal reception will take
place at Q clock this morning, at
which hour all the members of the
bench and bar have been invited to
be present in the Federal court room
and make the acquaintance of Judge
Woodruff. Court will be formally open.
ed and Judge Woodruff will take the
oath of office. No other business is in
sight, and court will probably adjourn
after Judge Woodruff has officially
been made a member of the bench. He
will then have an opportunity to meet
in an informal way the judges and
| attorneys with whom he will have to
do business hereafter.
Judge Woodruff is good.looking
man of athletic build and appears as
if he might be able to cope with a
good deal of hard work. He will have
a good deal to cope with, too, for
| the calendar for the new term, which
opens Monday, is a long one and con-
| tains a number of important cases
which are to be tried. Judge Woodruff
will undoubtedly find his work here
| much different from what he has been
accustomed to, but he looks as if he
would be able to handle it satisfac-
torily.
The arrival of the new Judge will
greatly lessen the burden which for
so long has rested upon the shoulders
| of Judge Dole. The latter has for the
past three months been resting up,
handling no large cases, and leaving
a good deal of work for his new asso-
ciate to start in on. Judge Woodruff
expresses himself as eager to get to
work. Yesterday afternoon he occupied
the bench with Judge Dole in the
habeas corpus case of the three Chinese
boys and apparently took good deal
of interest in the matter.
He was in San Francisco only two
days before taking the Mongolia for
Honolulu, but the two days were busy
ones for him. Many of the prominent
business men knew him, and the fact
that, in his capacity as legal adviser
of the Department of the Interior, he
has had to handle the legal phases OF
the Hetch- Hetchy grant by which San
Francisco is to get her new water sup
ply, was of itself enough to make him
a man of Importance in the Bay city
A banquet was rendered him, of which
the San Francisco Chronicle says:
"United States Judge George w
J Woodruff. recently appointed and as
} signed to the Circuit Court at Homo
lulu, was the guest of honor at a din
ner given him at the st. Francis Hote
last evening by the Board of Super
visors. The affair was of dual char
acter. It was mplimentary to him II
recognition of his fight for the people
of this city on the Hetch-Hetchy prOpo
sition while he was Assistant Attorney
General, assigned to the Department o.
the Interior. and also in the natur,
, of a farewell dinner. Judge Woodruff
sails for his new post the latter par
of this week.
, "The committee in charge introduced
a new feature. There were no speeches
, other than the impromptu one by thu
, principal guest himself. In his shor
speech Judge Woodruff briefly sketchet
his Identification with the Hetcn
Hetchy fight, of former Secretar.
Hitchcock s opposition to the proposi
ton and of the favorable attitude o