New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-02-27

JUDGE DIXIE.
Who Gained quests at dinner with hi
story about contempt of court.
Of the court and, handing him So told him
to give the DILL 10 the Judge The clerk put
the bill on the bench
why. what is this for the Judge asked
=. This man told me to hand ii to you,
replied the clerk
Why did you &c that? the judge asked
the man.
Didn't you just fire each OF those law
,-ers SO apiece for contempt of court?' the
man inquired
- I did.' answered the judge.
Well said the nan, I gave you that
SO because want TO show you that got
5ust as much contempt for this court as
they have. -
Brooklyn is 500, 10 tkve its first terra
Gotta house. Plans for the structure were
approved By the Bureau Of Buildings few
DAYS ago. The building is to stand at Ave
me and East 18th street, and is TO be oc-
orpied a. a dwelling. Lewis Drummond is
tie owner Tn, walls. floors and paTti-
tons Of the building are to be Of hollow
terra Gotta blocks. and the outer surfaces
O. the building viii be OF stucco In
the Walls tl-e t7s'l4 ~ iAiA->t tsS Va N-b i4'NN
GAY. In the basement and first floor the
blocks must be ten inches thick, and they
Must be eight inches thick IL the upper
portions The blocks OF the floor, which
viii be laid between concrete seams, must
be eight inches thick also. The plaster will
le appls-a directly TO the surface Of the
tiles. Terra Gotta buildings have already
atr.ear IN The Bronx The first building Of
the kind 10 he erected there was the home
Of Professor James r. Tough, Of New York
University.
Among the persons who We're arraigned
before Magistrate Nash in the f1atbush
police court on Thursday was one who
pore the questionable distinction of haV-
tng once been q Lincoln murder suspect
The prisoner was Edward Mccall, Of No.
or Vanderbilt avenue. Detective Pinder
charged him with having violated the ex-
else law. When asked II he had ever been
arrested before, he said that he had been
arrested once
In KS. ne explained, he was an actor.
when President Lincoln was assassinated
he like q number Of other actors, was ar
rested suspect After the death OF
John Wilkes Booth he was released NC
Call returned 10 the stage and remained
there for several years Later ne mace
his home in the Flatbush section of Brook
isll and was prominent for q time in the
politics OF the section.
Mccall TOLD the magistrate that lie mao
not been arrested since his release from
prison, nearly half a century ago. He was
held IN s. 900 bail for Special Sessions, where
il viii be decided whether or not he is TO
haze an or1rortIrity - compare the prac-
1ical workings OF the penal system OF
Civil War DAYS with those in vogue to-day.
The Emmanuel Baptist Church will
charge no regular pew rent from to-day.
Hereafter pevgs viii be regularly assigned.
rs formerly but the pewholders will pay
what thev feel they can afford. and not
what they have contracted 10 pay. The
Rev Dr. John livingstone, pastor Of the
church. explains The reason for the change
in the financial system as follows:
We believe that We viii attract to the
church people who DO not feel able 10 rent
4 rseW Then. too. we think II is more
Christian as the church should he for all,
and many Of our mep1bers find IL hard TO
meet our pew rents There is in the plan
both principle and policy, as our cehSre-
CATION is not wealthy
IN the past tie church has maintained
separate accounts and separate treasurers
for beneVOlenc.s and for church accounts.
This distinction VIII be maintained no
longer. The accounts VIII he merged ana
one - the treaSirers allowed 10 give up
his Office The Emmanuel Church Is one
81 ihe largest and finest churches in the
borough The church property Is valued AT
S3e2.9o3. There II no church debt La 81
wear il raised $40 7.s OF this sum sli.o34
vas expended for missions. Still. the or
Animation is lot large for prominent
!. church. There are 624 church members
md 67z Sunday school members. The
esaurch is nearly Twenty-Five years old.
Wight KraH7er's next topic in the
Around the World" series Of illustrated
iectures which he is delivering under the
suspioes of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts
nd Sciences viii be old Japan To-day"
Hr Kramer is delivering the lectures Tues
Gays at the Eastern District Branch Of the
Eeunc Mems Christian Association. and on
wednesdays al the Bedford Branch. The
lecrures are the same as those delivered
II, wear by Burton Holmes at the Acad-
my Of Music The pictures are also the
s me Mr.. Kramer has a remarkable per
) nal resemblance 10 Mr.. Holmes and
. amer OF presenting his subject almost
T. interesting
--Ex-PresiGent Theodore Roosevelt in
. asst Africa is the topic OF the lecture
i aicn Warrington Dawson is TO deliver at
tie Academy on Saturday evening, Mr..
B wson was with Colonel Roosevelt on a
i n of his hunting "trip. He viii illustrate
lecture with lantern slides. The lecture
+ cover the trip from Messina to the
? ART of the East African country.