New-York tribune., 1911-10-29
BOROUGH GOSSIP
No Room in Courthouse for New
Justices To Be Elected.

The approaching election OF three more
justices Of the supreme Court IN the "a
Judicial District has brought to the at
tcntion Of county officials the fact that
there viii bc no rooms for The new Justices
i'm the Kings County Court House. The oio
scheme Tor erecting courthouse large
cnoush To meet the growing needs of the
local litigants has been slumberng Tor
r,ontbs h the Sinking Fund Commission
archives Long ago the justices picked out
q site bounded by Court. Livingston CI'h-
ton and state streets. and they can co
nothing more until the commission accepts
or refuses their selection. At present seven
parts Of the Supreme Court and four parts
Of the County Court are running in the
courthouse The Sheriff. Commissions OF
Jurors aud District Attorney have been
disposscsscd 10 make room for the courts.
The next step will be TO hire rooms for the
supreme Court outside. or else the County
court will be compelled To- move. The Off
cials are unable To say when the court
house matter will be passed on.
After the lapse Of decade the memory
of the late Father sylvester Malone. once
pastor of the Roman Catholic Church of
ST. Peter and St Paul. is to be honored by
tho erection of a tablet Father Malone
was one Of the best known clersymen Of
the country when he died after a service
OF nearly sixty years. He had been pastor
OF the st Peter and St Paul Church for
the greater part Of the time. At his death
Protestants and Catholics joined in the
work of raising the fl nds for the taOieI
Silas b. butcher. a leading member OF the
Memorial Presbyterian Church, was mace
chairman of the committee in charge oI
the collections Francis II. Wilson. once
postmaster. and AT the time a congress
man. was made treasurer. on the commit
tee were Elijah r. Kennedy and the KEY
James II. Darlington, brother or the eA-
Health Commissioner and at present the
Episcopal Bishop OF HARRISBURG Penn.
Tho committee collected nearly 500 After
a time the first enthusiasm wore on ana
the people leEau to forget the fund The
priests nepheE, sylvester Malone. was AT
last about tho only person left who took
an active interest i'm the project Through
his efforts tablet has been designed,
hearing q portrait of the clergyman ana an
Inscription. 10 will soon be finished and
will hc rut up i'm some prominent place
probably iu one of the parks. window IN
the priests old church at present kept his
memory alive.
The Polytechnic Institute has nine weeks
left i'm which 10 raise Sl6oooo If this big
task is not accomplished the school VIII
lose tho S6io0V So far conditonally
pledged OF the amount so far raised the
trustees pledged all but $4,000 Colonel
Willis l.. ogden. chairman OF the Greater
Poly Citizens Committee has sent out
letter which explains the situation. The
tuition of the pupils the letter explains
does not begin 40 meet the expenses Of the
schcol Debt has grown, and the only
remedy is the proposed endowment fund of
$Sla00, which would wipe out the old
scores and leave the school with suf-
hcieut income to save it financial en-
bsrassmeuts in the future. Last year the
school went about 5000 further into debt.
Frank Freeman. of No. 132 Nassau street,
Manhattan. has been selected as the archi-
tect of the Young Women's Christian AS
sociatious Boarding Home for Working
Girls The association raised $4,000 for
the building last May. The structure is TO
stand iu Nevins street, between State and
Schermerhorn streets The lot IS 200 feet
long aud A deep The building will ac-
commodate between 20 and 275 boarders
The site includes the land now occupied
by The present home. 1t was bought about
year ago, but its exact location was not
made public until last week The structure
Will be seven or eight stories in height.
The Sunday evening concerts and lect-
ures to be siveu this season under the
auspices Of the Peoples Institute of New
York and the Brooklyn Settlements i'm tie
Ian Of the Commercial High School Al
hany avenue and Bergen street, will begin
November with q concert by the orches-
ira ct tic New York Music School Settle
meut Sudoy evening November j.
stories OF the operas win De- told, illus
trated with moving pictures. In all. about
twenty sunday evening entertainments