The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-01-12
NOISES TROUBLE
ALL THE JUDGES
Location Of New courlB Causing
Pllkla ON Account Of the
Street Racket.

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! That the noise Of tho city streets
interferos to no small oxtcut with the
conduct Of tho various courts since
their enforced removal from the judi
ciary building was brought out yester-
day by The Advertiser from the DIFF
feront judges in tho circuit and fei-
eral courts. So great is tho nuisance
In the courtroom Of Judge Robinson
that he Is to have partition erected
two-thirds of the way from the bench
to the Alakea street side Of tho room,
TO shut of the various noises from
trolley cars and automobiles. In order
to help the acoustic properties of his
courtroom several days ago be had
piano wire strung back and forth from
the top of the window castings, but this
did not answer the whole purpose and
now more drastic action is to be taken.
Judge Cooper is the only one in the
old Y. M. Q. A. who can get along in
his present quarters. They are on the
rear side and with but a short frontage
on Alalea street. Atfederal courtroom
in Progress Block matters are not so
bad as in the Y. NJ. G. A. courts, but
even here there is disturbance caused
by building operations on tho new
theater, and by trolleys when the win
,dows Of the offices ON tho Fort street
side of the building are open.
l At the police court the noise in the
street in front is often the cause OF
suspendfng court temporarily while q
bailin Coca outside and reprimahds an
automobile driver, or loud takers on
the sidewalk in front.
What the Judges say.
''There is so much noise in my room
here that l am going to put up a parti-
ton shutting of the windows on the
Alakea street side Of the building, -
said Judge Robinson.
''The trolley gongS, the cars cross
ing the Hotel street tracks and the
automobiles in Beckley's garage make
so much noise that we can't do any
thing here,'
/ When Judge Whitney was asked how
matters were in his courtroom no re-
Piled: ST can't hear witness on the
stand and that is only four feet from
where / sit. All the windows on the
Hotel street side have to be closed to
get along In any comfort at all, and
then it is far from perfect.''
Judge Cooper: 'sMy room is small
and that has something TO do with the
better conditions here than in the other
court rooms in the building. The only
complaint made today was that the jury
could not hear we'll when sitting in the
Alakea end of the oourt.n
In the federal court Judge Dole said
that the noise from Fort street did not
bother him in his office, which is on
that side, but that if the courtroom was
whore his Office is it would be impossl-
bic to do anything. "With the court
better, and the noise does not bother
me at all while am here in my Office, -
he said.
"This courtroom is not ideal by any
means, and I am disturbed by tho noise
of building the new theater a half block
away, and by the noise from Fort street
when windows of the offices on that
side are open,o said Judge Clemons
when his opinion was asked.
1T is not possible to get an ideal
place, and l think this is the best that
could be done, but the noise is trouble
some. Late in the afternoon everything
| is much clearer in the courtroom and
the voices carry much better than dur
ing the day time when the ordinary
street noises are coming in through the
windows.
'fThen in building in the city like
this there is no place for large num-
Der of witnesses in attendance on court
or on the grand jury At the old build
ing they had plenty of room outside
ON the grass, but here they are in the
corridors and in the way most of tho
time" he concluded.