Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-30
RABINCLUDES
PLAN TO SEIZE
CITY HALLSUITE
Rooms Occupied by Police
Coveted by Municipal
Court Pending $2,OOO,OOO
Land Purchase.
Project Terminated Last AnriI
When Custer of State Fenci.
bles From Armory Appeared
Imminent.

Not content with their and-grabbipv
plans for 100000 court buildings a,
2lst and Race streets officials os a..
Municipal Court, through the Penroso.
Observation-Disclosures Councils, will st.
tempt the seizure of the east corr,do-
on the sixth floor of City Hall to ac-
commodate them while the grabbing
plans are being jammed through.
If the State Fencibles are ousted from
their armory on Broad street below Racs
and the Central police station takes that
place, the Municipal Court will get the
east corridor, according to those with
| their eyes on the courts plans.
| President Judge Charles L. Brown ad
mitted the truth of this to Emanuel
Furth, attorney for the Fencibles, when
Furth, who had heard the rumor, taxed
| him with 1t two weeks ago Thoss
Halls east corridor is coveted by the
Municipal Court as a shelter until tho
fate of the land grab is decided.
PLAN AND ITS ORIGIN
The courts plans to seize the sixth
floor corridor have a double significance,
however. 1t developed today that the
Municipal Court and the Penrose-
Nichol Counclmanic leaders mad their
eyes on site for the Municipal Court
as long ago as last April, more than
month before Mrs. Richardson and
Mrs. Jurist thought of the Magdalen
Home property and passed on the idea
to Judge Brown.
That the bacilli of a plan the size OF
the land scheme appeared first In the
minds of Mrs Richardson and Mrs.
Jurist has surprised those who know
the long-headed politician and his habit
of searching the horizon for the main
chance. Mrs. Richardson and Mrs Juriss
resent any suggestion that the thought
OF the land scheme was not original with
them.
But there was a plan to care for the
Municipal Court before Mrs. Jurist and
Mrs. Richardson set it in motion. Coun-
cilmen told Emanuel Furth last April
that he would do we'll not to press his
fight against dislodging the Fencibles
They said he ought to wait until the
fall.
Only last Saturday, when he read that
the Municipal Court planned a grab at
2lst and Race streets. did he see why
he was advised to wait until fall. Even
now. he believes, the Municipal Court
may want the sixth floor corridor at
City Hall until there is a better out
look for the land-grabbinG scheme.
FENCIBLEs' PLEA IGNORED.
The State Fencibles' lease on the
armory expired March l. Furth ap1
pealed to the Joint Councilmanic Com
mittee on City Property at meeting
April and secured a recommendation
for a renewal of the lease for two years
Then he looked to Councils to act upon
the recommendation. But the recon- +
mendation remained buried in commit I
tee.
Through April Furth went about ask
ing Councilmen to bring the renewal +
matter into the meeting.
He was told that 1t would be bette'
TO let the business lie quietly until tal
You'll do better then" they told MIN
But meanwhile the City Solicitor hai
begun an amlcable ejectment action and
the Fencibles' tenure in their armory Wa'
growing more and more shaky.
Then Councils adjourned without act
ing on the lease for the Fencibles.
the City Solicitors action was erecuV'
the Fencibes could be saved from e)ee''
ment only by the action of Councils re
newing the lease.
Last Thursday Furth met John P, Con
nelly, chairman of the Councils FlnahS
Committee. He asked when Couhet
would do something about renewing 'n'
lease.
I'VE don't want your old armory'" sad
but the City Solicitors action
going to have us out II you don't Nv
something" Furth protested, ON Wv
following Monday Judge F. Ameoe'
Bregy was to have heard a second az
peal from Furth for the Fencl9,easn
4F-T
well" Connolly told him, you y
tell DeMon that said for him to SLOW
up" DeMoll was the Assistant CIV
Solicitor in charge of the ejectment pro-
ceedings
III / tell him that he'll think I'm rep
resenting myself" Furth objected. Mi
well, then, send him to me ana ~
tell him." Connolly asserted
Furth wrote DeMoll, asking MN
see Connolly. But when he met DeNSa
in court on Monday he learned that II,
Assistant City Solicitor and ConneH
had not discussed the ejectment' 49,,
1--WE don't want 10 be mixed up IN tns'
kind OF a thing" was DeMoFs eNpianS
tion.
1t was two weeks ago that Furth WEN
to Judge Brown and learned from him
that the Municipal Court had been p,sn san,
ming 10 install itself in the skin h0''
corridor,
THE LAWYER AND THE JUDGE
The conversation was heated al MS
II ran like this, according to Furth'
Now look here, Charlie, l know you
anxious to take that corridor for u
court I've heard it on good autnoi,SS ~
and there's no use saying that ish
idea" b, .ad
well, look at the court here .soN
Judge Brown. with an air OF eAtehuait"
We're crowded and every one kHo"e Hi'o,oonrt
I'm not interested In what the e.nIIei,
does except as a citizen" FuIth sbpsIog
but the building on Race street iuuk
Broad, that Is being used now as s,r ths
shop. would be very much better I,,ory"
police than the Fencibles ~ could
Then he explained that the pom rsSr Of
throw a bridge across from the - used
the building on Race street, LI Fsncl-
TO be a ire headquarters, 70 ths s. avail
bles armory, which would theh Udspart-
able as a gymnasium for the
ment ,,rovn as
This appealed to Judge Bto"FF "FFurth,
being a good idea, according Iudge
ana talk grew less heated. ne ~ sixth 4
Brown admitted freely that W W court
floor corridor saa .hs aim o.