Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-30
Rooms Occupied by Police
Coveted by Municipal
Court Pending $2,OOO,OOO
Land Purchase.
Project terminated Last ApriI
When Custer of State Fenci-
bIes From Armory Appeared
Imminent.

Not content with their 1and-grabbiny
plans for S2,OooOOO court buildings at
2Ist and Race streets, officials of the
Municipal Court, through the Penrose
McNichol- controlled Councils, will at
tempt the seizure of the east corridor
on the sixth floor of City Hall to ac-
commodate them while the grabbing
plans are being iammed through.
If the State Fenciblcs are ousted from
their armory on Broad street below Race
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. Those
familiar with the situation say City
Halls east corridor is coveted by the
Municipal Court as a shelter until the
fate of the land grab is decided.
PLAN AND IT'S ORIGIN
The courts plans to seize the sixth
floor corridor have double Significance,
however. 1t developed today that the
Municipal Court and the Penrose-Mc-
Nicho Councilmanic leaders had their
eyes on a site for the Municipal Court
AS long ago as last April, more than
a 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
tI,, III nd bnh
of searching the horizon for the main
chance. Mrs. Richardson and Mrs. Juriss
resent any suggestion thai 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-
cimen told Emanuel Furth last April
that he would do well not to press his
fight against dislodging the Fencbes,
They said he ought to wait until the
fall
Only last Saturday, when he read that
the Municipal Court planned n 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 ap-
pcaled to the joint Councilmanic Com
mlttee on City Property at a meeting
April . and secured recommendation
for a renewal of the lease for two years
Then he looked to Councils to act upon
the rccomme Hdation. But the recon-
IIir n
tee.
Through April Furth went about ask
ing Councilmen to bring the renewal
matter into the meeting.
He was told that it would be better
to let the business lie quietly until fall.
you'll do better then they told nm,
But meanwhile the City Solicitor had
begun an amicablc eiectmcnt action and
the Fencibles tenure i'm their armory was
growing more and more shaky.
Then Councils adjourned without act
ing on the lease for the Fcncibles IL
the City Solicitors action was effective
the Fenciblcs could he saved from eject
ment only by the action of Councils re-
newing the lease.
Last Thursday Furth met John 7. Com
nelly, chairman of the Councils Finance
Committee. He asked when Councns
would do something about renewing the
lease.
I'VE don't want your old armory,' said
Connolly.
"but the city Solicitors action is
going to have us out il you don't 40
something" Furth protested, ON Ine
following Monday Judge +. Amedee
Breezy was to have heard a second APP
peal from Furth for the Fene6es,,,
TELL DE MOLL TO SLOW W
well" Connolly told him, you 20
tell DeAIoll that / said for him to SLOW
up" DeAIoll was the Assistant Cly
Solicitor in charge of the ejectment pro-
ceedings.
IF l tell him that he'll think I'm rep
resenting myself" Furth objected ,r
Well then, send him TO me and lh
tell him." Connolly asserted
Furth wrote DeMoll, asking MIN 70 70
see Connolly. But when he met peMon
in court on Monday he learned that the th,
Assistant City Solicitor and ConnelN
had not discussed the eiectment.
I'VE don't want TO be mixed up IN tha'
kind of a thing was DeMolls eAPlans'
ton.
1t was two weeks ago that Furth went
to Judge Brown and learned from i'l'
that the Municipal Court had been pan.
ming 10 install itself in the sixth hoor
corridor
THE LAWYER AND THE JUDGE
The conversation was heated at mrs"
1t ran like this, according TO Furth'
"Now look here, Charlie, know you're
anxious to take that corridor for ths
court I've heard it on good authoHS
and there's no use saying that ish '"'
idea" ia
well. look at the court here sa.u
Judge Brown, with an air Of eXtenuatiI1t",,, y,
We're crowded and every one kno"e ,I,+
I'm not interested in what the I,ed
does except as citizen" FuIth ITLpaiovg
but the building on Race street tnI
Broad. that Is being used now as u tbs
shop, would be very much better ',ryS lol
police than the Fencibes alInoJ
Then he explained that the police eouS ~
throw a bridge across from the LeSr
the building on Race street, Whl'T, Ts,.nri-
bles, armor,,. which would then be avat-
able as a gymnasium for the dsP~
ment ,o,, az
This appealed 10 Judge bIo"I "Furth,
being a good idea, according 10 rudgs
and talk gre wless heated, Ihsh 'Jxth