Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-30
Rooms Occupied by Police
Coveted by Municipal
Court Pending $2,0OO,OOO
Land Purchase. ....
Project terminated Last ApriI
When Custer of State Fenci.
bles From Armory Appeared
Imminent.

Not content with their and-Rrahb,n.
plans for $2,O0OO00 court buildings =,
21st and Race streets, officials of A..
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 jammed through,
If the State Fencibes 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. Those
familiar with the situation saw CITY.
Halls east corridor is coveted by g..
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 a double Significance
however. 1t developed today that the
Municipal Court and the Penrose-Mc-
Nichol Councilmanic leaders had their
eyes on a site for the Municipal Court
az long ago ns last April, more than
a month before Mrs. Richardson and
Mrs. Jurst thought of the Magdalen
Home property and passed on the idea
to Judge Brown.
That the bacili 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. Jurisa
resent any suggestion that the thought
of the land scheme was not original with
them.
But there was n 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 fer the land-grabbing scheme
FENCIBLEs' PLEA IGNORED.
The State Fencibles' lease on the
armory expired March l. Furth ap-
pealed to the joint Counclmanic Com
mttee on City Property at n meeting
April and secured a recommendation
for renewal of the lease for two years
Then he looked to Councils to, act upon
the recommendation. But the recon-
,,pfa In m lie
tee.
Through April Furth went about ask
ing Councmen to bring the renewal
matter into the meeting.
He was told that it would be better
to let the business lie quietly until tall
You'll do better then" they told him.
But meanwhile the City Solicitor had
begun an amicable eiectment action and
the Fencibles' tenure in their armory was
growing more and more shaky.
Then Councils adjourned without act.
ing on the lease for the Fenclbles' II
the City Solicitors action was enectlVs
the Fencbles could be saved from eject
ment only by the action of Councils re-
newinG the lease.
Last Thursday Furth met John r. Com
nelly. chairman OF the Councils Finance
Committee. He asked when CouncIs
would do something about renewing INC
lease
I'VE don't want your old armory" said
Connolly.
"But the City Solicitors action Is
going to have us out If you don't 40
something" Furth protested on the
following Monday Judge f. Amedeo
Breezy was To have heard a second APP
peal from Furth for the Fencibles,
TELL DE MOLL TO SLOW UP
We'll" Connolly told him, you 80
tell DeNGoH that | said for him TO slow
up" DeMoll was the Assistant ClV
Solicitor in charge of the ejectment pro-
ceedings.
'If | tell him that he'll think I'm rep
resenting myself" Furth objected ~,
We'll, then, send him to me and IN
tell him" Connolly asserted.
Furth wrote DeMoll, asking him
see Connolly But when he met Demon
in court on Monday he learned that ths
Assistant City Solicitor and ConneIV
had not discussed the ejectment
I'VE don't want TO be mixed up in tha'
kind of a thing" was DeMolls explains
ton 81
1t was two weeks ago that Furth wen1
10 Judge Brown and learned from him
hat the Municipal Court had been plan
lng 10 install itself in the sixth no0i
corridor. 81
THE LAWYER AND THE JUDGE
The conversation was heated at nf'I
I ran like this, according TO Fuflh'
Now look here Charlie, know you"
anxious 10 take that corridor for th'
'ourt. I've heard it on good AUTHORITY
md there's no use saying that isn't NV
dea."
well look at the court here sara
Iudge Brown, with an air of eXtenuauos
We're crowded and every one kno"e Il.
Pm not interested In what the e0u'
ocs except as a citizen" FuIth TePne-
but the building on Race street oslos
}road. that is being used now as llh.
hop, would he very much better for tnss
Olice than the Fenclbles' armoi2A
hen ne explained that the police CT
hrow a bridge across from the rear
he building on Race street when vi. ~.
o be q FIRE headquarters. TO the Fsnt5L
les armory, which would then De art. 80
BILE as a gymnasium for the asP@'
lent. =.
This appealed to Judge BroWn ,,tH
eng a good idea, according 10 tuss.
nd talk grew less heated. Then ''i,h
iroWn admitted freely that the si