Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-30
GRAB INCLUDES
PLAN TO SEIZE !
CITY HALLSUITE
Rooms Occupied by Police
Coveted by Municipal
Court Pending 100000
Land Purchase.
Project terminated Last April
When Custer of State Fenoi-
bles From Armory Appeared
Imminent.

Not content with their land-grabbinR
plans for 100000 court buildings az
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 jammed through.
II the State Fencibles 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 shelter until tho
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 Counclmanic leaders had their
eyes on a site for the Municipal Court
as long ago as last April. more than
n 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
I,..- rzINA. 4s.1 raA NNt
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 plan to care for the
Municipal Court before Mrs. Jurist ana
Mrs. Richardson set II in motion. Coun-
cilmen told Emanuel Furth last April
that he would do we'll not to press his
fight against disodging the Fencibles-
They said he ought to walt until tho
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
lily Ildl uHli btltti Sus~
look for the land-grabbing scheme.
FENCIBLEs' PLEA IGNORED.
The state Fencibles' lease on tho
armory expired March l. Furth APP
peaed to the joint Councilmanic Com
mittee on City Property at meeting
April and secured a recommendation
for renewal of the lease for two years.
lie tn ~
the recommendation But the recom-
mendaton remained buried In commits
tee.
Through April Furth went about ask
ing Councilmen to bring the renewal
matter into the meeting
He was told that 1t would be better
to let the business lie quietly until fall.
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 Fencibles, IL
the city Solicitors action was effective
the Fencbles could be saved from elect
ment only by the action OF Councils re-
newing the lease.
Last Thursday Furth met John 7, Con-
nelly. chairman of the Councils Finance
Committee. He asked when Councils
would do something about renewing the
lease.
we don't want your old armory." said
Connolly,
going to have us out II you don't do
something" Furth protested On the
following Monday Judge +. Amedee
Bregy was to have heard a second APP
peal from Furth for the Fenclbes.
TELL DE MOLL TO SLOW UP"
We'll" Connolly told him. you 90 [
4 1 IL g1A
up" DeMoll was the Assistant City
Solicitor in charge of the ejectment pro-
ceedings.
IF | tell him that he'll think I'm rep
rcsentiug myself" Furth objected
We'll, then send him to me and I'll I
toll him" Connolly asserted,
Furth wrote DeMoll asking him In .
see Connolly, But when he met peMoll .
in court on Monday he learned that the \
Assistant city Solicitor and Connolly .
hal not discussed the ejectment
"We don't want to be mixed up in that 4
kind of thing was DeMolrs eXplana-
ton
II was two weeks ago that Furth went
to judge Brown and learned from him
hat the Municipal Court had been plan Il
tus 10 install itself in the sixth iooE
corridor
THE LAWYER AND THE JUDGE. 4
me conversation was heattu At H'sI
L ram like this according 10 Furth:
Sow look here Charlie, | know you're z
luNious TO take that corridor Tor the 4
curt, I've heard it on good authority
.ud there's no use saying that isn't ths y
doa"
"Ncll look at the court here" said y
ud-o Brown with an air Of eNtenuati3n. s.
We're crowded and every one kHowe ~
I'm not interested In what the colrE
oes except as citizen" FuIth replied e
but the building on Race street hel""
iroud, that is seius used now AS "a Junk
hop, would ue very much better for ING 4
glrv tnau the FenCibles' arl0yrE. IA
hen me explained that the police fouj III
brow bridge across from the rear "t Ii
he building ON Race street which lseI II
, ha q Hrr hcadguartcgs 10 the fen.-
.rs' urmogy. which would thtu br tFN'-
ble as "a gymnasium for The deN'''
Jrur.
This appealed 10 Judge Erpvu
rur a good idea. accurdiHs Co .Hli
ma tulk grew less heated. Ibe1
rown admitted freely that th'
our corridor was the aim VI tLe '----