South Bend news-times., 1915-07-19
LATEST SCANDAL
BIT ISLAUGHABLE
Several New Features Will be
Included in City'S Fourth
Court House.

NEW YORK, July 19.-It's the
same old town. Rather it's the same
young town. New York never out
grows the extravaganza of youth and
probably never will Really though
the latest bit of scandal is laughable.
To think of the mayor and his fel-
low members of the board of estimate
complaining that the venerable judges
of the court house board have put
over a con game on them consisting
OF two restaurants, an enormous prl-
vate club and the biggest law library
in the world-all TO the sweet tune
of several million of Father Knicker-
bocker's hard earned gulders
When ex-Sen. Bennett the Cas-
sandra of New York predicted the
new circular court house-skirts are
now modelled on the same plan
would cost sixty million dollars, the
lime light of the mayors office was
turned on.
OF course the mayor thinks Bennett
is a pest. Every city official thinks
Bennett's more OF a pest than guilty
conscience. But where there was so
much smoke there might be a little
bit of flame
So Mayor Mitchell stepped over in
person TO take a look at the blue
prints of the Coliseumrlike structure
which the city's judges are going to
ask the city fathers 10 O. X.
Is \ Bit Pressed.
It must be remembered that Father
Knick is just now bit pressed. He's
closed up night schools and threaten
ed TO cut down on public baths and
ether municipal perquisites of the
common or garden variety of citizen.
What the mayor and the other city
fathers found out hasn't been officially
.ated. But il is known IL made the
.ir blue around the city hall for sew
ral days and wouldn't exactly add to
ne popularity of judges among cit
lenS deprived of their free baths and
night schools
The board Of estimate on which the
MAYOR sits knew there were TO be two
restaurants in The court house. one
for the public and the other for the
Judges
They now learned there was 20 be
hird restaurant so that the supreme
.ourt justices would have their lunch
,on apart from the judges OF the city
court.
Delving further they found unmis-
,akable signs of a fourth restaurant
to be situated in merry lawyers
and Judges club in the hOsptable big
,uilding The board had never heard
he word club" mentioned in any Of
the discussions Of the Luilding before.
F.. is even stated that the clubs pres
nee is disguised in the final blue
-ints tie space being labelled some
hing very legal and judicial.
The club SO the judges hoped would
occupy whole floor of the court
aouse and figured ON "A cub basis
would cost $1.5O0.00O of the 10000
90 which is the limit for the building
et by the estimate board
This proposed fourth court house
dining room would be larger than any
other club dining room IN the city
even the boast of that ultima thule.
ne Bankers club OF which j wrote
ONE time ago.
A nice little gift of Father Knicker-
booker 10 his hard working lawyers
and judges Father KniCkerbocker is
noted Tor his generosity. especially
when he doesn't know he IS doing any
giving
But the fOur-cOunt EN-. four--res-
taurants and the biggest club dining
room are thrown into the shade by the
judges OF the court house board had
designed
The blue prints Mayor Mitchell
found allOt 20. 900 feet a whole floor.
ID library space This would accom-
nOdate 400, goo volumes OF about
one hundred times the number OF
books in The library 20 be housed
there The latter is the present IL
brary OF the supreme court In New
York county which Fas 1900 vol
umeS
BcSs in New YORK
The bex1 library IN New Y Ork city -
that of the supreme cour1 OF BroOk-
I'm consisting % 1000 volumes while
The hiEEe= library of law books n the
cirv IT. is found is thai in the federal
building consisting az se.0o0 volumes
For The hbraTizn and his clerks
2.1C0 square feeE ar provided SIN ply
" populate Lhis extent OF nooT would
require - persons with desks Of good
Is dimensions The present Supreme
court hhrsrY il cared for ~ a single
employ Bu Of cOurse 1-40o. 600 vol
umeE wuuld reuItiTH s-n enlarged star
And jobs il joins
And SO migh1 70 on Bur wfr--t'
The USE Mayors maT cUrne and may
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