Evening star., 1915-02-11
many minds
Judges and Their Duties.

JuuRcS anu xuSlI OuLlSS.
Speaking of judges and>their duties,
Justice Mccoy said:
Il believe no judge. no matter how
ever learned he may be, can attain
success unless he knows what the peo-
pie have right to expect from each
other. No judge can be a successful
judge unless he mingles with his fell
lOw-men.
II hope to have the opportunity and
privilege to become better acquainted
with you gentlemen of the Washington
Board of Trade. / am confident that
members of organization such as
the betterment of their city, and that
to associate with them will mean to
improve ones self by such association"
Justice McCoy's remarks were greet
ed with much applause when he said:
Washington has at various times
been called a second Paris But Wash
ington does not want to be a second
Paris. Just let Washington be Wash
ington and nothing else"
Former Presidents Honored.
Seated on the platform with the
guest of honor and the present officers
of the board. including President Bran
denburg, First Vice President William
I. Galliher, Second Vice President Will
liam D. West, Secretary Chris j. Cock
eler and General Counsel John 2. Lar
ner, were the following former presi-
dents OF the organization: Col Myron
NJ. Parker. B. II. Warner, Theodore w
Noyes, John Joy Edison. Thomas w
Smith, William V. Cox, Brig. Gen. John
NJ. Wilson, Cuno H. Rudolph, J. Henry
Small. jr., and Edward H. Droop. The
following charter members of the or
ganization also were on the platform
Isadore Saks. John II. Magruder and
Col. George Truesdell.
The following telegram sent from
Omaha, Neb., by Gen. George H. Har-
ries, who served as president of the
board 1910-1s11. and who is one of the
two honorary members of the organi-
Za ton, was read:
you tonight to join in celebrating the
twenty-fifth anniversary of truly
honorable and highly efficient organi-
zation to which l am bound by the
strongest of ties. Business and dis
tance having combined to make my at
tendance impossible, I send friendships 8
sincerest greetings to the assembled
membership"
Business Meeting Held.
At business session. which preceded
the anniversary celebration, reports
were received from the committees on
municipal art, sewerage, public order,
bridges and public buildings. The re-
port of the committee on municipal art
provement and beautifying of the wa
ter front, the removal of the National
Botanic Garden to d more suitable To-
ca ation, the establishment of more flow
er beds around government buildings,
and the erection of national art gal
lery. All the reports were approved
The creation of a metropolitan sew
erage commission to formulate a plan
for disposing of sewage of nearly
communities in Marylapd, and larger
appropriations for building draining
sewers in outlying sections of the city
are urged in the report of the sewerage
committee. The committee on bridges
recommended that the approaches to
the bridge over the railroad tracks on
New York avenue be improved so tina
the bridge may be utilized, that a
grade crossing at Langdon be elimi-
mated by the construction of a bridge
over the railroad tracks, and that pre-
liminary steps be taken for the recon-
struction of the Calvert street bridge
over Rock creek.
An increased number of policemen
and an adequate pension system were
recommended by the committee on
public order, which also urged that
business men of Washington do every
thing in their power to increase the
effectiveness of the District National
Guard. Appropriations for municipal
+ lodging house, a municipal hospital an
armory. storage house and various
school buildings are urged in the re-
port of the committee on public build
ings.
At the conclusion of the meeting a
ballroom Of the New Willard, in which
the unique decorations provided for
the soiree artistique the night before
still were in place.