Evening star., 1915-01-21
Becomes Associate Justice of
Supreme Court, Being
Warmly Congratulated.
NINETY-EIGHT LAWYERS
ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
Four Women Among the Number
Who Took Oath as Mem
bers of the Bar.

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eight new lawyers were presented to-
| day to the bar of the District of Co
lumbia. Frederick L. Siddons, who
| yesterday resigned as District Commits
| sfoner. took the oath of office as an as
! sociate justice of the Supreme Court OF
| the District of Columbia. The new JUS
| tice then sat with his associates on the
| bench at the admission to practice of
ninety y-eight successful candidates at a
| recent examination held at the law
school of Georgetown University by
| the examining committee of the court.
| Justice Siddons is the first Commits
sioner of the District of Columbia to be
appointed to position on the bench He
| succeeds Justice Daniel Thew Wright,
| who resigned last November to resume
| the practice of law.
New Justice Congratulated.
The consultation room Of the general
term was bedecked with floral remem-
brances and crowded with lawyers and
friends of the new justice when Chief
Justice Covington administered to Justice
Siddons the judicial oath to do equal
justice between the rich and the poor
and to support and defend the Consti-
tuition of the United States The new
justice repeated the Oatn IN a solemn
and impressive voice and the ceremony
of induction was completed.
After the chief Justice and Associate
Justices Anderson. Gould, Stafford and
MCCOY had congratulated the new JUS
tice. the assemblage formed into line
and shook the hands of Justice Sid
dons. Among the first to congratulate
him were his wife, his daughter Eliza
beth and his sister, Miss Victoria L
Siddons. Others extending felicitations
W oioCi inrn
man and her mother. Mrs. McComas;
Engineer Commissioner Kutz, Mrs.
Louis Brownlow, wife of the newly ap-
pointed Commissioner; Associate Jus
tice Barnard. retired; jackson H. Raj
ston. his former law partner; E. C.
Brandenburg, acting president of the
Board of Trade; Amos A. Steele former
secretary to Commissioner Siddons;
Corporation Counsel Syme, Assessor
Richards, Ben l.. Prince, tax collector.
and numerous members of the bar
When the congratulations were over
the new justice donned his silk robe and
took his place at the end Of the line of
Justices as they filed into court to re-
ceive the new lawyers. Mr.. Siddons
took the chair on the extreme left of the
chief justice.
Ninety-Eight New Lawyers.
William Henry Dennis. president of the
examining committee Of the bar. before
presenting the neophytes. took occasion
to felicitate the new justice in his own
name and on behalf of the ninety-four
men and four women who were to be ad-
mitted to practice
Inc new lawyers were called to the
bar. and in groups of ten took the oath
70 CONQUER themselves uprightly and
according 10 law as members Of the
bar When all had been sworn Chief
Justice Covington explained to them
the responsibility of the profession. He
warned them that while they were to
tice of law. their first duty was as Of
ficers of the court, which gave them a
quasi-public position. He cautioned
them that they are to be regarded as
suldes and models of the communities
In which they live. and reminded them
that the court was always empowered
TO 'disbar any one whose conduct deyi-
ated from the strict dictates Of law and
morality.
Four Women Admitted.
One of the four women admitted to
practice Is Mrs. S. T. Andrew of JEFF
ferson City. Mo. She was graduated
last June at the Washington College
of Law in the class with her son, Her
bert B. Andrew. The son has returned
TO Missouri, the mother said, and will
practice law there.
THE only reason l took up law" said
Mrs. Andrew, was that l might re-
ceive a degree in the same class with
my boy"
Mrs Andrew is vice president of the
| Missouri State Society.
Mary L. Kiddoo is a clerk in the
census office. serving in the cotton sec
| ton. She comes from Georgia, where
women are not admitted to practice.
She studied law. she says, with the de-
termination of breaking down that
| prejudice. Having been admitted here
| she will apply for leave to practice in
Georgia out of comfy.
The old lawyers down there" she
declared. SAY I won't: the young law
| yers assert that 1 will be admitted i
wonder which is right"
| Miss Eunice K Warner is a native
| of North Carolina. She took her de-
gree of A. b at Notre Dame univer-
| sty of Maryland and the degree Of
LII: NJ. before applying for admission
II Will practice law here with my
sister," said Miss Warner, "as soon as
she has been admitted" The sister
| was graduated last June. but did not
present herself for examination.
| Avoids an Interview.
| The fourth Portia admitted TODAY was
Miss Helena T, DOGGY of this city She
modestly avoided an interview.
MISS DOGGY Is daughter of Mr..
and a niece of Judge Edward DOGGY nj
! Pittsfield. Ill.
| She was graduated from the Eastern
! High School in the class of 1911 T,.tar
! she was graduated from the TemnIe
4 School of Shorthand and Typewritipe o
I and in 1914 received her diploma fron
| the Washington College of Law MIS-
/ DOGGY was an honor student in her
| freshman year at the college havina
| been awarded the gold medal offeraG
, for the best thesis on Legal Ethics ;,
! At present Miss DOGGY holds a nos;-
| tion with the federal reserve board
| Her father. James w. DOGGY, has re
! sided in Washington for twentyn;n.
| wears, having been employed durin.
| that time in the government printins
office He is copy editor and time keen,
er of the night proofroom. He is aIso
a member of the Board of Trade
Miss Doocy's mother is a member NJ
| the Georgetown Hospital board of re.
| gents, a member of the Trinity ColIeDe
board of regents, president of Chapin
! Chapter, the charter chapter In the
| District of the w. G. T. L., and seyeraI
| other civic and charity organiza tions
other Men Admitted.
Among the men admitted was Will
liam Z. Chapman of Oklahoma, assist
ant superintendent of the State War
and Navy buildings.
The names Of the other new lawyers
Continued on Fourteenth Page)