The Connecticut labor press., 1919-04-12
JUDGE WOLFE'S PROGRESS FROM
 APPRENTICE BOY
New Haven Printers Celebrate His Appointment to Superior
 Court Judge.
HIS START AS A NEWSBOY
Self Made Man Who Never For gets His Days at the Case
 Guest at Dinner.

Judge Isaac Wolfe of New Haven, re- | gently appointed judge of the Superior | Court was given dinner at the Cafe Mellone on Wednesday night by the | printers of New Haven and other
 friends i'll honor of his promotion from
 judge of the Common Pleas Court
 Judge Wolfe's life furnishes one of the
 best illustrations of the phrase, self lie began as newsboy, he is now a Superior Court judge, and his career is not closed. ..N
 The judge was. born in New Haven
 and early in life he was a newsboy.
 Then he became a printers apprentice on the New Haven Register. From
 printers devil, who begins by sweeping
 the floor, picking up type from the floor
 and putting the good pieces back in the
 case and broken ones in the ''hell'' box,
 # the, composition is looking, and putting
 he became a composition, intelligent
 compos1tor, they used to cali them, and
 finally became foreman of the compos- ing room, which offers fine opportunities
 for man to become either a diplomat or tyrant. After matriculating in the composing room, he studied at the Yale Law School, became fulf-fedged lawyer with shingle, and the rest of 1t, and afterwards became a judge
 While Isaac Wolfe has not attained the honors of. Rufus Isaacs, now Lord Reading, Chief Justice of England and British Ambassador to this country, there is parallel in that each rose by his own efforts. Still, the famous Eng fish jurist never had the advantage of the. wisdom to be derived from the composing room. as t
 Postmaster Troup, in presenting the greeting of the New Haven press at the dinner, spoke of Judge Wolfe's ability, and said his appointment was a direct slap in the fact of Rolshevism. Presi- dent Patrick F. O'Meara, of the Con- nectlcut Federation of Labor, spoke in the absence of President Ira. M Orn- burn of the New Haven Trades Council, who was unable to> be present. MT. OMeara said that square deal for the workingman Is in sight when men of the ea1bre of Judge Wolfe are elevated to the Superior Court He said that from such men as he, wno nave risen people, to place of honor and trust, snap judgments will not be forthcoming. He said Judge Wolfe had the complete confidence of the workingmen.
 Joseph J. Reilly, secretary of the New Haven Trades Council, who is familiar with Judge Wo1fe's career, eu1ogized the guest of honor as an old. typo, and
 judge E. C.. Simpson spoke of the
 guest as a brother member of the trade, for Judge Simpson served his time as a eompositor and worked on country newspaper, formerly known as Osborn, Dr. Louis N. GompeTtz, ,Dr. Stephen J. Maher, Charles Kleiner, James Moran and Colonel I. M U11-. mann were the other speakers. Cover nor Holcomb was unable to be present, and he sent a letter of regret to the toastmaster, Walter F. Walsh
 Judge Wolfe made brief address in be connected with the greatest trade of all, the printers trade. Among tke guests, who were invited and were un- able to attend were Rabbi Louis L. Mann, Edward Downes, Sheriff Thomas L. Reilly, President Ira M. Ornburn, of the New Haven Trades Council, and E. Shipman Smith, of The Connecticut Labor Press. Those who attended were: -' /.
 Louis w. Well, Samuel Z. Field, Ed ward J. Maroney, William H. Avis, Bert Chapman, Thomas Roche w. H. Hans com, w. L. Moore, H. K. Hutchinson Peter J: Hope, John R. Booth, Samuel E. Hoyt, J. Birney Futile, George H. Sanders, Ernest F. Hintz, William c.. Cox, James Logan, Leslie Hendrick, Edward J. Cannon, George J. Bowling, George D. Bone, John Day Jackson Isaac M U1lman, N. c. Osborn, Issac Wolfe, Walter Walsh, Stephen J. Maher, Philip Troup, Lucien P. Smith, Clarfes K1einer, Ernest C. Simpson, Joseph J. Reilly, Dr. Louis M. Gompertz, James T. Moran, John J. Lane, Joseph H. Ullman, Sergeant B. M. Hope, John ., McAvoy, Sol M Gempertz, Jewell M. Gompertz, Henry L. Wolfe, C. w. Pickett, Frank H. Smith, E. R. Ottar- son. C.. M: Robinson, John T. Flynn, Paul Barnett, Albert H. Barclay, w. E. C. Young Benjamin Wolfe, john E. Casey, Lot J. Cunningham, P. F. O'Meara, Henry C. Higgins, Thomas J. O'Brien, Edwin s. Pickett, Hubert M. William Maley, Harold Finn, William Porter, Paul Shea, Raymond Henry J. McKernan, Walter F. Collins, Gerald Finn, George Gerin, Thomas F. McNulty. Simon Bros1er, Sol Wolfe, Fred w. Orr, Charles Bir1ey and Edwin F. Lyon.