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Hughes in a public speech has given Mr. Whitney credit for having taken the most important part in the struggle that centered in the eighty-cent gas legislation.
beloved and admired b his friends and re spected and esteemed y the bar. He re_ turns to the practice of the law, with the well known firm of O'Brien, Boardman, Platt
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Littleton. Judge Joseph W. Donovan, s king re cently at Ann Arbor before the nior Law students on "The Golden Age of Now," con cluded: "It's a great thin to be living in the world to day; when t e doctors know more, the lawyers earn more, the farmers
raise more, the merchants sell more, the builders build better, the elevators help more; the schools, churches, charities, hospitals and
homes are better; the cars and steamers, trolley and mobiles, magazines and papers. and all of the machines and devices for com fort, conveniences are made to promote hap piness. Truly this is a golden age just now." Chief Justice Simeon E. Baldwin of the Supreme Court of Connecticut made an ad dress on the subject “The Law of the Airships" at the annual meeting of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Nov. 19. Judge aldwin said that necessarily the airship would be used to a great extent for the commission of crime, for murders, and, above all, for smuggling. There would be a law for the high air as well as for the high sea. Lord Coke claimed that a man owned ro erty as high as air should reach or earth siiou (1 go through, but now this doctrine would now e contradicted. Judge Baldwin inclined to the belief that only through actual damage to the land or injury to persons or property would the owner of the remises have a legitimate grievance. He a vocated the calling of an official international convention to consider international laws with respect to the regula tion of this new interest and frame inter national agreements on the subject. Mr. Justice Henry A. Gildersleeve has re signed from the bench of the New York Su reme Court, first judicial district. udge Eildersleeve is a veteran of the Civil
Personal- The Bar Thomas E. Grover, of Canton, Mass, re cently resigned as District Attorney of Nor folk and lymouth counties, Mass, giving ill health as the reason. Gen. Charles Hamlin of Bangor, Me., has presented libra of edition the Penobscot Associationthe with ariblio of CokeBar on Littleton, and a full set of the Green Bag. Former representative Hepburn of Iowa has decided to open a law ofl‘ice in the Munsey Building, Washington, D. C. He has de~ termined not to enter polities again. Frank Moss, the reformer, has been selected
by Charles S. Whitman as first assistant dis trict attome of New York City at $7,500 a year. Mr. oss replaces Francis P. Garvan. Harry W. Blodgett of St. Louis, United States Attorney for the eastern district of Missouri, has resigned to form a partnership with a former city counselor of St. Louis, Charles W. Bates. Lloyd C. Griscom, who resigned as Am
bassador to Italy because he wished to rear his son in America, became a member of the law firm of Philbin, Beekman & Menken, of New York, December 1.
Jud e Emile Godchaux of New Orleans recent y elected judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeals, took his seat November 29. He had made an excellent record as an able, in defatigable young attorney.
ar, in
which he served with conspicuous gallantry. He was admitted to the bar in May, 1866, at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and shortly after this began the practice of the law in New York City. In 1875 he was elected Judge of the New York County Court of General Sessions. In 1891 he was appointed by Governor Hill to fill a vacancy in the Superior Court of New York City, and in the same year was regularly elected. He became a Justice of the Supreme Court, New York county, in January, 1896. _For_the ast few years he had been presiding justice 0 the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court. He is the author of "Rifles and Marksmanship," published in 1876. Its ‘author was a famous marksman in those da 8
James Freeman Curtis of Boston took oath of ofiice at the Treasury Department in Wash‘ ington November 27, as assistant secretary of the treasury, for which oflice he was se lected by Secretary McVeagh. Judge Frank C. Little of Sparta, Ga., was presented with a silver loving cup November 27 by the bar of Sparta. At the time of his retirement last September he had served for more than a quarter of a century as county
judge. William J. Calhoun of Chicag‘loI has been appointed minister to China. r. Calhoun
and earned enduring fame as a member of t 6
was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., October 5, 1848,
American rifle team, which won the inter
and was admitted to the bar in 1875. He enjoys a wide reputation as a corporation
national contest at Dollymount, near Dublin, Ireland, in 1875. Judge Gildersleeve is a
lawyer, and was entrusted with several deh sound and thorough lawyer and has been a ' cate di lomatic missions by the late President
painstaking and conscientious
udge.
He is
McKin ey.
