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NEW YORK SUPREME COURT.
Sketch of Three Yale Men who have
been Honored by Nominations.
Three well known Yale men are can-
didates this Fall for Supreme Court
Justices of the State of New York. Mr.
Frederic A. Ward, 62, and Mr. Henry
W. Taft, ’80, are two Republican candi-
dates, and Mr. Almet F. Jenks, ’77, is
a Democratic nominee. Mr. Ward and
Mr. Jenks are running against each
other in the Second Judicial District,
which includes Brooklyn.
FREDERICK A. WARD, ’62.
NOMINATED FOR SUPREME COURT JUS-
TICE OF NEW YORK.
For a sketch of Mr. Ward, the follow-
ing is reprinted from the speech of the
Hon. George G. Reynolds, making the
nomination:
“Mr. Ward was graduated, with dis-
tinction from Yale in the Class of
Sixty-Two, and subsequently from Co-
lumbia College Law School, but re-
ceived the most important part of his
legal training in the law office of Emott,
Van Cott & Jenks, then one of the
most distinguished firms in the cities
of New York and Brooklyn. He then
entered into partnership with Grenville
T. Jenks, which- firm lasted till the
death of Mr. Jenks.
“Although doing a large legal busi-
ness in the borough across the river,
he has one of his offices here, and for
thirty years has been intimately con-
nected with the Kings County bar, and
prominently employed in much of its
important and difficult litigation. May
I be excused for saying, that from hav-
ing been for a time his partner, and
from intimate association since, I per-
sonally know with what consummate
skill and untarnished honor he _ has
prosecuted his profession, and with
what devotion to its highest standards.
All of you in Brooklyn or New York
known that I do not exaggerate when
I say that for natural and acquired
ability as a lawyer, for an intuitive per-
ception of the common sense and of
the legal bearings of any question pre-
sented, fully equipped as he is with
legal lore, and yet not overborne or
crushed by it, for readiness and ac-
_ curacy in the trial of cases, and for
_ fairness and squareness, he has no su-
perior at our bar.”
MR. JENKS.
Mr. Almet Francis Jenks was grad-
uated from Phillips Andover in 1871,
and from Yale in 1875, and from Co-
lumbia Law School in 1877. In 1878 he
became a partner of Frederic A. Ward,
against whom he is pitted in the pres-
ent election. He was Assistant Dis-
trict Attorney of Kings County from
1884-1888; Corporation Counsel of
Brooklyn from 1886 to 1894; member
of the New. York Constitutional Con-
vention in 1895, serving on the Judi-
ciary Committee, and Judge Advocate
General of New York from 1800 to
1894. He is now Assistant Corporation
Counsel of New York, being, in reality,
the Corporation Counsel of Brooklyn.
A biographer of Mr. Jenks has thus
described him:
“Mr. Jenks has had large experience
at the bar, both in the trial of causes
and in the examination and argument
of questions of law. This experience
covers a general: practice with large
firms, including all branches of the law
of a civil nature; a practical acquaint-
ance with criminal law, acquired in the
performance of his duties as Assistant
District Attorney; a familiarity and
understanding of the constitutional law,
as the immediate result of his labors in
the Constitutional Convention; a knowl-
edge of military law, studied and ex-
pounded as Judge Advocate General,
and as a result of his long service as
the legal adviser of the City of
Brooklyn.” The Brooklyn Eagle of
October 5, 1898, speaking of the nomi-
nation of Mr. Jenks, said: “He is one
of the most distinguished authorities
on municipal law at the American bar.
MR. TAFT.
Henry Waters Taft makes a third
Yale nominee for Supreme Court Jus-
ticeship. Mr. Taft was educated in the
Woodward High School of Cincinnati
and in Yale College, from which he
was graduated in 1880. He was for
two years here a member of the Uni-
versity Crew. He was admitted to the
New York Bar in 1882, having com-
pleted his legal education in the Colum-
bia Law School. For many years he
has been counsel and court attorney
for the New Haven Railroad, in which
capacity he has tried a large number of
cases in the federal and state courts.
In addition to his court training Mr.
Taft has had wide experience in other
forms of law as referee in a number
of very important causes, such as the
Garrison case, and also as attorney for
large and complicated estates. His
standing in the legal profession is
instanced by his enviable position in
the bar association during the last eight
years as Chairman of its Committee on
Admissions, and also as member of its
Executive Committee and Library
Committee. Mr. Taft is a member of
the’ Century, University and Yale
clubs; a governor of the St. Andrew’s
Golf Club, Secretary of the Yale
Alumni Association, and first President
of the Boys’ Club in St. Mark’s Place.
He was appointed tothe Board of Edu-
cation by Mayor Strong in 1897. He
has been very active on the Board, his.
legal knowledge being of frequent use
and great value in its work. He was
one of those who especially opposed the
Mayor’s attempt to oust the present
School Board, and is at the moment one
of the legal committee appointed to
defend Manhattan against Brooklyn in
its suit in the Supreme Court for the
possession of $325,000 of school money.
ARTHUR F. JENKS, 775.
NOMINATED FOR SUPREME COURT JUS-
TICE OF NEW YORK.
Mr. Taft comes from a very well
known Yale family. His father gradu-
ated in the Class of Thirty-Three. One
brother, Charles P., graduated in 1864;
another, Peter R., was valedictorian of
Sixty-Seven; a third, William H., was
salutatorian of Seventy-Eight, while
the youngest, Horace D., graduated in
1883, was afterwards in the Faculty
here, and is now head of the Taft
School of Watertown, Conn.
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Prom Festivities Curtailcd.
A meeting of the Junior Class was
held Wednesday evening, October ioth,
for the purpose of electing the Junior
Promenade Committee. On the pre-
liminary ballot the following men were
named: J. C. Greenway, P. A. Rocke-
feller, S. B. Camp, F. B. Adams, W. L.
Chittenden, A. J. Baker, M. Mills. B
Johnson, W. E. Minot, M. Dodane 7
D. Dana, F. W. Allen, C. E. Sullivan,
M. L. McBride,:T. .B. Clarke, Jr... €.
L. Tiffany.
The nine men chosen by the final
ballot were: Percy Avery Rockefeller of
New York City, Chairman; Stuart
Brown Camp of West Winsted, Conn;
James Cowan Greenway of Hot
Springs, Ark.; Frederick Baldwin
Adams of Toledo, O.; Walter Lyon
Chittenden of Binghamton, N. Y.;
Matthew Mills of Chicago, Ill.; Alan-
son Judson Baker of Gloversville, N. Y.;
Bascom Johnson of Washington, D. C.;
Malcolm Douglas of Albany, N. Y.
At the meeting a communication
from the Faculty was read which stated
that the Prom festivities should be
limited to two days, Monday and Tues-
day, the Glee Club concert to be given
HENRY W. TAFT, 80.
NOMINATED FOR SUPREME COURT JUS-
_ TICE OF NEW YORK,
Monday evening, followed by the Class
germans and the Prom to be held on
Tuesday. It is suggested that the
Prom week begin on Monday instead
of Saturday as has been the case for the
last two years. In this way the custom
of entertaining visitors in the college
rooms on Sunday will be done away
with as well as the necessary expense
involved in having friends in town for
the two extra days. The suggestion
will be carefully considered by the Com-
mittee and will no doubt be followed
out.
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Yale Battery Mustered Out.
Battery A, First Conn. Vols., in which
sixty Yale men were enlisted, was mus-
tered out with full pay, at the Second
Regiment Armory, New MHaven, on
Tuesday, Oct. 25. Since the expiration
of the thirty-days’ furlough, granted
them Sept. 16, the Yale men have been
allowed to room where they chose,
merely reporting for roll call each day.
One hundred and fifty-seven men in ad-
dition to the officers of the Battery,
were mustered out, of whom fifty-five
were among the original sixty Yale
men who enlisted. The Battery was
mustered out by Lieutenant Crofton of
the First United States Infantry.
Lieutenant Crofton took part in the
engagements before Santiago this Sum-
mer.
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