| Show l Survival Ii t Pa 61 r W Wi Wr r iJ i tl eJ M o d eve Day DayI I R 4 i 1 rr s I Ik Ia k a 1 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON V T WAS WAR Tennyson tho Ju lI h po poI poet t who lm ho penned the line I the he 01 old 1 order Kl giving place plarl to In the new but lire arc Mill with HI us In these modern enough enouch survivals of ot the past to 10 once more that Hint other lr the lie exception proving I the he rule rull It If you jou ou want to In find fled mi on Interesting example of ot this tills fact KO go Into Inlo a n room In the nt at which rom from 1815 to 10 18 10 was the meeting place of ot the tho United States senate but ID Is IIII now the room where ells the most august tribunal In America Amer Amer- lei ica the United limited SIn States II Supreme court Look upon 1100 the tho leaks which front the he long lone bench behind be- be hind 1 which tit sit the nine Justices mind and what Instruments ments for tor writing will 11 you jou find Typewriters no not nol I N Nut Not t one onel Fountain pens No Indeed ll What then tI Why quill pens penal I Dignity II and nd 1 tra tradition tradition those those are the tIl two out out- standing characteristics of ot the highest 31 judicial body In the United l States There Is III dignity dl In Inthe Inthe inthe the appearance of ot that room with Its red cur cur- tab Its 1111 murble marblo columns und mind Its 1111 general air of ot being thousands of ot miles auay from the tho tuny busy modern life lite which ebbs and nod flows 1 the theM M streets roots around the Ihl Capitol And I the lit traditions lI Theres There's the traditional cry of ot the announcer O 0 Ye Yes O 0 Yen YIE O Yes YIE I ns nil the nine black robed black robed Justices led by hy the tho Chief e of ot the United Plates the lion Charles Charlei i l' vans hIM lIu the time through the door and take their places behind the long bench on time the raised platform which overlooks the chamber There H Is the tradition that the Supreme r court meets s precisely on the tho dot of ot noon and that It will viii rise at nt two o'clock lk tharp for tor lunch and the IIII tradition that on III ion on Mondays the till stiff sharp t bow of ot the court attaches wearing attaches-wearing wearing their punctilious cutaway con will coats Is will be bl made to time the advancing line Itne of ot justices justice with the same military precision And then there Is III the time tradition trl that there shall Khali elways be on the counsels counsels' desks a I supply of ot sharpened freshly quill pens In case they want to use Ulle them The fhe Supreme court you know has Its own tine bar or group of ot lawyers jors admitted 1 to practice before It To o be eligible 1111 for tor t this his a II III lawyer Iyer must have Ilave move teen been a II member of ot the bar nr of ot the tho highest court ourt la In his hili own state tt for tor not II leas lesi than three thrle years tUU and more than that he cannot be admitted ad ad- to the bar of ot the Supreme court unless te he la is sponsored II by another member For the court li is very tery careful ll to whom It gives Its privileges privileges and ami that Includes the matter of ot drew dress too SO l Several ago alO an attorney appeared before be he- fore th the Supreme court one hot bot summer day lIay w with Ith- Ith out lOut a II vest He III was 8 Imme ly Iy Informed informal 1 that be lie could not plead IMI In such a II garb gurb as that He Ill retired from tr the chambers chambers and lInd and did not come back Away back bark In the tha early days of ot the tho Supreme court urt It was U the time rust custom om to provide quill pens for tor the attorneys appearing l before It The duty of ot providing them was assigned to the marshal of et time the court Fashions In writing utensils changed but changed-but but not In the Supreme court of ot the United States I The marshal kept right on supplying sup plying quill pens and Frank K Green who has hils been marshal since 1015 lit still III does lIllIS It Each rh lawyers lawyer's desk gets two pens They are placed In the center of ot a II writing pad which must mot be large l and ml white and one ORI pen Is placed I over ever the other In the shape of ot an X Above AboTt Is a tray for tor steel pens a concession to new fan fan- sled fled It'd ways waysl and to the right Is placed a II small tine bine blotter It must always be blue There Is no telling what t might happen If It any change chan were m made In that arrangement for It You would III be Ite upsetting a tru tradition In the United States Supreme court and traditions are lire 1 En upset there Once one ont came fame very ery Ir near nur being upset and a national scandal was barely bartly averted It concerned concerned con con- those quill In pens Genuine quill pens are art not t made In the United States State A Washington ton department store Imports them from England lan l and fand Marshal Mauhl Green gets them from this Flo store One Ont day he hI discovered l that his supply was US exhausted ex tx hausted and the I store torl had hud none Here was a 1 crisis ls Indeed I Hut But the marshal w IS as equal to the olal occasion lon lie He secured some turkey feathers tt and 1 fashioned them to resemble real quill pens and these t titled tided him over oter until a n fresh supply was 81 rl received from ln England What would have ha happened If It he hI hadn't Is unknown Probably ly nothing for tr none of or the lawyers who appear before the Supreme court fOUrt ever er use the quill I liens eni anyway The lal last t one who ho ever lr did was walt wasa a II New Ne' York law lawyer r nn and l that was os more than a n quarter of ot a n century ago 11 Hut the time Important fact Is that the quill pens must be hI on baud 1 In Incase incase case they ever do want to u use nse e them That Is Isa Isa Isa a Supreme court tradition than Ihan which there Is U nothing more sacred l. l Crow Cross OUT oer the time Potomac rl river er from Wash Washington Washing ton ten Into Inlo Virginia go to Richmond 1111 and 1 In that city you jcu ou will tied Cud another ancient that survival e r Tie Ti 1 The photograph shows Albert Thompson who h. h has succeeded his father In carrying on a three three hundred hundred year old business at Meriden England where for five generations his hi family has hai dally manufactured bows and arrows arrow His HII work now forms the only direct English survival sur sur- viva vival of this ancient craft Mr Thompson havIng having hav hay ing been under his fathers father's direction since Ince he was a child Exactly the same methods are employed as In the days daYI when a form of conscription con eon required every English youth to put In two hours of shooting practice with bow baw and arrows of his own production The business necessitates the rearing of turl turkeys eys In order to obtain twelve special feathers feather from each bird bird bird- 2000 of which are needed each year so 10 that Mr Thompson may feather the arrows arrow he makes He Is shown at his hi workbench while his assistant assistant assist assist- ant tends to the turkeys 2 If any attorney appearing before the United States Statu Supreme court courts court's Is still old fashioned enough to want to use a quill pen he will find finda a supply of them freshly sharpened ready on the counsels' counsels desks In the chambers of that august august august au au- gust body It Its It's a old century custom that Is I. still observed even though few lawyers lawyer use them and souvenir hunters hunter persist In carrying them away Iway The picture shows Miss Mill Lorine Staley with several of these relics of a bygone gone day dayo 3 George Hof of f rooklyn Brooklyn N. N Y who receives an annuity of from the estate of King Charles Charlea II because his ancestor saved the king from the soldiers of Oliver Cromwell j Is III If It f you jou happen to be Ie there at the beginning of ot ofa ota a hunting season reason For you jou may be treated to the flip sight Ight of ot a 0 group of It Indians dressed In native na tive live costume waking making their way WilY to the Executive Mansion and bearing with theta them the carcass of ot a adeer adeer deer or some other wild game Jam A Away Awny way back hark In 1520 1820 the Uie Indians of ot Virginia started the custom of ot presenting to the Yo w white hilI governor of ot that colony col tol ony the tho first game killed during the hunting season and that custom m has lias been observed for tor tormore more inure than 00 years Or go 10 to n. N N. N Y seek out oot a seventy seventy- seven year seven-year-old jearold resident of ot that city named George GlOrge and ask him about the tho annuity which he receives from the estate of ot King Charles II lI of ot England In The Tune story which be would tell tIll you goes gOlS back to IGil when Charles Stuart Stoart who had hall been proclaimed King Charles II 11 of Great Britain by the time Scots even IHn though Oliver Cromwell Cromwell's Protectorate was In power In Fang land was fleeing from Cromwell's after the defeat of ot the time kings king's forces at the battle of ot Worcester On September 6 0 of ot that year the fugitive king came rume to Horo near Wolverhampton Woh and there was taken Into Inlo the home of ot a yeoman family tamly tam fam ily ly named Cromwell's soldiers were hot on his track and If It they captured him It was quite likely that he hI would l suiter the fate tute of his hili father Charles I 1 who ho had been beheaded l. It was certain that Ibl they would search the house so J Elizabeth the da daughter u of or the family y hit upon Ulon the Idea of ot hiding the monarch In a II great oak ouk tree which stood In their garden gardea So up the tree went King Charles I II 11 and there he remained all nil day dllY while Cromwell's soldiers I searched 1 the house and premises In vain When night came Elisabeth and tier her brothers told him how to reach the coast I safely I and he hI escaped I to Trance France Years liter later when the Restoration Sos Res torn lion brought Charles II 11 to M the throne of ot England he ht hud had n a chance to repay those who had hall I saved I his life and although he was 89 notorious ous for tor pledges the fact remains that Charles Stuart did dill repay repa this debt In July 1575 lC he hl Issued a royal charter establishing a n pension for tor the to be he paid annually out of ot rents to be he collected tl 1 from Roundheads In n 0 dozen English counties The charter designated as George GIrl John Humphrey Mary Jary and William a and nIl Elizabeth Yates For or the girl who ho suggested the hiding hIlling place had hall married l a man named Yates and when Ihn sloe she lived Ih out her time her pension p passed 1 to her eldest son anti named Yates IV Down n through the Yates family the pension ran f for r many years then through a II succeeding family named U Hyson on and nd another named Walker The pension Is one of ot the few V perpetual per pensions on record Another Is pal paid l by bythe bythe the lun government go for all although hough more rl than a century has passed since the duke of ot Wellington aided 1 by German and hutch Dutch troops defeated Napoleon at Waterloo for this feat of ot arms the must po pay a II perpetual annuity to the dukes duke's heir amounting to approximately i 5 After Waterloo the duke of ot Wellington rc- rc the title of ot prince of ot Waterloo 1 together with revenue from the property sit Kit In the famous battlefield l. l The present beneficiary Is Arthur Charles Charlt's W ley esley fourth prince of ot Waterloo Tilda Today a total of ot 35 persons rl receive annuities under the terms of ot King Charles Charles' charter to tolie tobe tie lie for or although there are only 1 K 12 2 P 3 direct t beneficiaries the fund has hus been subdivided vided The direct pensioners are scattered l far farand farand and wide tIe throughout the world Most of ot them are url In England tl some In Irel Ireland ind some In India and two In Iu North America The only pt pensioners who ho bear the original name are ure Miss lIss Florence who lives In New calami and George Ceorge of ot N N. Y Y The other North American beneficiary II Is Dr ir Francis I E 13 Walker a professor of ot l English In time the University of ot ish Columbia a direct descendant of ot Elizabeth The trust fund und which King Charles established Is administered by hy T. T A A. A W W. Gilford Gifford hereditary trustee trustle l II the appointed by king The orl original charter Is stored In the strong room of ot Fowler tangle Langley and Wright of ot solicitors to the trust At Atthe Atthe Atthe the left left hand hand top corner of ot the parchment Is a R finely engraved medallion with the head hlad and shoulders of ot King Charles The great seal of ot England Englund with Its dangling ribbons has crumbled and broken during the centuries so 80 that It has to be held together In Ina Ina ina a leather hug hag The writing Is nearly as ns clear and bright In black and red as 81 on the day It was first penned In a tine line clerkly hand The text In legal Latin sets forth nil all the I properties on which payments are ure to be lie made madl to the trust and states that the pensions shall be noo to Mary f to tn William Pen lEn drell marks to John marks to Humfrey lut tuO marks to GIOr George e Pen Ien drell drIll and f. f friO ro 0 to Elizabeth Yates and to heirs of ot their bodies The amounts received II bj by the various pension pensioners pension pension- ers era varies from 10 IO sterling to tn HO 40 sterling paid semiannual semiannually The heir rl receives the largest amount Twice a year jear he hl receives a letter from the solicitors f to the till trust Inquiring If It he Is still alive Upon Clon his replying In the affirmative he hI receives a check for 40 to II about 00 which Is paid by the government Years Tears ago that government realized 1 that Its Us treasury was badly cluttered up with pensions of all kinds Some of ot these It quit pa paying Ing and others It bought oft off by bj paying a n lump sum to the pensioners The annuity was one of ot those cut off ofT but bot when these heirs made representations representations rep rep- to the court the time permanency of ot a agrant agrant agrant grant made In perpetuity by a king of ot England o was WI recognized l and payments were resumed For the English even more than Ihan the United States Supreme court has a n great rev reverence for tor tradition and there Is no better example of ot the survival of ot ancient customs In these modern rn days than Is found In certain feudal rights which the king of ot England still retains In fact tart If It King J George V were to enforce all the quit rents quit rents to which h he Is legally entitled he ht would possess a unique collection lIon of ot odds and anti ends Ind A quit rent quit rent Is U a u contribution In kind made to tn Britain's reigning sovereign j n by holders hoMI of or country estates granted to them by English in h kings In ancient times The duke of ot Atholl holds hoMs his lands on condition condl- condl lion tion that he present a white rose to the king ling whenever If honored with Ith a royal visit at his real resi- residence dence Atholl The Time of ot pot In similar circumstances are lire under the much more difficult cult obligation to present a I snowball When his majesty passes through the town of It Crendon In time the owner of ot the land on Yo which It Is situated 1 has to tender red roses rOllIs Should the king visit the village of ot Amesbury tm hury Will Wiltshire shIrl the 0 owner of the land IanI or which bleh it Is situated situate Is railed called upon to furnish for tor the time royal bl tied bed l. l The holder molder of ot the Cor or her bet estates In is obliged to th the Ihl kings Uns taLl table I with bacon when England supply Is K at al allar w lar ar t lr by r w Western Ne 11 |
