Show Night Police 1 Court I At Jefferson Market 1 the colloquially colloquial colloquial- ly abbreviated name for Cor the New York pollee court which Is the Bow street ot of America and the thc temple In which she had nodded blinking for tor upward or of a a. generation Justice now sits sUs kept awake by tile the multifarious night lire life of the tho city From 9 each ench evening till 3 In tIle te morn morning In sh she ten tends s her scales scale's for tor New York has hns there established for tor her the first regular night court ourt In the world as the me megaphone man will tell letl you when the rubber neck wagon stops before the door And if IC you wc r. der in In wondering why there should be bea a night court and wherein It differs I from Its daytime prototype you will find that tire the night has cast casta n glamour of oC Its own over O the tho familiar courtroom anti and the scenes enacted there Superficially you ou er nothing distinctive In tho appearance and conduct conduct con con- duct of the court save savo that the usual bustle and noise and clamor of the day session are aro lacking The evening quiet or of th the city has crept Into the room broken at intervals Interval with unusual effectiveness of- of bY fL a trolley car or ortho tire tho rush of at nn an elevated train or or In the 1 hu h. h by the clanging gongs of tho patrol wagons unloading theIr prisoners from the various arious police precincts pro pre ot of Manhattan Likewise the tho out out- or er darkness accentuated by tho bril- bril Ilant lights of the courtroom furnishes that subtle mystery which It alwa lends to crime and adds allds the dignity ann and seriousness which It casts over oven even a 11 petty tribunal At first you OU may lay the tho difference to the nove novelty It ot of the tho Institution The Tho court held Its first session on August 1 1 and I its uniqueness still attracts vIsItors vIs- vIs more or less picturesque so that It I II nn II court ih iii t d lt rid out n l and 1 d i dIes awa away before dawn from the tho bunches outside the railing Curious citizens of lC varying Intelligence ser ser- faced bus foreigners straining their ears cars to understand this new Amerl American amplification of oC justice men and women wo- wo men from some somo pleasuring pleasuring- automobile craning to seo something mu unusual all lo with tIre the ordinary friend of the tho accused nn and l keep tine tho court room fun full well up to tho recess reces at midnight when the tho jud judge o and his staff refresh with luncheon Human wrecks wreck tn l y l Y n tron ork III a. a n lt Cj tott up r-up V t f tH bridge and ar are com com committed to the almshouse drunk and wit with or without tine the murk mark or of conflict on their tacos faces offer timo- timo worn eXCUSeS and are fined discharged or put iUt on goat good behavIor to report to James Louris tho probate officer wiCe I beaters are noc sent to the island push push- cart art men are arraigned and pay th tho V V W t rico of their till release It seems that Vr tho phantasmagoria or of mIsfortune wilt will r V never cease passing r r The record of sixty casc hi V l minutes a by Magistrate Whit VIiI man the father tather of the tho court at Its Its' s 's session which he sat at Is th J V. V customary speed Owing to the somewhat somewhat some some- what vindictive e activity of the police 3 VL who for st several reasons did not ap- ap 1 provo prove of the new order of oC things more mor than COO arrests were crowded Into that thai f first session butt ng as they were all prop prop- t i erly arraigned and disposed of the at t- t V tempt to swamp the tho neW court was waa tr thwarted once for tor all Since then the tho average Is cases nightly i S I V 11 |