Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1895 — Conveyed a Wrong Impression. [ARTICLE]

Conveyed a Wrong Impression.

Justice Gaynor of the Supreme Court addressed the student# of the law department of the University of the City of New York at their last commence, ment In Carnegie Hall. He read big address from manuscript. It was a long address, and when he got well into it he had occasion to make this statement: “The first thing I did when I became a lawyer was ”

Here he paused, took up a glass of water and swallowed a mouthful. Tho effect was electrical. The audience roared with laughter and applauded for a full five minutes. Justice Gaynor was stunned for a few minutes at the outburst. Then he found voice to say: “Well, better that than something else.” He then went on with bis address, and It appeared that he really intended to say that he attributed a great deal of bls success to the fact that he was especially prompt in turning over some money which he had collected to the man to whom It belonged.—New York Sun.