Judge Cooley In New York

The New York World has an ''observant oitizen," and March 4 he had the following to say : "In the procession of great men from all parta of the country who pass in review through the thoroughfares of this city, no one is less likely to attract attention than Thomas Mclntyre Cooley, who went from Palmyra, N. T., to Adrián, Mich., just forty-five years ago. The eminent jurist's 8light, plainly ciad figure, below the average beight of man, and significant in no way of the powerful mind which has made it famous, has been seen for some days aboüt the Fifth Avenue hotel. Ex-Judge Cooley 's well-earned leisure is devoted to public interests almost as closely as his time was during the twenty-one years he sat on the Supreme Banch of Michigan, and made the legal decisions of that court respected and admired wherever English or American jurisprudence is known. Questions of interstate commerce, which have been deferred to him by general acknowledgment of his deep constitutional learning, absorb mo3t of his thoughts. When the associated railroads of Tennessee, Kentucky and Alabama wanted an arbitrator laat year, Cooley was their unanimous choice. The receivership of the Wabash road was universally acknowledged to have been fitly intrusted to him by Judge Gresham, and it seemed natural for him to become head of the Interstate Comtnerce Commiseion. ''Thomas Cooley was a farmer' g boy and he eloped tome forty years ago with a fanner's daughter. She is the handsome, digniBed matroa who has just joined him at his hotel here. Six children ri.se np to cali them blessed and to congratúlate themselves that when the plain young man from New York State wooed the rich Michigan farmer's pet child near Adrián twoscore years ago, they deolined to take the paternal 'No for an aoawer. What 'Kent's commentariee' wero to the hst generation of lawyers ' Cooley's Blackgtone' has today become in most States, and the Judge's ' Constitutional Limita tions ' Í3 a work almosí equally celebrated. There is, the jurista gay, a touch of Attic salt in hia writtingg, wbich may come from the place of his nativity, Attica, N. Y. Theron R. Strong, who afteiwards become a Justice of the Supreme Court of this State, introduoed Cooley to Blackstone, and the acquaintanoe has since been mntually profitable."