JUSTICE FORD ENDS 26 YEARS ON BENCH; Jurist, Who Will Become a Referee, Finds Courts More Efficient Than Formerly. WOULD WEED OUT CASES Many Are "Most Frivolous," He Finds -- Touched by Gifts From Aides.
Supreme Court Justice John Ford, who has fought for clean books as he fought against big game in the West and against the traducers of the honor of New York City and of its "sweetness and light," completed yesterday twenty-six years on the Supreme Court bench, and finds himself today, for the first time in thirty-two years, without any public office.

