Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-02
TO
JUDGE STRONG
Affecting Scene in Court on the
Last Day Of the Aged Jurist's
Public Career.

before noon Saturday, just before
Judge Woodbridge Strong retired
from the Middlesex county bench for
ever, just before he gave up his life
long work and retired from public
life, nearly all of the members of the
Middlesex bar residing in this city
went to the bench, shook the hand
of the aged and sturdy jurist and
wished him God-speed and long life,
and expressed their sorrow at the
parting. 1t was an affecting scene
dry and few threats that were not
chicken with emotion.
Several of the lawyers gave words
to their feelings and Judge Strong
feelingly responded to their golden
words of commentator and love.
A handsome bouquet of carnations
graced the bar, a tribute to the Judge.
On a card was the inscription: From
your 'peppery' friend, one who has
genuine affection for you. The Pros
ecutor."
After the business of the morning
had been concluded Judge j. Kearny
Rice, who with Judge c. T. Cowen-
hoven, are the only living ~eX-judges
of the Middlesex bench, stepped for
ward and said that before court
should close for the day two or three
of the lawyers wanted to express
their personal friendship toward
Judge Strong. He said that the judge
has been on the bench longer than
any one else who had ever sat there.
Years ago, when he first mounted the
bench there had been none of the
present generation of lawyers practic-
ing at the bar, excepting Judge Cow
enhoven. Ludlow Schenck, Adrain
and Elmendorf had been practicing
at the bar on those days and they had
all departed.
Goodbye, and God bless you"
said Judge Rice. "On behalf of the
members of the bar | wish and pray
that Providence may be kind to you.
You retire from the bench without
one act that should cause you re-
greet"
Judge Theodore B. Booraem, who
is to succeed Judge Strong on the
bench. said that Judge Strong had
added strength to the pleasant and
proud traditions of the Middlesex bar.
You will leave behind you a fra
grant memory of justice administer
ed firmly, but always tempered by
the heart of the man"
Judge Cowenhoven said that the
loss sustained by the members of the
bar in Judge Strong's retirement
from the bench is severe and that the
members of the bar have nothing but
the profoundest love and respect for
a man who has so ably administered
the affairs of justice in this county so
long. He said that he cold wish 10
more for his successor than that
when he should retire he would have
the same love and respect from the
members of the bar.
Prosecutor Berdine said that
when he went to Sunday school he
was asked who made them and here
he would like to acknowledge who
created i him his legal self. He said
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the Strong family since he was first
admitted to the bar.
The judges son, Edward, had help
ed him at first. For Alan H. Strong,
he said that he had more affection
than for any other man in the state.
Senator Strong had been his hacker,
while Judge Strong had been his adj
visor and helper.
While he had sometimes appeared
''peppery" in court he said that he
had never committed an indiscretiOn
but that he had gone to the court and
made his peace, asking pardon. He
said that he wanted o to publicly
say that whatever has been his con-
duct in court it was all on the surface
and that deep in his heart he has lev
er had anything but love for the
court. He declared hat no man in
the state had ever performed his duty
better than Judge Strong.
He said that he would not only
miss him personally, but would miss
the help he gave to the prosecutors
office. Such success as he has had
in the prosecutors Office, he said, he
owed to Judge Strong. Every man
who has ever been arraigned before
the court had received fair treat
ment, he thought.
Willard P. Voorhees, said that he
had come to say goodbye, and to say
that his relations with the court had
always been most pleasant. He
thought that the courts great aim in
life had been to be just.
Surrogate Peter F. DAILY declared
that one of the greatest pleasures of
his life had been the association with
the judge in the orphans court. For
ten years he har been holding official
communion with the court and has an
affection for the court which was
born in the first year of that ~associa-
ton and which has grown since.
1t is in the dealing of matters of
the orphans court, (where widows
and orphans interest are looked af-