New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-12
NEW CH|LDREN'S COURT
Borough President MCAneny
Lays Cornerstone.
AND MERCY MOTTO
Speakers at Dedication Hail
Coming Home as Factor in
Dawn of Better Day.

For every child Jet truth spring from the earth.
And justice and mercy look down from heaven.
This was the appropriate inscription on
the cornerstone OF the new Childrens
Court, In East 23d street, near Lexington
avenue. which was laid yesterday after
noon by Borough President McAneny in
the presence OF a distinguished gathering.
Isaac Franklin Russell Chief Justice OF
the Court OF Special Sessions, by whose
authority the judges of the Children's
Court are selected and assigned 10 duty,
delivered the dedicatory address Mr. Nc
Aneny and Justice Franklin Chase Hoyt,
OF Special Sessions. were the other speak
ers
John II. Finley. State Commissioner OF
Education. formerly president of the COL
lege Of the city OF New York; Justices
Lorenz Zelle.. Joseph F. Moss. Moses
Herman and John b. Mayo. of the Court
Of Special Sessions: Lawrence J. Kelly.
chief probation officer Of that court: Den
mis- A. Lambert. clerk OF the Children's
Court. of Manhattan; Sydney Allendorf.
clerk Of the Childrens Court, OF Queens:
Superintendent Walsh. OF the Children's
Aid Society. and a score of probation Of
ficers were among the others present.
The friends of the Chidren's Court in
New York are now hailing with JOY the
dawn OF better day said Chief Jus
tice Russell Critics who find delight In
detraction and pessmistc reflection have
never tired Of complaining about our mar
row and dngy quarters i'm the old build
ing at the corner OF Third avenue and
ilth street. quarters that have been many
years outgroWn.
Meanwhile the Board OF Estimate and
Apportionment has poured funds lavish
~ out OF the city treasury To meet the
urgent necessities OF a court which
whether from the standpoint OF the num-
Der Of cases on its calendar. the range
and scope Of It's Jurisdiction or the in
nuence Of its adjudications on the charac-
ter and conduct Of citizens. is one OF the
most important tribunals In the world.
Disputes OF merchants over dollars are
dwarfed into insignihcance when COM
pared with the solemn deliberations OF
this court over the duty and destiny OF
the child offender.
To-day. as we view these broad
foundations and rising walls, we. the
Judges and officers Of the Children's
Court. pledge ourselves anew to the ser
vice of the city. its justice and its mercy,
its charity and it's humanity
Borough President McAneny traced the
history of the accomplishment OF the new
Childron's Court and described the model
features of the new building He said
that children would come there 10 be
cured. and not TO be punished. and that
every facility had been provided in the
plan OF the building TO permit Of the most
enlightened treatment OF Juvenile delin-
quency.
The building OF this courthouse marks
another great advance in the broader hu-
manity and broader common sense that Is
BEGINNING 10 characterize the city's treat
mcnt OF It's social problems" said Mr.. Nc
Aneny When II is finished. we snail
have a model Chldren's Court, housing
a model system for the treatment or Ju-
v,nile delinquency. II has been thing
well worth working for"
Justice Hoyt briefly reviewed the work
OF the Judges in the Children's Court
ana the efforts OF the committee which
handled the project Of the new court
house