New-York tribune., 1915-10-15
BARON READING
CHEERED BY BAR
600 Lawyers Hear Lord
Chief Justice Discuss
Courts.
ENVOY FINDS COURT
HERE LIKE ENGLISH
Only Difference a Clock and
Time Limit on Attorneys,
He Tells Gathering.

Sx hundred Of the leading members
Of the New York bar gave a hearty
greeting TO Baron Reading, Lord Chief
Justice % England and British envoy
IN The negotiation Of the war loan, at
the rooms Of tho New York Bar As
sociation, on West Forty-fourth Street
last night. When the Lord Chief JUS
tice entered tho assembly hall, where
he was 20 speak, the entire assembly
arose and applauded him for more than
minute and Il ha1. Many guests
from other cities gave the meeting
moro than local character
Inc guests of honor, besides Baron
Reading. included SIR Thomas Babbing-
ton-Smith. another of the British COM
missioncrs; Justice W. II. Cuddeback.
ot the Appellate Division. Part !; Jus
tces lngIaham. Bowling, Mclaughlin,
LauEh.iu. Scott. StapletOn and Rich, of
Part q; Justices Blanchard. Green
baum, ponnclly Erlanger. Platzek,
Weeks, Whitaker, Lehman. BLUR. Gave
gan. ShcGrn. Clark and Crane. Of the
supreme Court; Judge Henry g. Ward.
Of the United states Circuit Court OF
Appeals; Judges Mayer. Hand, Hough,
Sheppard and Van Nechten Needer, OF
the United States District Court;
Judges Grain, MulQueen, Rosalsky and
Wadhans, Of the Court of General Ses-
sions; Justices Russell and Herman,
Of Special Sessions; Judge Dixie, of
the Kings County Court, and Judge
Gibbs, of the Bronx County Court.
Among others present were William
Trsvers Jerome. F. W. Sheppard, presi
dent of the United States Trust Com
-
William Nelson Cromwell. Henry A.
Furst and George Wharton Pepper. of
the Philadelphia bar.
Called Foremost Exponent of Law.
Baron Reading was introduced by
George u. Nickersham, president OF
the New York Bar Association and
former Attorney General Of the United
States, who referred 20 him as "the
foremost exponent Of the law Of the
mother country. which has been hand
ed 20 Us as part OF our birthright."
Mr Wickersham said II was the first
Tine a British chief justice had Wis
tied the rooms Of the association
since Lord Russell had been in the
clubhouse in 1895
In England said Baron Reading,
"a man becomes q judge according 10
his merits; not according TO his in
-elligence, but his character. ] tl~Nk
you will agree with me that to make
a good lawyer or advocate character
IS the main element.
"The principles of law here are the
same as in our own courts; when the
principles of our law are 10 be eluci-
dated we turn 70 your great judges
even as you do 70 ours; the one great
bottom that Joins Us both together IS
the spirit Of liberty and the determi-
nation 20 90 justice"
The Baron then turned 70 the mod
ern trend Of the law, which. he said,
was summed up in the words of the
late Chief Justice Russell that "the
time has passed when the right, the
Justice and the substance of thing
are 70 be sacrificed 20 the science OF
artificial statement"
Felt at Home in New York Court.
yesterday" he continued, Sitting
on the bench of your own Supreme
Court. felt go much Us if | vas at
home that | forgot and almost rose 70
make g few remarks on the case
The only difference between TIE New
York Supreme Court and the High Court
OF ing ana was Inat IneIe was C4OCh
in the New York court end the time oc-
cuDied by a lawyer in speaking was
marked down. and he had just so long
10 state his case, the baron said. &C.!
think when l 60 home, and one OF our
lawyers gets little overanXious 70
-taro everything that could be said for
Ills client. shall tell this story Of sit
ling ON the bench Of the Supreme Court
and .ccinc the clock" he added.
Before the Bar Associations recep-
ton the baron was the guest OF Mr..
WicLerstam al Shcrry's. The party in
Guided Francis Lynde Stetson, James
VI, Beck. Justice George l. Ingraham.
.robn G. Milburn, John c. Spooner, Jus
tice II. G. Ward, Sir Henry Babbington.-
smith. Justice A. F. jerks, Henry ".
Taft. Judge Holt and W. Snowden Mar