SEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE DINNER OF THE STATE ASSOCIATION OF MAGISTRATES, NEW YORK CITY, JAN. 21, 1916. APPENDIX E PROCEEDINGS OF THE SEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION OF MAGISTRATES, AT NEW YORK CITY, JANUARY 21, AND 22, 1916 Treatment of Cases of Prostitution, Judge Norman J. Marsh. 371 General discussion opened by Judge Willis K. Gillette... 379 The Use of Suspended Sentence and Probation for Adults, Judge Alexander H. Geismar.. 384 General discussion. 392 Friday evening: Needed Constitutional Reforms Affecting the Lower Courts, Hon. Louis Marshall.. 395 The Judge and the People, Justice Arthur S. Tompkins. 408 The People and the Judge, Hon. Job. E. Hedges.. 412 Saturday morning: The Relation of the Judge to the Police Authorities, Judge William McAdoo. 421 General discussion opened by Judge Benn Kenyon.. 430 The Detention and Commitment of Children, Judge Walter I. Hoover. 433 445 Saturday afternoon: Probation for Juveniles, When is it Applicable and When Not, Judge Joseph H. Beall..... 451 General discussion opened by Judge Robert J. Wilkin. 455 Reports of committees: Committee on the Constitutional Convention, Judge Thomas H. Noonan, 461 Committee to Attend Meeting of the District Attorneys' Association, Judge 465 Committee to Attend Meeting of the State Bar Association, Judge Thomas 466 Committee on Training Schools for Girls, Judge Robert J. Wilkin, Chairman. 467 Committee on the Drug Evil, Judge Cornelius F. Collins, Chairman.. 468 General discussion. INTRODUCTION The Seventh Annual Conference of the New York State Association of Magistrates convened in the Hotel Astor, New York City, on January 21 and 22, 1916. Fifty-two magistrates, representing different cities and villages, together with other persons interested in the problems of the lower courts, attended the meetings. Four sessions were held, including the annual dinner. The papers and discussions were of great interest and value and will be found, slightly abridged, in the proceedings which follow. The officers and executive committee, elected to serve during the ensuing year, are as follows: President Hon. Edward J. Dooley, City Magistrate, Brooklyn. Vice-President - Hon. Thomas H. Noonan, City Judge, Buffalo. Secretary and Treasurer-Charles L. Chute, Secretary of the State Probation Commission, Albany. The other members of the executive committee are as follows: Hon. Norman J. Marsh, City Magistrate, New York City. The Conference of Magistrates is an annual event. By bring ing together the Judges of the courts throughout the State in which most of the first and lesser offenders are tried, the peculiarly important social, and humanitarian as well as legal and administrative problems of these courts are discussed by the judges to whom the community has given these problems for solution. The State Probation Commission, which originally called together the judges, has continuously cooperated with them in arranging these conferences and considers this work one of the most important of its various activities. [360] FERENCE OF THE NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION OF MAGISTRATES FIRST SESSION Friday, Afternoon, January 21, 1916 PRESIDENT GEORGE C. APPELL, CITY JUDGE, MOUNT VERNON: I regret to announce that Mayor Mitchel who was to address is at this time has been called to Washington on some important business. Commissioner of Corrections Lewis will address us in his stead. ADDRESS. HON. BURDETTE G. LEWIS, COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONS, NEW YORK CITY: I regret very much that Mayor Mitchel cannot le present this afternoon with you to welcome you to our great city. Because, as a lawyer, as an investigator, as Commissioner of Accounts, as an administrator and as an appointing officer, he has shown his interest in the work of the poor man's court at every turn. I am glad, however, to be here to welcome you to the city because I wish to take this opportunity to express the appreciation of our Department for the co-operation which has been given us by the courts, the district attorneys and the Police Department of the City. It isn't an easy thing to work together in this great common problem of handling the delinquents in a great city, but we have been able to put aside the little things and to co-operate to a remarkable degree. As magistrates, you, of course, are considerably interested in the Police Department of your respective cities and I am sure you cannot be less interested in the Police Department of this great city of ours. When I was in San Francisco at the Exposition the police chiefs of the country asked to see the exhibit of the New York Courts, Department of Correction and Police Department several times, and asked to have the moving pictures of the New York Police Department repeated for them three times so that they cou'd get a clear understanding of the police work of this city. |