Identifier: reviewofreviewsw33newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ootin craps and swipintings. Decopscant doit. De kids is too sharp forem.De way to git it stopped is to git de gang up here antell em you want it done. Dere aint a kid, in my opin-ion, dat wont go down de line wid you. Judge Lindsey has, apparently, endless re-sources for boy-reaching. When he saw that thedime-novel habit was bringing many otherwisegood boys within his jurisdiction, he did not be-gin a campaign against the dime novel. He re-))laced it with good juvenile periodicals. Whenit became evident that the lack of facilities forcleanliness and the need for clothes were oftenthe first causes leading to delinquency. JudgeLindsey asked for and seciired a juvenile courtiain-l)ath and outfitting department. When helearned that what aj)peared on the surface to bebad morals was often only bad eyesight, he hada physician appointed to make a physical exam-ination of every boy brought into court. Tothese winor details of the court work Judge THE CHILDRENS COURT IN AMERICAN CITY LIFE. 309
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Judge Richard S. Tuthill,of Chicago. Judge George W. Stubbs,of Indianapolis. Judge W. H. Olmsted,of New York. THREE REPRESENTATIVE MAGISTRATES OF AMERICAN CHILDRENS COURTS. Lindsey attributes many of his most brilliantcures. COMMITMENT USUALLY UNNECESSARY. Commitment, with Judge Lindsey, is always alast resort. So far, out of the hundreds of boyswho have been in court, only eighteen have beensent to tlie Industrial School. The method ofcommitment is all Judge Lindseys own. Hesimply gives the boy the warrant and tells himto go out to Golden and lock himself up. Notone boy has betrayed the judges trust, althoughthe trip furnishes numerous opportunities forescape in a street-car ride across the city to therailroad station, a train ride to the Golden sta-tion, in the foothills, and a half-mile walk to theinstitution. The superintendent is not even no-tified to look out for the boys arrival. Although, as a concession to possible attacksupon its constitutionality, the Colorado law hasprovid

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