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Show The Judge Who "Cared." .. (New York World.) By the retirement of Justice Mayer, who yesterday presided for the last time at the children's court, the city loses a useful public servant. Fitting testimony to their loss was rendered In court by the representatives of charitable societies. But the best word was spoken by Meyer Cohen, a "probation boy," when he said, a little hoarsely: "I was cne of the first boys to come under you. You've been the best friend I ever had. You se?med to care whether I was square or not. an' I wish that you wasn't going away from here." - Perhaps Justice Mayer was a trifle hearse also the weather has been so ' treacherous when he -replied that he ! should nlweys take an Interest in his young frion. and that "there are lots of you hero In New ork who don't have "half a chance." It Is because "half a cnance js more than some, poor boys get. and because U j thf-v w?re put with hardened criminal ror , flight off'.-nfes thiy might thereafter' I no chancV at all. that the children's cfiurr' was opened. May it always havi a rcur-H on the bench who "carer !" . I t |