The New York herald., 1879-10-16
THE REGISTRATION.

A QUIET DAY FOR THE INsPEcToRs-A LARGE
NUMBER OF REaIsTRIEs-THE GERMAN ELE-
MEN1 ACTIVE.
The second days registration for the coming elec
ton occurred yesterday. when larger number Of
names received than the first day. and about
equal quiet prevailed at the places of registration
There nothing indicate along the streets that
an important political duty being performed
throughout the city save the inelegant quadrangle
lar piece Of paper which indicated to pass
ers by the places of registration. Through
out the forenoon and during the afternoon
the inspectors and the solitary policeman who was
on duty under their control had sleepy. lazy time
Of II. and when yarns exhausted they reclined
on the hard bottom chairs supplied to them well
as they could. rousing themselves with something
of businesslike air whom some citizen came in to
give satisfactory account of himself. 1t was
rumored early in the day that some of the inspec-
tors for one reason another. had resigned
When this became known at Police Headquarters
the Commissioners impediately held meeting
ind filed the vacancies with gentlemen willing to
act. 1t was understood that the substitutes ap-
pointed were mostly Tammsny men. At No. h7s
Eighth avenue. In the Twentyseventh election dis
trct of the Fifteenth Assembly district only two
aud. consequently. names were registered there.
Mr.. sCHELL AT WORK.
The distinguished gentlemen, Augustus Schell,
ex-J udge Joseph w. Bosworth and others. who were
appointed werc ali In their places, patiently going
through their clerical labors. Mr.. Schell visited
ut his new quarters in the barber shop, No. West
Broadway, last evening and was found engaged in
carefully scrutinizing an application. When this
patriotic act finished the reporter asked him
how he found the situation to be progressing.
He replied that everything was going on very har-
moniously and though the numbers were not greater
than might be expected, still he believed that the
whole vote of the district would be polled.
..It is rather wearisome jobY said the reporter.
interrogativcly.
attention to business required.
Mr. Schell then asked IL he meant to sit 1t out
until nine o'clock. when he very quickly replied.
ssOf course"
As far ss could be learned from q canvass in the
evening there must have been much greater reg
istry yesterday than on Tuesday OF last week. 1t
was noticeable that during the dinner hour between
twelve and one O'Clock, tho greatest number of
voters put in appearance and again between
and nine o'clock in the evening. There must have
been some unusual efforts made this year to induce
pare themselves for election day. for In the
districts an unusually large number of this class of
citizens acquitted themselves of the preliminary
duty In of the German districts nearly all the
voting population has been already regis
tered There was utter absence during
the day of anything like commotion or disturb
ance The business went on. up town and down
town, in perfectly matter-of-fact sort of way.
II seemed to be understood generally that there
but little use attempting fraud trickery. that
the inspectors had sinecure except as far
ccrned the mere technical labors OF registering
names and addresses.
FIGURES OF THE DAY.
Below will be found table giving the numbers
in each election district yesterday well
numbers registered on the corresponding days in
The Following table will show the number Of votes
registered yesterday In the various Assembly dis