Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-11-08

THE WEEK IN NEW YORK.
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a. ELL, the election has come and gone
AVIAN and now the city will Jog along much
NNT a. il has done for the past two and the
past ten years We have had all sorts
OF sdministrations-boss government
and machine government and reform govern
ment and comparison government and, -
Oliver Wendell Holmes says about another
phase Of taxation. land very hard 10 10 70 tell
which OF the three IL worse; but all Of them
are bad enough to make body curse" We
are only sure Of one continuing kind of govern
ment In New York city and that u bad govern
ment
OF one feature Of the day can speak in
terms OF patriotic praise. There 10 in the
average American citizen certain instinct Of
self-government which is unique. This saving
grace OF good horse sense came out strong on
Tuesday. The new ballot law was no slight
test OF intelligence and adaptability. II in
volved quite program and called for consider
q BILE mother wit Even such man % Dr. De-
pew Numbered for all his ready wit, and had to
DO shut up In the closet like q bad boy for the
second time till he learned his lesson right
There was something quite Oppressive in being
labeled BY . number, then marching up to
desk and getting sheaf Of ballots, all exactly
alike except FOR the Names and then sent into
closet where, under the law, you must stay
three and could not stay more than ten min
utes, in which time you had to find the right
ballot and fold it in precisely the right way and
then fold all the others in precisely the right
way and then emerge without letting on in
any way what you had been about and march
votes you wished to cast to one man and the
votes you didn't want to cast to another man.
IN THE CLOSET.
After had been pent up in solitary con6ns-
ment, as numbered gentlemen SO often are,
with very plain surroundings and policemen
outside, Q certain nervousness developed as to
when my term would expire. The moments
seemed to fly past Perhaps some of your
readers have INDUCED in an old-fashioned and
innocent game called the elements, where Q
handkerchief is thrown at random from one to
one family in the animal kingdom, the re-
cipient being obliged to name some species in
the family before the thrower can rapidly
count ten The fun Of this very hilarious game
consists in the utter idiocy into which the per-
son SO summoned to speak is thrown. was
strongly reminded Of this game by my sensa-
tons in the booth. There before me in
English and German was the law in very
legible black and white. there on the shelf
we're the twelve sets of tickets and there Just
tha he 49, H.
tickets exhausted the combinations on about
twenty officers, the candidates crossed and re-
crossed In political net work. II chose the
one that had on 1t the right member of Con-
gress found that two names below it COM
mitted me to the wrong mayor and so ad in
fnitum. Then, when finally struck the right
combination, came the question Of folding.
They must be folded lsngthwise from the lett,
and then turned up from the bottom 90 that
duplicate stub at the top could be torn of by
perforated line without disarranglng the ballot,
and 1t must be done right the first time be-
cause the Law said that destroying or mutt
lating any of the ballots made one guilty
Of q misdemeanor, and there the police
men were standing just outside the door.
However, having been accustomed to folding
papers from my youth up, performed this
function properly and was about to issue in
triumph when, to make assurance doubly sure,
peeped into the ballot had laid aside to vote
and found, to my horror, that it was entirely
wrong. 1t had already seemed long overdue,
but hurriedly unfolded all the tickets and.
after much cropping and nervous futtering,
finally found the right one at the bottom Of
the pile. What followed was more like ordi-
nary voting, and soon the ballot had been de-
posted aud the ordeal was over.
After having thus nobly done my duty I
asked, with perhaps some conscious pride,
whether people in general had been a. smart
as was or whether there was some friction
and bother2
None at ALL" replied the inspector Of III.
poll Everything has gone along - smooth
oil"
Aud it was this reply and the evident peace
and satisfaction that prevailed everywhere that
gave me the sense of safety and Of pride to
which alluded at the start The bulk of the
voters were men OF very ordinary capacity and
thousands were OF very degraded type, and
YET almost without exception they proved
themselves to be capable Of exercising their
political rights with intelligence and decency.
cozY BUT COSTLY.
The dashing gentlemen Of the Guards, whom
Ouida loves to portray, have always blonde
mustaches, seven feet Of height, giant
strength, absolutely irresistible charm CON-
bined with extreme rudeness Of manner and
grace full facility Of conversation in all known
languages-not observable among English gen.
tlemen elsewhere than in that lady's not too
realistic works Besides these gifts these favored
gentlemen invariably riot In silver bath tubs,
turquoise hair brushes, ceilings painted by
Bouguereau, cigar holders cut cut Of single
emerald and other expensive trifes To the
plain American citizen this luxury has usually
seemed slightly Arabian Nightish but there
are few citizens in New York who can almost
live up TO the novel hero's standard. Among
them is Mr.. John Hoey, who is not a guards
man and does not even belong to the nobility
and gentry but is simply the president of .
plebian express company. This gentleman,
rs is we'll known, lives at Long Branch, Of
which resort his is the show place. But occa-
sionally be finds it convenient for business or
social reasons to stay in town over night On
such occasions does he content himself with
the ordinary comforts Of q hotel is he satisfied
to pay the modest tariff Of the Hoffman or the
Windsor, or to have the more exclusive lux
uries Of q swell club house? Not he. The best
only Is good enough for Mr.. John Hoey. For
the occupancy Of these chance nights he keeps
all the year round suite of apartme nts on the
corner OF Broadway and 2Sth street. Two men
servants are there and the rooms are always