The Lamar register., 1893-04-01
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Xn>s<ss. Judges Re Taught Now -
Count vetes ON Bulling Daross- -
9 ST. LOUIS, No. March as.-A firm
here that manufactures school sup
plies was astonished the other day
when there came in the mail an order
for 500 blnckboa-ds from the cam
paign committee of ono of the political
parties The other campaign commit
tees are placing the same kind OF orders
with their favorite manufacturers. and
the result will be that after the elec-
tion there will be ?, 900 or 5000 black
boards for sale cheap to schools in
smaller towns or in the country. The
blaclshoards are TO be used TO teach
voters how to scratch the Australian
ballot, aud to train the judges
and clerks of election how to count
the ballots after they are cast.
Five per cent of the city's vote was
thrown out at the last election on ar-
count OF the errors made by the voters,
and the ballot will be still more puz-
zling ut the approaching election, on
account of the many tickets in the
6eld, regular and independent. The
ballot will be nearly yard wide and
about n foot long. The Recorder of
Voters has to keep an extra supply at
the polls. for an emergency that may
arse through theft or oy loss, ana he
has ordered 27O.ooO ballots from the
printers. Each voto east will cost the
the State cent.
As soon us the regular amusement
season closes next month, the summer
opera gardens will open. There are
several of these, in different parts of
the city, and although they have to get
along without the patronage of the
thousands who go to the seashoro and
the mountains, their managers are well
enough supported to Justify them in
bringing to their theaters the very best
companies that sing comic opera sum
mer after summer. One or two of
these resorts are of the frce-and-easy
kind, where beer is sold decorously, to
De sure, but still with the result of
keeping many away who are pre- sjudiced
against the fashion of listening TO
music while sitting at tables, but the
most OF the places are conducted under
the strict rules of winter theater.
The summer gardens will hardly be
closed long enough for the people to
miss them when the fall carnival will
begin, and for a month then it will be
a very melancholy individual indeed
who can prevent himself from being
entertained, unless he shuts himself up
in his room, and away from the sights
OF IAe sITeets-
At the Press Club banquet to Wilson
Barrett few nights ago, the new
Hamlet said that he had found. gener-
s,lly, that the people of the West Rp-
p-eciated the legitimate drama much
more than those OF the East. That
the actor was not indulging in mere
o0znplineutary phrases was shown by
his playing here for two weeks,
his usual term of engagement being
only one He drew crowded houses
every night, playing in one OF h
largest theaters OF the city, AMI ruis
Sng his prices. Nor was his success
due to any special fondncss of the
people of the city for him. The ordi-
nary theater reserved seat price hero is
ST., When actors of extraordinary merit
coics, they invariably put thEt up to
g.. 80 or 81 a seat. The theater where
S-hey play viii be filed every night,
and the other houses where the usual
attractions are do not feel any loss.
At present,even this late in the season,
Thsu theatergoers cannot be blamed
for feeling a tribe jaded, and with po-
Gtical meetings being held every night
all of the eight high class places OF
aTn:ssc1iement are making money.
II order IN r,rxf, on. n fortune one fntt.r