Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-10-12
MR. VAN ALIENS VOTING
He Put It Of For Twenty-six
 Years, It Is Alleged.
HIS FIRST BALLOT CAST IN 1892.

oh No&Ahk AAsA AA bAA AAN Votes Regularly Now-He Confesses More Personal Property Too.
 NEW YORK. Oct. Ia-The World pub fishes today the fOll4Eing: Mir. James John Van Allen, who paid 5000 to represent his native country at the court of King Humbert. is an American who up To his fOrty-seventh year considered it vulgar to vote" Like the man from the Bowery lodging house, who waits on election day to see what it Is wurth,' Mir Van Alen waited all his life till it was worth a high place in the diplomatic service. He threw in 5000 with his vote. but then be hopes to pull out bigger plum than the lodging house man
 Mir. Van AIen is citizen of the state of Rhode Island. His father was a citizen of the same state. The son never voted until iS92-after he had contributed the 5000. This remarkable fact was demonstrated positively yesterday in the office of New ports city clerk by World reporter, who went over all the registry lists since lSS0. MT. Van Alen has never had any American residence but in Newport. He was educat- ed in England. and between his majority and his marriage to Miss Astor, l7 years ago, he lived almost entirely abroad He went to Newport only a few times during | his married life and then only on short wis ! J | before his fathers death in lSS5 that he be came in any sense resident. Since then ! he has been on the taNbOOks as the owner l of Wakehurst.
 1 Name Not on the List. This is the law in Rhode Island qualify l ing voters: \ freeholder or real estate owner may vote after one years residence | in the state and six months residence in the city by simply having his name put on ! the voting list, where il remains until he l dies or moves away. An owner of personal | property may vote after two years resi- dence in the state and six months in the | city. He registers once, after which his name remains Persons owning no proper l ty must have lived the same length of time | in the state and city, i'll the preceding | case, but they must register every year ! Their names must be recorded before Dec. Sl of each year 10 enable them To vote at ! any election in the coming twelyemOnth- So it will be seen that Mir. Van Alen might have voted any year if he had so de 1 sired. He is certainly a resident of New port, because his fathers will was prubatet there. and there he took out letters of ad miuistratiun. He has never had resi- dence in New York city. His fathers plac, was on the Hudson near Irvington and tn, generals city address was at the hotel h' used during his brief stays in the metropo lis-the Brevoort House.
 Just before all the election days in New port the boarl of canvasSer> hangs up list. through the wards containing the name O every man entitled Ia vote therein. ! 1 copy is kept in each polling booth and on i each man who casts a vote has his nara, checked of to prevent repeating" The~ checked lists are carefully preserved cacl year and are filed away in the city clerk safe
 A reporter rad carefully every list sine lSS0. and never came across the name O Van Alen until he reached the sheet fo October, lS9r1- Van Alen, J. T.. began tn list of N's therr, and after the name wa the check which told of his vote. The nam and cheek appeared also un the shr-ts fu November, Iss'a. and April and May, l>.c and the name will be printed on all th coming lists
 His Taxes Increased
 The reporter also looked over the ta lists and found that T. T. Van Alen had II figures in the personal estate column uuI Isg3. when he l. credited with S--tu1sl wort of personal property,
 Ever since his palace at Ochre PCin Newport, was finished, nearly lu years az, it has been filled with objects uf art ( which conservative valuation would ! Sl,UOO UO0, but until this year he never pai a cent of personal taxes, Now. with Il prospects of an emha>Sajlor~hip lsefur- hin he has confessed to the tax commissioner of Newport that he owns S-s'.su worth , personal property.
 He has had to pay in other years taNt on his real estate al valuation uf gu, uo averaging S2,lOd a year This year. wit the personal property tax. his cont Tihutiu to the city treasury has jumped to ncarl S3 800. showing that he believes The oppo tunity of pretiNing ambassador to the nan of James John Van -Alen is worth mol than the SJU.uup flat stipulated in the bon,
 Still. there k this 10 be said in Mir. Jamt John Van Aleu's favor. He k wOrkiu hard to make up his lost time in volin under the tutelage of Colonel Honey. Il did not vote at all for the 2t years SucCeet ing his majority, but in the last eiSl months he has voted four times whic stamps him aS the FideliO of ytarling DO iticians. He voted in the Newport cit election on Oct. 2G, lSss1, in the nations election on Nov. I. in the state election 0 April ., lssci, and in the election of May for n successnr in the assembly to the la1 Henry Astur Carey.
 MT James John Van Alrn did little ,-l, than actually vote. however. His puliIir. mentor, Captain and eN-Mayur and F.. pectant Senator Honey, attended To all II disgusting preliminary details for hin IL was the useful Honey who told tie Ia commissioners that they might put -laut John Van Altn down a~ the owner of S;I Uln worth of personal property. and il N. the same gentleman who told the huaI of camvaS~er~ 10 put the name uf Jam, John Van Alen on the registry list.
 was Mir. Honey who organized the Nrv port Democratic club and proposed Jamt John Van Alrn its president. and it ": MT Honey who organized that sterling 6 ganization-th Van Alen guarls-whiC helped So signally in the success of Il Democratic party. IL may be rrmarke here tEat Captain Honey was defeated October for a second term d. mayor. eve with the aid of Mir Van Aleu'> mai,lt vote.
 , FairchId Chief of the Loyal Legion. CHIC AGO. Oct. l2.- General luciu~ Fai child of Wisconsin WAS elected command in chief of the Loyal Legion tu succeed e : President Hayes.
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 WOEC ESTER, Mass. Oct. l2.- The rVcniI s session of the American board Was devot' to addresses from various missionaries fro
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