The state herald. (Holyoke, Logan County, Colo.) 1887-1921, 1893-03-31
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Election Judges to BE Taught How to
d. Count Voter on Bulling Ballots. a
'. ST. Louis, Mo-, March ga firm
here that manufactures school sup
plies was astonished the other day
when there came In the mail an order
for 500 blackboards from the cam
pnign committee OF one 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 utter the cleo.
ton there will be 9 1000 or 5000 black
boards for sale cheap to schools in
smaller towns or In the country. The
blackboards are to be used to teach
voters how to scratch the Australian
ballot, and to train the judges
and clerks of election how to count
the ballots after they are cast.
Five pcr cent of the city's vote was
thrown out ut the last election ON ac-
count OF the errors made by the voters,
and the ballot will be still more puz.
cling at the approaching election, on
account OF the many tickets in the
field, regular and independent. The
ballot will be nearly yard wide and
about foot long. Tho Recorder of
Voters has to keep an extra supply at
the polls, for an emergency that may
arise through theft or oy loss, and he
has ordered 27o,oOO ballots from tho
printers. Each vote cast will cost the
the State cent.
AS soon rs 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 tho
thousands who go to tho scnshoro and
the mountains, their managers are well
enough supported to justify them in
bringing to their theatcrs the very best
companies that sing comic opera sum-
mer after summer. One or two of
these resorts are Of tho free-and-easy
kind, where beer is sold dccorously, to
be sure, but still with the result of
keeping many away who are pre- JUDGED
against the fashion of listening to
music while sitting ut tables, but the
most of the places are conducted under
tho strict rules of winter theatcr.
The summer gardens will hardly be
closed long enough for the people TO
miss them when the fall carnival win
begin, and for n month then it will be
very melancholy individual indeed
VIM tuu pltNtut uliilScll from Dtllp
entertained, unless he shuts himself up
in his room, and away from the sights
of the streets.
At the Press Club banquet to Wilson
Barrett few nights ago, the new
Hamlet said that he had found, gcner-
ally, that the people of the West APP
preciated the legitimate drama much
more than those of the East. That
the motor was not INDUCING in mere
complimentary phrases was shown by
his playing hare for two weeks,
his usual term of engagement being
only one. He drew crowded houses
every night, playing in one q, he
largest theaters of the city, and rails.
ing his prices. Nor was his sucet SIS
due to any special fondness of the
people of the city for him. The ordi-
nary theater reserved seat price here is
81. When actors Of extraordinary merit
come, they invariably put that up to
si.50 or 81 seat. The thcater where
they play will 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,
when theater-goers cannot be blamed
for feeling a trifle jadcd, and with POI
litical meetings being held every night.
nll of the eight high-class places OF
amusemement are making money.