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here that uaanufacturet school sap
plies was astonished the other day
when there oame In the mail An order
for 500 blackboards from the caM.
paign COMMITTEES Of one Of tho political
parties. The other campaign commit
tees are placing the samc kind Of orders
with their favorits manufacturers, and
this result will be that after the cleo
tion there will be 1000 or 5000 black
boards for sale cheap to schools In
smaller towns or In the country. Tho
blackboards are to be used TO teach
votsTs 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 per cent of the city's vote was
thrown out at the last election on &C.
count Of the errors made by the voters,
and the ballot will be stili more puz-
zling 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. The Recorder of
Voters has to keep an extra supply at
arise through theft or Dy loss, and he
has ordered 100000 ballots from the
printers. Each vote cast will cost tho
the State . cent.
As soon as the regular amusement
season closes next month, tho 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 seashore and
the mountains, their managers are well
enough supported to justify them in
bringing to their theaters tho very best
companies that sing comic opera sum
mer after summer. One or two of
these resorts are of the free-and-easy
kind, where beer is sold decorously, 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 at tables, but the
most of the places are conducted under
tho 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 month then it will be
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 the streets.
At the Press Club banquet to Wilson
Barrett few nights ago, the new
Hamlet said that he had found, gener-
ally, that the people of the West np-
preciated the legitimate drama much
more than those of the Enst. That
the actor was not indulging in mere
complimentary phrases was shown by
his playing here for two weeks,
his usual term of engagement be ing
only one. He drew crowded houses
every night, playing in one OF ,he
largest theaters Of the city, and rails
ing his prices. Nor was his succ. IS
due to any special fondness of the
people of the city for him. The ordi-
nary theater reserved seat price here is
u. When actors Of extraordinary merit
come, they invariably put that up to
81. so or 81 a seat. The thentcr 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 triae jaded, and with po-
litical meetings being held every night.
all of the eight high-class places OF
amusememcnt are making money.