The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-29
NAY VOTE IN TIE SQUARES
Polling Places for the City Election TO
Be Selected.

The Mayor to Announce the Committee
for That Purpose in a Day or Two-A
Diversity Of Opinion as to Where the
Polling Places Shall Be Loeatsd-A
Majority Favors the squares-City
Marshal Wade's Plans for the Voting
Booths.
At the last meeting Of the city coun-
ell the mayor was instructed to appoint
a committee OF five members OF the
board 70 select the polling places for the
approaching city election. The commit
tee has not been appointed yet. but will
probably be appointed by the mayor In
a day or two.
Mayor McDonough has been out OF the
city for a couple Of days. but returned
last night. Though the committee has
not been announced it is understood that
it has been agreed upon and that Alder
man Myers will be a member of It. AS
the election does not take place until Jan.
2, the committee has ample time in which
to perform its task. The main question
which il will have to decide is whether
the polling places shall be located in the
squares or whether places shall be Sc
cured similar to those used for the regis
tration in convenient inches in business
houses.
The majority of the aldermen who
have expressed an opinion upon the law
are Of the opinion that the provision OF
the law requiring that no one shall APP
proach nearer than fifty feet of the poll.
ing place besides the managers and chal-
lengers, except to vote, can only be COM
piled with by placing the voting booths
In the squares. This would require the
erection of an Office for the managers,
as well as the booths for the voters
Mr.. Myers is understood TO be in favor
OF punching all the voting places on Bull
street so as to allow of better supervision
by the police. Some of the other alder
men think that the best plan would be to
adopt the line OF squares on Abercorn
or Habersham streets for the voting
places in the precincts east OF Bull street
and the line OF either Barnard or Mont
gomery street for the precincts west
of Bull street. The Myers men have
placed themselves on record as object
ing to the location of any polling place
in Washington square, the grounds for
their objections being that il would just
suit the Mcbride contingent and would
give it an opportunity TO run things in
the interest of DR.. Duncan. Similarly
the Duncan men would not view with
favor the location OF the polling places
west of Bull street too near Yamacraw
which is acknowledged to be for Myers
by a large majority. If the committee
cannot agree as to the location of the
polling places the matter will have to be
settled by council.
The Osborne ballot law gives the en-
tire charge Of erecting the election booths
and making the arrangements for the
election to the city marshal Marshal
Wade is already at work preparing plans
for the booths and securing information
as to the cost
Mr.. Wade calculates that it will not
cost the city less than $3.50 to provide
booths, at the lowest estimate. He has
drawn up plan for the election booths
which he will submit to the aldermen be-
fore putting into execution. The plan
provides for rough board structure, Skis
feet with a felt roof. A space of ks is
fenced off at one side for the managers.
The managers room has door on one
side and glass sash at the other to adj
nit light A hall way two feet wide sep
arates the managers room from the
booths, the ballot box being located at
a window facing on the hallway. The plan
allows for two, four, six or eight booths,
according to the number of voters reg
istered in each precinct. In one precinct
there are less than a hundred voters reg
istered and so only two booths win be re-
CURED In the majority of the precincts
six booths will be required and in three
of the precincts eight booths will
be required. The booths will be
mere stalls two feet wide pro-
vded with shelves at which the voter
can make out his ticket The law requires
one booth to each fifty voters registered
in the precinct
City politics, which have been quiescent
doring the holidays, are livening up now.
The two aldermanic tickets will probably
be announced by New Years day The
Duncan aldermanic committee met last
night, but what was done is not known
1t is understood that the ticket is about
complete, however and will be announced
shortly.
night school for the education of vot-
ers in the new ballot law is now running
at Hendy hall, at West Broad and Bryan
streets, with Justice Frank McDermott
in charge. Admission tickets have been
sent to the members of the Citizens club
and those who come up are initiated into
the mysteries of voting under the new
law.
TALK OVER THEIR CHANCES.