Evening journal., 1895-10-09
.HUMORS OF 4 NEW LAW
New Workers Find Some Fun
In Registering This Year.
VOTERS DESCRIBE THEMSELVES.

The Citizen Who Wants TO Vote Must
Give His Pedigree and Description For
IdentIncation-NIen with Red Hair Gef
Angry.
NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-It takes something
more serious than a funeral to kill the
sense Of humor Of the average New York
er That Is why the voters of the city had
80 much quiet fun with the new registry
law yesterday They enjoyed IT, It re.
quires each voter when registering to give
"an intelligent description of himself &c
the clerks so that he may be identified in
case Of trouble on election day. What
some OF the voters thought Of themselves
was quaint and curious.
Early in the day in the Thirteenth dis
trict fat, well dressed man Of about 90
started In TO register. At every question
he became more angry. He said he weigh
ed "ovor 1870, and when the clerks in
sisted that he bo more specific no shouted
"Why in bazes don't you look at my
teethg Why don't you feel my ribs, and
ask me If I'm bigamist or a Mormoni
All you people need to make you a com
binatiOn Of horse dealer and insurance
agent is a little hayseed and table of
ratesw And he strutted out in high dudg
con.
Over in the Twentieth at one place OF
registration man with a mop of red hair
that would have reused the most venera-
Bile and aged bull TO rage stood all the
questions calmly until the clerk, whose
eyes wero fixed on the book, querled
Color of hairs'
Green, coniound you, greenl Can't
you see It's a pale pea greon" howled the
irate subject, pulling off his hat and
pounding 1t TO pieces on the table. Then
ne wanted TO lick everybody present sin
Rly and collectively but was at last in
duoed TO leave without killing anybody by
the patient policeman.
Some Voters Got Angry.
Some voters had prepared the answers
to the questions beforehand and read
them Off. One man I'm the Twenty third
who wore glasses, raised royal row when
the clerk wanted to add that fact TO the
description. He argued thnt no did not
always wear glasses; that they might be
broken ON election day and If they were
noted the fact might thus cause him to
lose his vote.
"You might as well say / wear a white
shirt or black hat, % no said, and then
concluded, II you put that down, III
sue you for damages.
the same question about glasses was raised,
and in almost every instance sustained.
Ono well known Brooklyn policeman,
who weighs 231 pounds when asked what
his weight was, gravely replied, Il guess
over 70. -
"What do you mean by that" snarled
the already worried clerk. you weigh
over 200. "
"You can't provo it by me- smilingly
replied the voter "1'he last time / was
ON the scales j tipped them at 20. It's a
long time ago, so 1 shouldn't wonder if 1
was a little heavier now.
In the Fourteenth district a we'll known
man about town ana m habitue of the
Hoffman House swore lurid yellow and
red streak when he heard the clerk say to
his fellows:
Put down gray mustache. -
The individual TO be thus identified
poses as an Adonis in the prime of life.
/ He had been sick some days and had neg
lected TO have the hair on his upper lip
| dyed as usual.
Take that off, >" said he. "Itm be
black all right ON election day, or 1 won't
vote
Identified by His jag.
A breezy individual in the Tenth, when
asked for marks of Identification smiled
blandly and said;
"Y'r oughter know this jag wen y'r
see It again, an then vote for Tammany,
y'r know,
Cant identify all the Tammany iags,
said the clerk. Something else, if you
please. There are too many of them"
There were pathetic as well as humor-
Ous instances. In the First ward, in re.
ply to the usual questions, one grizzled
veteran raised the stump Of his left arm
and said:
''That arm is missing. I left it at An
tiotam.
In the Twenty. fourth another simply
said:
~ can show the scars of II bullets il
necessary"
Neither had to answer further.
Tho number who registered was far in
excess Of that of former years. There are
/, 892 districts in the city, and at s O'Clock
I'm tho morning that number of books
were opened by the inspectors Of election
and remained open until O'Clock last
night.
Last year the registration in the city
for the guberngsorial election on the FIRST
day numbered l02, Sl2, and the total regis
tration was 30s, 5S5 Tho entire vote cast
at that election was pa, ia, or within
"a, Al OF the entire registration.
Nfnr1.r ,ua gui,l,f. ON the Street