The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-16

written tally-sheets, $50 voters had within
three hours exercised the right of suf-
TRACE.
Near the corner of Tenth and Folsom
streets, in little room adjoining a sa-
loon, was q pallot-box that soon held a
goodly harvest of folded papers-503 of
them within short time after the Kellys
ana Mahoneys got at it. The police officer
there said 1t was the quietest election he
had ever seen. The groceryman on the
corner, who said he was tor Mckinley,
thought there was Buckley junction
going on the other side of the saloon.
Four or five ''vote-oftens" would rendeZ-
vous in the barroom and at intervals they
would swarm out of their hive and add to
zontal marks and the one diagonal marx
would go down on the tally-sheet.
Bond street is small pocket of a thor
oughfare running south from Mission,
and there 3S4 ballots were deposited. At
the corner of Twenty-fourth and Church
streets, up among the Mission hills, $50
ballots went into the box, and then the
election inspectors so-called shut UP shop.
At 3003 Mission street the work went on
industriously and 219 ballots were written
down on the sheets, and at the polling
booth corner of Twenty-firsJ and Florida
streets but few persons appeared, but 1913
votes were gathered in.
But it was at 727 Brannan street where
the Kellys and Mahoneys covered them
selves with glory. They worked in $40
TALES and voted till they got tired. But
the balkeeper said it was dull day with
not single row. Occasionally stranger
came up to the polls and put in his ticket
but the same monotonous old gang did
the work of the absent citizens. 1t was a
great day at 727 Brannan.
The Eighth Ward polled an enormous
vrn
during the day about the little room at
ola Geary street where the ener ,etic tally
men were busy checking up whole pages
OF the record III advance of final count
that would be only matter of form any,
way At 4:12 P. NJ. this particular station
had recorded ADJ votes cast. The appre-
hensive but genial and rotund outpost
who stood conveniently on the sidewalk
informed an inquiring visitor as be led
him into the place that Things is kind of
quiet now, but you ought to have been
earlier" At 4: 3S, after an absence of no
more than twenty minutes during part OF
which the polling-place was kept in sight
and no one observed to enter, the same Wis
itor was then informed that GAL votes had
been cast. And they doubtless had been,
for the piles OF carefully folded ballots in
side the box appeared to have materially
decreased in size.
1t was a dull day in the saloon at the
corner or zine ana Dupont streets, the
polling-plsce for the Sixth Ward, and vet
the ballot-b box contained untold records of
men who had been there and deposited a
vote. The proprietor of the place said that
he had not noticed more men than usual
come into his place but he thought "may
be twenty or thirty went over into the
back corner where those fellows were
writing at one of the tables all day." but
there was a short time during the day
when he was not in the place and perhaps
some more had been there.
The Fifth Ward poIlng-place, with COM
mendable commercial forethought, was
located at 81 Suffer street, adjacent to Mr..
Spears auction-rooms. At 3 As O'Clock the
clerks announced that the records, over
which they were then busily at work,
showed that 189 votes had been cast; and
they had an hour and a quarter vet!
The Twelfth Ward, with headquarters
in little rear adjunct to a saloon at the
corner of Larkin and Pine streets, had its
quota of overworked clerks with tired
fingers and aching backs, for up to %
minutes after O'Clock they had there in
the Silly privacy of that little room
written down the names of 291 voters that
had presum ably come there sometime
during the day and exercised the right of
q free American citizen.