The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-02
sLEor1ox DAr Orders TO ro1ron.
Bonnres ana the Osstruetisn 81 vettng Ihey
Are to Prevsnt NJ All 1la-nrds.

Are te Prevent ut All nlarnrds.
Chief McCullagh issued his last election In.
struotions to the Police Captains yesterday.
He reminded them that tho ground had boon so
carefully gone over again and again that II
ought not to DO necessary for them to take up
tho inspectors time or waste their own with
questions they should be able to answer them.
selves, particularly as every Sergeant and
roundsman had been going around for a month
with a copy Of tho Election law In his pocket.
The duty of the police on election day, says
the Chief, is to preserve peace and order at the
| polls. They arc there as policemen, not as
partisans. Any attompt at electjonoering on
the part of any policeman will cost him his job.
Every policeman will have two hours to vote in.
Whom no is not on duty, or voting, no will be
held in reserve. 1t IL expected that, with tho
| arrangements made for relieving quickly, all
will have voted by noon. Aftor that hour tbere
will be an average reserve Of forty.eight men in
every station house.
The now men, who have not done election duty
yet, are to be carefully schooled and directed.
Saloons must BIO kept closed during tho voting
hours, and in the hotels 1t Is to DO Sunday, as
far az the bar is concerned. Bon6res arc not to
DO permitted tonight. On this point tho Chief
Is emphatic. He says:
men. These bonfires do a great amount of
damage to asphalt ~pavements, and command
ing officers OF those precincts where there arc
many asphalt. paved streets must give %perticu-
lar attention to this matter. / shall hold them
to account for the bonfres In all parts of their
precincts, and particularly for those on tho
asphalted streets. IL commanders go about
this work in earnest It can be stopped. Send
out a reasonable number OF men In citizens
clothes in tho early part Of the evening and sec
that they make, arrests for those violations.
That win stop them. You will also SEQ that
the work OF destroying fences and other prop
erty for the purpose Of obtaining fuel for these
bonires 10 prevented. 1t would be we'll for you
to have some men on duty throughout your pro-
cinct In the day as well as In the night, to pre-.
by the boys"
1t will be that O few years ago
the boys carried a whole house away over on tho
east side and burned 1t up. Tho city had to
pay for that bonfire.
Fraudulent voters. for whom there will be
warrants at the polling places, are to be ar
rested; IL they swear in their vote, then after
they .have.voted. II any one attempts to obstruct
voting by staying in the booth the full time
allowed by law, and then claims that he has
haps a third ballot. thereby keeping other voters
Instruct the officers stationed at the various
election booths In the respective precincta to
nay especial attention to this matter, and
where there 10 any evidence to sustain the sus-
manner wilfully obstructing the voting, they
will take such action in the premises as their
duties as police officers and the circumstances
OF the case may. require. This unlawful OBJ
struction Of voting must not be permitted
under any circumstances"
COLLECTING o crowd" 10 for once not to rank
as an offence. 1t is specially excepted on cleo |
ton night, but Captains are to prophesy to-day
where the crowds will be tonight, and get q
sufficient squad In season to keep them in order. |