The sun., 1897-02-28
roL1rroAL VOTES.

Will he held on the nrst Tuesday In April Appiics.
tions must be ied with tho Secretary OF the Board
Of Examiners at least twenty days before.
| Commissions for the supervision and superin.
tendencc or important public works sometimes
expensive; sometimes the failure OF the Legislature
TO provide for such commission entails upon the
citya larger cost than would the salaries OF its
members. The new Third avenue bridge is q case
In point. Tho Legislature originally allowed e1..
100000 for the bridge. IL being provided that the
| new structure should connect Third avenue by .
straight and direct highway the river. Instead
OF conforming to tho act. horseshoe plan Of up.
proach was approved and s7oo. 900 spent in con.
| structng It. The approach Will have to be
changed. and for this purpose the Legislature
recently asked to appropriate $3.50 900 more. But
another si60.000 i Is discovered. viii bo necessary
and tbs bill will have TO be changed TO read $780,.
600. thus making the cost of the bridge $1,000 900.
There was no commission in charge OF it. The De.
| partment OF Public Works had the matter in hand.
The city of New York s paying this year se.s92
for the priu,ing OF the "Manusi of tho Rules aud
Regulations of the Police Department" rhe NUN.
DER OF these uies and regulations tho Increase
but not moro so than the number of members of the
| police force.
Tho expense of photosrapning sites in the Twelfth
ward designed to be useu for the new Twelfth ward
| park ia e275.
| Recently tho city vf New York required for the
usss OF the Board OF Education a building seven.
teenth street tetw crn Eighth and Ninth avenues.
and after long ana tedious negotiations price
Fixed for it-si7.5oO. In ordinary real estate trans.
| actions tn" agent who negotiated .ho sale would
have received from the seller per cent OF the pnr.
| chase price, or Sl75 Instead OF this however. the
expenses OF the proceeding in fees and commissions
amounted to s9109.90. bringing up tho total cost
to the city OF this ono lot to siseoe.vo. Tho
Il not exceptional but gives fair illustration OF
the extent to which feos chary yei- when city
| Is paying them.
The Board OF Educauon's wood contract for this
| year amounts TO $500.
In Clinton county. H.. thcro are two neigh boring
townships known ofriciaiiy rs Irishtown and Ger.
| mantown. In Irishtown at the recent election Mr..
Mckinley rec lived 1877 votes and Mr.. Bryan ~. In
Germantown Mr.. Mckinley received 10 votes aud
Mr.. Bryan a9e. This was the strongest Bryan town.
| ship in the State Of Illinois.
At last years election there e9o voting places
In Kings county. AT this years election the
Der. under the redistrictlng OF tho several wards
will bo only SIS. reduction OF than 100 dis.
tricts and there will bo reduction OF election
penses In proportion The appropriation for cleo.
tion expenses In Brookiy this year 10 $500 900.
New York has appropriated FOR the expenses OF the
Bureau OF Elections thi, year S323. .ooo Tns divi.
sion of voting precincts In the BROOKLYN wards is
extremely irregular. In the Second ward. for In.
stanco there are TO DO only four voting places this
year. though at tho last election seS votes were
egitercd in this ward, then divided into pre-
eIncts. In the Twenty third ward OF Brooklyn there
are TO be thirty ce districts In the Thir.
tyseconi ward there to be three only. At last
years election there were. on the average, 329
voters in each election dis,rict OF Brooklyn. This
year tho number 10 TO be In excess OF 400.
he eft ofn h.
s7.ooo.ooo in cemetery property within the bound.
aries OF Kings county. The total amount or real es-
tate exempted from taxation In Brooklyn 10 $780,.
100000 In amount. The exempted property In New
York county amounts to 53to. .ooo,oov.
Seven subpoena servers employed In the Court
or Special Sessions at saary OF u, 300 each There
are twenty.one subpoena servers iu tho District Az.
orney's ONCE. Some OF the subpena servers in the
Court OF General Sessions receive u, 900 q year
only: some others receive ~ 100. In the subordi.
nate Court OF Special Sessions there I. only one
grade OF compensation.
The extent to which vast tracts Of almost unin.
habited territory are represented In tho Senate at
Warrington is shown by the OF the ne v Senator
from Idaho. Heitfeit. Scz Perces county. from
which he halls. has an area OF 1900 square miles
" Westcheatcr county, New York, Staten Island.
and the three counties or Long Isiand-EinKs
queens. and suffoik-Dc all added. the area OF the
Whole territory would ne less that OF Sez Perces
which had Mt the last Federal c.n.u. i. nonnI.,,on
OF $500 only or about one sev.nth OF m. n,...n,
population OF the Fourth ward OF this city In
ND =, ,n,.,,. 80 y, 80 "o"'ns " on,y IN inc state
80. -. - ' ~ =. ''o eou"'' 'eauireu 10
~. -, .,.a,,ae wv. ouo .oun''es mites o' iuaho al
,n,., 49,. -, -. -. - a'u'" % oHe'ha" OF 'ne
The Brooklyn tax levy has exactly doubled In
amouut since 1870. TIE noppIat,on a, the c,,v -,
J., ono on, -. -. - M " - "'" Aoou'
,.o.., ,sn,, a. n-.,.'' u.n' mo assessor
~. , ,.n.. a., 90 80 ' Aa . eAsea auf'ns
,n.,..s. o., .,.., 80, e'ooo'ooo. . ou' 'he
,,o, s,s. 900 600 - 60 20 on. e'A'0 "A' oeen
" oo'O''''''
An effort 10 to be made in Albany tai. war N
bring about further amendments TO tho primary
election law OF the STATE There has been a propo.
sition heard In some quarters TO apply In Nav yor.
| the Kentucky prim .ry system whereby each voter
"a condition precedent TO- voting at primary eIee