The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-07
INFORMATION FOR FIGHTERS.
A Question Apparently Simple About One
of tho City Congress Districts.

A Question Apparently Simple About One
of the City Congress Districts.
Now. there's nothing very terrible In the looks
OF this letter, especially when n friend sent IL:
DEAR OLD MAN: l shall be very much
obliged if you can tell me what wards compose
the Fourteenth Congress- district in New York.
A lot of us fellows are at odds over the matter.
and as we have not your facilities for finding
out. we've agreed to leave 1t TO YOU"
When that harmless letter is dated at Santi-
ago on July III, and is signed by a fellow in one
OF The fighting regiments. of course il has to be
answered al once. The only queer thing about
it is the subjects; but then the fellows probably
were ready to discuss any thing but Santiago
Just then.
Or course, it is all simple enough: the po-
litical almanacs are certain TO tell. SO you get
the principal one of the lot and start in to an
swcr. In fact. you begin IL:
The Fourteenth Congress district OF this
city is composed of these wards"- Here you
turn to the almanac. Here it is: Fourteenth
district, parts of 10. II, 10. u. %. "a. NJ. 81,
2S. 90, 81 Assembly districts You are not
much further than when you started: so you
lay the letter aside and determine to work
things out more at leisure. II fellows making
history at Santiago are foolish enough to want
Ia, know such things, they will have to wait.
~ tlnhf {o9 ask 4 friend who is, IN politics;
he doesn't say what the manual is. Finally,
yGu learn that he means, the Legislative
latest edition; Therein, according to the index,
You find the "Apportionment Of Assembly Dis
IS aifer-lu rRni,S yG an ha GIThti d 5S Yo itL ESt out bes the
where you LETT of. But the Manual has gone
back SS on yoE, Instead Of giving the district
each county has. You are at a standstilI again.
Another visit to your friend in politics, who
were created under the State Constitution Of
1871, while ths existing Congress districts were
Get a copy OF an old edition Of the Manual:
any edition earlier than 1895" he says finally
81 on . the library you 60 to get one of the old
A. last y9g ind THE Congress districts. as
paper. The Fourteenth district is y nf
the Nineteenth Assembly district and certain
Assembly districts. in each case "alI that part
below SeNenty-ninth street So you have to
luck You find their boundaries set forth in the
Then YOU work ont the boundaries of tho
divide by two, and the Twenty-second. which
you likewise, divide by two. and with some
mental trouble you work outs mar OF the dis
So far. 90 good only by, this time you have
a friend at the front, and think Of it only as an
UNPLEASANT task that must be donc-as a sort
q santiago to be- taken. with no moro glory to
VIZ Ntihi - " NOillc W Itlt uTHly Oll-
GERS who have kept the regimental property in
the old posts.
Now, having learned the bounds OF the As
sem bly, districts and the Congress- districts, you
have TO lind what the ward boundaries are. Re-
mcmbcring that the new charters in effect, you
hasten to SEQ from that what the boundaries
are, Section 1878 says that they are hereby
continued" .Thereat You Guggenhcimer n
1882, The new charter makes no reference to
II. but you remember to have heard an irrev-
than the present, charter, There you find at
last thu, metes and bounds Of the wards. From
trict IL in the Twenty-sPcond ward. and that
the Twenty-llrst and Twenty-second Assem-:
ply districts arc, IN, the Nineteenth ward! And
friend IN Santiago. and as you write you Won
der II all the men making history nj Santiago
are as hard NJ for news as tho man who wanted
20 know what you know about New York and
It's wards. But you've found out how the As
semhly districts are located and where their
bounds are set forth. and having done so,
forthwith you forget.