The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-08
RETURNS AT CITY HALL.
Ward One Carried Off Honors and
Ward Five Wins the BOBBY Prize.


oficial returns of the election reached
the office of the city clerk in record
breaking time last evening There
were three wards complete before 6
O'Clock, and the last precinct came in
at S.34 o'clock, which was far more
agreeable TO all concerned than at 8
o'clock the next morning which was
once the case.
Precincts 2 and of ward l divide
honors. The wardens of those pre-
cincts. accompanied by the police Off
GERS who were on duty there, reached
the Office of the city clerk at 4.4O o'clock,
exactly 40 minutes after the polls
closed
Ward 5 brought up the rear. The
last three precincts to come in were
from that ward. being precincts 1, 3
and in order, precinct winning the
BOBBY prize. It-was exactly S.34 o'clock
when John Timon, clerk of the pre-
cinct. handed City Clerk E, IL -lTowne
the return book, and Officer Sinnott
deposited on the table the box that con-
tanned the ballots and check lists.
1t was aggravating that the most de-
sired wdru in the city should have been
the last to be returned And it was
particularly so because three of the four
precincts in that ward remained out
the longest, thus preventing anything
like close calculation. Even when
the ward returned three precincts. the
result could not be calculated as it was
easily known the result would be close.
The anxiety was all the greater among
the politicians who were present. The
returns from precinct of ward were
o,,5
a half later when precinct / sent in
It's count, ard five minutes later pre-
clnct 3. TIE only precinct missing in
the entir" city then was of ward s.
about 70 minutes passed before it came
in.
The absence of politicians was notice
able. Councilman John H. Meagher
chairman of the democratic city com
mittee, came in at 4.45 o'clock, five min
utes after the first returns We're made.
and stayed to the end. When he en-
tered, he rredlcted Ryans election in
ward by so votes. He had a paper
and pencil, and compared the returns
with the vote of last year, in the ward
8 representa- tive contest When Off
Ger Barrett planted the first returns
from the ward on the ceun-
ter, and the returns showed
Ryan had but 3S votes, Chairman
Meagher remarked that Ryan did we'll
as he had just the vote Carberry had
last year. He SAID he did not expect
Ryan would get over % votes in that
precinct
Alderman P. ]. O'ConneI looked in at
6 O'Clock, but didn't stay He returned
after supper, however, and was in at
the death. Mayor R. B. Dodge, Jr. came
in shortly after and stayed a few min
utes. The following We're present dur
ing the receiving of returns, most of
them being present when the final re-
turn was brought in: Aldermen Thomas
]: Barrett, John r. Back, Councilmen
George c. Hunt, P. S. Gallagher, John
II. Connolly, Senator F. A. Harrington,
Representatives John p Munroe, and
G, R. Johnson, N. j. Mooney, David
Manning, Frank NJ. Phelan
Ward l took all kinds of honors Two
of its precincts were the first in and the
ward was the first to make complete re-
turns. Ward was a close second with
ward s pushing the latter for the place.
Wards 6, 4 and finished in that order
Ward was complete at 6.35 O'clock;
ward at Z O'Clock; ward at tbs
o'clock; ward 4 at 7.43 O clock, and ward
at S,34 o clock. Nineteen precincts were
in before o'clock.
Nine precincts in succession, counting
from the first to arrive, showed Crane
pleurality. The first to give Paine a
plurality was precinct of ward l. He
led Crane four votes but Jefferson led
Taylor in the same precinct IA votes. A
smile was caused in the returns of ward
2, precinct 2, in which James H. Mellen
had one vote for representative In pre-
cinct of ward 4 George F. Hewett had
one vote for councillor.
officer Benjamin Franklin Brown
brought in the returns of precinct l of
ward at 6,10 oclock, and the reception
he received was too great for the mod
est officer. But officer Brown bore up as
bravely as when he paraded his beat in
the foreign quarter inspiring terror in
the hearts of evildoers by his magnifi-
cent presence.
The courtesy of City Clerk Towne and
Assistant City Clerk W. II. Towne was
appreciated by everybody present.