The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-09
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About 100. 900 Voters in tho City Available
for This Public Service.

The total vote OF New York county was
almost exactly 100000 last November-or
3OO275. to be exact. The total mum Der Of quail
fled Jurors is necessarily less than the total
number OF voting citizens. though the Qualif-
cations OF citizenship and OF Jury service are
not essentially dissimilar. The disparity in
number arises through the exemptions
which either have been established by
the Legislature or have been provided by
the rules OF the courts. These exemptions
now include clergymen. physicians in actual
practice surgeons, dentists. veterinarians.
druggists. teachers. editors. editorial writer's
and reporters. officials under the Federal.
State or municipal Government. Consuls OF
foreign nations Captains Of ships. engineers.
pilots. railroad conductors and engineers tele-
graph operators, honorably discharged fire.
men, miitiamen. honornbly discharged militia
men, members Of the Old Guard. and those in
service ia Juries in United States or District
Courts. The list further includes all lawyers
and all those who have served as election OIL
GERS at contests preceding.
just how many persona are exempted from
no authentic figures on the subject but the
assertion made quite seriously that 90 per
cent only. or about 30 600 in the city are liable
to such service. is a manifest error II that was
spey 9h hoSs Who abe that the
difficulty in securing Jurors would soon become
insurmountable and the business of the courts
RThe total number o. public on1cials. in
EeT YorS Of all grades and every character cha ter.
these figures include not only the city Of New
York. Manhattan and Bronx boroughs, but the
females under the Board Of Education; which
the last quarter Of ls58 tie Police PsPfartment
thu the seeSs Of to
5000 in New York county. The number
Clans HnS aGnt Is pSt Gys
25,Ooo, OF whom the LAWYERS arr, the most
Ss f 81" last eeson IN ee.op @
! GERS and. while the number OF editors. edi-
| torial writer's and reporters" seems at times to
computat ion would scarcely put the number OF
exempted IoHrnalists; so 70 speak. at more
| York is nconsiderabe when compared to tho
| total population OF the city. for putting at 600
inc ap liberal aotment Of three f gym Tor
each, the total would not be In excess OF 800:
!, The National Guard adds to the number %, Of
of the militia and Fire Department. but not to
az extent Hne so great as IT,, to include as many as
cepiing such as come under the rule which
permits exemption to a citizen otherwise la
{" han SEQ Many Of the 20 on1
might by error be numbered twice. The
many muniopa ofIlcIals are rctirod romen.
| A large part Of the exempted class, especially
| among railroad employees, 90 not vote naDltu-
ally. and a siderable number Of those who
are exempted do not exercise the immunity
| which the statute gives them from service,
Further. the number OF registered voters
| does not by any means exhaust the number OF
those who are liable for jury duty. Many citt-
2ens do not register. and. not registering. do
not vote. yet perform Jury duty and do so with
| out any objection. The actual number OF quail
| filed voting citizens OF New York is about AGO.
600. There are exempted by law or circum.
100000 more are In such INDECENT ctrcum:
stances that their non attendancei is accounted
for. and there remains. therefore, about lOO,-
| 600 available Jurors for service, an ample
| number when It Is considered that this fur
| nishes 10000 month during the ten months
| when courts are open. whereas the actual num-
| Der Of jurors required In all courts is not in
| excess of 800 month.