The age-herald., 1900-03-27
VOTERS NOT IN A
 HURRY TO REGISTER
Books Opened Yesterday But
 Few Names Entered.
CANDIDATES MUST PUT UP
Out of Fifty-six Voters Registered Woodlawn Fifty-three Are for Morgan, Two for Johnston
 and One Silent

The registration of voters for the pri- mary election to be held in Jefferson county on April II began yesterday in the cities of Birmingham, Bessemer, Ensley, Pratt City, Woodiawn and Avondale. There wild be no registration in the other beats of the county, but instead the members of the county executive committee will pre- pare lists of the white voters i'm their re- spective precincts for the use of the man. agers on the day of the primary.
 The registration for the first day was very light. In some of the precincts of the city of Birmingham scarcely dozen voters called on the registrar during the day, and in the more populous precincts the registration did not much exceed fifty.
 Up to o'cloeA no voters had been reg istered in Jackson beat on account of the illness in the family of E. Gusfeld, the registrar. shortly after that hour another registrar was appointed and opened tine books at once.
 The registrars for the city beats are stationed at the following places:
 Beat 2l, Madison sub-division-John L. Davis, at Riggs market. Twenty-fourth street.
 Beat 21, Cleveland, sub-division--H. B. Aoernatay, at his office in the Lyon & Terry building, opposite the court house.
 Beat 2l, Monroe sub-division-J. M. Tuck, at Tucks store, Avenue E and Twenty second street.
 Beat 21, Jefferson sub-dfvision-T J. Smith, ct Smiths store.
 Beat S7, South Highlands subdivision John McAllster. at SeRs store, Eigh- teenth street.
 Beat 37, Jackson sub-divlsion-At shep- perds store, Nineteenth street.
 Beat s7 Davis subdivision-Mike Ben- nan, at Adams drug store Second avenue and Ninteenth street.
 Beat 37, North Highlands. subdivision Herbert Reynolds, at Reynolds store.
 Beat 97 Hill sub-divsion-John Shields, at Shields store.
 Must Put Up
 C. P. Beddow, chairman of the primary arrangement subcommittee, yesterday re- quested the Age-Herald to call attention to the resolution requiring candidates to pay their assessments by March 3l. He said that unless the assessments were paid by the night of the 31st the names of the candidates failing to make such payments would not be placed on the official ballots. He further says that it was absolutely nec- essary that the candidates make these pay ments by the date above mentioned as the committee expected to have the tickets printed at the beginning of the week follow ing.
 II. B. Abernathy. registrar for Cleveland subdivision of beat 21, has the books in his office opposite the court house, but he found he could not give the time from his business that would be required of him If the books were kept at the court house.
 Fifty-three to wo
 Fifty-six voters registered at Woodlawn yesterday and of that number two are for Governor Johnston for United States sena- tor, one is non-commfttal and the other fifty-three are for the return of Senator Morgan to the senate.
 A complete list of all the registered voters in Birmingham, Bessemer, Ensley, Pratt City, Woodlawn and Avondale will be pub lshed by the primary subcommittee im- mediately after the registration books close. The committee expects to have the list out of the hands of the printer by April 10.
 One of the juries in the city court was polled last Saturday and of the twelve men nine were for John w. Tomlinson for governor.