The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-04-18
READY FOR ELECTION
MANAGERS AND CLERKS HAVE
BEEN NAMED FOR EACH BOX.
BOXES WILL BE PUNCHED
ONE FOR EACH DISTRICT AND ONE
FOR THE COUNTRY.


Polls VIII Open at 7;24 O'Clock In
the Morning and Close at 0;24
O'Clock in the Evening-Extra
Minutes Represent Difference Be-
Magistrates and One Freebooter
VIII Preside as Managers at Each
BOx-Interest in Passage of Meas
ure Hurt by Action of County Com
sioners in Providing for Separate
DormitOry for Juveniles.
Preparations have all been made for
the election to determine whether a
reformatory shall be established in
this county, which will be held at the
Court House tomorrow. The man
ayers and clerks have been chosen, the
boxes put in readiness for use, and
the voters lists prepared. Promptly
at 7:24 o'clock the polls will be opened.
The election will be held under the
superintendent of Mr.. G. Reuben But
Ter, clerk of the Board of County Com
missioners, who has been appointed
manager of the election by the board.
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and clerks report to him in his Office
at Gas O'clock to take the oath of
office and receive final instructions
from him as to the proper discharge
of their duties.
The polls will open at 1924 O'Clock,
city time, in accordance with the law
of the state, which directs that cleo
tions shall begin at o'clock, sun time,
of the designated day. City time is
twenty-four minutes faster than sun
time. The polls will close at 6:24
o'clock in the evening.
AS previously announced there will
be one box for each of the four city
districts and a box for the four coun-
try districts combined. All of these
will be located in the windows of the
county attorneys office, and the offices
of the County Commissioners, so as to
minimize as much as possible the in
convenience to the transaction of pub
lie business in the Court House the
election will cause.
The location of the several boxes,
with the managers and clerks assigned
to each, will be as follows:
First District, County Attorneys Of
fee, Bull street. Managers. r. Wick
ham, j. p; G.. E. Bevans, J. P, and
A. M. Lucas, Jr., freeholder. Clerks
j. J Carr, T. A. Russell and Thos
]. Palmer.
Second District, County Attorneys
office, President street. Managers. =
1. r. Nathans, ]. p; G. Noble Jones,
]. P, and D. J. Charlton, freeholder
Clerks-Isadore Michaels. S. Eckman
and John F. Walsh.
Third District. County Commission
ers' office, President street. Managers.
M. Naughtin, j. p; c. V. Hohen-
stein, j. P, and Fred S. Butler free
holder. Clerks.-Leo McGovern, Joe
Molina, and Frank P Mcintyre.
Fourth District, County Commission
ers' office, President street. Managers.
Samuel Reynolds, j. p; Hugh
Grady, j. p, and H. f. Kuck, free
holder. Clerks-W, t. Ennis, ]. J..
Dinon and j. c. Shaw.
Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Dis
tricts, County Commissioners office,
President street. Managers. w. H.
Mendel, j. p; w. j. Cleary, j. p,
and d. L. Christian. freeholder. Clerks
--B. Donovan, F. M. Hull and w. B.
Puder. ~
Opposition Is Strong.
Interest in the reformatory election
has suffered seriously since the adop-
ton of the County Commissioners of
theeresolution providing for the cree
ton of separate dormitory for mis-
demeanor conVfctS under the age of
Is years. The resolution provides that
all such convicts shall be confined in
this dormitory and that they shall be
separated, as far as possible, from
those who are older and more hardened
in vice.
Judge Barrow, one of the most earn
est advocates of the esta blishment of
the reformatory, has said that this
plan entirely meets his views and that
it is as effective as any reformatory
system likely to be put into operation
under the present state law. Others
have reached the same conclusion.
There has always been strong op-
position to the reformatory in Savan-
nah, some springing from an inherent
objection to the establishment of such
an institution in this county as I'M
suited to local conditions and unlikely
to remedy local evils, and some from
the conviction that under present laws
no reformatory worthy of the name
can be operated.
This opposition, combined with the
lukewarmness of the reformatory adj
vocates induced by the adoption of the
dormitory plan by the County Com
missioners, menaces seriously the sue
cess of the reformatory measure at the
polls. Grave doubts is expressed of
its passage by those best in a position
to judge, and unless it's adherents rally
to it's support it's defeat tomorrow is
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