New-York tribune., 1902-06-12
ELECTIONS BOARD TO MOVE
NEW OFFICES. WITH PLENTY OF ROOM
SECURED IN FORTY-sECOND-ST-


| The Elections Commissioners are planning to
! move their office from Police Headquarters No
| 300 Mulberry-st., to the new building at NJ
| 112 West Forty-second-st and eHleIuIHs
| through n No 107 West Forty -frst-st The
commissioners have addressed communlca-
| ton to the Sinking Fund Commission asking for
| its approval of the lease, and if this Is on-
| tanned the board will take possession OF Its
| new office on July l. The lease is for four
wears and ten months, and the rent VIII pe
| $3.50 yea The board pays no rent Tor the
| quarters 1t now occupies in Police Headquarters
| but has been obliged to spend about Sl'ooo lor
extra office room in September, November ana
December the busiest months Of the year Tor
| the department
President Voorhis believes that the new once
| will be more centrally located for the conNeh-
ience Of the public There are 452 election
districts above Forty-second-st and 3oI below
The upper portion of the city will increase in
popula ton while the lower portion Will de-
| crease. if anything. The office can be
easily reac ched by the various elevated and sur
face lines The department will occupy the
second floor of the building the dimensions OF
which are 80 feet in Forty-second-st.. ~ feet
in Forty-irst-st and 200 feet deep 1t VIII pe
divided as follows: A room for borough clerks
storeroon1, records room, examination ROOM IN
which the temporary clerks can he acCommo-
dated: room for board clerks. board records
room, four rooms for the commissioners. board
room for meetings and hearings. and wash
room This will give considerably more space
than the board has.
Our reason for moving said Commissioner
yoorhis yesterday. is that the board was
created with the idea that it should be separate
and apart from the Police Department There
has been a general demand for this separation
by the press and the people. Some people be
lieve that the police exercise some influence
over elections and though this Idea Is alto
gether wrong. consider that II would be
more desirable to have separate and distinct
offices. The lack of room here may be an eX-
cuse perhaps for the absence of some of the
commissioners In The new office each commits
sioner will have private room. and this ex-
cuse Will be removed. In our present office the
work Of the borough and board clerks has con-
ficted In the new Office the work can be sepa-
rated. They are two distinct sets OF clerks ana
have nothing in common.
The special enrolment for May and June has
been heavier than last year The people are
now more familiar with the primary law and
take advantage OF the opportunity for special
enrolment. The Greater New-1ork Democracy
in the IXth Assembly District. which is John
c. Sheehan's home district mas shown Tenark-
able activity. Altogether 90 Democrats nave
enrolled in the district and majority or these
are said to be Mr. Sheehan's followers. In the
Id District where there is a fight between
Tom" Foley ana Pat Diver, the enrol
ment has reached $50.
The politicians are holding back their en-
rolments' sail President NOOrhis, evidently
with the belief that some advantage is to be
had in keeping their opponents in ignorance OF
their strength. We anxious TO get them IN
as early as possible facilitate our work. Last
year a mai jority of the enrolment blanks were
held back until the last day, when we were
swamped 4 good number of voters have at
TEMPTED to enroll twice and three times, but
We have q system now that Will prevent that
We have obtained timing machine with which
We stamp the exact time of the receipt or an
enrolments The that arrives here first is
the only enc that will recognize
I'VE have had more or less trouble with COM
missioners of deeds Recently we received
twelve enrolments certified to by a man whose
term as a commissioner of deeds had expired
Last year this would not have been discovered
but this wear we have verified the signature of
every notary public commissioner Of deeds
by his signature on record in the city clerk s
agree We had a case Of this kind few days
ago. and called the commissioner to this office
He explained that he had two ways Of signing
his name. but informed him that we could
only recognize COunterpartS Of the signature
in the city clerks office
We have had clerks At work making a
list of dead men according the Health Depart
nlent. and will be careful that men vote
upon the names of dead men. We make a
who has died since last October Any one who
attempts to vote in these will be chal-
lenged.''