New-York tribune., 1905-08-19
SAFE ON WATER WAGON.
EIGHT VOTES DO 1T.
4sbury Park HOtelmen Fear Raids
UM Begin Noe.

Asbury Park. N J., Aug Is (speciaD.-By the
narrow majority of eight votes Asbury Park is
TO continue to try to be a prohibition resort
This was decided by to- days referendum. Over
500 votes were cast in the two wards 364 votes
In the 1st Ward and AS in the I'd. Several de-
fective ballots were rejected The result showed
that the 1st Ward voted wet by II majority,
but the I'd Ward which includes all of North
Asbury Park declared for the dry ticket by
20 ma jority This gave the prohbtionists
majority of in the city.
Many of the owners of the small hotels and
all the speak sies'' voted against the high Ii
eense proposition They believed that the pro-
posed excise board would limit the licenses
granted TO the larger houses and prevent the
little hotels from making an extra dollar on the
side, as they have been doing for years Well
known topers marched to the polls and voted an
open ballot against high license. They did this,
they explained. because it had been given out
semi-officially that in the wet faction
triumphed there wound b, corner saloons for
the natives The leaders of the high license
movement surprised at the result They
had been led TO believe that all was harmony
in their ranks.
I. Frank Appleby the leader of the dry
contingent predicted early in the day that his
ticket would win in the 2d Ward by at least 30
majority He gratified over the result.A-5He
said: Il am against the open bar in 4sDury
Park, but l believe that the hotels should be
permitted TO sell liquor to their guests"
Mayor Frank L. Tenbroeck, who flocked with
the wet element not pleased with the
downfall of his faction. He intimated that it
not fair test, because other than legal
voters permitted to record their views
Charles A. Atkins Councilman for the I'd Ward
and part owner of the Ocean Hotel, was salts
fed with the vote 1T was fair test of public
sentiment" he said "and the majority decided
for the water wagon" II was Mr. Atkins who.
a Councilman. insisted that vote be taken
before the Common Council finally the
Excise Board ordinance.
In Ocean Grove tonight there is much specu-
lation as TO what the county officials will do
that the high license proposition is sidetracked.
1t is asserted that there 130 individuals in
Asbury Park paying government liquor tax.
The county officials. led by Prosecutor Henry
NJ Nevius. threatened recently to raid every
hotel and boarding house found breaking the
"one mile limit law.
Fears are entertained tonight by the hotel
men that the prosecutor will carry his
threat The most radical of the temperance
advocates. flushed with victory. declare that
they will have the unlicensed places raided If
promptly
The women taxpayers played lively part in
the battle Of ballots. The returns show that
forty-four women voted in the 1st Ward and one
hundred in the I'd Ward
Interest III the election centred in the I'd
Ward which embraces the hotel distric: and COZ
tage colony. The polling place was in the Nep-
tune Engine and Hose Company's house at As
bury and 1st aves. Here the leaders of the
TA, md
polls opened T. Frank Appleby. president of
the Common Council in charge of the
Dry" forces His assistants were the Rev.
Walter Austin Wagner. pastor of the First Con-
gregational Church; Henry c. Winsor. a member
of the Public Grounds Commission and pres
dent of the Asbury Park and Ocean Grove Bank.
and the Rev. William E. Jones, of Philadelphia.
a property A r. Parsons, one of the
owners of the Hotel Brunswick took charge OF
the workers for the Wet" ticket. His lieuten-
ants were Mayor Frank L. Ten Brock and
Harry ]. Rockefeller. chosen freeholder for the
ID Ward
In the 1st Ward, which includes the business
section of the city, neither faction made any
organized effort to get out the vote. A band of
temperance women. led by Mrs John Fl. Par
ker fingered in the vicinity OF the polling place
all day distributing temperance literature and
irnportuning voters to vote Dry ticket At
this poll there only $50 ballots cast up L.
the noon recess. while 23o recorded by
the I'd Ward poil clerks.
Nearly hundred women, property owners,
voted In the I'd Ward. The first TO appear t
the voting place Mrs Pennington NJ. Day,
of Morrstown Drawing a folded ballot from
her Boston bag she handed it To Judge Bath.
who deposited ii in the ballot box. Thank
YOU gentlemen" Mrs. Day remarked to the
members of the board as she withdrew II was
noticeable that in nearly every instance the
women voters had prepared their ballot a; home.
One of The tracts distributed by the Women's
Christian Temperance Union workers
follows:
rrtfE LORDS PRAYER AND HIGH LICENSE.
rrrink Of praying "Hallowed be Thy name.
and then voting To license the liquor traffc,
,,,hjch causes Gods name to be continually bias
rbamad. .aThy viii be dome and then voting
,bat n shall not ba done Lead us not into
.amntation" and then vote To place temptation
~ a,,srv ones path; Deliver from evil,
and then voting for the greatest OF evils IL 40
y. that little money may come TO the town
treas surv: GIVE this. day our daily bread.
ard voting ~ license that which takes bread
from thousands 9f almost starving children