The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-16
KASE MAYOR or PLAYGROUND
POLITICAL PURITY BEATS ANTI
CORRUPTION by 50 VOTES.

On REGISTRY Of 1 zoo Doys and No Girls
At Hamilton Fish Park Only 400 Votes
We're Cast-Election Day Was Wet
Only Three Detected Rcpcaters.
yery new Americans took q practical
lesson In civil government yesterday at
Hamilton Fish Park. the playground In
the heart Of the East Side surrounded BY
tall tenements full as rabbit warrens There
was an election, carried out on lines almost
identical with q city election, for full
ticket for the Playground City, which Is
the new name Of the park. For the cleo
ton 1, 200 boys registered, but 1t was vet
day and only 200 voted. There were two
tickets In the field, with no scratching al
lowed, and when the polls closed at o'clock
last night it was found that tho following
ticket had been swept into Office by safe
majority Of IS votes:
Mauor-NArHAN KAsE,
President Of Counea-EMANuEL SoHlHrAAN.
COMMUNICATIONS STRBUssANp
CAPTAINS OF Tedns corresponding TO tne nve
horoush presidents) - BENJAMIN. FAssLzR. Base
hail Team; IsIpoR STREussANp. Basketball Team;
MYER SOLOMON. Track Team SAMUEL ScalNpLkH'
Games: JosEPH ROTH. Gymnastio Team
Members OF CouneI-lsIDoR FAUST bAHNhf
sppRASsKr, HARRY BRILL FRsDERIcK ScHAxRS'
JOSEPH JURAwNER. HARRY AEssINoER SAMUEL
FRIEDMAN. JACOB SILvsRsrKIN. BENJAMIN NsW'
srApr, WILLIAM KAUFMAN. SAMUEL LRS1. LOUIS
roERrs MoEY GLEIcR SAMUEL BisoEIgR. ls1pos
HAusMAN SAMUEL SPANIER. fsIpoh SfBINssho
John FRIEDMAN. NORRIS BKRNsTEIN. MAX GsIoER
Samuel Neither, who headed the
defeated ticket, mournfully attributed his
defeat to the rain and to the fact that he
Ia older than Kase, but like other political
losers he declared Success to my OPP
ponent: he beat me fair.
There was great demonstration in the
mark when Supervisor Kelly announced
Kase's election. Some 1900 boys. with
their parents and friends. had waited In
the rain for the result. Mayor Kase was
as grave and important a. the Mayor OF
any CITY with 200 voters should be. He
was called upon for a speech, and after
little urging by his campaign managers
he made these pledges:
INV fellows, am thankful to you. You
have showed your conf dence In me by
electing me to this important office. l
promise you that will devote my ad.
ministration to the promotion OF good
fellowship and clean athletics"
There has been talk Of corruption IN the
campaign bat so far as it came under Inc
observation Of Supervisor Kelly, who nan
died the election, there was very little OF TINS
q detected three instances, said Mr.. Kelly
last night, where boys tried to vote on
other names. There was good deal Oh
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS eleotioneering-
but so far I have been able to learn there
was very little corruption, at least not
enough to cause any worry.
Supervisor Kelly, who knows the East
Side pretty nearly as we'll as the lady who
writes Of the adventures OF Morris Mogii-
eysky and Eva Gonorowsky, got the idea
Some time ago that it would b fine thins
to get the youngsters who frolic In the
park to understand just how Mayors and
Aldermen and such personages are MADE
and that the lesson would be far more
valuable than skimming over book.
So he got the boys to form two parties
from which leaders arose by the Darwinian
process, selected two tickets. organized
the polls and named yesterday a. the nrst
election day OF Playground City.
For weeks the East Side has bu1Ded
with the thing. On the hot nights, when
everybody was ON the roof tops or chattering
in the street, the elders took hand and
eIectioueered in Yiddish; booming Nathan
Kase, the candidate. Of the Political Purity
Party" or Sam Melit zer, who ran on the
ticket OF -anti-corruption.' Even the Tam
MANY leaders mixed in, because they found
that II they didn't it might lose them real
votes, 80 men like Gus Hartman and Icy
Cohen hotfooted around East Houston and
Stanton streets getting pledges and prom
ises for the juvenile politicians. kase.
a foxy lad of II, had the best Of the battle
from the start.
strife that Mrs. Cohen of Columbia street
attacked Mrs. Frankelstein with nudel
board just after synagogue on last Satur-
day, breaking the nudel board but not
injuring Mrs Frankelsten much no9
since Rebecca Gerdrnan found q diamond
ring in the gizzard OF q goose has there
been so much excitement:
The registration was held on Monday
evening, and the list is full Of Ginnse'rtys;
stems, Glciohes. Sedranskys, solomons.
Ievys, Feintuchs, Schwartzes, Berkowtzes
and what not: small, dark faced, little
fellows, whose ages ran ged from 2 TO II,
whose fathers and mothers, recently from
Russia, Poland and Southern Europe.
push handcarts or fashion an Incredible
number Of shirts for few cents day IN
the neighborhood Of the park.
But there wasn't much doing in the push
cart trade or the making Of shirts yesterday.
f3r Abraham and Sara, expanded with pride,
stood about in the rain and watched their
offspring play the game Of free people,
In the morning the election Earaphernaha
was set up in the open and voting began.
crowd Of older people all around the park.
who shouted to little Izzy or small Solo
mon that he would get the father and mother
of whaling il he didn't support Kase or
Neither, as the case might be.
There was. too, an element that PARK
Commissioner Pallas didn't consider. He
arranged the game for boys only. leaving
about 1900 little girls out Of the fun, and
they marched around the park, led BY lat
girl from Stanton street. who carried this
very incendiary banner:
WOMEN HAS RITES AND We HAVE BOSE IN OUR
MONT.
THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE nuLrs
THE WORLD.
ittlo -ls ho Eaaf Side not maj alY