New-York tribune., 1905-11-10

at the top OF the Jerome column. This. ne said'
would give him the office apart from recount
MIR. MADoo EXPLAINS.
Commissioner McAdoo gave his side of the
ballot box controversy last night in the follow
Ing statement
Last night. close to - O'Clock. received
message over the telephone informing me of the
order issued by Judge Gaynor. took up the
matter at once. The order of Judge Gaynor L
ordered obeyed- because It was an order of the
Supreme Court The memorandum initiated
by the Judge himself, said that the police hao no
right to the custody of the ballot boxes, or even
the right TO touch them, and did not deem II
advisable to dispute the suggestion According
ly 1 gave orders that the boxes should be at
once delivered, pursuant TO the judges orders.
The Board of Elections evidently We're not
prepared to receive them. They expected no
such situation Before 1896. for many years, the
Board of Elections branch Of the Police
Department itself. and had exclusive charge OF
such property. Since that time the Board OF
Elections as now constituted, passed each year
a resolution authorizing the Police Department
to act in its behalf In assuming the CUSTODY Oh
these ballot boxes and their contents.
On October 30 of this year, such resolution
was adopted by the present board. 1t reads
Resolved, That the Department OF Police De
and is hereby authorized and requested to re-
ceive, for and on behalf of the Board OF Elec-
tions of the City of New-York, the ballot boxes
used for the reception of and containing the
voted ballots at each balloting place at the gen
eral election to be held November Z 1900. ana
carefully preserve the same u1ltli OtHciNiSc ie
quested by this board or directed by court OF
competent jurisdiction.
1t was under this resolution that the Police
Department assumed 10 care for the ballot boxes
this year.
The Justice OF my position is so evident that
any sensible man would appreciate that 1t was
done I'm the public interest The police were
made custodans of the ballot boxes for some
years past by the Board of Elections. just the
same as if they had committed their storage 10
some safe deposit company. This department
was simply appointed caretakers. AS has now
been demonstrated the board has no place OF
its own in which to DEPOSIT these boxes Inc
situation this year is exactly as 1t mas beeh ior
years past
BOARD OF ELECTIONS TAKES BALLOTS.
The second day following the election was
probably one of the most exciting, politically, In
the history of the city. Mr.. Hearst, who early
on Tuesday night announced his intention OF
forcing a recount of the ballots, began early on
Wednesday to work to that end, and before dark
last night had compelled the Bureau of Elec-
tions to take charge of every ballot box in the
city
This action was forced after patrol wagons.
express carts and moving vans loaded with bal
lot boxes had stood in front of the Bureau OF
Elections at No t12 West 42d-st, all day. Jonn
H Voorhis president of the bureau, refusing TO
accept them, despite the fact that Justice Cay
nor had ordered that they be taken from the
ponce StdlloHS ttliO tuiAico 49, =" N~
the Bureau of Elections.
Mr.. Voorhis held that Justice Gaynor's order
was nothing more than an opinion. He changed
his mind later. however. when Supreme Court
Justice William D. Dickey signed an order COM
manding the bureau TO accept them
BY consent of all concerned the ballot boxes
are to be stored follows:
Those from the 1st to the 18th precinct at
No 49, Mott-st., in the Mott Street Storage
Warehouse: from the 10Th, Goth, 22d, 26th goth,
31st and 33d precincts TO be stored in the Bu-
reau of Elections. No. 112 West 42d-st; from
the Dist, 3d. 24th 25th, 2Sth. Doth and 32d
precincts in the Globe Storage Warehouse, No
3O5 East 61st-st.; from The Bronx at the
branch office of the Bureau of Elections, No
$50 Mott-ave.; from Brooklyn in the Eagle
Storage Warehouse at No. 2S-30 Fulton-st.
from the Borough Of Richmond at the Staten
Island Savings Bank Building at Stapleton, and
in Queens at No. 81 Jackson-ave., Long Island
City.
Every borough in the greater city was thrown
into high state of excitement from the moment
the ballot boxes began to be hauled from police
stations TO the offices of the Elections Bureau
In Manhattan twenty-five patrol wagons. carts
and moving vans had drawn up before the main
office of the Bureau of Elections IN West AID
st. before o'clock. There was not a soul about
the premises and when Mr.. Voorhs did come he
refused to accept them until the Supreme Court
had signed order.
Failing to stir him. the Hearst tried to
induce the Republican member Of the board,
Charles w. Page to open the doors, but he re-
fused also. In the time someone had
found that boxes brought from Brooklyn
Were not sealed, the seals either having been
torn off or through gross negligence not put on
the boxes.
Early In the afternoon a two-horse team haul
ing nearly one thousand boxes ran away, throw
ing the boxes all West 42d-St
One box was broken open, the ballot scatter
ing in all directions the street. Several
policemen gathered them up and stuffed them
18th Assembly District, the broken holding
the returns from the 9th District. The team was
stopped at Broadway, but not before every bal
lot box had been thrown out.
In Brooklyn the ballot boxes dumped in
front Of the Brooklyn office of the Bureau of
while in Queens they were gathered
in front of the Postoffice.
The last Of the ballot boxes in The Bronx were
delivered at the Bronx branch office of the Board
Of Elections. 13Sth-st. and Mott-aye., at 8
o clock last night. c. A. Bunner, the representa-
tive Of the board received the boxes
Captain Mannion Of the MorriSiania station
was in charge of the police guard. which con-
sisted of twenty-five policemen who formed a
line, and after the manner of q bucket brigade
passed the boxes from the patrol wagon to the
The branch office in The Bronx being too
small to hold the 459 ballot boxes, arrangements
were made TO store them in vacant store or
the ground floor directly underneath the Office
Of the Board Of Elections
Police Commissioner McAdoo detailed police
to guard every structure IN which the ballots
were deposited, but impressed Mr.. Hearst's
supporters that the police were now no longer
for the ballot boxes, but acted only
cystodianS OF the buildings in which they