Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-09
AFFAIRS At SOUTH OMAHA
Voting Machines Commend Themselves u
EsEio City VOtsA
WOULD NOT co SA,K TO OLD SYSTEM
commencement Made for the Paving
OF Twenty-Fourth street with
Brick to Replace the
Broken Asphalt.

plications Now that the machines have
been tried voters declare that II is the only
system and that the purchase Of voting ma
chimes was money well spent The rapdity |
with which returns were made was great
surprise. In the past the election officers
worked all night and often far into the next |
dny counting the ballots Tuesday evening |
the completed. returns were tabulated and |
totaled and announced at 715 p. m Just |
one hour and a quarter after the voting |
had stopped This is considered remark |
ably good work for the reason that the |
work was new to most of the judges ana
clerks. ...-.
Custodians Hendricks and Ridgeway
worked hard 10 school the election officers,
and so successful we're they that the polls
opened WITHOUT hitch and the voting was
not interrupted all day.
While the machines were the cause of
great many straight votes being cast. the
result may be different in tho local election
next spring when the voters have become
more familiar with the machines. II Is the
intention of the city of1cials to keep one
of the machines in the council chamber and
open for inspection. so that voters may ct
any time drop in and be shown how TO vote
a straight or split ticket. Praise for the
machines is heard on every hand, and now
that the people have them they say that
they would not go back TO the old way of
voting. The eight machines, cost the city
$500 and Of this sum 200 has been paid.
The balance is paid 1900 each year for
four years. the notes drawing interest at
the rate of 4 per cent. In Ave years the
machines will have paid for themselves out
OF the amount saved as compared with the
old style of handling elections
/, Paving Commenced wednesday,.
The laying of a concrete base for the
!. brick paving on Twenty-fourth street
r commenced yesterday afternoon. A con-
crete mixer was fset up on Twenty-fourth
street near b street, and by quitting time
last night patch of the concrete base had
been laid. Parks, Johnson & Parks, the
contractors. are putting all the men they
can get at work on this paving and pro-
pose getting as much of the street done as
possible before cold weather. Material Is
now piled on the, east side of the street
Z as far south as street. and the old as
3 phalt pavement has been torn up as far
y south as street. An abundance of ma
terial is in sight and all the contractors
want now is reasonably fair weather and
no very heavy frost
A great deal of, the old asphalt is being
saved by the city to be used later in FILL
ing. Yashouts on unpaved streets.
-, Improvement, Club Meeting.
This evening the Highland Park Inn
provemept club viii hold a meeting at
Lincoln school building The hour for the
meeting has been changed from p. m. to
1880 r. m. Al members of the club are
expected. to be present. as business of i'm
portaDee lie to come up. The meeting to-
night is the regular monthly meeting, anc
reports OF committees will be read and
some proposed improvements talked over.
.Isears Friends JubiInnt.
Newman fesls'.nlany' friends IN South
Omaha called at the city hall yesterday
20 tender hearty congratulations on his
election to the ONCE sof county surveyor
Mr.. Bears majority was nearly 1900 and
would have been larger only for the ex-
tremely light vote cast in South Omaha.
Mr.. Beai will assume the duties Of his new
once on January l. His election will cause
a vacancy in the Office of city engineer.
This vacancy will be filled by appointment
by Mayor Koutsky, The appointment to
III the vacancy will hold only until April
when the city election is to he held. South
Omaha people dislike very much to lose
Mr. Beal as city engineer but are pleased
at his election to a much NOR" f~onsble
position,
order Eagles Club Closed.
y An order was issued by the police boar,
Wednesday to Chief Briggs to close tbs
club rooms of the local lodge of Eagles II
the Hunt block Twenty-sixth and n streets
Members of tho police board assert thai
the club is and has been for months pas
selling liquor without license CHIEF
Briggs notified the trustees Of the clui
OF tho order of the board and the ciu'
rooms were closed temporarily while at
torneys were consulted. The club is gov
l. erned by a board of trustees and a meetins
y OF this board Is TO be held today to taxi
some action. Only members of the lodg'
y are entitled to privileges at the club am
Il may besthat the order of the board will
be opposed
HistOrieS Sent Forward.
In response TO letter from Moore, Bake
a Co. of Boston, the histories of the re
funding bond issue recently sold TO thi
firm were sent east last night. This firr
offered premium of S1,O7s for this issu
Of $4,000 AZ per cent refundng bonds ant
the sale will most likely SO through as sool
as the histories haze been approved by tn
attorneys for the buyers
Council Meets Tonight.
When the city council meets tonight bill
incurred on account of the recent election
will be called upon for action. In IN
Twelve voting precincts sixty judges an
clerks were employed at s. each maxim
$3.50 During three days registration thirty
six registrars were employed and the pa
for these will most likely be 81 per dag
a total of 1852 Twelve election booths 3
30 each makes $3.50. Then there is {
be the pay of Custodian Hendricks. whic
will probably be 500 This shows D. tOta
II tS32. To be added must be the cost q
printing. which will easily run the bi
up 10 5000
In addition to these claims the counc
will act on bills for October Considerable
routine business is to come up and IN
session promises TO be a busy one
Find Error iR Returns.
Haste in compiling the returns on III
sewer bond proposition Monday night a,
counted for an error which came TO ligt
Yesterday In the information furnished
the press by the city clerk the hgur,
showed that the bond proposition had bee
defeated by Ss3 votes. In going over Il
poll books an error in one precinct va