The San Francisco call., 1906-09-27
Registration Closes
With a Big Rush
at the Finish.
BY Hugh NJ. Burke.

Registration for the coming State
election closed at II o'clock last night.
The number OF registered voters IN
san Francisco approximates $4,000
The exact figures viii not De
known until Monday or Tuesday.
There were $4,000 names on the regis
ter for the municipal election OF 1900
and 1900 votes were poHed. In this
total OF ss. 900, probably $4,000 names
that should have been Cancelled were
carried over from the registration Tor
the Presidential election of 1904
Thomas Y. Gator. election commits
sioner. estimates that the present reg
istration is $4,000 short of the actual
number entitled TO vote. He hgures
that 5000 citizens lost their papers of
naturalization and thought they could
not register until they took out new
7spers. They were not posted as to
d re provisions Of law giving them the
tight OF registration on the production
OF proof that the papers were lost or
destroyed. 1t is calculated that 5000
citizens failed TO register because they
fancied that the law required precinct
residence for thirty days prior TO the
closing OF registration, instead of thir-
" DAYS prior TO election. Mr.. Gator
estimates that absolute indifference and
other causes account for the non-reg-
istration of 5000 citizens.
CONVENTION WORK INCOMPLETE.
II happens this year owing 10 the
dilstory performances OF the local nom
mating conventions, that registration
closes before the candidates on the city
ticket are named. The spirit Of enter
prise on the part OF nominees to get
thefr supporters on the register usual
Iy tends 10 increase activity in enroll
ment.
main once at the corner of Eighteenth
and Dolores streets and at the I've
sub-stations. Registrar Adams and hiS
chief assistants made preparations for
the rush. paying particular attention TO
the demands on the clerical force sta
toned on Fillmore street near Golden
Gate avenue There the record for
rsnid work IN the registration of citi-
zens was broken From the opening
hour yesterday morning until II mid
night there was not a dull minute. No
EFFORT was made in the direction Of
district or precinct classification. The
snhdavits were simply executed and
fled The work OF segregation must
be done IN the main ONCE, where Two
sets Of maps saved from the FIRE are
available. 1t is impossible therefore
to get at this time a correct line on
district enrolment. At the closing hour
Of registration on Saturday, September
- sAs74 names were on the register
On Monday. September -. 1925 regis
tered at the main office and 1891 at the
sub stations On Tuesday. September
% 1926 registered at the main bureau
and z2Io at the sub stations. The to-
tai, therefore. up to Tuesday night, was
z4ss7s Accepting the estimate made
last night that 5000 names were en-
rolled on the closing day. total Of
52.ss7 is reached.
DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION.
The district ciassihcatfon made to
include the work up to last Saturday
night shows large gains in the Thirty
fourth, Thirty y-seventh and Thirty
ninth Assembly districts. This com
parison is made:
Thirty-fourths district . .41IO s237
Thirty-eighth district 4576 1896
Thirty-ninth district 42s7 2725
The foregoing districts belong to the
Republican column in normal elections,
but the gains may largely represent
Democrats and Union Labor men from
the burned districts. At Republican
headquarters there is an impression
that the large registration since last
Monday was in a measure responsive
70 circulars mailed 10 thousands of cit
izens. In the waiting throngs at the
several stations yesterday there was
} Cillett talk and Bell talk. Solicitors
employed TO get names for Langdon's
Doodle Dee petition were active. One
OF the agents asserted that he had Sc
cured 700 signatures during the past
week
Commissioner Gator and Registrar
Adams stiii adhere TO the belief that
voting machines will be used in the
city at the coming election. Others
doubt whether the spaces will be suf-
fcient for all the regular and petit
tionary candidates There is a prob
ability that Carl Browne. nominee of
the Peoples party for Governor. will
get the requested number of signatures
TO the petition of the Populists. II is
said that expert solicitors are in the