The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-30
HOT ELECTION IN HUDSON.
Only Taxpayers Could Vote. and the Women
VINO own Property Carried the Day.

VINO Own Property Carried the Nay.
HUDsoN. n. Y. July 7s.-At s p. NJ. me
OF the hottest election days both as 20
weather and the way II was contested
came TO q close. 1t wal a special election
Of the taxpayers. and az a result society In
Hudson gave up the golf links and the
teaoups and the 600 Of the city fought each
other tooth and nail.
About two months ago IL WA announced
that the Clifford Wood Company had Sc
lected Second Hill" IA a location FOR its
foundry and machine shops. the company
manufacturing hosting machinery and
tools. The hosting machinery Ia made at
the plant in this city and the tools are
turned out at Arlington. Mass. Il was
proposed to consolidate the two shops In
one and TO abandon the present shops and
locate in new ones to be built on Second
Hill. Perhaps a better idea Of Second Hin
and it's environs may be gathered from
the following. which was part Of the Official
notice OF election:
That this section Of the city. which has
heretofore been used "A n COW pasture
and AZ a graveyard for the burial OF dead
horses and other animals. and which has
required and received the attention Of
JDe bOdTu Oh uedltU III OTucT w dDdSc hdib"
ances there existing would be transformed
into a profitable and inhabitable locality
The Giffords live in Hudson. and their
business has been conducted here for q GEN.
fury by their father and gr andfathers.
They are prominent In Hudson society
and hardly a movement 10 undertaken that
they are not interested in. Malcolm Oiford
ran for Mayor a few years ago Arthur
Clifford was one Of the water works COM
mission which Just put in a $500. 600 gravity
system here. Two OF their ohums had been
John w. Fillette, whose wife received a
large sun Of money from the estate Of
Marshall Field. her mother being a sister
Of the Chicago dry goods merchant. and
Charles A. Van Dusen. a wholesale grocer
and manufacturer of sausages.
The Gifford-Wood Company asked that a
street be laid out for it to reach the new
site and that adequate water and sewer
facilities be provided. Then II was that
Messrs. Gillette and Van Deusen. who had
served with Arthur Clifford in the installa-
ton of the water plant. came out In oppo-
sition. They have fine residences on a hill
side which overlooks Second Mill and they
protested against the plant going there,
They hired lawyers, the best in town.
who spoke against the proposition at q
public meeting and before the Common
largely in favor az the Gford-Wood end OF
the argument, and the council, owing to
the fact that the city was bonded past it's
bonded debt limit for the water system.
called for a taxpayers election. Mean
time the council had trimmed down many
OF the demands and the amount to be
voted for and raised in the next tax levy
was fixed az SIS U
To-day was the day Of election. Only
taxpayers could vote. The leaders on both
sides own automobiles and these were out
doing duty ell day Probably by the time
of closing of the polls several hundred
Hudsonians had taken to-day their first
automobile ride. The Citizens Association
had two Of the machines at it's disposal and
they brought smiling women, tirnid women.
old women and young women from every
direction; also some men. The same may
he said Of the opposition: Carriages were
aleo employed. IL was the first time that
any number Of women have ever voted in
Hudson at an election. They outnumbered
the men. NJ
The taxpayers voted 500 in favor Of the
special tax n 1872 against II.