The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-14

or fifteen years since an opposition ticket was in the field before. and in this case the opposition won out The ticket elected won in vote of POP to 1S2, or a clear majority of 70. George K. Clark is the new warden. having defeated A. L. Chamberlain, the present warden. In addition the opposition ticket differs from the regular citizens ticket, in the substitution of the names of Harry Leigh, James J. Horan and George E. Lancraft for G. Clifford Foote, Willet A. Hemingway and Ed ward H. Farren. The remainder of the ticket is the same as the citizens tick ct.
 Harry Leigh, the head of the oppo- siton, was asked last evening the cause of the defeat of the citizens ticket and he said:
 "The people are for retrenchment We do not want the proposed system of police signals. Then the bills for street lighting are too high. Look at the elec- tric lighting bill of S194.54 and of the gas companys bill of s171 per month. lAOoC lE uiSS dIG lOO AlAbAg anu iioeG kicked aganst those bills every month. But the contract is for two years more and we can do nothing now. Then we want better streets. and the city will have to provide them, too. It was not the firemen which defeated the old tick ct. It was the people who are tired of getting nothing for their money. Then Ot1r ctreot cl,ntld ha wa fnpad v
 On the other hand. 1t was claimed that the people whose names were dropped out are good business man and careful in the expenditure of the peoples money. It is believed that the fiSht in the board over the removal to 6 section of fire hose up to fleming waytown had its effect on the election. And it is generally admitted that the l opposition worked harder at the polls and had better organization. Two hacks were carrying voters to the polls up to the hour of closing at 1 D. m., which is a rare occurrence. The polls | opened at a. m. and at the first hour | 125 votes had been boiled. Ira F. Fon- da was the moderator of the meeting. l AAls AldlAJ lllC AlCW vol dCAls 4lh0 DNSlA warden in two previous terms. Messrs Leigh and Horan, whose names were on | the independent ticket, and not on the regular ticket, are members of the present board It Is believed by some that the result of this election will hasten the time which Is bound to come. when the borough will be wiped out and the district become a part of the city.
 The ticket elected is as follows:
 Warden. George K. Clark; burgesses, Richard q. Davis, Frank J Mansfield, Andrew R. Bradley, Harry Leigh, James J. Horan George E. Dancraft; clerk, Ernest L. Averill; treasurer, Or ton A. Rose assessors, Walter R. Downs, Henry L. Ellenberger, Arthur F, Hemingway; tax collector, Lewis A. T. Blarke; bailiff, Charles N. Mack.
 The men of the East Pearl street M. F. church will give a roast beef sup per in the church parlors Wednesday evening at 6:30, It was originally plan- ned to serve turkey supper, but ow- ing to the scarcity of the gobblers the idea had to be abandoned. As this is the first supper attempted by the men of the church for four or five years. every effort will be put forth to make 1t most successful affair. Arrange lments are being made to accommodate fully 150 persons. The committee in charge consists of Henry T. French, chairman: c. H. Stevenson and Cliff ford Hunting.
 Barbara Perkins died at the New Haven hospital yesterday in the eighty first year of her age, and her funeral will be attended In the chapel of the East Haven Congregational church this afternoon at 2:SO. Until recently she had been an inmate of the Home for the Friendless She was a native of Paisley, Scotland. She has no near relatives here.