Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-06

split democratic, split republican and 1 split progressive.
 The whole vote cast in the district. machine and ballots, was 19l, and 129 men did not come out to vote.
 In Central District.
 In the First district. Central, Town Clerk Charles s. Holorook claimed the privilege of being the first to vote. as he said he had slept with the machine all night, and he led the way in past the checkers, closely followed by George M. Charbonneau and James Sculron. One hundred voters per half hour was the average rate on the ma chimes, but between F o'clock and 1 o'clock 250 voted. One man timed him self and voted in 20 seconds.
 One man in this district also tried to vote twice. voting in the first ma chine, and then coming out the wrong way, so that he passed along inside the enclosure and was about to go in to vote on the third machine, but was kept back Seventeen hundred and seventy had voted up to 3-S0 o'clock.
 There were 1883 votes cast, 722 on one machine, 641 on another, and 4z0 on the third.
 George E. Pitcher, whose antagon- ism to the voting machines has been well known. did not appear to vote. At West Side.
 In the Second district, West Side, i 500 men had voted up 10 noon. Frank 1 D. Comstock cast the first vote. One | hundred and fifty eight voted in an 1 hour at noon. Charles Bartlett made a flying trip from Washington to vote l leaving there at 4.90 ?. m. Monday | voting fifth in the district, and being away again by 3 o'clock train Tues day morning. Four hundred and for l ty-seVen votes were cast on one ma chine and 401 on the other, Howard L. Stanton's name was written on the i paper roll for justice of the peace, Two 1 blind men voted in this district, go- ing in with a watcher from each par ty.
 At TaftvIie.
 The voting machine in the Fifth dis 1 trict Taftville. worked to perfection Tuesday, not the least trouble being l experienced during the day. When the | polls opened at o'clock in the morn | ing the voters started to arrive and | there was a steady stream till after three o'clock. William T. Delaney had the honor to be the first one to use the machine in this district. Before noon William Whites orchestra of four pieces rendered musical selections in the hall, and Mir. Delaney also dis tributed his pictures to a number of the voters. By noon 341 votes out of a possible 545 had been cast and at o'clock 440 had been registered by the i machines. From that time on until l the polls closed the voters struggled in slowly and at o'clock 24 more had been registered, making total Of 464 votes cast. The last man to east his vote in the district was Joseph D, Aiken There were no complaints received by the men in charge of the machine anC the voters experienced no trouhle 1T
 casting their votes, Every one whc
 used the machine was greatly pleasef with it, and number were heard te
 remark that it was the easiest and bes
 way they had ever %'oted yet. On the East Side.
 F'ifty-five voted in the first hour fl ; the Sixth district East Side. Arthur
 E. Chandler was the first voter, Count Out Quickly, ''g The polls closed at 5 o'clock, II the Second district the count was al
 taken off the two machines in thirt! minutes, but not totaled. In the Firs
 district, where there were three ma chimes the total vote fer the city Wal , officially announced by AfadeFatel . Harper at 8.15 o'clock, all the fsure
 having been footed by that tiRs. Fh'
 vete was taken eff the three machine
 in the district by 6.15 o'clock: Election Officials. 4a'1 Fhe following were the moGerators First district, DE Frank J. Harper ; Second district, Stephen F. Coffey | Third district, Michael ]. Curran ] Fourth district, John W. Dawson; Eft 5 district, Daniel Shea; Sixth district
 Elmer l.. Kingsley
 l The checkers and machine tender = were the following:
 l First District-Checkers Weston ( l | Pullen r, Earl k. Matheson d; ma 2 chine tenders. Albert A. Clark, Daxi g H. Wilson, Charles D. Greenman ] $ Joseph Callahan, William McGuinness ! Timothy Sullivan d.
 s Second District-Checkers William
 w Ives r, Thaddeus Leahy d ma e chine tenders, Walter R. Cowan, Fran H. Woodworth I, John Connolly d. : Third District-Checkers Albert (