New-York tribune., 1913-11-05
FUSION SWEEP LIKELY
IN BOARD OF ESTIMATE
Vote Indicates Victory for All
Candidates Save Two Bor-
Ough Presidents.
CONTR0LLERSHIP A TARGET
Prendergast Has Hard Battle
with Metz-Anti- Tammany
Inroads Are Made All
Along the Line.

With tvo-thirds OF the returns in short
" before midnight last night. the division
Of the sixteen votes OF -, Board Of Es-
innate vas settled on tii!. basis: Fusion,
u: Tammnny. .
.iau~ice r. Connolly, who was re-eiect-
eJ Borough President Of Queens was ex-
pccte5 20 win Mccormack. Democrat,
from Richmond. furnished the surprise
ny defeating George Cromwell. Each of
these borough presidents has one vote.
Early in the evening the returns indi-
Gated that DR.. Thomas Darlington. Tam
many. would defeat Marcus VI. Marks for
Borough President of Manhattan. Marks,
however. in the gamest uphill battle of
the night caught and passed his Tam
many opponent. Early returns also indi-
Gated the defeat Of Controller Prendcr-
cast. but that fight also swung around
the other way. and Prendergast pulled
ont boy about 10000
The frst approximations of the Board
of Estimate makeup had a division Of
10 : in favor of Tammany but this was
figured on the proposition that Prender-
CAST and McAneny also, as we'll as Marks,
would be defeated
Pounds, Of Brooklyn. who has acted as
Borough President since Steers was made
a magistrate. was figured as winner
and made good. as did Mathewson, in
The Bronx Mitchell. with three votes
Prendergast and McAneny, with three
each: Pounds and Marks, with two each.
and Mathewson, with one, make UP the
fourteen fusion votes in the new Board
Of Estimate
Within the last ten years the fusion
members of the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment have been in control only
once. Four years ago the only anti
fusion members of the board were the
late Mayor Gaynor and Borough President
Gresser of Queens Gaynor's plurality
was 1906 and Gresser's 4,5j5.
Controller Prendergasts plurality was
1859 Mitchers plurality for President OF
the Board OF Aldermen was 1O3l; Bor-
ough President McAneny's, 25,o52; Bor-
ough President Millers, in The Bronx,
s09l; Borough President Steerss. In
Brooklyn. 26,2s2, and Borough President
Cromwell's. in Richmond, 332.
In 1905, when WINS. Mcclellan and
Hearst were the Mayoralty candidates,
McClelIan's plurality was S,iS5; Controller
Netz's 1929. McGowan's, for President OF
the Board of Aldermen. 5.922; Borough
President Ahearns. 26,651; :; Borough Presi-
dent Coler's, in Brooklyn, 1851; Borough
President Haffen's, in The Bronx. 5.ou;
Borough President Bermels. in queens
4l65. and Borough President Cromwelfs.
in Richmond, 405.
In 1903. also. Cromwell was elected Bor-
ough President in Richmond and was the
only fusion borough president on the
Board OF Estimate and Apportionment.
McClellan's plurality was 636lI. COntro!-
Ter Grout's 6s. 7sO President Fornes's OF
the Board Of Aldermen 64,9I3, Borough
President Ahearn's 1850, Borough Presi-
dent Haffen's 5.i93, Borough President
Littleton's. In Brooklyn, 2,l2s; Borough
President Cassidys, 1851. and Borough
President Cromwells, 1863.
Four years ago every borough except
Richmond gave Mitchell a substantial plu-
rality for President OF the Board of Al
dermen. In Manhattan and The Bronx he
got s.2Ol to GaIvin's 1876, 420; in Brooklyn,
l2l.sls to Galvin's 9O.914; in Queens, $3.50
10 Galvin's 1876. and in Richmond, IlSi
TO Galvin's 1921.
In the Board Of Estimate and Appor-
tionment the Mayor gets three votes;
the Controller. three; the President of the
Board Of Aldermen, three; the borough
presidents of Manhattan ana Of Brooklyn.
two each. and the borough presidents of
The Bronx, Queens and Richmond, one
each.