New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-05
DAY QUIET;
ONLY 56 ARRESTS MADE
Few of the Warrants Issued
Were Served, and Most
Prisoners Were Freed.
DISTURBANCES NOT MANY
Columbia Students, Arrested by
Tammany Orders, Are Dis
charged at Once
Sulzer Speaks.

Following perhaps the most bitter mu-
nicinal campaign in its history. New York
passed yesterday its quietest Eiectioh
Day. as well as one of its busiest Inc
Honest Ballot Association reported a to'ai
of fifty-six arrests for Illegal voting q
remarkably small number, and yet an un-
usually heavy vote had been recorded IN
all the boroughs to attest the Keen inter-
est taken in the contest by all citizens.
OF the 400 or more warrants Issued by
magistrates only five or six were exc
cuted and of the 40 bench warrants is
sued after indictments had been found
only eight were executed. or the eight
men who were arraigned In General SEES
sions before Judges Rosalsky and cram
only two were he'd. The others were dis
charged. their indictment, being due to
mistakes In addresses
In Manhattan at either end of the
island slight disturbances developed. but
very slight when 1t is considered how
high the feeling ran in several of the AS
sembly districts In the I'd Assembly Dis
trict. TON" Foleys bailiwick, the Dris-
coll brothers, Gene" and "Clem," were
mussed up a bit by Foley henchmen,
members of the Chick" Thicker gang. II
is charged
Students Arrested and Freed.
In Amsterdam avenue. near Columbia
University about the same time Tam
many captain had six students arrested
for trying to vote, contending that they
had not established legal residence In
the city. Magistrate Campbell discharged
all and lectured the captain. The stu
dent watchers here caused complaints to
be made TO the Superintendent OF Elec-
tons. who had 10 send two inspectors up
at different times to instruct them In the
art Of challenging.
The Same Old Bill" Sulzer stirred UP
lot OF noise. but did not otherwise dis
turb the peace in the 9Th Assembly Dis
trict by driving from polling place TO poll
ing place making speeches.
Superintendent Voorhis said in the af-
ternoon that an unusually heavy vote had
been cast all over the city by 10 o'clock.
At o'clock in the afternoon, two hours
before the closing of the polls, he esti-
mated that three-quarters Of the vote
had been cast. Another estimate he made
was that 90 per cent of all the voters reg
istered would have recorded their votes
by o'clock. The Superintendent. who Is
ninety years old, voted at s o'clock, the
ballot being No. 81 in the 18th Election
District of the 9Th Assembly District.
The only complaint he received was
over the telephone to his home at $50
O'Clock IN the morning. that the volun-
teer student watchers in the 18th Election
District OF the 18th Assembly District
were challenging almost every Tammany
voter and putting them through such a
catechism that they were holding up the
whole line of voters. Superintendent
Voorhis instructed his Office 10 send an
inspector there to instruct the watchers
in their duties.
This was done and things went along
smoothly until about 10 o'clock, when
their zeal overcame the students once
more. The Superintendent sent another
inspector up at that time to stay there.
the result being that he heard no more
from that district.