New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-04
District Attorney Marks
Ballot in 2 Minutes
Gives Clerks Cigars.
GLYNN LEFT CITY AT
| O'CLOCK FOR ALBANY
Sulzer at Poll Before Noon
Mitchell Admits Voting for
% Miss Davis.


clerks in the polling places came be-
fore > o'clock in the afternoon, for
from o'clock in the morning until
shortly after the noon hour, each poll
waiting 70 mark their ballots and
hustle of 10 day OF pleasure.
The new form Of ballot required
about two minutes for the split ticket
men 20 mark that is in the districts
where the so-cslled intelligent voters
i've
An odd feature Of the day was that
though there we're many arrests there
was little Sighting, such as character
izes Election Day IN the unpublished
quarters Of the city. And the majority
Of persons arrested on charge of
voting illegally were turned cut in
court.
Mr. Whitman was She first OF the
two leading candidates 10 cast his bal
lot. He voted al 1852 ?. n. a. Alp
Fourth avj He was accompanied 10
the polling place BY George l.. Gcnung,
Republican captain Of the district. Re
fore he entered he posed for moving
picture cameras. Two minutes were
consumed by him in marking his bal
lot. After he he'd voted he presented
n box Of cigars 20 the clerks.
When he was asked his plans for the
remainder OF the day, Mr. Whitman
said:
81 intend to remain at home all day;
If something requires my official al
tention | shall. Of course. get right on
the Job, FOR ! am still District Attor-
new"
Governor Glynn left for Albany at l
o'clock yesterday afternoon. To re-
porters who saw him at the railroad
station here. he remarked facetiously;
"I'll get TO Albany in time TO vote
several times "
"Glynn Poor Third"-SuIzer.
William Sulzer voted before noon
at p West 18th st. He said Glynn
didn't stand a chance.
at lies betweea Mr.. Whitman and
me- he said. "Glynu will be a poor
third"
Mayor Mitchell voted at 12:37, on
9sth ST.. between West End av. and
Broadway. Somebody asked him how
he had voted. lie replied:
IN tell you this much. ! voted
for Commissioner Katharine Bement
Davis for constitutional delegate on
the Progressive ticket. ! hope she
will be elected"
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt voted
at Oyster Bay about II o'clock His
ballot was numbered 1l6. As he
reached the polling place the Progress
sive chief was met By Robert Duval,
Progressive leader. 80 20 speak. Of
Oyster Bay. The Colonel fingered at
the polling place until James Lee, his
coachman, and his TWO gardeners had
cast their ballots.
After former Senator Chauncev NJ.
Depew had voted at 934 Sixth av..
where John y. Rockefeller, ir., later
voted. he said he had never had any
Goubt that the whole Republican state
ticket would win. Ny. Rockefeller
who reached the polls just before
closing timc, would not give any
definite indication Of how he had
voted lie had given so much thought
70 the European war, he said, that he
had had little time TO consider the
progress OF the political campaign.
Henry Clews cast his ballot at the
same polling place used by Mr.. Rookie
Teller and Senator Depew. Mr.. Clews
is p Whitman man.
Central Park Vote Cast.
No Election Day story is complete
VI
Park. where there are two voters-MaX
Boehm. proprietor Of McGown's Pass
Tavern. and his son. Bert rand. The
elder Boehm voted at 9 o'clock. The
vote was complete in that district by
.g:l0. Four inspectors. ballot clerk.
q poll clerk and two policemen were
on hand there all day, and the polls
were not closed until > p. m.
Yesterday was the quotes. first
Tuesday after the first MONDAY in No
vember that j. K. Noorhis, State Super
intendent of Elections, had ever 50.
He had 300 deputies on duty at the
polls, but they, reporting constantly.
said they had very little york to do.
The watchers at the polls, consider
ing the unusually heavy vote, were no
very busy. so the fact that the Pro-
gressive watchers were less numerous
than those from the Republican and
Democratic parties did not prove
handicap.
twenty-five Students Arrested.
The most striking OF tie arrests was
that of twenty-five Columbus students,
who were arraigned before Magistrate
deuel., in the Harlem court, on sum-
monses ISSUED OIL Monday or the com
] paint VI ann Asoi NM VI NiA' ~
torney Generals Office. He said that
these students were guilty of Illegal
! registration. in that Columbia Uni
versty is not a place OF stay. Larkin
did not appear in court, so the cases
were put over until to-day.
Following that proceeding, nine o.
the students were arrested when they
attempted TO vote at 1922 Amsterdam
av. 1t was alleged that they had when
registering. neglected to say thcy were
students. Magistrate Deuel. discharged
the nine prisoners.
Royal X Fuller, secretary Of the
State Department Of Highways. was
arrested after he had voted at 400
Sixth av. A watcher. challenging Mr..
Fuller's vote, said that Mr.. Fuller he'd
registered from the Hotel McAlpin and
that he did not live there. Mr.. Fuller
when arragned in the Yorkville cour.
said his business kept him on the jumn
between Albany and New York. and
that he had considered the McAlpin
his home for the last gear. Nagistratc
McQuade discharged Inn.
Henry Park. who is fireman in
Public School 3. at $50 Hudson st.
where he lives, was arrested on the
COMPLAINT Of a watcher. who SAID tina;
the iauitor Of that school had voted
from tina: address. and that John II.
Finley. State Commissioner OF Educa-
ton. had ruled that not more than one
MAJ shall vote from a public school.
Park was discharged and permitted 20
vote.
Joseph Klein, scveHty-one. and sam
uel I7aacs. twentv-e'ght. both reg
istered from III Columbia ST., were ar
rested, because J. Fellenfeld. OF that
address. said that though he has been
living there for fro vears he Gocsh't