The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-02
Voting Begins Early
In All Parts Of City

Piety Hill got up before breakfast
and hustled to the polls TO vote this
morning.
SO did the good residence dis.
tricts east and west Of Piety Hill.
Through q strip Of the best resi-.
dence districts about In the center
OF the First, Second. Fourth. Sixth
and Eighth wards. the story was the
same. an extraordinary heavy reg
istration yesterday and an abnorm-
ally heavy vote early this morning.
All through this district the pre-
diction of watchers st the polls was
that the count would show heavy
majorities against the street car
purchase proposition.
On thing is certain, though.
Whether the Vote is for or against
the proposition II will be vote
heavy enough to be taken as legiti-
mate expression Of the will Of the
people.
And 1t will be too heavy a vote
for anybody to steal.
One significant little story Is told
in the booth Of the sixth precinct
of the Fourth ward. During regis
tratiIn hours, Monday. II young
men. all between 22 and "a years
Of age, offered themselves for reg.
istration from the same residence.
Finally one OF the registrars got
curious. and asked one Of the lads
what u meant. The explanation was
simple. The young men had .
boarding club. They had hired q
house. hired servants and were
splitting all the expenses. All were
bright clean young chaps, most Of
them bank clerks. and this was the
nrSt chance they had had to vote.
The election official's curiosity got
the better Of him and he asked the
lad how he and his chums felt on
the street car purchase.
I'VE are registering 30 a. to be
able to get out and vote NO on that
scheme" was the instant .repl-.
This sixth district Of tho Fourth
ward II only few blocks from the
news stand at Third and Calumet.
where the vote was 81, to against
the proposition In the Times straw
vote. The indication Of the straw
vote IL confirmed today In al the
gossip around the polling booths OF
that neishborhood.
In the NTH district Of the Second
ward there were 10 votes cast In
the hrst II minutes after the polls
opened. This IL q big precinct, with
q double polling place. and the rate
they came during the afst hour pre-
sases . very heavy vote before the
day 10 done.
The next precinct north only
showed i've In the Arst Is minutes.
But the seventh district OF the
Fourth ward pollsd II In the fiSst
Is minutss. There we're lsS new
voters Registered In this precinct
yesterday. The sixth Of the Fourth
pollsd 10 IN the lrst half hour. Here
there were Its new registrations
yesterday. In the NTH precinct o.
the Fourth ward IL had voted In
the nrst hGlf.hour. This district had
. larger percentage q men who 20
TO work early than the ones TO the
north or east. though. and . heavy
vote IL expected during the after.
noon and evening. There were $50
new registrations in this precinct
yesterday. Ss
The slxth precinct Of the Sixth
ward polled 10 In the Arst 70 min
utes OF voting. Of whom two were
women. The poll books were In
creased ~ 50 Ren and 20 women In
this precinct yesterday.
One . minute was the rate IN the
seventh precinct Of the Eighth ward.
- votes being cast In the first ~
minutes. Two Of the voters were
wontsn. There are so women regis.
tered altogether IN this precinct. ~
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