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
.i3tration yesterday and an abnorm
ally heavy vote early this morning
All through this district the pre-
diction of watchers at the polls WAS
that the count would show heavy
majorities against the street car
purchase proposition.
On thing IL certain, though.
Whether the vote is for or against
the proposition it will be a vote
heavy enough to be taken as legiti.
mate expression OF the will of the
people.
And II 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
tratiln hours, Monday. IL young
men. all between 90 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 1t meant. The explanation was
simple. The young men had a
boarding club. They had hired a
house, hired servants and were
splitting all the expenses. All were
bright clean young chaps, most OF
them bank clerks. and. this was the
,rst chance they had bad to vote,
The election officials 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 so as to be
able to get out and vote No OH that
scheme" was the instant reply.
This sixth district Of the Fourth
ward is only a few blocks from the
news stand at Third and Calumet
where the vote was "a to against
the proposition in the Times straw
vote. The indication Of the straw
vote is confirmed today in all the
gossip around the polling booths OF
that neighborhood.
In the nth district of the Second
ward there were IS votes cast In
the first II minutes after the polls
opened. This is big precinct, with
double polling place. and the rate
they came during the first hour pre-
sages n very heavy vote before the
day IL done.
The next precinct north only
showed five In the first 15 minutes.
But the seventh district of the
Fourth ward polled 81 in the first
Is minutes. There we're 165 new
voters registered In this precinct
yesterday. The sixth Of the Fourth
polled IS IL the first half hour. Here
there were l75 new registrations
yesterday. In the NTH precinct OF
the Fourth ward IL had voted In
the first halfhour. This district had
a larger percentage Of men who go
to work early than the ones to the
north or east, though. and q heavy
vote Is expected during the after
noon and evening. There were ESQ
new registrations in this precinct
yesterday.
The sixth precinct OF the Sixth
ward polled 10 In the FIRST 30 min
utes. of voting, OF whom two were
women. The poll books were in
creased by 60 men and 20 women In
this precinct yesterday.
One a minute Was the rate in the
seventh precinct Of the Eighth ward.
43 votes being cast In the FIRST ~
minutes. Two of the voters we're
women There are go women regis
tered altogether in this precinct. "a
Ut them regist e.ing yesterday.
b the east side wards, the early