New Britain herald., 1916-11-02

1 terrible act, but will stick by him in his hour of misfortune. She is stay 1 ing at the home of her daughter on Main street.
 Garrity Quits School Board. Inability to attend to the duties of
 the position because of his absence from town, resulted last evening in the resignation of John E. Garrity as a member of the school board and caused the committee to defer indefi- nitely the election of officers for the ensuing year. MT. Garrity notified the board of his intention to quit and his resignation was accepted with regret.
 Since his election to the committee, MT. Garrity has gone to work in New Haven and while he maintains his residence here, he is out of town so much that he considers it advisable to have some one named in his place. His successor has not yet been chosen.
 The board has the authority to fill the vacancy and the selection of the democratic members will probably be accepted by their associates as has been the custom, MT. Clarity having been named by the minority party.
 Owing to the receipt of the resig- nation the board last evening con- fined itself to the transaction of rou- tine business, the members preferring to hold up the election of officers un- til MT. Garritys successor Is appoint ed
 Reports from Principal o. L. Judd indicated that satisfactory progress is being made at the school The teaching force is believed to be very efficient and is doing good work.
  really inadequate to accommodate the pupils with the com1ort desired, the distribution of the children In the various classrooms makes conditions fairly satisfactory and it will not be necessary to erect an addition or a new building this year. In another room will have to be provided if the town continues to grow at the present rate, and it is patent that the voters will before long be again confronted with the problem of school accommo- dations and the question of keeping the entire plant on Broad street or building district school house in the eastern section of the town.
 Pending the election of officers, which will probably take place at a special meeting to be called as soon as the vacancy on the committee is filled, Rev. R. H. Burton will con- tinue to act as chairman, A. l.. Rogers serving as secretary and financial agent.
 Six Vote in 55 Seconds.
 Experimenting with the new voting apparatus now on exhibition in the court room and which will be used in Tuesdays election, six men registered their votes last evening in f1fty-five seconds, using but one of the ma- chimes. Four of them "split' while two voted straight. The experiment was made of course without including the delay which will attend checking, etc., but it clearly demonstrated that voting can be accomplished with greater speed on the machine than with the Australian ballot and that the citizens will experience little trouble in regis tering their choice for officials if they take the trouble of visiting the Town hall for instructions
 The democratic town committee at 2. meeting last evening named A. H. Dresser to represent them at the dem- onstration today, Albert Sturgeon talk ing his place in the evening. Roland Hoerle served as the republican dem
  this evening until 9 o'clock, tomor- row from a. m. to 1 p. m. and m. to D. m. and on Saturday at the same hours
 Men who have tried the machines have expressed entire satisfaction with them. Leaders of the parties do not anticipate that much trouble will be had in splitting except perhaps on the vote for presidential electors. As the voter makes his choice for electors rather than for the president direct he will have to turn down the pointers over similar number of nanAes designated for such duty in case he splits on the national is sues. remaining with his party insofar as the selection of state officers is concerned.
 The democrats have secured a vot- ing machine dummy which they pro- pose to use in giving instructions from now until election day. The l will apparently be content l to rest on the demonstration given with the machines and the dummies 1 which are kept in the town build ing
 That there will be considerable 1 "splitting' here is the general expec- | tation as there are a number of re- 1 publicans, who though anxious to vote | for the reelection of Wilson intend 1 to register their preference for Hol- 1 comb over Beardsley in the guberna- torial contest, supporting Simpson for l representative in addition.
 Back to White Men
 Discouraged over the ineficiency of the negroes imported from the south to work as truckers at the transfer station officials of the railroad are making preparations to release the darkeys when they have completed their contracts, employing white men to take their places. Over a score of white men were put to work on the platform yesterday and it is the