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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24

we supply $50 printed ballots and seventy
five sample ballots (pink ballots). The lat
ter number may have TO be augmented for
the educative process referred to as needed
in certain districts.
This year there are three ballots handed
at the polling places to every voter. The
first, which is the ballot for Presidential
electors, is 19x20 inches: the second ballot
that for voting on the constitutional amend
ment and also for the bonus to the soldiers
is 12x12. and the third ballot showing the
names of Supreme Court candidates for
judgeship and Others is in size like the first,
1920.
Each of these ballots Is supplied to each
polling place to the number of $50: that
makes for each place $3.50 ballots. Every
voter gets three ballots and may vote for
President by a cross in the circle OF his party
emblem. Occasionally voter tries to split
his vote among the Presidential electors, but
this is a hopeless thing TO do The simple
cross under the emblem OF a party applies
only to the Presidential ballot. For the
amendment and bonus the words Eyes" or
mo" arc to he written in the square OPP
posite the wording OF the proposition.
There are nine names 10 be voted on in
the single division of Supreme Court Judges
on the third ballot. The voter is required to
put cross opposite the names he prefers
in each section of this ballot.
Spoiled Ballots Big Item.
These additional troubles Of voting are
specified in order to c0me to the question
of spoiled ballots. With three big ballots
and maximum OF candidates TO vote for Il
is certain that the inexperienced voter In
Guiding the new woman voter will have
trouble. 1t Is an open question still how
many spoiled ballots are to be allowed for
ain former Presidential elections tho vote
was generally found to be about 600. Allow
ance Is made this year for spelling about 25
per cent, extra allowance may be made. but
il Is safe to say that about $50 out Of $50
ballots will actually get by. Every voter IL
allowed 20 spoil several ballots before he
learns how ut to and in the impossible dis
tricts the number spoiled may rightly be
called excessive. But we know that up TO the
present the board is figuring on the old num-
Der, GOO.
I'VE deliver the ballots to the police sta
tions in each election district on the Sunday
before election and II then devolves on the
police to get them to the polls on the night
before election or early on that day before
the polls are opened to voters
"In addition TO the increased cost of get
ting out the ballots there have been various
minor difficulties but these we need not go
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
immigration Flood
Brings Few Servants
continnea from run Paoe.

apparel than was tho case In the days before
tho war. The fashions at Ellis Island, al
though they furnish less scope to the type
hunter are more up to date than they have
been since the station was established. This
condition shows that the war has had the
effect OF bringing all peoples together and
promoting not only uniformity In ideals and
customs, but has also had its effect on tho
sarb and the outward form.
Another broadening effect of the war may
be observed In the greater spirit of frater-
nifty and courtesy which now prevades Ellis
Island, for the newcomers do not seem so
strange and outlandish and like creatures
OF another world, as they have In other dec
AIDES. The present Commissioner, on his
coming TO the station, saw to Il that new
attitude In this respect was introduced, for
the days Of brief authority Wanted at the
expense OF the ordinary amenities OF life
have passed The new order of things pro
vdes that the immigrant shall be welcomed
as man and brother and the whole tone
of the station has been altered to conform
with that IDEAL Hence the new regime
meets the requirements OF this present ago
and welcomes those who are admitted at the
harbor gate, not as aliens. but as new
Americans.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
Many Women Workers.

"One-fourth of this number of persons are
women, and I am happy to say for their
credit that these women are doing very well
The majority of them take their duties very
seriously and they make a conscientious
Study of the law and their duties I'm refer
ence TO it.
There is every indication, borne out by
what have seen of these women accepted
for duty at the polls that woman suffrage is
going to benefit the commonwealth. | hope
ii may prove So and 1 am optimistic over
their entronce into politics. They have made
so promising a debut i'm Il that hope seems
to be we'll grounded. But the women must
stick to it-any volatility would defeat the
purpose Of equal suffrage, as would a relapse
to indifference. Women will make their inn
preston on our politics as they pay close at
tention to the qualities of candidates. fitting
them for public office. Both parties need
such supervision by these new voters and II
women will refuse their support 70 candi-
dates VIGOROUSLY unfit or whose chief party
merit Is the number OF votes they control.
they will be a happy accession to politics"
Between 100000 and $500, 900 will be the
actual cost Of getting the vote polled and
canvassed. This includes the cost OF bal
lots rent Of polling places, wages Of clerks,
&c, but rs a number of Items small in them
selves. but rather large in the aggregate,
can only be guessed at. for the present. the
larger amount is believed to be the more
nearly correct. Many of his comparisons
Commissioners voorhis preferred to make
between the election Of 1919 and the coming
election rather than with those of 1916. as
the former figures were more easily awaited
of He was willing, however to be quoted
as saying that the cost of the vote taking
would exceed any previous similar expense
by 100000.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
Girl Proves Heroine
In Stricken Village

TRIENDS of Miss Helen Alderman are
r. urging recognition in the form of a
Carnegie medal, Of the heroic SER
vices by which she saved many lives when
Northern New York was stricken last winter
with an epidemic of influenza.
Miss Alderman, slender girl of 81, is the
district school teacher at Oak Point. a ham
let six miles from the nearest railroad. Her
school was closed when influenza broke out
and she was told she could take vacation.
Instead Of taking the opportunity to enjoy
a holiday, however, she plunged into the
work which proved her heroine
Hearing that every family in the nearby
town of Hammond had been stricken by in
fluenza Miss Alderman FASTENED there to aid
the sufferers Going from house to house
she nursed them unaided and beyond doubt
was the means OF saving many from death
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
EW YORK CITY has TO pay>another
big bill pretty soon; it's the bill for

h TEW YORK CITY has to pay~another
NJ Dig bill pretty soon; it's the bill for
the election that will occur on No
venber 2. The costs to the city will give
an approximate idea Of the costs to the coun-
try, and these, 1t is safe to say, will run as
tonshingly high.
But why should anybody show or feel as
constituent. BY this time, after a long period
Of getting used to nigh prices. the blessed
taxpayer ought to be Injured to the practice
OF putting his hand in his pocket-and
emptyingit. He has become wryly accus-
toned to expanding Just a little more than
100 per cent. increase over pre-war prices
for his food, for his clothes, for his shoes.
Tor In fine, everything This forced expert
ence, unpleasant although it may have been.
will fortify him to read that the expense of
electing President i'm 1916 will be doubled
in the present year OF grace
Whichever candidate receives the electoral
vote that is to promise him a tenancy of
four years of the White House may prepare
to enjoy among other distinctions that of
being the highest priced President Gin the
restricted money sense) ever elected
Cost of Ballots, for Instance.
To take a big item to be charged nm
against tne city, the ballots there Is found
at once an increase which will prevent a
critic from calling the statements lust made
misleading ard exaggerated The figures
which show that these essentials of ponu-
lar election are actually to double those NJ
1916 were furnished by the Martin r. Brown
Printing and Binding Company who have
the contract to supply the ballots and who
had 1t four years ago. to go back no further
In that Presidential year. when the world
war had already been waging for two vears
with economic results apparent even among
neutral nations, OF which we were then one
this house supplied by the terms of It's con,
tract 100000 ballots for the use Of tho
voters in New York.
For the coming election II will sunni,.
e5OO,0OO ballots. The cost of these ballet
to the city is s21S,O0O.
involved In this amount of money said
an officer Of the company, us the Increased
cost of paper, Of printing, OF labor and everv
detail Of production. To say that each OF
these items has approximately doubled Is an
accurate statement.
I'VE follow, Of course, the figures OF regis
tration as reported In the orders we receive
from the Board Of Election. According to
these orders we furnish each election district
the required number Of ballots. The fir-
ures are not yet completed.
"As 1t stands now we are to supply 2s5O
election districts Some Of these districts
particularly in the neighborhoods where for
eisners are in the majority, may be divided
This Is done because a certain amount OF
education in the use of the ballot Is still
necessary to DO carried out there.
For each Of the 1850 election districts
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
Ballots Doubled in Price and Twice as Many
Have to Be Used---More Election Officials
Needed Because of Suffrage

into, as. after all, they DO not figure in the
cost OF the ballots. And you may well re-
peat that this cost this election is double
that of 1916"
Commissioner John r voorhis Of the
Board of Elections said that from various
increases, beginning with the additional num-
Der of polling places due to excessive regis
tration as the greatest item, the cost ia the
city in the actual handling of the vote will
exceed that of the pr vious Presidential
election by round numbers amounting to
100000
There are required 1872 more polling
places than in 1919. The rent for those we
have used before has gone up 10 per cent
For shop or room for which we paid for
merly $40 we are now obliged to pay $50.
I'VE use no more school houses and com
munity rooms this year than we did in 1919
where the locality Of districts remains UNI
changed.
-Four years ago there we're eight election
officers to each polling place; now there are
twelve. There has been no increase in the
compensation paid for these services, some-
what to my regret, at least in the case OF
the clerks who spend half the night in can
wasting the ballot. IL IS the general Inn
preston that they should have an increase.
But no provision has as yet been made for
this increase"
Commissioner Voorhis said that the at
tempt TO increase the pay of these workers
from SO TO $40 had been defeated because
bound up in n bill 70 give all clerks Of any
class at the polls increased pay. The pas
sage OF this bill cntailed an additional cleo
ton expense OF a quarter OF a million. dol
lars. Because of this and the belief Of the
Governor that election officers were fairly
we'll paid the bill was vetoed.
ut was hoped that at the recently held
special session Of the Legislature these cam
wasting clerks would be afforded the relief
asked. But as the subject did not figure in
the call for the session It could not be pre-
scented II Is hoped that it may be at the
next legislative session.
at present the additional election ex-
pense created two years ago remains fixed
Four canvassers for each polling place are
called for each receiving SO fpr his work
Every polling place therefore, costs in can
vassers s24 and as there are 2,610 OF them
this year the total item Is the tidy sum OF
$50 $40"
Absentee Voting.
Tho provisions that are to be made for abb
sentee voting. said the Commissioner. will
run up into thousands of dollars These have
to be made for the first time this coming
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24
Absentee Voting.

Tho provisions that are to be made for abb
sentee voting. said the Commissioner. will
run up into thousands OF dollars These have
to be made for the first time this coming
election. The items of this add tional ex-
The Washington times., 1920-01-18

The dim light filed the cavern, coming doubt from
assures in its roof, opening out to the sky. AS they
gazed upon this strange scene something that looked first
like horses head broke through the surface few
hundred yards away from them 1t raised itself upon
a strong and serpentke neck until the head lowered a
full twenty feet above the water They caught the geam
of saucerke phosphorescent Then there appeared
huge smooth and glstening body and incredibly long
and powerful tail that tapered sharply fully forty feet
away from where it joined the body
For instant the explorers were too paralyzed by
astonishment to The creature seemed to look
them curiously but with inclination to attack
Before they could recover from the shock of the ap
partition the great shape had sunk out of sight
The explorers lost time in getting back to the swamp
Their guns they knew useless against so huge
bulk worse than useless indeed if the creature did be-
long, they believed to the dinosaurs For small and
hidden the vital organs of these creatures that they
could be literally torn to pieces before life was extinct
Besides, there was purpose in killing it, Better to
return to civilization and back properly equipped
it. dead alive for science Before they left
the marsh they found evidence that the beast they had
not alone-tha there was at least one other
smaller one, and perhaps many more.
So much for the story of Capelle and Lepage, ac
cepted by scientists fact except the denhcaton OF
the thing brontosaur. And yet 1t cannot
be denied that the surroundings described by the
Belgans offer ideal place for the survival OF some
form Of the great herbvorous dinosaurs These sauran
know were easy victims despite their enormous szc
for the smaller carnvorous dinosaurs which lived in their
day. In the fossils of Montana have many records OF
their tragedies The things that sought the huge lizards
out for food have given way Africa to other carnores
the on the tiger, the panther These are all members
of the feline tribes and have the cats dislike for getting
wet In the semdarkness of the suberranean lakes veg
citation eating forms could dwell secure from attack ven
turing out into the swamp with an equal measure OF
safety 1t is possible, too that other 1eedmg grouno
might exist further in the cavens other swamps hidden
among the almost inaccessible peaks, as well as whole
system of suberranean lakes and streams Of which the
morass of footprints formed only one OF many outlets
The Washington times., 1920-01-18

days and weeks they had passed through almost mpene
trabe Jungle making days as little as two mes
of progress They had gone through forests so dense ana
so interviewer with creepers and vines that at times al
though it broad daylight, they moved In SEMI
darkness
1t appears that they out of this forest upon
great morass This marsh, perhaps ten miles IN extent
was covered with lush and high semi-aqueous vege'
taon and bordered by lofty, almost perpendicular
cliffs. The explorers pitched their camp upon slope
between jungle and bog and then set forth on scout
ing expedition, skrting the morass.
They had not gone far when they halted in ncredulous
amazement Before them plainly printed in the soft mud
was footprint. But Robinson Crusoe never gazed with
any astonishment at the famous track upon the
sands of his island than did these two at the there
fully four feet at its widest and sunk deep though
some prodigous weight had borne upon it. And there
could be doubt that this footprint, for beyond
it stretching toward of the cliffs, was success
sion Of there deep ndentaons Whatever creature had
set its mark there had crept from the marsh and made
its not long before along the path that they were
travelling
The Washington times., 1920-01-18

What conceivable animal was huge enough to leave
such trailf
The Belgans are brave They followed the tracks
until they anged and swept back into the fen.
Unwilling to abandon the pursuit, the pair Kept on
along the swampy shore until they reached the very foot
Of of the cliffs Examining this they saw not far
away opening like tunnel mouth partly screened by
vegetation The aspect of the Sides the torn weeds and
crushed debris showed them that they had reached the
lair Of the thing they had been following.
They waded the marshy strip, moving sometimes
in water up their waists, and entered. They found
themselves in a wide hgh-roofed passage. II was not
entirely dark; faint light gmmered through IT. Inc
water was clear and about three feet depth Through
this the explorers waded The floor Of the tunnel
gradually and the roof rapidly grew higher by
the aid Of their electric torch they were able to guard
against any dangerous msseps They pursued their way
through this tunnel for perhaps quarter OF mile
sudden turn brought them out shelf OF rock over
which not than couple Of inches OF water was
flowing and they looked upon what clearly subter-
ranean lake. It's size they could not determine for no
walls Of the cave it occupied were visible.
The Washington times., 1920-01-18

saurs whose remains have been found only in America
The brontosaur had neck twenty feet long, huge,
barrellke body, and tail forty feet long, ending in
inordnately elongated whiplash. 1t fed upon water
vegetation and probably fishes If the African mystery
out to be really survivor of the dinosaurs it must
be- science says bigger brother Of the brontosaur called
the gigantosaur This tremendous animal just double
the size of the bronosauhs neck forty feet long, his
body occupying another forty feet and his tail stretching
out eighty feet behind him. His remains have been
found in the country where the explorers made their dis
covery He lived in much the way his American
relative
Upon thing, however, all scientists agree-that
the locale and environment of whatever it that
Capelle and Lepage stumbled upon about the only
kind that these giant sauans could persist wthin-and
equally just the kind of place in which new species SIM
liar in their habits to the prmeval giants might develop
But aside from the purely scientific aspect there is
most unusual atmosphere Of mystery and perous adven
ture about the whole matter According to the story OF
Captains Capee and Lepage they had reached the very
heart Of the Belgian Congo, which takes in vast region
the most Of it wholly unknown in equatorial Africa For
The Washington times., 1920-01-18
By DR.. w. H. Ballou.

T CHEMISTS interested they have not been
for years in the cabled reports from London that
English expedition has set forth for the Belgian
Congo to discover and if possible to secure specimen
Of huge, unknown reptian creatures whose discovery
was the subject of crcumsantial reports by Captains
Capee and Lepage, explorers connected with the Bel
gian Governments Congo expedition in 1913.
Capele and Lepage, who trained and responsible
Observers believed that they had stumbled upon sur
vivors of the gigantic lizards called bronosaurs which,
millions of years ago. about in the lakes and shall
low inland of what is the northwestern United
Sates-but in this science does agree. 1t does not
think it probable that these huge creatures OF at least five
million years ago could possibly have survived it does
believe that the explorers huge and hitherto
unknown animal which has accomplished its development
into gantsm among the hidden and favored surround
ings in which the explorers report they saw it.
Whether what they beheld was actually relic OF
the great saurians or later species of immense
tile does not really matter Either would be of equal in
The Washington times., 1920-01-18

Photograph
of the
naked
Congo
cannibals
in the
unexplored
wilderness
of the
Belgian
Congo
The Washington times., 1920-01-18

tereSt. For DOtn the discovery VI sPecAeS
thought extinct and species hitherto unknown
and especially those of the reported size, arouse
more enthusiasm than the discovery of new
planet-probably because, to put it colloquially,
the fact strikes us as nearer home.
1t is known that expeditions to follow on the
trail of the Belgians were in the course of prep
aration in England, France and the United
States, when the war suddenly put quietus to
all such research. But when it leaked out few
weeks ago that an English expedition, under the
charge of Captain Lester Stevens, one Of the
best-known British explorers, was on its way to
the Congo, financed by several famous British
scientific associations, to secure if possible, one
of these great creatures it was also recalled that
an expedition sent out by the Smithsonian 1nsti-
tuition at Washington, under the direction of
Edward Heller, who was. the pilot of the Roose-
welt African expedition Of 1909-10, was already
on its way to the same field
' And although the Smithsonian will not ad-
nit that one of the purposes of the party is to
investigate the story of Capelle and Lepage,
London reports persistently repeat that such is
its main aim If so, Captain Stevens s exped-
tion has at least an even chance with the Amer
ican, because railroad wreck late in Decem-
Der caused in South Africa the death of two of
the Smithsonian party and so injured many of
the others that it will be month before they
can start afresh, and by that time Captain
Stevens will be on the field.
Scientists discussing the matter are as one
in DENYING that the creatures could be bronto-
Evening journal., 1920-12-07

NEW YORK, N. Y, madison Skware
Gardin). Dec. You rite 4 ast me
for the Inside dope on the Benny
Leonard & Joe WeAing fight the
bum scale & how Joe got dizzy IN
the gardin in the t4th I'd.
will unload here to the fans q
wash my brest clean OF the bare facts
wloh was said TO me by the janftor
OF the gsrdin, who was by the scales
when Joe & Ben clum on 'em.
Now aint afraid no body viii De
scared OF the scandal, or amt akews-
ins no body, but the janitor says on
hand to me-'Andy. } comes down
from home 10 sweep out the gardin
& leafs my lunch on the scale q When
/ comes back from a walk in the gar
din finds a gang OF pewgllsts pu-
motors who was argeWing the scals
was the bunk.
& 1 Of the pumoters was down n
the heart. 1 could see he was saying
like a merchant OF Venus in his Mon
day lanwage he VIII have TO pay tOOle
berries for a pd. OF meat & another
guy with all his clothes OF who got
a name like q clock called Ben was
saying sumbOdy was giving his the
rawsberry.
& 80 / picked up my lunch freao
Evening journal., 1920-12-07

offln the scale & goes into the gardin-
& jus when the fighters & pumo-
tors was a-goin TO leave the gardtn
Joe who amt got no clothes on clums
on the scale agin & was surprised by
the scale when he sees IL fooled him
the tst time & then Ben gets on same
& his mgr. & friend Bill Gibson WI q
was TO pay 10000 berrfs for 8 ham
sandwiches, a hunk OF gooseberry pie
& sum home made bisscuts, raps up
his hole again.
Now see the nght In the gardip
here & and the roomer was sent out
the battler Joe was slipped the X. O.
in the i4th I'd. Now the bird wit sold
the card boards to the fans Gays he
told Joe before the fight that he tue
hired 2 wagons 10 haul away the cash
& he says Joe was out OF order from
then on.
The fans threwout the country who
wasn't customers & herd about fight
& bum scale will be surprised when
they hears me say tha the gardin
amt no gardin. was looking fc the
jap lanterns & gold fish & palms, but.
they must OF taken EN- down.
/ was passed up by the pop boys
most OF the time who was handing
out the bottles to the fans & so L
walks over TO the ring and Crunk
from a bottle in a pail OF water with
sponge which wash my hands
with at the same time & uses a swell
towel hanging on the ropes.
Me & the fans wuz treated f1ne-jus
like home.