The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-08
15,O00 Vote- AtWater Sure
 >Of Election

With 15,0o0 votes cast up to noon.
 the election of Fred Atwater as may
 or of Bridgeport was assured. The
 vote promises to be the heaviest ever
 boiled in a municipal election, and
 every indication points to an over
 whe1nling victory for the Democratic
 forces that will exceed even early
 predictions in his favor. Before the
 that close to 30,000 votes will have
 been cast. The women, while vot- ing steadily, were not very prominent
 during the morning but better results afternoon.
 There is every possibility and g
 strong probability that Atwater will
 carry his entire ticket along with
 him His own strength, as well as
 the individual strength of several can
 didates, insures practically an intact
 party vote, while he is favored with
 big odds by the split votes of Re-
 publicans.
 Democratic leaders and workers
 were jubiIant as the steady tide or
 of a Democratic mayor for the first time in ten years. An air Of surety and confidence in the ultimate re- suits was most prominent at the polls and the Defnocratic quarters. while in the Republican circles the outcome was more doubtful and far less eherfui.
 First District In the First district the voting was rather slow and only 594 had boiled their vote up to 11:2O this morning.
 Towards the noon hour, a heavier steram of men and women started pouring in and indicated that the vote would be unusually heavy. About one-thtrd of the vote was being cast by women.
 Second District. Nearly 45, per cent. of the registra- ton voted in the Second district be- fore 12 o'clock noon. Out of 1he
 24oo resisteread, 1oo4 vote votes nad I,ee1, peeh Third District.
 Women were most prominent In the voting in the Third up to noon- tirne In all, there were 79s cast be- ! fore 11:3O. When the workers met at the, polls at 5:30 il1is morning. four
 women were already in Mne aWaitins antas | These are believed to have been the ! first woes cast in todayes election, md fhe first for Atwater. Fourth District In the Fourth, 300 voted before 11:45: 275 were women. There are 819 women registered in this district,
 and the. full number are expected 10 vote before the polls close. Fifth District. Fred Atwater was one of the voters l in the Fifth District this morning. He 1 made his appearance about nine l o'clock, cheerful and happy. and con l adent that before the end of the day l he would be the new mayor-elect Of Bridgeport Mayor Wilson voted in 1 the Junior High School on Linwood I avenue about ten o'clock. In answer
 to questions of friends, he expressed | his confidence in remaining Mayor of l the city for his sixth consecutive term. In the first precinct, 9S0 of the 2,600 votes were cast before 11:S0. The
 women were not voting very heavily. l and only about 275 had pulled their l lever up to that time.
 In the second precinct, the voting was slower and only S36 ballots were cast before 11:30 o'clock. Sixth District. The heaviest vote of the morning was cast in the Sixth District where 211S votes were registered on the ma chimes, The women were voting. in fairly large numberS- In the First precinct, the polling was heaviest, and nearly 400 votes were cast there than in the Second precinct. Seventh District. - An even 1, ,000 votes were cast in the Seventh district up to 12:15 o'clock. The women in this district during the morning out-voted the men almost Eighth District The voting was heavy in the Eigth, | especially during the noon hour. At 12:30, 1.251 votes had been cast. A l slight disturbance caused by an over | anxious party worker was quickly quelled without difficulty. The man i was said to be interfering with the voters While nlan1p uIdlIDS the Ina | chimes.
 Ninth District 1 At 11:45 1905 votes had been reg istered in the Ninth. An incident 1 that was the subject of considerable | hunor in the district occurred when | the police found 1t necessary to eau 1 ton Lawrence J. Gill. prominent 1 Democrat and candidate to the Board l of Assessors, while he was instruct | ing a party of voters in the use of the l machine, Tenth District The voting was slow in the Tenth and only 6S9 votes had been cast up to 11:3o, but the indications were that during the noon hour the influx 1 of factory workers would bring the total up to the normal figure. Eleventh District The Eleventh district was another where the voting was light during the i morning. At Il o'clock 560 votes had been cast but this was increased to l nearly 800 during the noon hour. Twelfth District. A heavy vote was registered Tn l both precincts in the Twelfth. -es- pecialIy in the seoend precinct. 4 | total ef g.ea1 had voted up to il | oSeleak. ta4a of whom cast their vote T. the second precinct.