New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-14
'tals 30177 $50 1885
QUEENS
$50 Districts Missing)
4Jd Z
RICHMOND

AID. Curran Bennett Haskell Guardia
a a.. i 1914 80 80 SO SO s sss
Totals. 2545 es lat 7o2
of the 18th Assembly District. thirty
five woYnen having voted up to p. m.
and only twenty men.
The first ballot in the 9th Election
District of the 18th Assembly District
was cast by woman, Mrs. Margaret
Markendorf, who is seventy-seven
years old and who reached the polling
place twenty minutes ahead Of time, 80
as to be sure of getting the first ballot.
The next voter in line there was John
Burke, who is eighty-one years old.
From the first the. indications in
Manhattan led to the belief that
the lead. the women Republicans COM
ing out in force. In the various Little
Italics, where the banners of Mr.. La
Guardia were numerous, the early vote
was light, but after the O'Clock whistle
blew the polling places were busy and
it was figured that most of the Re-
publican votes in these sections went
to the President Of the Board Of Alder
men, who was on the Italian front in
the war.
Even in Brooklyn, where the polti
clans had expressed the frequent and
emphatic opinion that Judge Reuben
l.. Haskell would walk away from Mr..
Curran when the votes were counted,
the betting favored Mr.. Curran. AT
Fred Schumms on Fulton Street, long
in that borough, the odds we're two to
one that Curran would win and three
to one that he would beat Haskell.
Brooklyn Republican leaders were
inclined to think that La Guardia
would have an easy time of it in
Queens, because Of the large Italian
vote there and the difficulty of getting
out the independent Republican voters,
a large percentage of whom live in the
more remote and exclusive sections of
| the borough.
! Judge Haskell and his liautenants be-
trayed not the slightest uneasiness as
they took stations at his headquar-
ters at the closing of the polls, despite
the odds demanded by those placing
| their money on him in his own Dor
ough. His headquarters was on the
nineteenth floor CT the Hotel Commo-
dore. Although apparently confident
of success, Judge Haskell was reticent.
"Anything that might say now" he
said, would be merely of sentimental
nature, so why say anything"
Guard Against Fraud
Reports that fraud might be at
tempted in some of the districts caused
Jokn r. Voorhs, president of the Boa I'd
of Elections, to send requests to all
election officials to be especially vigil
liant to prevent any one except en-
rolled members of political parties
from casting ballots. He also request
ed the Police Department to see that
no violations of the election law took
place.
The Board of Elections met during
the day, but transacted only routine
business. 1t complied with request
of District Attorney Swami that a mar
of the 18th Assembly District be sent
him.
Commissioner Voorhis directed tn,
election officials in all the boroughs tx
have motor cars to take them to an!
point in their jurisdiction where dis
putes might arise.
In spite of the activity of the womer
voters in most parts OF the city, par
ticularly in the upper East Side dis
tricts, women of the lower East Side
regarded the primary with apathy, ap
parently. Not only was the carly vote
which in most parts Of the city wa
cast largely by women, extremely ligh
in the lower East Side, but when tn
polls closed it was reported that of 83
ballots cast in twelve election district
in that section of the city, only 90 wer
those of women.
At the polling place of the sth Elec
ton District of the I'd Assembly Dis
trict, Public School Z, Hester an
eft for In
just before the polls closed, when
citizen of Italian origin objected 70
ciferously on discovering that L
Guardia's name was not on tho Demo
cratic ballot.
Before election officials could ex
plain to him that La Guardia was no
seeking the Democratic nomination. an
that he himself had received a Demo
cratic ballot because he was enrolle
nant citizen had rushed to the Clinic
Street police station, whence he dis
patched several patrolmen to find on
what all the trouble was" The vote
himself did not return.
Women Outnumber Men
Women held the lead in the votin
throughout the Washington Heights dis
trict, it was said when the polls CLOSED
tnough the vote IN that part OF the CIT
was light. In proportion TO registrs
ton, 1t was said. more men being er
rolled than women, the women voter
outnumbered the men.
In the 18th Election District of tn
22d Assembly District only 1870 of So
enrolled voters cast ballots. Less tina
one-third of the 70S enrolled voters |
the 39th Election District of the 81.
Assembly District cast ballots yesterda,
Bronx County reported the heavie.
primary vote in years, due, it was sal
to interest in local contests and TO tn
big vote cast by women. Women vote
in equal strength with the men, it wa
said by district captains in the Bron
The polls were thronged throughout tn
'voting hours, but no disorder was re
p0rt1.