New-York tribune., 1922-10-15
Heavy Decrease
In Registration
In 5 Boroughs
Leaders of Both Parties Dis
appointed at Lack of In
terest Shown on Closing
Day; No Last Hour Rush
Ten McGintys in a Row
Whole Family swoops Down.
on Sornnolent Board;
They Will Vote as a Unit

Despite predictions of last minute
rush on the part of registrants for the
coming election, the total figures for
the tive boroughs show heavy de-
crease from those of year ago. Yes
terday was the heaviest day, but the
registration did not come up to the ex-
pectatzons of leaders of both political
parties. An even gfeater contrast was
noted in the comparison of figures with
those of the last Presidential cam
paign.
Registration in the Bronx was heavy
last night. John Buergoyne, chief
clerk of the Bronx board of elections,
said that the work had been slowed up
considerably by the literacy tests, which
had been source OF much annoyance
to registration clerks and inspectors.
The work of inspectors generally
throughout the city was facilitated by
the large number of married couples
who came to. the booths together, en-
failing less work by the recording Of
ficials in checking addresses.
Ten McGintys Register
The clerks at the barber shop regi-
stration place on Amsterdam Avenue,
between 163d and 164th streets, were
yawning yesterday until the McGinty
family showed up. There were ten Of
them. First came John McGinty, war;
rant officer, attached to the Washing
ton Heights court and record Of
thirty-three years in the Police De-
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469 West 163d Street. With him were
his wife, four sons, two daughters, a
son-in-law and daughter-in-law. Nc
Ginty said the family would vote@as a
unit.
In Charles F. Murphy's home district
the registration wassso light that Tam
many leaders felt some alarm. In the
18th Election District of the 18th AS
sembly District, where Murphy votes,
the registration fell far below the 420
recorded last year.
There was little trouble during the
day. One arrest was made in. the 18th
Assembly District at the registration
place at 1851 Lexington Avenue when
August Gerber, Socialist candidate for
the. Assembly, engaged in dispute
with Louis Cohen, chairman of the
board sitting there.
Socialist Not Prosecuted
The argument concerned the liter
acy test, and Gerber, it is alleged, be-
came so boisterous in his contentious
that Cohen asserted he was creating
disturbance. Gerber. the board chair
nan said, invited arrest, and Cohen
finally called policeman, who took
Gerber to the East 1O4th Street sta
tionjon charge of disorderly conduct.
The candidate later was taken before
Magistrate Levine in Harlem Court,
but Cohen said he had no desire to
press charges, so the complaint was
dismissed.
There was little evidence of unusual
enthusiasm or rush when the regis
tration places opened in the morn
ing of the last day in which citizens
could enroll in order to vote in Novem-
Der. During the morning the regis
trants we're for the most part women,
the men fling in, not in great num-
bers, after p. m.
The lack of interest was a surprise
to political leaders, who expected big
registration because of the battle that
is being waged between Governor
Miller and former Governor Smith