The New York herald., 1922-11-08
VOTING STILL GREEK
FOR LOTS OF WOMEN
Rude Men Laugh at Prohi-
bition Candidates Big
Mistake.
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CHILDREN GO ALONG
Youngsters Have Good
Time While Mothers Per-
form Civic Duty.
CLERKS BECOME POLITE
They No Longer Sit at Tables
Wearing Their Hats
Importantly.

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Prohibition lost its only vote in one
OF the election districts yesterday be-
cause woman candidate for the AS
sembly on the ''anti' ticket had for
gotten 10 register. No one was more
who is Miss Ida W. Brown. Miss
Brown longed to be sent to Albany by
constituents opposed to the sale Of
liquor. In the Forty-first election dis
trict OF the Fourteenth Assembly dis
trtct. which placed her name on the
ballot, Miss Brown Is the only active
adherent of the Prohibition party.
With hope and determination in her
heart she stepped forth early in the
day to cast vote for Miss Brown, the
Prohibition candidate, it is supposed.
Arrived at the polling booth she dis
covered that her vote wasn't worth
recording for the reason that voting
at the primaries doesn't constitute Off
cial party registration. To her pro-
test one OF the clerks asked, Didn't
you know that?"
And the Men Laughed.
Miss Brown admitted that she couldn't
understand even then why she wasn't
permitted TO mark crosses on a ballot
and drop !. into the ballot box.
''Can you Imagine thing like that?"
demanded a big policeman on guard at
the door. shes lost the only Prohibi-
tion vote in the whole district and
maybe the only one for Ida w. Brown.
We should worry" Whereupon the DEM
ocratic and the Republican leaders shook
hands over the episode and peals OF
laughter followed the retreating figure
OF the Prohibition candidate.
The feminine voters~were out early to
cast their ballots. Those with families.
no matter how large they were. took
the children along. If the youngsters
were too small to be left outside the
polling place they were carried right in
side. and sometimes deposited on the
table where the clerks had their books.
In the Twelfth Assembly district. where
little folk seemed especially numerous,
mothers voted in a kindergarten. The
children felt quite at home and amused
themselves looking at the pictures on
the blackboard while mother marked her
ballot. IA
Pushcarts, tin rattles and red fire
were on the days program on the East
Side. District leaders had provided piles
OF rattles to amuse the babies while
mother performed her civic duty.
Men Grow Polite.
Where the Czechs and the Italians and
other foreign born citizens vote, II was
noticed that for the first time at an
election many women went to the polls
hatless and wearing earrings. and men
dofed their hard boiled headwear in
stead OF following the usual custom of
wearing X into the booth or sitting at
the clerks table with 1t on. There'was
a grand piano heaped with derbies at one
station. ut never occurred TO these men
before toStake off their hats" remarked
visiting party leader as she got back
into her automobile.
Mrs. +. Louis Slade OF IS West Fifty
second street, is the only woman on
record who had her own polling place
Mrs. Slade opened the front room In her
basement dwelling as a voting booth.
She cast a ballot at Z 80 a. NJ. Mr.
Slade was next. BY o'clock 3i4 of the
4i4 voters registered In the district had
voted. The registration is half men and
half women. and includes physicians
lawyers. brokers. writer's and few
housewives. The house is fve story
brownstone residence of the old fash
toned type and is a few doors from what
once was the Fifth avenue home Of the
late William X. Vanderbilt.
Proof OF the early voting was shown
by n count taken by Miss Helen varick
Boswell associate leader of the Repub-
lican County Committee. who made "a
tour OF the city. In one Of the election
districts OF the Fourteenth Assembly
district t37 of $50 voters registered had
voted at 2;3o T.. NJ. In the Thirteenth
election district OF the econd Assembly
aistrict 42s OF 545 registered voters had
cast their ballots by 3:f5 +. M. She
attributed this 20 the activity OF the
women leaders of the various parties.
FINDS Policemen Kind.
1T was the best behaved election day
crowd I have ever seen" Mtss Boswell
Commented. There we're no roughs any
where. It's due TO two reasons. One
IS that more schools have been opened
Tor polling places The very atmosphere
of a school building lifts an election out
of the realm Of the kick and cuff variety
asked Antonio Dalessandro. Republican
leader Of the Second district, how he
accounted for tho order. 1fo said 1t
was prohibition.
II was struck by the kindness OF the
policemen, who looked like boys. They
took caro- OF the children for mothers.
they busted or benches for those that
had 20 wait. they got chairs for mothers
and we're altogether useful and con-
siderate."
Mrs. Virginia Pierson of the women's
Democratic club with headquarters in
the Vanderbilt Hotel. reported that che
had asked three first voters, ell women
aud aged 81. 90 and 70. to cast their
ballots for AL Smith
Mrs. X. McAleer OF 22o East Fifty
second street, who is "a years Of age.
wheeled herself in n chair TO the polls
IN Third avenue, between Fifty.frst and
Fifty-second streets, and added another
vote for Al.