New Britain herald., 1923-03-29
Y OF l4,5OO VOTE
FOR MEETING BOARD
Small Number in Excess of
Total Candidates Ap-
pears at Polls

Only ~ of the clty's II. 500 qualified
voters took part in the special city
election yesterday for the selection OF
60 members Of the city meeting board
the number being little more than one
vote apiece for the candidates seeking
election. ~a .nt
The states prepared at caucuses In
the six wards Tuesday evening were
approved in all wards and in only one
instance--in the second ward where
M. M. Cashmere received one vote
was a ballot cast for candidate 9TH
er than those who appeared on the
printed ballots. -.>
In the first ward, IL votes were
cast for each Of the following candi-
dates for three year terms: Joseph G
Woods, John A. Ericsson, ]. L. McCabe,
Henry Bush, Charles May, George II
Wells, Harold Films and John A. An
derson. William Shelton and Henry
Bradbury, candidates to fill vacancies
for one year, each received 12 votes
and were elected.
In the second war;, M. M. Cash
more received one vote and failed OF
election, George Bittner, candidate
to fill vacancy for one year, received
five votes and was elected. FRANCIS
B. Davis was elected for three years
with four votes, and the following
were named for similar term with
five votes each: George A. Quigley A.
n. Rutherford, James A. Coyle, Pher
linn Johnson. Alexander Olson and
Edward H. Carroll.
The third ward selected f. .
Chamberlain to fill out one-yeai
unexpired term and 0. F. Curtis 1or
a two year term, each receiving SIX
votes. Mrs. ]. H. Robinson, !. y
Russell and r. R. Gilpatric wers
elected for three years with six votes
each, and. the following were named
for 4 like term with FIVE votes each:
James j ,Wstsea, r. "A. Wooster, Rtl.
| dtsf j. Carlson. III. b. Fritchard and
I. Wexler.
In the fourth ward. the following
were elected for three years. each
having four votes: Albert Anderson
James r. O'Connor, Sverin johnson,
Stanley J. Traceski, Frank Q. Carl
son, James NJ. Finnegan, James
Naughton and Gustav Torell. Nathan
Googel received four votes for a one
wear term and John Mikalauskas was
given four votes for two year term.
The heaviest vote Of the day was
in the fifth ward with rs taking part
in the election. Joseph Bogdanski
was picked for a one year term with
20 votes and Ignacy Gwiazda was the
wards selection for a two year term
with a vote or %. The following
were elected by the number OF votes
set opposite their names: kasimir
Blogos.owski, %; Frank Grygocz, "a;
Joseph Mlynarski, 2s; P. W. Smith.
23; Edward Smith, 21; Lawrence
Meehan, 20; Stanley Smarkusz, 20,
and Charles Munson, %.
Attorney Thomas F. McDonough
and Dennis j. Mahoney received 90
votes each and were elected for two
years in the sixth ward while John
Coyle was given 20 votes for a one
year term. The three year members
elect are: J. J. Donahue. Edmund
Crowley and E. A. Sheehan, 20 votes
each; c. s. Andrews, 19 votes; H. N.
Lockwood, A. Gorbach and Earl Kis-
selbrach, Is votes each. and Philip
j. Smith, II votes.
In the second, third and fourth
wards, the number of votes cast was
less than the number of candidates
for places on the city meeting board,
showing that interest in those dis
tricts was at such low point that
the polls were not visited by all the
candidates. In the fourth ward,
four votes were cast, there being
more than twice as many candidates
as there were electors taking part in
the election.