News Of The Election

New York, Nov. 2. - Rain, which feil more or less persistently throughout the forenoon, had little effect to restrain the voters of greater New York from giving expression to their preierenoes for city and borough officials. The polls opened at 6 o'clock and within two hours a good third of the votes had been polled in the residential sections of New York and Brooklyn. From that time forward the polling proceeded a little less rapidly, though still with enough animation to keep the elerks of election from gossiping, so that there was at noon but a small fraction of the registered vote remaining uncast. In the suburban precinets the voting was little behind. It cost $2,000 to vote four of the seven registered men residing in Central park. These four men voted at One Hundred and First street and Eighth avenue, where a special booth had been built for them. Inspectora, ballot clerks and pólice had to be furnished for the four voters. The men live in McGowan's Pass tavern. By 9:30 o'clock all had voted and inspectors and ballot clerks were free to discufs politics or anything else until sundown. but the booth had to be kept open ih accordance with the law until 5 o'clock. The other three voters in the park were named Conway, the shepherd, and nis two sons, who live at the sheepfold and vote at Eighth avenue and Fifty-sixth street, where there N n big district. Vai v.vck and L.ow Vote. Robert A. Van Wyck, Democratie nominee for mayor, voted at 6:40 o'clock, casting ballot No. 19. He spent thirty seconds in the bocth. There was no crowd at the polling place and there was no demonstration. It was nearly two hours later when Seth Low appeared at the place where he was registered. He spent two minutes in the booth. His coming and going were not marked by any demonstration. The ante-eleetion "claims" of the chairrnen of the four leading campaign committees is as follows: Democratie estímate gives Van Wyck a majority over all other eandidates combined of 20,000 and plurality over Low, the next highest, 130,000. Republican estímate gives Tracy a plurality of 75.000; Citizens Union estímate gives Low a plurality of 15.000: George estimate gives George a plurality of 65,000. There are 1,522 election districts and. of course. as many polling places in greater New Tork, divided as follows: Borough of Manhattan and the Bronx. S83: borough of Brooklyn. 516: boroxigh of Queens. 76; borough of Richmond, 47. To reach a total of 529.000. ar average of nearly 350 votes for each district must be attained. In 1896 the total vote In thls same territory was 536,254.