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Show Mt FALL IN NEW YORK Somebody Will Get Snowed Under by Evening New York, Nov. 8. More than a million and a half voters who will register their choice for Btnto and congressional offices in New York state today traveled to the polls over roads white, with snow. Snow was falling this morning In every port of the etate except the northern counties. The western part of the state and southern tier of counties were burled under a blanket of snow that at Jamestown reached a foot In depth. In no city today open-el open-el with a light fail of 6now that soon changed to rain and toward 11 o'clock cerwed, although the skies were still lowering. Th, early voting was light except in Harlem and the lower part of th Bronx, where 23 per cent of the electors had marked their ballots -by 9 o'clock. j Among tho watchers were fifty women who had been stationed at the polls by tho Republican volunteer watchers association. They belonged 1o the woman's auffrago organization. j One of thoni wa Miss Maude Ingor- soli, daughter of the late Robert Cr. Ingersoll. She was on duty In Chas F. Murphy's dldrlcL Unless the vote Is close, a lino on tbe result Is expocted early this evening. even-ing. Returns from places life Buffalo and Newburgh, where voting machines ma-chines are used, should bo available within an hour or two after the polls close. These, with results from a few typical county districts and from one or two In New York that will give, a line on the vote of the uptown residences resi-dences returns and of the east side, will place the counters in a position to begin work before the flnibh their dinners. |