The  Convention  will,  therefore,  see  that  these  districts  had,  as  nearly
as  could  be,  the  same  number  of  inhabitants,  men,  women  and
children,  the  second  district,  the  one  in  question,  having  1,603  by
that  census.  It  has  not  been  seriously  contended  before  the  com-


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mittee  that  any  growth  of  the  permanent  population  has  occurred
since  1892,  and  there  is  abundance  of  evidence  to  show  the  con-
trary. There  is,  indeed,  some  evidence  in  the  case  that  buildings
at  Coney  Island,  for  the  purpose  of  entertainment  and  concert  halls
during  the  summer,  have  increased  during  those  years,  as  they  have
every  year  in  the  past ;  but  that  the  actual  population  of  the  district,
of  the  town,  has  increased  beyond  the  normal  has  not  seriously  been
contended  or  proven  by  anybody  in  the  case.  Now,  the  vote  in
the  second  district  during  the  fall,  in  1890,  1891,  1892  and  1893,
was  as  follows:  In  1890,  267,  the  entire  vote  for  all  purposes  in  that
district  at  the  general  election  in  that  year;  in  1891,  it  was  571;  in
1892,  it  was  1,094,  and  in  1893,  1,512.  It  has  been  stated  that  the
large  registry  in  the  second  district,  2,465,  results  from  the  fact
that  the  old  poll-list  was  copied.  Bear  in  mind,  that  if  the  inspectors
had  copied  the  old  poll-list  and  put  down  in  1893  the  name  of  every
man  who  voted  the  year  before,  whether  dead  or  alive,  they  would
have  put  down  just  1,094  names.  They  added  last  fall  in  that  dis-
trict alone  1,370  odd  names  of  alleged  new  voters  and  created  a.
