October 16, 2025
DON'T LIVE UNDER RIGHT
NAMES AT GALLAGHER'S.
Men Are Not Expected to Do That,
He Says -- 21 Register From
His Alleged Hotel.
From the evidence on the registration books in the third precinct of the Sixth ward business is good at the Star hotel, 310 Independence avenue. This is the home of Jack Gallagher. He conducted the saloon on the first floor, too, but the police commissioners took his license away. Twenty-one names were registered from the hotel this year.
John R. Trent, a Republican precinct captain who worked in the precinct during the recent registration, says Gallagher had some trouble getting all the names on the books. When he brought one man to register, Captain Trent says, he was refused because a judge of election questioned whether the applicant was registered at Gallagher's under the same name he was offering as a voter.
"Do you expect a man to use his own name at my place?" Gallagher is reputed to have answered. The voter was registered. The "Star" isn't a big hotel, yet according to the voter rolls, twenty-one live there.
Labels: hotels, Independence avenue, Jack Gallagher, politics
