The National tribune., 1883-01-11
Our Premium Awards.


Our Premium Awards.
In September last THE TRIBUNE made
special offer of ten money premiums rang
ing in value from ten to twenty-five dollars
each, to be awarded for the ten largest clubs
of new subscribers obtained prior to Janu-
airy 1st of the present year. AS result of
that offer, quite brisk competition sprang
up among our club raisers and the contest
wazed so warm as to require the official
returns" to decide ii. Every county has
at last been "heard from," however, and the
count shows the following to be the success
ful canvassers:
First prize, $25-G. w. Tarllleson, Middletown,
Indiana, III subscribers.
Second s20-A. D. Launder, GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, 90 subscribers.
Third $17-William O'Connor, AttlebOro
Mass, G6 subscribers.
Fourth $16-Chas H. Allison, Springfield,
Mass, Go subscribers.
Fifth $15-Post Watson, Braddock, Pa,
81 subscribers.
Sixth $14-J. A Baughman, Washington,
Iowa, 81 subscribers.
Seventh" $13-Thos. J. Clark, Connersville,
Indiana, 50 subscribers.
Eighth s12-William BIundolI, Chetopa,
Kansas, 46 subscribers.
Ninth Sic. D. Oyster Carthage, Yer
mont 43 subscribers.
Tenth $10-Levi Grim, Greenfield, Penn
sylyania, 42 subscribers.
A draft for the amount due has already
been forwarded to each of the lucky winners,
and it is scarcely necessary to add that our
best wishes go with it.
To those who worked faithfully for these
prizes, but fell short of the number neCes-
sary to success, some special acknowledge
ment is also due. We find by reference to
our record of "TRBUNE clubs" that during
the period of this competition one hundred
and eighty-twO persons sent in clubs of not
less than ten nor more than twenty; twenty
seven not less than twenty nor more than
thirty; nine not less than thirty nor more
than forty, while ten sent in clubs exceeding
the last named figure, making total of two
hundred and twenty-eigIrt persons who sent
us clubs of ten and upwards. As the num-
Der of subscriptions which these clubs ag-
gregated was 3,173, it viii be seen that
the average apprOximated fourteen subscrip-
tiOus for each canvasser.
We give the record thus in detail because
it shows how much can be done by COM
paratively small number of determined, en-
ergetic subscribers towards increasing the
circulation of THE TRIBUNE, and because
furthermore, we believe it is within the
power OF nearly every one of our readers to
do as well. These two hundred and twenty
eight canvassers enjoyed no unusual ad-
vantages. The majority resided in small
towns and sparsely-settled communities,
and it was the thoroughness with which
they cleaned the field rather than the size
of the field itself which was the secret Of
their success. Compared with such q field
as is offered at Toledo, for instance, where
one Grand Army Post Forsyth alone
musters nearly six hundred members, theirs
was an uninyiting territory, yet it seems to
be universally the case that the weaker the
soldier community the more resolute and
Jealous are its workers.
And now, comrades, what have you to say
to this showing? Is it possible that the
work Of bnilding up the circulation of THE
TRIBUNE is to be left to few hundred out
of the many thousands whose names are
already on the subscription rolls? Surely,
that is not soldierly. That is not standing
shoulder to shoulder, as in the brave days of
old. Come, let us make this new campaign
in the trne army fashion, with solid ranks
and perfect alignment. The bugle has
sounded the charge; it is too late to draw
back