The evening world., 1890-01-27
SORTING OUT THE GuEssES.
Winner Of European Trip 10 Be An
nOunCed Without Delay.
Nellie Bly's Quiet sunday at Home
Happy, but Not Tired.

The busiest place in THE WORLD Office
to-day is the room where the suesses
on the duration Of Nellie Bly's jour
ney around the earth ARE being assorted.
1t is. hoped that tho task msy be ON.
pleted lthis week, and the name Of the
lucky guesser may be announced.
The magnitude of the tnsk may be
imagined when IL IL stated chat nearly a
million of the guess coupons were re-
ceived, and that they came III in scores
OF thousands after II was known that the
young woman had arrived at San
Francisco.
In addition TO the regular clerical staff
of ThE WORLD, a score of ''postmark
experts" from the Post-Ohice nre EN-
ployed in the r hours of duty III Mr..
Van Cutt's premises. each giving rs much
time as can be ~ ared from his needed
rest.
II is now known that more than n thou
sand gueases have hit the right number
of dhys, but are out In the hours, miu-
utcs and seconds; more thnn ten thou.
sand came within twelve hours. and more
than fifty thousand within twenty-four
hours.
The time. MS announced in the SrNpAY
WORLD. was ~ days. o hours aud ii min
utes.
Tho greatest possible care has been
taken that NJ couDon received should he
mislaid. Every guess sent in will, when
the assortment is finished, be recorded
and take the exact chance In the COMPETE
ton to which il is entitled.
The bright little woman who has been
the object of 30 much attention spent
k,,,l ., rttAAI,. las, hAs n1eV .,..a.vrn Eat
She saw but few callers. though she sat
for her photograph IN the morning. Her
rooms were redolent with the scent Of
flowers. Bouquets. baskets. wreaths
every chair. table and window was filed
with them.
Kind friends began to give them to
me nj San Francisco" she said, " and l
received thom ut almost every point along
the route. In the rush mud crush / lost a
great many of them. and the accompany
ing cards from q great many more. am
very sorry for that"
She chatted gayly Of her trip. She did
no look tired or worn in the least. She
looks heavier than when she went away.
and in every way shows that her rapid
changes OF scene and air ave agreed with
her.
1t seems good TO get back to New
York, " she chirped- still my journey
wns a pleasant II from beginning TO
ViAo uNn 4 eAA ~ WI " NoNots
enjoyed every day Of II. I had no idea 1
should meet with such n reception. A
big crowd greeted NE when | landed.
with II band of music, and they kept il up
all across the continent ill / reached The
WORLD Office. / didn't like IL at first, but
i became used to 1t. IN soon did not care
for being stared at. ...
My pet monkey doesnot take kindly to
life in a fiat. He smashed pretty nearly
everything i'll the kitchen this morning.
You see. he gets tired of staying In his
cage all the time. and l let him out
| let him out. aud the little rascal did a
great deal of mischief. He broke all the
plate 8. cups and saueers he could find.
and before l could get him back into the
cage he had smashed pretty near every
thing breakable in the kitchen. l am
afraid shall have to,giye him to the me-
nagerie in Central Park"
Nellie did not hear of the guessing con
test till she arrived at Yokohama. Then
she found copies OF The WORLD. aud
some Of the friends she met there sent
guesses by the same ship on which she
zane herself.
Showers of telegraphic messages of
CHIEF among these was n from M. Jules
Verne, which reads as follows:
success Of Nellie BY. She las proved her
lntre pldlty and courage. Hurrah for her
and for the director of Tue WORLD.
Hurrah Hurrah JULES VERNE.
Others who wired messages of congrat-
ulatIon were Consul. General John G.
New. at London: Rev. DR.. Talmage. on
the point of sailing from Liverpool; Prof.
VIrchow. President of the A~nthropologi-
cal Society. Berlin Baron Won Richtzo-
fen, President of the Berlin Geographi-
cal Society; the editor OF the Figaro.
Paris, and scores of others, The Iron
City Company, of Iron CITY. Tenn. send
Miss BLY, a deed to q town lot in that city.