The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-06-17
THE TIMES" PRIZE ESSAYS.

In order 10 elicit the views Of practical and
thoughtful men and women on the great adj
vantages that Richmond offers to the whole
country THE TINES will award prizes for es~
says on the following subjects:
First. Richmond as a Manufacturing City
with suggestions tending TO promote and en-
large this great and growing interest:
For best essay. ...........sl00
Second best essay......... 80
Third best essay.......... rs
Second. Richmond as a Trade or Jobbing
Centre for the distribution of merchandise,
with suggestions for increasing its importance
in this respect:
FOR best essay. ...........slO0
Second best essay ......... 80
Third best essay .......... %
Third. Richmond as a Residential and Edu-
cational Centre. with suggestions for improy-
inc its great advantages in this direction:
For best essay ............S7
Second best essay ......... 80
Third best essay........... 70
Fourth. The proper development of the
lands adjoining the city both for residen-
tial and manufacturing purposes is SO impor-
tant that The Times will publish as received
essays on "The Proper Development Of the
Suburbs of Richmond
Prizes-First $50.
Second...... ....... 20.
Third. ............,. 10.
Committees will be hereafter selected and
announced who will adjudge the prizes Is
saws must not exceed 5000 words. or about
three columns Of The TINES. Each essay
should be signed by nom do plume and adj
dressed to the respective Committee on Man
ufacture, Trade or Residence, according
to the subject of the essay, care Of The
TINES, accompanied with the real name and
address of the author in a separate, sealed en-
velope, which will not be opened until after
the awards are made.
The TnlEs reserves the right to keep or use
for publication any essay received which
must be mailed TO The ZINES on or before
July l, 1891.
NOTHING is more indicative Of the rapid
strides onward which the South is making
than the progress OF Southern journalism,
and nothing in the South is advancing more
rapidly than her newspapers. The Atlanta
Constitution, for example has just ordered a
new Hoe perfecting press, very similar 10 the
one at The TINES Office, which will run in
connection with its other press, will turn out
1900 sixteen-page papers an hour and will
cost about $4,000. This speaks well for the
Constitution itself and also reflects credit
upon the intelligence Of the people Of the en-
pre- State of the South. whose reading habits
and enterprsing business spirit have made
this outlay a necessity to that excellent paper.
1t is worthy of note also that all the leading
papers Of the country either have adopted or
are adopting the six. eight, ten, twelve and
sixteen page folio form. To mention few
of these. there is in the North the New York
Herald, World, Sun, Times and Tribune. the
Boston Advertiser and Globe, the Philadelphia
Times and Record, and the Baltimore Ameri-
can; IN the West there 10 the Cincinnati In
quirer and CommercSol-Gazette. the Louis
vile Courier-Journal the Chicago Herald and
Times; in the South there is The RICHMOND
TIMES, the Charleston News and Courier, the
Atlanta Constitution, Augusta Chronicle,
Savannah News, Montgomery Advertiser,
Jacksonville Times-Union, New Orleans
Times-Democrat. Picayune and States, Gal
weston News and hosts of others All these
and many more too numerous to mention
adopt the folio form, and in fact, that is the
accepted form of modern progressive and
metropolitan papers. Only a few, and they
generally not the leaders in their respective
localities, still stick TO the old-time, old-fash-
Toned quarto style. We mention this merely
to emphasize the fact that The TINES is keep
Ing up with the procession.