The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-24
THE GREAT CONTEST.
The Retail Clerks are Hus.
banding Their Strength
for the Close.
MISS MAILLY IN The LEAD
She Is Very POpular-shetch Of
Her Career-Alexander
Whites Chance.
Mss MAILLY IN The LEAD

CITY News started to determine the de-
gree of popularity which the retail clerks
of the city enjoy is becoming more In
tense each day as the voting progresses.
The prize, check for 500 to defray the
expenses of trip to the Chicago Fair, is
stimulating the friends OF the various
contestants TO heroic efforts which are
bearing fruit in the large number OF
votes which are pouring in for the various
candidates. 1t looks from the returns as
though some Of the contestants were
holding back their votes until the last
day. That is grave mistake and any
candidate who is doing that should sand
in his or her ballots every day.
Today the sixteenth coupon is printed
leaving only nine more before the great
contest will close. The twenty-fifth and /
last will appear In The JERSEY CITY
NEWS of Tuesday, Septem Der 5, and
exactly at noon on the following day,
September 6, the polls will be closed.
There will be no deviation from this rulei
under any circumstances for any oney1
and SO no time should be lost in getiingl
the ballots in as quickly as possible. q sAsa
soon as the polls are closed the COMFY
mittee which has been selected for thatl
purpose will commence to eount th o
ballots, and the result will be made
known as soon thereafter as practicaIj
Then the check for 500 will be made ouEl
in the name OF the successful eau didate,
who ever he or she may be, and handedi
over to the most popular retail clerk in
the city.
WHERE SOME COUPONS HAVE GONE.
Some persons have sent coupons to this
Office through the mails which have
never reached rs. The cause of this Ina
many cases is that the senders have
clipped the coupons, filled them out and
placed them In the postoff1ce in an en- vel
ope having upon il q one cent stamp.
The senders think because the coupons
have been clipped from a newspaper they
ara entitled to go through the mails aE
newspaper rates. This is mistake, for
the fact that the coupons have written
upon them the name of the candidates,
and the other information required 1
makes them second class matter aud
liable to the same rates AZ letters. So
when sending coupons through the mails
be sure and put upon the envelope the
same stamps you weuld upon domestic
letters.
MISS MAILLY LEADS THE LADIES.
OF the ladies in the contest Miss Jennie
MaIliy, q saleslaay In G. p. Friend's
store is the leader. Miss Mailly is q
pretty, girl VINO has just passed her
eighteenth birthday. She is attractive,
and by her agreeable ways and enter
| tanning manner, has made herself very
| popularw with the. ladies who patroni1e
| the store in which she is employed, as is
| evident by the large vote which she has
received. Miss Mailly is a Jersey City
| girl TO theS marrow bone, and received
| her education in the schools of this city.
| She lives wi6h'her parents and several
| younger brothers at No. ITO Grand street.
| She was employed in the old argus
establishments. and when that was de-
stroyed by fire some time ago. she ea-
| tered the drygoods store of William Mc-I
LaughIin. where she remained ayear anda
o half.
Tnsn she entered the employ of Mr..
| Friend where she has remained ever
| since. Miss Mailiy Is now enjoying q
/ we'll earned vacation. She reads TIE
1 JERSEY CITY NEWS every evening, aud
| says she would not consider the day
| favo rite paper. Her little brother sells
| over fifty copies Of THE JERSEY CITE
NEWS every evening.
| This young lady is as modest as she Is
| popular and does not like to talk about
| what she would do on the trip TO Chicago,
| for, as she said with bewitcning smile,
"I'In not sure will win.''
| Her many friends throughout the city
i are potso modest by any means and say
l that that NEWS check will have to be
| made out to the order or Jennie Maillyl
| or they will know the reason why. An
/
| employ of the Secret Service. in Mach
| inery Hall at the Fair, and if she goes to
1 Chicago she will be entertained by him :.
| ALEXANDER WHITES CHANGE.
The patrons of McBride's upto wn te&
store are just as determined that Alex
anaer White, the genial clerk of the
tore, shall get that check. Mr.. White
is middle aged msR who has been in
| Mr.. McBride's employ twelve years,
| and during that time mas made
| hosts of friends, who are now work ing
| hard to send him to Chicago as the guest
| of The JERSEY CITY NEWS. MIR. White
is JerseYman and was born in New
| Brunswick. After he had finished aE the
! local schools he entSred the cording de-
partment of one of the large woolsn
| mills of his native city. From there he
| entered one of the shoe factories where
| he was employed when the great shoe
| maker strike OF several years broke out.
| The Crispin Associ alton, as the shoe
| IN akers organization was called, sent q
| delegation to New Br unswicK and the
members succeeded in inducing zoo
| Mr. White and the other workmen re-
| manned out. Then he went to PhiladeI-
| phia and obtained work in shoe factory
there
/ Like almost everyone not born In ths
Quaker City, Mr.. White quickly secame
dIsgusteG with Philadelphia, and when
Chief Charles Oliver of the New Bruns-
wick police went Co him and invited hips
| TO become a me mber of his force, he re-
turned to his native city. He remained
on the police force until about thi rteen
! years ago wnen he came to Jersey City.
He was q member of Neptune Fire
| Engiue Company of New Brunswick for
seventeen years, aud Is now an intiuen-
tial Knight of Pythias.