The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-25
END OF THE CONTEST
Ballots for ''The News "
Teachers Contest Now
Being Counted.
POPULAR INTEREST IN TRERESULI
Huge Bundles of Votes Come in
TOday-No Deviation From
the Rules.

All things in this world must have an end,
and SO THE JERSEY CITY NEWS great teach
ers' popularity contest has closed While
this issue of The NEWS is being read by its
many readers, corps of clerks is busy al
the office counting the piles Of ballots which
were received this morning. This win b(
finished some time today, and when it has
been examined and found to be correct by
Superintendent Snyder and the editor Of
this paper, it will be known to the teacher
who viii go to Europe as the guest of THE
JERSEY CITY NEWS Her name will appear
in tomorrows issue.
The contest has been satisfactory in mora
respects than one. 1t has been highly suc4
cessful, and has aroused a popular enthusi.
asn which has been most gratifying, This
has been evinced by the large number Of
packages of ballots which have been sent in
for the various candidated. In the previous
contest most of the work was done and the
greater part of the votes came from the
candidates themselves, while in this contest
the large number of people who have exert-
ed themselves in behalf of individual teach
ers and the amount Of separate packages of
ballots which have been sent in shows the
great interest the general public was taking
in the contest.
NO DEVIATION FROM RULES
At the last moment the question wa5
asked whether III case the winner was unable
to go to Europe, she might devote the prize
to some other purpose. The reply was rads
that such a course could not be allowed as it
was contrary to the express conditions under
which the contest had been held. 1t was a
rigid rule of the ballotipg that the winner
should promise on her honor to go to Europe
and no change could be made at this late
hour. So if the winner, whoever she may
be, Is unable to go to Europe the prize will
be handed over to the teacher having the
next highest number Of votes.
ENDS WITH SURPRISES.
AS predicted ON Saturday the end of the
contest was attended with many surprises.
The office was no sooner opened when bun
dies of all sizes were brought in. They con-
tanned patches OF ballots ranging from five
to nearly ten thousand Two of the pack
ages contained, 1t was said by those who
brought them in, over eight thousand ballots
each, while those said to contain anywhere
from five hundred to one thousand were
many.
The number of votes which were brought
in this morning is so large that enough of
them could not be counted in time to give
any intimation, today, how many votes have
been cast, but enough is known to state that
the various teachers, who have been pfoni-
nent in the contest will be surprised and
delighted to find how many friends
they have among their pupils and friends.
Some idea of the balloting. however,
can be CLEANED from the number of pack
ages of ballots which came to the Office this
morning. There were 80 for Miss Post, 16
for Miss Halnill, IS for Miss O'Toole, 9 for
Miss Weymer, 2 each for Misses Mcnamara
apd Rappleye and l each for Misses Murray,
McNaily3 Donnelly, Burkhardt Pond, Vail,
CoughIin, Kelly, Rankin and Muir.