The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-11
THE GLOBES VOTING CONTEST.


THE GLOBES VOTING CONTEST.
On another page Of this mornings
G q b there appear the "details of its
great prize voting contest that is open
today and will be open for six weeks,
until the 21st of August. The prizes
which are offered in this tournament
are of unexampled attractiveness and
value. They consist of a vacation trip,
at the entire expense of the G o b e,
such as all have imagined and longed
for, and comparatively few, except the
moderately wealthy, have realized. The
four persons who shall receive the
highest number of votes sent in to this
office on coupons cut from the G e,
where they will appear every day for
the next six weeks, will be entitled to
from Duluth to Buffalo by one of the
magnificent steamers of the Northern
Steamship company, from Buffalo to
Niagara Falls with a days visit there,
thence to Albany by rail- and down the
Hudson by daylight to New York city.
There the party will spend some time
at the Hotel Majestic, the elegant new
hostelry on the western heights, over
looking Central park. They will then be
conveyed by the famous Fall River
line of steamers to Boston and have
similar entertainment there, returning
by way of Newport, with the privilege
of. visiting that well known and seclu-
sive summer resort. The return jour
ney will be over the same route, and
the whole trip is timed to consume not
less than twenty days. From beginning
to end every expenditure of the journey
will be borne by the G l o b e. Trans
portation, berths, meals on steamer
and accommodation at the hotels will
all be provided by the G l o h e. and the
four successful contestants may start
from st. Paul without a carfare in their
pockets and, having enjoyed this mag
nificent holiday, return to their homes
without the need Of a nickel.
The competition, as we have stat
ed elsewhere, is open to all en-
ployes in wholesale and retail estab-
the general offices of railroads. We
have chosen to throw it open only to
these people because they are persons
who work hard, receive comparatively
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will most appreciate a summer outing.
The relative popularity of the employees
who are entered the contest will decide.
Two Of the prizes will be as
signed to the two men, and
the others to the two women
who stand highest in the ballot
ing when the polls are closed on the
21st day of August. AS is explained,
the coupons count more at the begin
ming of the voting than at the end, so
that those who start earliest in the
race have an advantage. The cash
value Of these prizes amounts to sew
eral hundred dollars for each of the
four trips, and they are by far the most
desirable rewards ever held out in any
kind of prize contest by any newspaper
in the Northwest.
We need only add that the record of
the voting will be most scrupulously
kept; that every coupon cut from the
G l o b by an actual subscriber or pur-
chaser will be counted, and that abso-
lutte precaution will be taken to see
that none others can win; and, further
more, that the scheme, sometimes re-
sorted to elsewhere, of printing these
coupons in separate sheets and selling
them at the Last moment to purchasers
by the hundred or thousand, is totally
barred from the outset Nobody will
get a vote who does not get it on the
G. o b e coupon cut from a paper reg
ularly issued and fully paid for We
shall have cur satisfaction in knowing
that four Woodworking men and wom-
en- will enjoy, as the result of this con-
test, the most delightful experience of
their lives; and, as it is easily within
the reach Of all, we hope that the
young men and women who are eligi-
BILE will go to work at once to make
sure Of winning this splendid prize.