The Delawarean., 1900-05-12
GOING OVER To PARIS.
Several Contestants are HuStIing
For a Free Trip.
NONE HAVE A LARGE ADVANTAGE.
The Delawarean's Prize Offer Being
Sought After by a Number of Com
testants, but the Beginner has
Ample Opportunity.

THE DBLAlWAREAN HAS EVERY
REASON TO BE GRATIFIED AT
THE PROGRESS OF IT'S PARTS Elk
POSITION CONTEST. SOMEBODY
is GOING TO PARIS TO THE
GREATEST SHOW IN THE CON-
CEPTIoN OF MANKIND; AND THIS
SOMEBODY is GOING AS A RESULT
OF THE CONTEST BEGUN BY THE
DEI4ATWAREAN, THE FREE "TRIP.
WITH ALL EXPENSES NECESSARY
In .sOING ArID COMING BEING THE
PRIZE AND THE GOAL FOR WHICH
THE CONTESTANTS ARE NOW
TRYING.
When this contest was first begun by
the Delawarean, some predicted that,
as is often the case in newspaper con-
tests. some fellow would start out, and,
after getting a large list of the sub
scribers himself, would buy off the
smaller fellows, or ones nearest him.
and even then make money on his
pains.
But the Delawarean controverted
this by making it necessary for the
contestants to follow strict rules-not
unfair rules, not confusing restrictions
but simply rules that made them all
treat the Delawarean fairly.
The result has surpassed the expec-
tations of the originators. Not only
are there now "a number OF contestants
for this prize from all parts of the
State, but none of them are big" ones,
all are active young people who have
gotten their Paris prize subscribers
to the Delawarean while attending to
their regular avocations, and engaged
in their lawful businesses. Some have
sent in only three and five at a time,
and none have sent in such a large
number as fifty, but work is being con-
tinued Systematically.
1t will not be long now before the
Paris Exposition will begin Surely
there are other young or old persons
who are thrifty and want to see some
thing of the world, and really another
world on earth, and here is yet time
to start in and win this prize. There
is positively no person in the contest
with list SO large as to discourage
even the smallest child or the oldest
man from starting in and making a
systematic effort.
!, The value of free trip to Paris is
not fairly reckoned by people in gen
eral. The cost that it would be to this
office is certainly not considered or
persons in every hundred of the State
and every county of Maryland would
be undertaking the work. The way
steamships are raising the rates for
transatlantic passage is putting the
Paris exposition further and further
away from those whose means are
limited, and especially wage-earners
the very persons who ought to see and
could so fully enjoy the great show
But one has only to enter the Della
warean's contest, and get the highest
number of new subscribers to get there
FREE.
In order to demonstrate it's de-
as arranged with Mr.. John S
Collins, Cashier of the First Ma
tional Bank of Dover, to receive
all moneys and names secured anc
handed in by any of the contest
ants. Mr.. Collins is well-known tx
all Delawareans, and his acting al
Treasurer of this fund will con
vince all that it is bona fide con
test.
For the person handing or mailing
in to Mr.. Collins at the First Nationa
Bank the largest number of names o
bonafde new subscribers, accompany
, ing each name with the one dolla
($1 0O) advance payment for one year,
subscription, the management of Tn
e Delawarean will, therefore, provid
: transportation and first-class accom-
mediation to and from Paris at an.
time after the close Of contest during
the Exposition OF 1900 that the WHINE