The evening times., 1900-10-10
AWARD OF NOBEL PRIZES
The First Distribution to Take
Place Next Year.
Great Interest in she World of ART,
the Endowment Competition Inau-
gurnted by the Swedish Engineers
WIII-ConGItIons OF the Contest.

sew YORK, Oct. 10,-The world of art.
literature. and science is looking forward
with intense interest to the award one
year from next December of the valuable
Nobel prizes for supremacy ii the three
departments noted.
Though the Swedish engineer, Nobel,
who was a multi millionaire, has been
dead several years, it is only now that
the elaborate preparations for tie award
of prizes required in his will have been
made complete 1t is expected that
monetary value of at least S1Go,00G will
be reached for each prize, which is a
sufficient explanation Of the interest
shown in those circles which will furnish
the competitors,
The Lesation of Sweden and Norway
ct Washington has recently made pub
lie for the first time the conditions sur
rounding the award The three corpora
tious awarding the Nobel prizes are the
Rayal Academy of Sciences at Stock
holm. founded in 1893: the Swedish
Academy at Stockholm, toGnded IN 1855,
of both of which the King is the pro-
tector. and the Carolin Institute OF Medl-
cine and Surgery, of Stockholm
The Nobel endowment is based Oh the
will of Dr. Alfred Nobel, which was
drawn up in 1895. Shortlr afterWafd q
DR.. Nobel died, leaving an estate sald
to be worth $4,000, ,000. Fe ordered,
after various bequests, that the residue
of his fortune should constitute a tuna
the interest of which should be dlstr1o-
uted annually to. those who IN the pre-
ceding year should have rendered the
greatest services TO humanity. the sum
total shall be divided into FIVE equal por-
tions, assigned as follows
To the person having made the most
important discovery or invention IN the
department of physical science
To the person having made the mos,
important discovery or having produced
the greatest Improvement in chemistry.
To the author OF the most important dis
covery in the department of physiology OF
Of medicine.
| 10 the author having produced the
most notable literary work III the sense oil
| ideaIism
/ To the person having done the most, or
| the best, in the work of establishing the
brotherhood of nations, for the suppress
j ion or the reduction of standing armies, as
| well as for the formation and the propa-
/ CATION OF peace conferences.
The prizes will be awarded as follows;
For physical science and chemistry, ps
| the Swedish Academy of Sciences; for
works in physiology or medicine, by the
| Carolin institute of Stockholm; for liter
! AZURE by the Academy of Stockholm;
| finally. for the work of peace. by a COM
mittee of FIVE members. elected by the
/ Norwegian Stortung, Nationality shall
not be considered, so that the prize may
accrue to the most wors by, whether he be
! Scandinavian Ok not
/ Each of the annual snrizes must be
awarded at least once in the course OF
/ every five years and the sum total of
/ prize thus awarded shall in no case be
/ les than so per cent Of that part of the
! yearly revenue. In erder to be admitted
to the competition. every written worl
] must have been published, and the sun
total of a prize may De divided equally be-