The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-22
SIS FOR CYCLISTS SIS
BIG FRIES WITHIN THE REACH
OF WHEELMEN WHO ARE
LITERARY
$3.50 FOR a SINGLE STORY
Globe Readers Invited to Take Part
in the COnfest-First story
VIII Be Printed Next
Sunday.

Cash prizes to the amount of $500 have
been offered by the L. A. w. Magazine
for the best three stories or articles deal
ing with the advantages of cycling from
the standpoint Of health and pleasure,
and printed in the daily papers. The
prizes will be awarded as follows:
$3.50 for the best cycling story printed
In daily paper in a city having a pop
uIatlon OF 100000 or greater, according to
the census of 1900.
$3.50 for the best cycling story printed
IN daily paper in city having a pop
ulation of %. 900 to 100000, accusing to
the census of 1900.
500 for the best cycling story printed
in q daily paper in a city having a pop
ulation of less than 5000, according 10
the census Of 1906
The conditions governing the contest
are as follows:
l. No entrance fee OF other charge Is
required Any writer may contest
Story may be either prose or verse
in form. and may treat Of adventure.
touring, love, a fable, a homi1y.
3. The main point of the story must
emphasize the advantages and pleasures
of bicycle riding. A flavor of outdoors
become enthusiastic cyclists Will count
for more than rhetoric.
l. Verses offered in competition must
not contain more than 800 words. Prose
contributions must contain not less than
1000 words, and not more than $500
words.
5. Manuscript will not be accepted or
considered. The story must have been
printed in a daily paper between the
dates of Feb. !, 1901 and March 20 1901
and marked copy of the paper-not a
CHpping-muSt be sent to this address:
Price Competition, L. A. w. Magazine,
Cleveland. o..
6. An AFFIDAVIT Of authorship must ac.
company the contribution.
z. Story must be copyrighted CT if
printed in a copyright publication, per-
mission to publish must accompany the
articles.
S. One writer may send in any num-
Der Of contributions to be entered in the
competition.
9. Competition closes March 20, 1901
and no contribution will be entered if
marked copy is received later than that
date.
The prize money is now deposited in
the Anne rican Exchange National Bank,
of Cleveland, O., and the Judges of the
composition viii be:
Judge Conway w. Sans, presidents
league Of American Wheelmen. Bald-
Hon Martin Dodge Directly of the
office of public road Inquiries, Washing
Charles W. Mears, editor L. A. w.
Magazine, official organ of the League of
American Wheelmen, Cleveland, o.
The results Of the contest will be an
ncunced in the leading daily and cycling
papers III the United States, and the sto-
ries will be available fer any paper that
ueSueS 70 print them. They will also
be published in the L. a. w Maya
zine.
The C o is OF the opinion that
there is, among It's readers. some one
who is entitled to win one of these
awards, and it will publish in its Sunday
edition any story submitted for a prize
which, in the judgment Of its editor is
o. sufficient merit to entitIe it to consid-
GRAFTON. Manuscript intended for the
competition must reach this office as
early as Wednesday preceding the Sun
Gay on which it is to appear In the
event of there being a number submitted.
the editor will select the one he consfd-
ers the best ana give that the prefer
ehee for Publication, although the others
viii be printed later, if in his Judgment.
they stand a se2sonable chance of win
ming the Prize. HcpelessIy bad manu-
script cannot be used, and will not be
returned unless sufficient postage is in
closed
The first Of these stories is now in the
G o office, and will be printed next
Sunday. Watch for it.