The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-07
HUSTLINC FOR VOTES
CANDIDATES IN RAINBOW CON-
 TEST ARE BUSY.
Ballots for Publication Tomorrow Must Be in by 8 O'clock. To- night-0limpse of the
 Great Exposition.

The trir to Buffalo heinz contested for by the clerks, teachers and police men has grown gradually until the stream of votes sSought in daily by various friends of the long list of as- pirants for a Rainbow City visit has increased from small packages of cou- pons to large bundles of the clipped treasures printed in the Daily and Sun day Advertiser
 So great has become the flow of cou- pons that extra help is needed to keep up the count and today and up to midnight tonight 1t is expected that a large force of clerks will b. kept busy counting up the ballots for publication tomorrow.
 The big increase in the vote last Sunday over last Thursday shows the leaders are keeping busy as well as their friends who are hustiinG daily for their favorites.
 All candidates whose names appeared last Sunday who do not have over ten votes by tonight will he stricken from the list This is done for the purpose of keeping the list cut doMni to actually | lHleTGSlCQ WoihC3S Ss esAsN fAit NN that those who have already Sppeared will liven ur and make all effort to forge ahead.
 Mir. Dudley Williamson the popular clerk. has withdrawn his name from the clerks contest, no reasons being given. This leaves an opening for some of the many other popular clerks to get in and crawl up on the leaders.
 Many out Of town readers are begin ming to be interested and great num- ber of coupons are being received from points as far South as Mobile AS we'll as Northern Alabama points. for can didates who either have friends throughout the State or by interested readers of The Advertiser. who have selected some particular candidate through mere matter of interest in the friendly contest
 Facts concerning the great Pan American Exposition of novelties to be seen during visit there are always in line with ones anticipation of such an outing. The Advertiser has come into possession of some information that will no doubt be of interest to the many contestants, whether they get to SC them at The Advertisers expense or not.
 The imposing character of some of the Exposition features is in a measure conveyed by these facts and figures: Electric Tower, 409 feet high. Goddess of Light. surmounting the tower, IS feet high. Number of searchlights in the basin of the Tower. s4. Number of incandescent lamps used in the illumin- at ion of the courts and buildings, 500,- 900: upon the tower, 40.OOo; miles of wire used in the installation of the il- lumination system. 400. Weight of this wire, 250 tons. Area of courts to be illuminated, 1.390.000 square feet; 5000 horse power from Niagara Falls for this illumination. Water required for the fountain display, 35. 900 gallons per min ute. Height of some of the jets in the Court of Fountains. 30 feet. Height of the cascade falling from the Electric Tower. 70 feet; width. 30 feet. Dimsn- sions of the basin of the Court of Foun- tains. 5s5 by 225 feet. Number of pieces of sculpture, 800. Number of hardly perennials planted, 100000. Num- ber of flower beds. 800. Cost of the great church organ in the magnificent Temple of Music, sl5,000: seating ca pacity of Stadium, 12.000. Seating ca- pacity of Temple of Music, 2.200 Num- Der of large exhibit buildings, 20. Num- Der of smaller buildings, 80.
 Cost of the Exposition. SIG. .000. 900. Area of site. $50 acres. including l3a acres of improved park lands. Federal Government appropriation. $500, ,O0o New York State appropriation, $500. 900 Number of people living within ra- dius of 500 miles of the Exposition. 40, 900, 900. Niagara Falls 20 miles distant Machinery and Transportation Build ing, 800 to $50 feet. Manufacturers and Liberal Arts Building 800 by $50 feet. Electricity building. 800 to 1S0 feet. Az ricultural Building, 500 to 15O feet. Hor- ticulture Building. 220 feet square. Length of main United States Govern ment Building, 600 feet.
 All coupons to be counted for tomor- rows showing in the contest must reach the Rainbow Editors desk by 8 o'clock tonight. Persons having sev- eral hundred ballots to deposit at one time. can assist the clerks greatly by keeping special combinations of votes together as much as possible, thereby avoiding complicating the count. as when votes come in badly mixed with names, considerable time Is required, and mistakes are more liable to occur. Get them in early to day. The vote yytII ha heavy fOmorr0W