The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-02

Indications were yesterday that The Advertiser contest for Rainbow City visitors is 10 become the most inter esting os any contest ever conducted in Alabama if not in the entire South.
 IT e list of candidates as they lined up yesterday morning indicated that vigorous effort had been made during the first week of work, while the many new candidates who had entered the contest since last Sunday showed that interest was rapidly increasing among teachers, clerks and policemen.
 w. D. Martin, the popular clerk has received votes from many friends throughout this State and adjoining States. and the mail of the Rainbow Editor is rapidly increasing with cou- pons enclosed from distant points filled out. for favorite friends in the race.
 Preparations are making at The Ad- vertiser office for an extra force to handle the increasing business in talk ing care of the count correctly. This means Vasc deal of hard work and must necessarily be carried on system atically in order to avoid confusion. Couoons are coming in more rapidly every day, which is a good indication of the interest beinc; taken.
 Miss Kate McLemore seems to have the lead among the teachers, and is no doubt using very systematic efforts in collecting votes. as a number of The Advertisers regular readers have been heard to remark that school girls and boys call for the coupons early every morning, sometimes before they have finished with their paper, so eager are they for their faVorite teacher to win.
 Gladden. Harrison of the police force. Is tEOtting in the three-year-old class with Officer W. H. Taylor hot footing right after, while Officer E. w.. Jackson is not a bad"third and stands show to overtake the leader with proper effort.
 The clerks appear to be uneasy, as dark horses seem to be most probable among their ranks and ir will not be surprising to see some brand-neW as pirant for Midway sights pop suddenly into the line of leaders by next Sun day morning. when the next list will be published.
 The free trips to Buffalo are the main topic of conversation at nearly every breakfast table in Montgomery when The Advertiser is being eagerly scanned for latest news of the con test. It is heard on the cars. on the corner. in the stores. a the hotels and in fact. wherever one goes, for this is certainly the opportunity ever offered in Montgomery.
 The offer as presented by The Ad- Vertiser is d splendid vacation trip and will afford the successful teacher, clerk and policeman not only merry weeks outing. but will prove of great value as an educational excursion. The Pan-A American Exposition. or the Rain bow City, as 1t has been appropriate lv named. is no doubt the most com pIete Worlds Fair ever before at tempted while perhaps not as success full from a financial point as others heretofore. or as large even as the great Columbian Exposition at Chi cago. still the great care that has been taken to perfect every detail and pol ish every corner gives it the prefer ence over any like exposition.
 gentleman returning from Buffalo recently remarked. concerning the il- luminatiCns:
 They are the most brilliant and elaborate ever contemplated. The Electric Tower soaring to q lofty height, and surrounded bN splendid statue of the Goddess of Light. is the centerpiece of this great dominating feat of the exposition. It Is stud ded with ncandescent lamps and pow erful searchlights one of which. at a great height sends its gleam for many miles around. embracing in it's grand circle. the Falls of Niagara and the Canadian frontier Every great build ing Is outlined with myriads of lights.