The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-15
THEY'VE ALL GOT THE DOTS;
 THE ADVERTISERS PROBLEM
It Proves Very Popular Hundreds of Answers GlVen in YcSterday--PrizeS are Liberal
 and Tempting.

out the day. Three clerks were kept busy receiving the estimates. and giving re, ceipts for money paid for subscriptions to The Advertiser. 5 the telephones in The Advertiser build. ing began to do business and a small army of men were kept on the !ump an. swering inquiries about the Dot problem. in the bpsi1ess ofice were in despair: Anathemas were hurled at the head of the Dot Editor. but the clerks worked steadily on. They had not completed fhsr wsrn % sS ,s.. tate noaa ike ss
 estimates had becf received and the mails reaching the oflce on niUht trains had not been opened. ' A peculiar feature Of the contest F that every person who makes a guess is cocksure that he Is correct. He has care fully counted the Dots and he fails to see how he can lose. He would be sur prised if he knew tnst ns the E1es,ss rss range who has guessed that there are 800 Dots in the plate is as sure he is a winner as the man who sat up throughout Sunday night and came to The Advertiser yes n;Ds rsrdas s,nSs mor9inS 9dS with an estimate run
 One doubting individual who had de- posited his estimate at the business of fice declared that the problem was so
 simple 1t was evident to him the plate
 would be changed and that a different
 plate would be used each day. This statement is Of course preposterous. The same plate will be published in The Ad- vertiser each day until the Dot problem Before breakfast Sunday morning thou; sands of readers of The Advertiser had begun work to solve the problem and some of taem worked all day and until late Sunday morning.
 One man said te worked on the Dots Sunday morning until he went on to church with a headache. Then nc said
 he sat in church and caught himself counting the freckies on the face or a
 Many persons who brought their an. swers to The Advertiser ofice told of solving the problem by the use of pins.
 They stuck pins in the Dots ana then counted the pins
 "why. a blamed galoot called me up at my house early Sunday morning. said the proprietor of a large dry goods store
 wouldn't come down town and sell him twenty-four papers of pins. When I ask
 ed him what in Gehenna he wanted with all those pins Sunday morning he .gasped Dots and didn't know his trouble un- til my wife explained it to me. "I came down town looking for pins, said another man, ''and when I couldn [ find any store open I went home and used white lead and tooth picks I smcared the lead over the dots and with the picks and l feel sure I've got the correct number"
 A great many persons who have sen, l in estimates on the problem are new sub | scribers to The Advertiser. w. A. Scott l Circulation Manager of The Advertiser l said last night If new subscribers failed l to receive their paper this morning thes | should understand that 1t is due to thu rush of business which has fallen to tht Dot Editor. He declared that his force of men would have the situation well 1T l hand today and that papers would go for ward promptly tomorrow.
 If you are interested in the Dot prob lem you will find something to thini about on page of this edition.