The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-04-06
NEWS OF THE CITY
PROVFRB SOLUTIONS
BEGIN TO ARRIVE
Few Have Answers in Globe
Office Within Three
Hours


The final picture in the series of prov
erb pictures which constituted T h e
q b e's great educational contest
was printed yesterday morning and
within three hours after the papers
were off the press packages containing
the sets of solutions from con-
testants began to reach the office
through the mail, by messenger boys
and brought by the contestants them-
selves.
Twelve Day Limit
All of the sets of solutions must be
in within twelve days, the exact hour
at which the contest will close is to be
announced later. Any set of solutions
which reaches the office within the pre-
scribed time will be entitled TO and
will receive the same consideration as
any other set. This contest is intended
in no sense to be foot race affair in
which first in wins. II was planned
an an educational feature and every
rule to carry out that purpose will be
strictly enforced.
The proverb contest manager has
looked over a few sets of solutions
which have arrived and as a result he
is obliged, for the protection of those
who have not yet sent their answers in
to repeat few warnings often sounded
in these columns since the inception of
the contest. The warning is given so
that more may not err in the same
manner as have some.
Everybody who enters the contest
and sends in solutions should be as
well acquainted with the conditions
governing the contest as they are with
the proverbs which compose ii. Every
rule in that set of conditions will, nee
essarily, have to be rigidly enforced
because the great number of sets of
n1Irfi 10 he hnr 81 fl..a
slightest feeling Of latitude upon the
part of the judges an impossibility.
Arranging Solutions
The condition which seems to trip
more than any other is that regarding
the form in which the answers shall be
transmitted to the office. In handling
from so to $50 answers for each con-
testant the judges are obliged to insist
that they be arranged as asked. The
solutions to the proverb pictures must
be sent in written on the answer slip
which accompanied the proVerb in
question and they must not be writ
ten on blank paper or upon the proverb
picture itself. The proverb pictures
must not be sent with the answers. The
number printed on each blank cores
ponds with the proverb picture with
which the blank appeared. That is
sufficient identification for the judges.
All the answers submitted by one
contestant must be arranged in numer-
zeal order from ! to so and placed to-
gether in one envelope, package or
bundle. In cases where two or more
answers are submitted to a single prov
erb picture all such answers should
be kept together in the envelope. For
instance, a person may send one an
swer each to Nos. 1, and 8, but three
answers to No. 4. Nos. !, 2 and are
arranged in order and then come the
three answers to No. 4, followed by
Nos. 5, 6, Z, etc.
If one contestant sends in two or
more complete sets Of solutions that
contestant is at perfect liberty to make
each set of solutions into a separate
package or to place all of the sets in
one package, as he chooses. The only
thing to be insisted upon is the use of
solution blanks in answering proverb
pictures, and that the solutions be ar
ranged in numerical order.