The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-21
REBUS CONTEST
CLOSES IN GLORY
Great Interest Shown in Pic
lures Representing Names of
IntermOuntain Towns,
ANSWERS COME WITH RUSH
THEY WILL BE RECEIVED UNTIL
FRIDAY NOON.

The Herald's rebus contest closed
yesterday morning with a blaze of
glory. The last of the funny puzzle
pictures was published in the paper CT
yesterday morning which issued from
the press at o'clock.
One hour later the first answer was
and every few minutes during the day
the time stamp in the office was used
to stamp the hour and minute of the I'll
ing Of ether answers.
The rebuS contest was a success from
the first announcement. Greater inter-
est was perhaps never aroused in the
city and state, and even in other states
near by than was awakened by the fun
ny pictures, each of which had a local
interest for some part Of the country
touched by The Herald.
The rebus was different each day.
and in every town in Utah, Idaho, Wy
Oming and Nevada he readers Of The
Herald turned to the rebus even be-
fore reading the news of the day, to see
if their town was represented in that
issue
Some of the puzzles which were given
would have done credit to Sam Lloyd,
whose pigs in clover" have driven
many 10 the madhouse. The refuses
Herald staff. and with the suggestions
of others on the paper, they have been
made more than ordinarily interesting.
The pictures were all drawn by LoVey,
and nothing further need be said on
this score. Everyone who reads The
Herald-and who does nOt?-knows
Lovey and his work.
First Answer in an Hour.
When the first answer was received
an hour after the paper was taken from
the press. a busy time for the business
office force was ushered in. The time
stamp in the office was used 173 times
| during the day on the envelopes con-
tanning answers.
The greater number Of these were
from Salt Lake, Of course. One woman
came to the city on the street car from
Murray early yesterday morning for
the express purpose of depositing her
answer personally In the Office
The desk of the rebus editor looks
like that of a receiving clerk in a bic
mail order house. Envelopes are piled
in rows and tiers. There are hundreds
of them. On every mail they came
and dozens and scores of men, women
and children streamed into the office
during the day and far into the even
ing, to deposit their answers.
There was one of the REFUSES that has
been a Waterloo for nine-tenths of the
contestants. The first who guessed it
was a womam-who had guessed TWEEN
tyrone others incorrectly
The envelopes arriving by mail have
special delivery stamps on them in
many instances. Some are registered,
and one was registered and had a Spe-
cial delivery stamp as we'll
The mail from Eureka, Murray, Bing
ham, Bingham Junction, Park City
Mammoth CenterVille, KaysVille
Pennington and Ogden sent their quota
of answers. When the mail begins to
arrive from the surrounding states
corps of clerks will be drafted to aid In
handling the mass of answers and in
properly recording and entering them.
First Reply Averages High.
| The first set Of answers received had
/ only three incorrect answers out Of the
entire fifty. Another received yester-
/ day had forty-eight correct answers.
| One was passed up" while another
was wrong.
SO far as the rebus editor knows.
! there has been no person who has thus
/ far sert in a correct list. The prizes
are for those who get the entire list
/ correctly.
The contest will close at - o'clock
noon Friday. Aug. "a, and no answers
! received after the stroke of l. will be
! included in the contest. They will be
! thrown i'm the wastebasket in order
that there may be no confusion.
! A number of interesting letters have
| been sent with the lists of answers. One
reader of The Herald says:
"A few of my answers l am doubtful
! of. They taxed the imagination in
! some cases, but l enjoyed it,
! Another writes that while he is CeT-
! tain he mas guessed but a few Of the
REFUSES correctly. he viii send the
answers to show that he is a consist
ent reader of The Herald. Strangely
enough. this list ranks well up toward
! the top of those that have thus far
! been received.