The San Francisco call., 1907-01-31

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Five new contestants scored for the
| first time in the gold prize contest
| Yesterday Five new names appear in
/ the score card today increasing the
number who have entered in the present
period, to date, to thirty three The
! list is steadily growing and will not
! fall short of fifty after all who have
| expressed a desire to win some or the
! prizes get started in the work.
Most notable among the new con-
testants whose names appear in the
list for the first time today is Miss
Effie Vaughn of Merced, who jumps
! into tenth place at the first bound,
with a score of $3.50. Miss Vaughn
gives promise of being one of the very
| best contestants. 1T has been hard
to do much of late on account of the
! weather" she says, but / hope to send
more in the near future" Miss Vaughn
/ is fortunate in getting in ahead of such
! popular and successful contestants as
/ Mrs. Mary c. Deasy and Miss lrma
| Klaumann. who won second and third
prizes respectively in the first period.'
LINCOLN SCHOOL GIRL
Miss Hattie Eden begins as No. II,
with a score of $500, the second largest
number of votes registered by any con-
| testant yesterday. Miss Eden is very
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and a native granddaughter OF san
Francisco. as she might be termed,
/ she not only having been born in this
! CITY. but her mother before her. Hat
! ties mother is widow who lost her
/ home in the big fire of last April
/ During the summer Mrs. Eden and her
little daughter found refuge with
| friends in San Mateo, but they have
come back to their beloved native city
to begin life over again. Miss Hattie
attends the Lincoln Grammar School
and has just been promoted to the Is
! sixth grade. She has won her promo
| tion regularly every six months since
she began going to school. she is
very bright little girl, we'll beloved by
her teachers and schoplmates, and has
a host of friends whom she Will ask
| to support her in the contest. One or
Hatties friends has remarked that her
| surname is very appropriate, as II
| everybody had as gentle and pleasant
| a disposition as she has, this world
would be an Eden indeed. Miss Eden
is one of the youngest of the contest
ants, but she has made good start
and is likely to give good account
of herself throughout the contest.
Hattie NJ Hoppock. the new Fresno
| contestant, has sent in her first 2zoO
votes. which starts her as No. Il. she
! has gone earnestly to work, and Will
II
/ the score list ere long. The other pop
ular Fresno candidate, Miss May Err
win has not been heard from yet in
| this period of the contest, but will
probably give Miss Hoppock a hard run
for the favor of the Fresno people
! Miss Ruth Louis of Alameda has reg
istered. her first 200 votes. starting in
as No. so She reports that severe
attack of neuralgia has prevented her
from doing much in the contest as yet,
| but she expects to get better results
| before long.
MORE NEwsBoYs IN LINE
Encouraged by the success that Jack
the Newsboy" of San Jose is making in
the contest, D. Rosenburg, one of the
most wideawake young newsmongers
in San Francisco, has decided to take
hand in the game. David holds forth
at Fell and Fillmore streets daily,
where he sells The Call and other pa
pers. and where he is building up
steady business because people like to
deal with him. He has many friends
among the business men who buy pa
pers of him, and he is going to try to
get some of the prize money by asking
his many friends to subscribe for The
Call through him. Rosenburg the news
boy starts in at the bottom of the list
with only so votes to his credit, but
great oaks from little acorns grow, eand
he expects to see these few votes grow
into winning score.
Another ambitious newsboy who is
going to try for some of the prize
money is Eugene Forno of North Beach,
an italian lad who lives in Washington
square and is very popular in the 1tal-
ian colony Eugene is the most pop
ular newsboy at his end of the city,
and is likely to give Emerson and
Rosenburg, the other ''newsies" in the
contest good run for the money.
MISS MERANI STILL LEADS
Miss Norma Merani continues to hold
first place, and yesterday Increased her
lead by 1900. Miss Merani was very
much pleased at receiving a courteous
note and check for a three months
subscription to The Call from Charles
e. Fuller. an oakland business man,
who. although stranger to her and
her family, rendered her his voluntary
support. Miss Merani acknowledged
the favor by sending Mr. Fuller the
following note:
OAKLAND, Cal. Jan. 80. 1907.
Charles z. Fuller. 1908 Eighth street Oak
land-Dear SIR 1nelosed you will please find
receipt for 50 20 for three months subscrip-
tion to The Call. appreciate the favor, as
/ am the only candidate from Oakland for the
prizes given by The Call, and more than
pleased to know that the merchants and people
didacy Thanking you again for your kind favor.
I remain yours, NORMA NIERANI.
CONTEST PERIODS
he contest is divided into three
periods. constituted as follows:
FIRST-November 10 to January 13.
eight weeks.
SECOND-January u to March 8.
seven weeks.
THIRD-March to April IA. six
weeks.
THE PRIZES
There are twenty-five prizes to be
competed for during each contest Pc
riod. Consisting OF twenty-five purses
of gold coin ranging in amount from
$40 UP to $500 and making a total of
Comm FOR aa oh nariOd