The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-14
RUSSIAN COUNT
ENTERS CONTEST
Man Who Escaped From Sibe-
ria Is Among Can
didateS.
AN INTERESTING TALE
OTHERS GETTING INTO RACE
JUST COMMENCING.
INTERESTING I

Now that the excitement OccasiOned by
the offer of four special prizes has mar
rowed down to gladstone words from the
fortunate hUstlers-fortunate in being en-
ergetic and early-the assertion that The
Herald's great election contest IS just
opening is becoming more widely Undt--
stood. Some persons at first thought that
last Saturday night marked a close Of
something or other" Instead the dis
tribution OF the special prizes was really
nothing more than the go OF the race.
They're OFF, is the tenn the contest
brings to mind nov. But they're really
not off vet They're just getting lined
I'D TO the tape and the entry list is see
ing new names appear daily.
While the game is young. why not get
in? Isn't $1,000 home sufficient induce
ment2 The prizes are declared the best
ever offered in any contest. What, then,
can make one hesitate2 Echo answers
"WhRt?" and In the meantime the wise
ones are entering.
The very best people in the land are
entered or entering. This contest is DIFF
ferent from ali others. 1t invites inspec-
ton and welcomes the most exacting ex-
animation Its every detail is an induce
ment to enter and its contestants are its
best advertisement.
When you come TO think that prizes
worth hundreds and thousands Of dollars
are to be given away Thanksgiving even
ing you will realize that IL will be sure
" a Thanksgiving evening for those who
entered the race and kept a-soing. It's
entirely up TO you as to whether you or
a friend will be among the winners Of
the big and valuable prizes or one of
those who will scOld themselves IN pri-
Vate for letting real, meritoriOus and
decidedly golden opportunity pass by
without getting IN line and having an
equal chance with everybody.
Did you ever hear of a failure that was
lined with pleasure? There is no such
thing. you say. Oh. yes. there is. The
Herald's interviewer experiences them
every day. 1t is this way: When the
interviewer calls at the home of a Her
aid contestant and Is told that Miss
So-and-SO is not at home because she
is out getting votes for one Of The Her
AIDS dandy prizes the call IS a fail
ure, but yet has Its pleasant phases.
Now DENY that some failures have a
happy coloring. 1t is a common thing for
the interviewer to find a candidate tout"
day after day 1t is these candidates.
usually out" who are getting handsome
figures. They are rustlers, and the rust
Ter is the one who does things.
One contestant has been out" for three
afternoons now and she is turning I'm
bundles Of votes daily. The contestant is
Mrs. J. b. Shirmer. one of the newest in
the race. Mrs. Shirmer's name was sent
In TO the Contest Department only an
evening or two ago. She resides at 37S
East Third South street and during her
few days running has reached second
place In District A-surely a record that
Is proof of what hustle" viii do. Mrs.
ShirTner is "hustlng," and that explains
the constant stream of votes coming in
for her. II explains why a few days
effort made her total p 200 Tuesday night.
Among the Salt Lake contestants there
is one who traces his ancestry back to
the twelfth century and is himself a Rus
sian nObleman- This is Lieutenant Colo
mel Count Alexander NJ IsOchWitZky. He
was late lieutenant colonel and chief of
the bureau of the Russia war office, but,
upon being eXiied to bleak Saghalen ISL
and. Siberia. for founding a free school
for poor and illiterate Russian peasants,
he managed to escape and came to Amer
lea. the land of the free" AS soon as