The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-10
II Candidates Qualify in Novel Contest as
Part of Portola Festival

Although only IL candidates hav'
fully qualified to date for the contest
of the working girls outing associa-
ton, in which the i winners will be
sent on an excursion to the Alaska
Yukon-Pacifie exposition at Seattle
and to British Columbia, the contest
promises to be one of the liveliest ever
known in this city. The ballot boxes
will not be, installed in the different
voting stations until this forenoon,
but many of the contestants already
have secured votes that run into five
figures.
Every candidate is ambitious to be
first in the list of winners. The con-
testants already entered are employed
in all parts of the city and hold vari-
Gus positions. They have secured COM
petent managers to condnct their cam
paigns and, are determined to be first
when the votes are counted
Miss Anna keenan,, Postal telegraph
operator on the floor of the merchants
exchange, great favorite with the
brokers and shipping men who fire.
quent that place constantly is in the
race to win. The members of the ex-l
change have pledged their support to
her and are enthusiastic over her can
didacy. Miss. keenan, was the second
candidate to enter the contest. She has
selected jerry Daley as her man
ager.
Miss Julia Estelle Coleman, the first
young woman to enter the contest, has
secured the services of Jimmy Nc
! Cullough. room clerk at the st. Francis
hotel Miss Coleman also is a Postal
telegraph operator and she promises to
/ head the list of winners. In speaking
of Miss Coleman's candidacy last night,
Mccullough said:
My candidate will be head and
shoulders over every other in the con-
test-that is. if hard work and popu-
/ larity count for anything. She will
win with flying Portola colors and al
ready has been pledged a sufficient
number of votes to place her in a po-
sition to make the others go some
/ OF course, / don't know what others in
the contest have been promised, but
believe that we are going to take the
lead at the start and maintain it until
the votes are counted-and when they
have been counted we will be first. We
won't be satisfied unless We are first"
Among the young women who quail
| fed yesterday was Miss Sarah Thorold
who represents the Peoples creamery
in Twenty fourth street, who started in
the race with 10000 votes and a prom
Use of another 10000. Miss Thorold is
a strilkingly handsome girl and has Sc
cured the support of the dairy and
creamery organize tons. Another of
the candidates who qualified yesterday
/ is Miss Lottie Lewelling Bonilla, niece
of former President Bonilla of Hon.
duras and a cousin of former Governor
/ Lewelling of Kansas. Miss Bonilla
/ has the militant and ambitious quail
ties of her distinguished kinspeople
and is determined to be among the
first three of the winners. She is re-
cording secretary of the Swastika club
and a member of Genevieve parlor,
/ n p. c.. w.
Miss Ada Macdonald has been chosen
as the candidate TO represent the en-
ployes of the American and Pacific
Coast biscuit company's factory, and is
equally confident. of becoming the lead
er in the contest. She has the in
dorsement Of her~fir and that of the
Association of Collegiate Alumnae and
Catholic educational society She is
a member of the Swastika club and
extremely popular with her fellow
workers.
Miss Bertha Chuck is the candidate
from S. N Wood & Co, and the entire
staff of that firm has promised its sup
port Miss Elizabeth Becker has been
chosen to represent the Darlington
I Geller cigar company, and Miss Mabel
| Cornelius will represent Lippman
/ Brothers, Twenty second and Mission
| streets.
Miss Anna 6. Hupp. who has charge
of Roos Brothers mail order depart
ment, is a prominent candidate who is
extremely popular with every employe
of the store and with her numerous
customers. Miss Nora Dwyer of the
cloak and suit department of the
White House viii represent that estab-
lishment Miss Mabel Carol will be
! the candidate from Magnin's. and Miss