The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-20
EVERY INCH OF GROUND BEING CONTESTED IN ToUR.oF-EU-
 ROPE CONTEST.
Superb HustIers Succeeded in Polling 15,ooo Votes Yesterday--Inter- est Is Nearing the White
 Heat Stage.

Yesterdays ballotng aggregated something like 15,000 votes and as they were so well distributed among all of the contestants that it only re- suited in bringing to the top one new leader, and that was in the Second district, where Miss Eura Barnett went from third to first place.
 In the First district Miss Mooney still holds down frst but as she is resting in the easy chair she may have to give it up to some one of the other contestants at any time, and from the way some of these lassies are working and piling up big re- serve of special ballots they are iia- ble to wrest the honor away from her today
 There is no question about it. this period is going to be the biggest and greatest one the contest has yet known All the candidates have been quick to see into the great opportun- ity presented them in the double vote offer at this period and every possible subscription is being gathered in while the subscriptions count for the double votes.
 
 It is not only the candidates them selves who are eager to get ir all the subscriptions they can this period. The people of the city and country who are interested in the various candi- dates are equally anxious #o help friends among the contestants while they can do them the most good No candidate should fail to realize that the people will be more than glad to help her this period; for while the double vote offer gives hhe candidates an opportunity of doubling the results of their work this period, it also of fers the people of this city and vicin ity an opportunity of doing their fay- orite double favor.
 Tours To Be Won This Period.
 This period will no doubt be the most eventful of the entire contest. It is safe prediction that the work put up by the candidates and their friends this week and next will play an important part in the winning of the prizes at the finish, and it may be this periods work which will de- termine the final winners of the tours of Europe offered as the prizes Of the contest. Those candidates who wish to maintain the best chances of win ming the tour at the finish are HOW making telling efforts while the dou ble vote offer is on and are gathering in the subscriptions in large numbers this week
 Ballots and subscriptions are pour ing into the Sentinel-Record office al- most in steady stream and the con test grows in interest with each pass ing Gay and presents new faces and conditions. Each day changes in the relative standing of the contestants is witnessed and the leading candi- dates of one day are forced to give way the next day to other candidates W ho develop .unsuspected strength and loom large as leaders for the tours. It is little wonder that the people of Hot Springs and vicinity have be- come interested to a remarkable de gree and watch the progress of the contest with as great interest as they ordinarily devote to a presidential election or any other event of national scope.
 Some important changes in the Ol CdiiuiudltS diC dbt ub take place tomorrow as the office WAS busy all day vest erday taking sub scriptions for the different candidates.
 Three weeks and a day remain of the great struggle. These weeks will be of expressing interest for with the nearness of the finish naturally interest becomes more intense.
 Count More Than Ever.
 Ofthe double vote offer for this period, only seven working days re main, and the subscription to do the candidate the most good should reach the office of the Sentinel-Record be- fore s o'clock, Saturday evening, No vember 27. Some of the candidates and their friends are of the opinion that the schedule will again be changed for the final period and still a greater number of votes allowed for subscriptions. but in this they err as there will be nc change in the last period schedule. Subscriptions will count more for the contestant this period than at any other time during the contest This is emphatic and true
 All contestants are notified that the ten-vote coupons deposited during the first period will he destroyed on No vember 22. and any who are not sat isfed that their votes have been cor fectly recorded up to the opening of