The San Francisco call., 1909-08-31
WILL COUNT VOTES
! IN THE 81. FRANCIS
Winners of Seattle Trips and
Cash Prizes to Be Made
Known This Evening
IIluminations in Union Square
to Celebrate Close of Hard
Campaign for Ballots

Campaign for Ballots
will tonight be the scene of the excit-
| ing close OF the Portola travel contest
The room will be decorated for the
occasion. Mrs. John f. Merrill, presi-
| dent of the Working Girls Outing as
sociation, under whose patronage the
| contest has been managed, will be
present A. G. Mccarthy of the Portola
executive committee will be the official
referee of the count and ]. E. Alexan-
der, superintendent of the ST. Francis
Will be the announcer.
1t will be gala event. Outside in
the square there will be fireworks, and
the Portola Nominations which have
been installed for the festival will be
seen for the first time. The building
will be outlined in red and yellow
bulbs. In the tapestry room the space
between the four pillars will be in
closed by benches, to form the counting
| room.s Here Will be tables and desks
and corps of expert bank clerks and
6Q0Al6 1idCul4io 1OQ6IdIOIS WlIn Ll6lT
paraphernalia.
The seats around the inclosure will
be reserved for the candidates and their
managers. Friends of the contestants
and others interested in the race will
be provided with places.
MANY SURPRISES IN STORE
There will be many surprises in store.
The last few days of secrecy have been
strenuous ones for the contestants. No
one knows what progress they have
made. Since the count which decided
the contest for the diamond ring the
race has been in the dark
All the contestants are eager to claim
the place at the top of the list of
winners. The placing of the other II
at the conclusion of the count will be
no less exciting, for not until the votes
have been counted will it be known who
are to Compose the Portola party.
Everything has been arranged for
an accurate and fair method of count
ing the votes and of selecting In order
the candidates whose count shall be
made first. Lots will be drawn for DO
sition in regard to the order, and the
actual counting will be done by experts
with the aid of adding machines
mechanically correct
Even the contestants themselves will
not know accurately the total number
of ballots which has been cast for
them, for the ballot box at the Portola
information bureau at Third and Mar
ket streets may bring them in a batch
OF coupons of which they know moth
ing. 1t is expected that considerable
balloting will be done up to the
moment of closing this box at o'clock
tonight The voting coupons are for
sale at the counters of the bureau and
all the intending voter has to do is
to place his coupons in an envelope ad-
dressed with the name of his choice
of candidates and drop it into a box
Votes so received by the Judge will be
placed to the credit of the candidate
to whom they are addressed.
Votes will be received at the tapes
try room of the st. Francis until G
p. nl., at which hour the counting will
begin. The votes should be delivered
in sealed envelopes, with the name of
the candidate and the number of votes
nclosed plainly marked on the outside
Cash in lieu of votes will be received,
and in such cases the amount should be
stated on. the outside of the sealed in
closure.
The secrecy OF the last few days
balloting will bring forth many sur
prises. 1t is known that at the time
of the count OF the diamond ring con-
test several of the candidates who stood
UP near the top of the list in the matter
mond prize and many others were
reserving their strength until the last
day of the voting.
PRIZES FOR LUCKY GIRLS
The girl who appears at the top of
the list tonight will be awarded the
cash prize of 800 in gold: the next one
S75 and the other 10 $50. All the 12
VIII be given pair of shoes by the
Regal shoe company.
Co. az =.
the y winners will start on the excur-
sion to the northwest. All the choicest
accommodations on board the steam
ship Governor have been secured, and
from the moment the young women
step on board. they will be showered
with attentions. The Pacific Coast
steamship company has arranged for a
novel contest during the trip and will
award three handsome prizes to the
winners. The exact nature of the con-
test and the prizes to be given are
matters which are at present secrets
which Will only be known when the
party is well out to sea, but it is
known that the entire passenger list
viii be called on to vote. as the voting
coupons have been printed and will be
given to the passengers at table on the
first day out.
FRIENDS OF the contestants are work
ing strenuously for their candidates
and many Of them are known to have
secured large bstches of votes from
dement's and dances arranged for them
by their supporters
Nothing Doing" Said Bradbury
SAN RAFAEL, Aug. so.-"Nothing
doing, said William B. Bradubury
grufiy through the grating of his cell
door In the county jail today when
pretty Miss Clara vogel, one of the
candidates in the Portola queen con-
test in San Francisco, asked him in her
most persuasive manner to purchase a
few votes.
Miss VogeI in company with her sis
ter Olga visited San Rafael today to
solicit votes and call on many of the
friends she knew when she lived here a
few years ago.
After meeting with a generous re-
ception from the county officials in the
courthouse she ventured bravely in the
jail below and called Millionaire Brad
bury from his easy leather chair to the
door. Il am in the Portola queen con-
test. explained MISS yogel. ..Will
you buy few votes to help me win
a trip to Scatter"
The wealthy prisoner looked sur
Drised. and then he Sho41-