The Sentinel=record., 1909-10-30
MANY HAVE ENTERED THE TOUR OF EUROPE coNTEs AND
 RACE IS ON IN EARNEST.
Large Number of Names Attests the Popularity of Contest Plan and Shows Hearty Appreciation of
 People--Read the List.

The great personally conducted European tour contest of the Sentinel Record is on, In this issue Is told Tor the first time the real story of the campaign in the tnree-tour contest.
 Elsewhere in this issue will Ue found the names of the young ladies who have been entered in this com. petition up to today and these candi- dates, grouped together. form a solid phalanx for the grand charge on the tours. The track is clear and every fair contestant has the "right-of-way Votes have been pouring into the Sen office ever since the first announcement of the tours was maoe and every contestant whose names have been announced has goodly number of votes to her credit. Both districts is represented and, as the days go by, more candidates are sure to be entered and the contest will be. come more and more exciting.
 Breaking All Records.
 Never before have such a large number of young ladies been drawn together by popular enterprise. Votes have come from every section of the city and friends of the candi. dates intend backing their favorite to the very end. Vote-getting. with the exception of the nomination ballots, has not been started yet. but now that the names are announced. baloting will be stronger and it is predicted that before many days pass "trenzied voting will be the order of the day.
 Contestants who are not in the ini tial position in their respective dis. tricts should not be discouraged on that account. The difference of few hundred votes or even a few thousand, is of little consequence at this time, as the contest has six full weeks to run, during which any contestant may bridge the chasm which may exist be tween her name and the top of the list The votes which have been cast for each contestant up 10 o'clock this afternoon will be published in SentinelRecord tomorrow morning (Sunday)
 Subscriptions Count Big.
 During the first period, which ends November 1S s5.00 subscription counts 900 votes to the contestant re. ceiving 1t from anso4d subscriber and 2,700 votes from an old subscriber. One or two of these will place any candidate in any district at the head of the list with god majority to spare.
 Contestants and their friends should bear in mind that every vote counts and should clip the nomination ballots from the Sentinel-Recoro every day and either drop them in one of the contest ballot boxes or send them by mail to the Contest Manager of the Sentinel-Record. You will find the list of ballot boxes at the end of this article and the voting Is entirely secret and confidential and no one will know for whom you are voting unless you disclose that fact yourself. The ballot boxes will be tapped at o'clock every weekday afternoon and the result of the days balloting will be published in the next issue of the Sentinel-Record.
 A Golden Opportunity.
 The opportunity to take q trip to the old world, especially with every expense of the trip paid. has never before been presented to the ladies of this section, and the opportunity ] may never be repeated. No lady who wishes to take a tour of Europe l Europe should fail to make the most 1 of the opportunity here presented and 1 from the manner in which many peo pie have already expressed them selves, 1t is believed none of them viii. Irresistible as the tour is itself | Inc opportunity to secure t Is equally irresistible.