Arizona republican., 1910-04-17
MRS. JEnckES GETS
 REOEW|LL's PIANO
Jack Adams Finds Himself With the
 S250 Talking Machine.

The cashiers of the four banks of the city. Messrs s. Oberfelder. R. B.
 Gurmister, George H. Lutgerding and l.. G. Christy. the committee appoint
 ed by the Redewill Music company to
 pass on it's word contest, last night
 reported the findings in respect of the
 first and second prizes offered. The
 third prizes were quite numerous and
 have been responded to already hy the
 Redewill company. through personal
 letters enclosing the certificates of
 award. The first prize. the s650 auto
 piano, was won by Mrs. Anne Kibbey
 Jenckes Of 930 East Washington street
 she having submitted i02 words that
 passed the eagle eyes of the commit
 tee. which sat buried in q maze of dic-
 tionaries. John D. Adams a draftsman
 in the surveyor generals office. at the capitol, won the second prize. s250 talking machine, having got 95 words past the judges.
 Both contestants had listed many words that would not pass under the rules, as also, had many other contest ants. There were about 2S00 lists of words submitted from all over the ter ritOry nearly hundred of the contest ants submitting in the neighborhood of 100 words and one list numbered 333 words, But in nearly all the long lists. numerous words had to be thrown out as proper names, technical terms. obsolete, or words from other languages that did not apply. The rules specified that the words were to be of a sort recognized in the lan- guage generally to whom all had &C., cess by the use of recognized stand ards, so it would haze been manifest ly unfair to admit lot Of technical terms that no one but q scientist or a specialist ever heard Of Many words submitted by Mrs. Jenckes and MT. Adams fell beneath the ax in this way, as was the case with most of the long lists.
 The committee that passed judg- ment has had strenuous time. It has devoted all its available time since the contest closed and has verified its judgments by careful reference to the standards. It may be presumed that these gentlemen are now pretty good authorities on words themselves and probably worked harder and found more that they never knew before than anybody who participated in the contest.
 The winning lists may be seen at the Redewill store by anyone interested and the public is invited to come and inspect them. The lists submitted by both Mrs. Jenckes and MT. Adams were works of art in their setting, Mrs. Jencles' list being in a red cov- cred book with hand-painted covers, and with references in an adjoining column, for the authority Of all words which the contestant thought might be disputed. On the inside of the back cover was a rhyme Of eight lines the first letters of each line spelling the word "Redewill.' as follows:
 Redewills contest did see
 Elegant piano given free"
 Doing the R's, and Is and Els,
 Each of the W's and all of the D's. With added interest then the Is, l took the words each letter spells, Lacking the piano these pages l fill, Longing for the piano from Redewill.
 Mir. Adams is a draftsman by pro- fession and his contest effort is ample proof of it He took a large card board and drew the name Of the Rede- will Music company in an arch over the top of it. At the bottom he had a small reproduction of the globe bear ing the flags of all countries. In the center. was the picture Of the piano he did not not get, and other ornamenta- tion such as only an artist could make. gracet the sides of the card. Each side of the picture of the piano were the list Of words, inscribed in perfect lettering. The entire card looked when almost like an engraving.
 The contest has elicited a great deal of interest and has demonstrated thor oughly the value Of advertising An swers have come from almost every town in the territory and the Rede- will company is only sorry it cannot | give piano to each one who has tried for it.