Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-30
STARS PR0vERB
CONTEST WINNERS
ARE ANNOUNCED

examination of the sets of answers re-
turned by the winner in order that
the prizes might be accurately dis
tributed. Those who participated in the
contest may rest assured that no pains
were spared to make it thoroughly I'M
partial and fair in every particular"
! 0 400 2
The EVENING STARS Proverb Con-
test has proved much more successful
than it was even hoped it would be.
Nearly $1,000 persons competed. The
separate answers examined aggregated
the enormous total of over 1000, 900.
Fourteen clerks assisting the judges
spent weeks in asserting and classify
ing the " Immediately after the
contest opened the correct list of an
swers was deposited under seal with
the Fidelity Trust Company. This list
remained in the safety deposit vault
until the contest was closed, when it
was removed by the judges.
No one member of the EVENING
STAR staff knew a. the answers to
the proverb illustrations. The nswer
were prepared by four different mem
bers of the staff. Each person selected
d isl OIL DTONtIDSy Sedicu illtlil I'LL all
envelope and gave the ideas for the
pictures to the artist who drew them.
All of the separate envelopes contain
ing the correct answers to the series
of fifty proverb pictures were then
placed in one large envelope, sealed
and locked in the safety deposit vault.
While regretting the necessity of de-
laying so long the announcement of
A., rri,,p oro u oatcad hxy thu trap1nndniJ
flood of W which poured into the
STAR office, primary consideration was
given to the work of making the
awards fair inc honest, and nothing
was permitted Il interfere with it. The
prize winners and their prizes follow:
First Prise winner.
Oscar c. Kunze, of SO Farley avenue,
won the first prize, the LOO Mitchell
Automobile, from the Mitchell Auto
Company.
Mr.. Kunze is the manager of a large
concern at 40 Wall street, New York,
but even at that he was able to spare a
little time to decipher the proverbs.
He aid that he was delighted beyond
expression, and that he felt more than.
repaid for the time and labor expended
in the work. He has lived in this city
for twentv-seven years.
Albert ]. Garner. of SO Dover street,
won the second prize, a Lauter-
Humane, $3.50, style o, Empire. He
kas peer a resident of this city for If
teen years. He saw service in the
United States Regular Army at a
Juan and is now a bookkeeper for
P. Lowentraut Manufacturing Com
pany, in Bremen street.
ME. Garner is more than pleased with
his prize, which he says will afford him
as much pleasure as the automobile. as
he is very fond of music.
Charles G. Terwilliger, of 215 Smith
street, in the Vailsburg section, won the
third prize. a Hallet & Davis Co. $3.50
player piano. He is manager of Divi-
sion M, in the Prudential Insurance
Company, and has lived in Newark
more than thirty years.
George L, Larkin, of 391 Central ave-
nue., won the REQ Runabout, worth
$500, furnished by the Union Motor Car
Company.
Mr.. Larkin is employed by the Etna
Life Insurance Company. New York.
He is a graduate of the Central Avenue
School and president of the school
alumni association. Several weeks ago
he attended a car party and won a
large automobile veil, which he gave to
his mother, saying, keep this, as you
may need it when 1 win one of the
EVENING STARS automobiles in the
proverb contest" Both enjoyed the
Joke. and now they will enjoy the auto
mobile.
David III. Roszel, 80 Sanford street.
East Orange, got the Baumann-Froehlich
,Company's $500 three-piece mahogany
dining-room suite, which he says will fit
very nicely at his home. He is a civil
engineer in the Public Service Corpora
ton offices in Jersey City.
Mrs. Sara Ii. Baldwin, wife of DIR. S.
H%arbourne Baldwin, of 479 Clinton We
nue.. won the Edisonia Company's 5000