Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-11-20

test management divided the city in to districts and prizes were offered to the most pupolar contestants in these districts. This increased the interest in the contest and resulted in satisfaction for everybody, which was the chief desire of the Graphic management.
 Slowly at first the votes commen- ced to come in, then gradually, as the workers got warmed up in tho race, they rolled in in such numbers that the totals soon amounted to enormous figures. The friends of the contestants desired to see their favorites win, and insisted by mak ing the race one of public interest by voting for them and getting their friends to do likewise. The smallest boy or girl was just as powerful ss their elders in boosting their favor ite contestant
 CT two from his office at inte 'vals during the contest to make person. al canvass for some friend :n :ne race, and many dinner dish was left unwashed while the women of the household went calling and in- cidentally looking for votes.
 Fairness of Contestant
 The management of the Graphic is being congratulated on every side from disinterested persons, from busi- ness men and the contestants them selves for the treatment accorded each and every contestant.
 Some became discouraged and doubtful of the final outcome, but giving the benefit of the doubt, which is greatly appreciated, they had personal interviews with the contest managers and learned to their own satisfaction that the least evidence of unfairness or partially was unfounded, and that fair, square and impartial deal was being accorded every contestant.
 This feeling increased the enthusi asm and interest shown by all the contestants in their untiring efforts III which nine Free Trips Were offer d 70 popular, energetic men and women residing i'll the city of Pine Fl #.
 No doubt every one connected With the contest has been benefited in one way or another in the experi- ence gained in business way. which is an incentive to greater un- dertaking.
 Advertising Value. No contest in the local history was more successful than this one. In fairness to almost every one of the contestants who worked during the contest it must be said that they gave their almost undivided atten- tion to the securing of new subscrib- CTS and increasing the circulation of the Graphic ill great numbers. For six weeks the Graphic Voting Con- ttest has been one of the chief top ics of conversation in Pine Bluff The public generally awakened to het fact that the Graphic has now over one thousand hew subscribers ! who, up until the contest were not subscribrs to this paper. but are now it's most staunch supporters.
 If there is one class of people more than another interested in the contest. it is the business men and general advertisers ,who will be the first to note the increase in the | standing of the contestants this morning will draw their own con- clusions as to the remarkable gah in circulation which means an added value to this paper as an advertis in medium.
 It was impossible to anticipate such a remarkable reception as the one accorded the Graphic Free Tril Contest. It appealed to the public and by the increased circulation tax merchants and advertisers who usG the columns of the Graphic to ad- Vertise are the ones to be directly benefited, therefore; apart from the awarding of the trips to wide-awakt ambitious contestants, it has incurred inestimable benefits to the merchants and ofher advartiSerS
 H0nors Deserved.
 The successful contestants arc named today as the result of the official count by four disinterested citizens, who had no motives in the contest other than to accept the in vitation of the management to make a thorough and complete count oi the ballots cast in the contest
 WINNERS MAY FEEL PROUD.
 The winners may we'll feel proud of the fact that they have run one race in thousand and have come out with deserving honors of having outrun and outclassed workers who have done well and would under Or dinary conditions have had enough votes to win out. The contestants have all done splendid work, and some have been more successful than others, but this is largely due to the ~l.s