Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-30
STARS PROvERB
CONTEST WINNERS
ARE ANNOUNCED
Oscar c. Kunze, Lawyer, Cap.
lures First Prize of SLIGO
Automobile.
A. ]. GARNER, B00KKEEPER,
RECEIVES SECOND AWARD
Both Get All But Four of Fifty
Right-2,000,0 900
Answers.
COMPLETE STOCKS

Oscar c. Kunze, Of SO Farley avenue.
Van Amringe & Schurze, 40 Wall street.
is the winner of the s1,1o0 Mitchell
touring car offered as the premier prize
in the EVENING STARS great
Proverb Contest, which closed a few
weeks ago. Mr.. kunze had correctly
interpreted forty-six of the fifty
proverb pictures, all but four OF his
answers agreeing with the list Of
proverbs originally selected by the
proverb contest committee
A. J.. Garner. of SO Dover street, book
keeper with p. Lowentraut Manufac-
turing Company in Bremen street. who
also also got ~forty-six of his proverb
nswer right, is the winner of the Sec
ond prize. the $3.50 Lauter piano-player.
It was necessary for the judges TO ex-
anime the answers of Mr.. Kunze and
Mr.. Garner with the greatest care be-
fore making their awards. Garner is
a veteran of the Spanish-Ameriean
War.
Owing to ties, seven prizes-fve-
dollar gold pieces-were added TO h
list of hfty-two prizes originally Of
ltiEu, HldhillS Tie Acl VI SutCCooAdt tOA
testants f1fty-nine in number. The
names of the inner and their prizes
will be found on another page.
So quietly did Mr.. Kunze go about
the work of preparing for the contest
that the members of his family did not
know he was a contestant. No one
was more surprised at the outcome OF
the contest than Mrs. Kunze, who de-
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intimation thai her husband was work
ing for a prize.
II noticed the pictures from the
first" said MIR. Kunze after he had
been notified of his success. ANS
clipped them out, but l did not think
seriously of entering the contest until
it was well under way. Efound / was
restlessly awaiting the appearance OF
the new pictures each day. Finally l
figured someone would have TO win, and
why shouldn't l be one of the success
full ones?
From that day I set myself serious
ly to the task of winning one of the
STARS prizes. L secured n of the
STARS p~roverb books and found It
of inestimable value. l did a great deal
Of the work on the train going to and
from New York. Often while I was
looking through the book for a certain
proverb 1 would come across another
proverb which seemed to nit an earlier
picture better than the p~roverb I had
previously picked. Whenever I was in
doubt 1 exercised my prerogative OF
sending in three nswers
Hardest Puzzle In List.
81 found the Rockefeller Foundation
to be by far the hardest nut to crack in
the contest. I felt more doubtful about
my three answers to that than about
all the rest of them put together.
In the last previous contest held by
the STAR ! was within one answer OF
being among the prize winners. I
think that experience helped win this
time. l got the hang of it.
Il find such a contest fascinating and
entertaining. n Of great educational
value. 1t gave me entertainment and
instruction during the weeks it ran,
and now, to cap the climax, 1 am being
richly rewarded"
So close was the tie for some of the
prizes hat they were lost to some con-
testants because of the omission of a
period or a comma. The judges found
it necessary TO take details into con-
sideration in deciding in some of the
close places.
DIR. Addison b. Poland, superintend-
emit of public schools and one of the
three judges in the contest. in speaking
for himself and John Cotton Dana, OF
the Public Library. and Mrs. Beatrice
NJ. Stern. Essex county chairman of the
New Jersey State Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs, the other two judges. had
this to say of the contest today:
Judging by the large number of con-
testants attracted by the EVENING
STARS Proverb Contest. it struck q
chord Of sympathetic interest. The
game has been amusing. instructive
and highly profitable to a great many
persons. The task Of the judges was
made difficult by the large number Of
competitors, and vet the system in
augurated by the judges made it pos
sible to go through the answers rap
idly and accurately.
THE greatest care was taken in the
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