New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-28
NEW BOOKREADERS'
CONTEST OPEN TO ALL
To-day's Specimen Pictures Give
Tribune Readers Clear Idea
of Its Nature.
VALUABLE PRIZES OFFERED
Success of Previous Competl-
tions Carries Guarantee OF an
Absolutely Square Deal
for Those Who Enter.

The new Bookreaders' Contest of The
Tribune will open with the issue OF next
Monday. December 4, and to-day pros
pective contestants will find the nrst
specimen pictures. which are pubilsheu
70 give a clear idea of the nature OF
the contest.
This announcement of a third ana
greater pictorial contest gives to the
readers of The Tribune an opportuhI'N
70 win one of a list of more than one
thousand valuable prizes, the aggregate
value of which is upward Of Slo'ooo'
SAMPLE pictures and full explanation
of the contest. with a list of rules ana
a complete list of prizes will be louhu
on page D.
To those who followed either or poth
OF the previous contests, The tribune
Proverb Contest or The Trbune's Towns
and Cities Contest, this announcement
carries its own guarantee of an apso-
lutely fair and square chance 1or all Ho
matter where they live.
This new contest will be based on oooh
titles. Each day The Tribune VIII pup
lish two pictures, which will represent
tho names of books, and on correspond
inc blank coupon will be suitable space
for the answers.
Nothing will have to be written on the
answer coupons except the book utle'
and on the last six coupons the name
and address of the contestant. Inc
authors name will not be required ana
will not add anything TO the standing Oh
competitor who gives It, though at the
end Of the contest The Tribune VIII pup
usb a list of the correct answers ana
with the book titles thus given VIII pe
nrinted the names of the authors
The Tribunes Bookreaders' Contest
like the two previous contests conducted
bv The Tribune, will he open 10 any
reader of this newspaper, young or oid'
without regard 10 place of residence.
The only persons barred are employees
or members of the families Of employees
! of The Tribune.
Stearns fve-passenger automobile
valued at $1,000, heads the list Of prizes
and a White touring car comes next
| The third and fourth prizes will be
Boecker art player pianos, in mahogany
valued at 1850 each. A $500 Francis
Bacon art piano is the fifth prize and an
Anderson $500 player piano is sixth
Other pianos. an eight-piece dining
room suite and other valuable awards go
/ to make up he huge prize list, and, just
/ TO drive away any superstition that
might attach to the thirteenth prize, that
supposedly "hoodoo" number in the prize
! list will draw down 500 in cash. Those
who finish this contest in places from
fourteenth to seventeenth, inclusive, will
receive prizes Of cluster diamond rings,
/ ranging in value from $50 down to $40,
and the eighteenth prize will be $50 cash.
Residents Of greater New York Will
! have the same opportunity in this con-
/ test as any one else, but no greater. be-
cause il is competition to which every
reader of The Tribune is eligible. no
matter what part of the world he lives
| in. AS i'm previous contests Of The Trib-
une. the list of awards will be deter
mined solely upon the accuracy with
which the answers are given and without
regard for age or residence Of the con-
testant
The first announcement of the contest
was made yesterday and that announce
ment contained Illustrations of the prizes
TO be offered. In to-day's issue will be
found a complete list Of the prizes. to-
gether with the conditions Of the contest.
All those who contemplate entering the
contest should place an order with their
nearest neWsdeaer for copy Of The
Tribune every day, and thus be ready for
the opening on Monday.