Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-02-17
MUCH INTEREST IN
VOTING CONTEST.
Many Comments are Made TODAY on
Plan of Gazette to Send Three
Ladies to Europe.
DELIGHTFUL TRIP PLANNED
Those Who Get Busy 1T Once Will Have
Big Advantage, as an Early Start Is a
Prime Factor for Success

Considerable interest has thus early
been aroused in the mammoth sub,
scription voting contest started oy
the Gazette and comments have been
freely and frequently made on the
magnitude of the enterprise and the
splendid opportunity it offers to the
ladies of this city and vicinity to Sc
cure free tour of Europe.
Other offers have been made by
newspapers in this city and vicinity
in the past, and it probably would not
be erroneous to say that many offers
will be made in the future, but no OIL
fer of such proportions has ever been
made and in all it's future history such
an extraordinary offer may never
again be duplicated. The fact that the
offer is an exceedingly rare one and
carries with it remarkable opportu-
nifty for the ladies If the country tells
WHY it is attracting so much atten-
ton.
MANY OF the ladies so far heard
from have shown a personal interest
in the winning of the tour and nave
expressed their intention OF dong
their utmost to be one of the three
fortunate ones who make a dream OF
q lifetime a reality. Trips such as
those offered by the Alexandria ia
zette have seldom before been given
by a newspaper outside of the large
metropolitan journals, and it is but
natural that the ladies should be per-
sonally and ardently interested in VIM
ming them they are put to no expense
whatever except their personal efforts
for the short time that the contest
covers.
The full plan upon which the con-
test will be conducted and the winners
of the trips decided will be found IN
Fridays issue of the Gazette, copies
of which may be had at this office on
request.
All ladies who contemplate entering
the contest should commence their
campaign for votes and subscriptions
Immediately. An early start is a
prime factor for success; it secures
the exclusive efforts of the candidates
friends, and inlists the greatest am
cunt of energy and enthusiasm at the
time when the vote schedule is the
hirhest and while the field is cleanest
for the canvass and will produce the
greatest results.
Moreover, during the first ten days
of the contest all coupons published
in the issues of the Gazette will count
ten votes. BY reason of the unusual
value of these nomination ballots dur
ing the first ten days of the contest,
contestants can amasS a large vote
with little effort.
While a large number votes can be
secured by means of the voting cou-
mons. contestants can accomplish the
most good for themselves by making
a solicitation for prepaid subscrip-
tions which with the special ballots
count more than the voting coupons,
and it will really be by means OF the
special ballots that the winners OF the
tours will be decided.
Ladies from everywhere in the dis
tricts named may participate and the
Gazette will be thankful to any Of its
friends who will write the name, adj
dress and district number of any wor-
+bv woman on the coupon and send to
this office.
If YOU are interested in the con-
test for yourself or a friend and desire
any further information than given
in this paper, call up the contest man
aeer. phone No. 7, and he will gladly
explain any detail of the contest.
Any lady desiring to enter the con-
test should look up the rules and con-
ditions, determine which district she
is in, then clip the nomination blank,
fill it out with her name, address and
district number, and bring or send 1t
to the contest department of the Gaz-
cite.
The names of the candidates nomi-
mated will appear ina few days, and
everyone wishing to nominate friend
or themselves should rush their nomi-
nation blanks to the Gazette Office sc
that the names of the ladies they
have nominated viii appear with the
first publication of names. To enter
the contest it is not necessary to be {