Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-14
SONG AND BOOK
CONTEST WINNERS
Continued from First Page.)

correct; also the error of emitting
the word The" in No. "a and nu-
merous errors in punctuation. He
was, therefore, placed in the three
plus incorrect class.
Mrs. Mary B. Yates, of "a Home
stead Park, was found to have three
answers incorrect, plus errors in
punctuation, etc. She. therefore, was
placed in the three plus class.
A complete list of the winners and
their standing and winnings will be
found elsewhere.
The following contestants had five
answers incorrect, plus errors in
punctuation, etc. This list is given
here that those whose names are in
cluded may know their exact stand
ing. They probably will not them
selves take into account errors in
punctuation, ETC.
Harry o. Jones, So Temple street,
Paterson.
William r. Porter, Spring lane,
Englewood.
NJ. Payne, 761 South Twentieth
street.
Lewis F'riell, 1874 Plane street.
Lorne B. Walker, 1S9 North Fiji
teenth street, East Orange,
William Elsdron, 90 Orator street.
Mrs. NeCIle b. CODuTn, 20 NOrtn
Fifth street.
Mrs. c. o. Goodwin, 1870 Orchard
street.
L. o. Hart, 105 Roseville avenue.
S. j. Derby, 500 Chadwick avenue.
Frank L. Van Ness, 73 Thirteenth
avenue.
1t was a well contested race. as the
result shows. When a record of only
two answers wrong out of a total
of fifty is established and there are
seventeen who have only three wrong,
it certainly shows that the public is
gaining in the knowledge of solving
the puzzle pictures. A few have
written us calling attention to speci-
fie pictures and giving it as their
opinion that such and such an an
sWer would be more fitting. We can
not agree with these and insist that
the pictures do illustrate the titles
they are made to represent. In
contest Of this kind, it is not merely
a question of ease of solution, for, as
we have pointed out many times, we
cannot make the pictures too easy of
solution, because if we did, it would
be no contest at all and every con-
testant would become first prize
winner These contests, aside from
the value of the prizes offered, are
contests of wits and brains To win
one thousand dollars or two hundred
dollars is certainly well worth a big
effort and we plan 1T so that the
person who shows the greatest facility
In solving the puzzle pictures must be
declared the winner And this facility
is in the final analysis, nothing more
or less than conscientious study and
research. The pictures present the
same difficulties Of solution to one
contestant as to another and the fact
that Mabel Mills has solved all but
two correctly must show that she
gave more thought and study to
them.
The Evening Star congratulates her
and all the other prize winners.
1t was certainly a great contest;
some 1000 sets of answers were re-
ceived, which entaied a vast amount
of labor in arriving at the winners,
| OF course, the great magnet was the
| first prize of one thousand dollars.
But the next four prizes, each a trip
| to the Yellowstone National Park,
are well worth the effort to win.
| Mrs. Mabel Mills, of 144 Johnson
avenue, the winner of the first prize
in the Song and Book Contest, re-
ceiVed the news today of her success
in the contest with extreme delight.
ooh, I'm so happy" she said ITS
| the first worth while prize I ever re-
ceived. I've been in many contests,
and won twice before. Neither prize
amounted to anything, though.
II felt sure I was going to get
/ something in the proverb contest the
Evening Star ran several weeks ago.
| But the examination of the coupons
showed l had several answers wrong
and that l was only entitled to 81. I
have that check yet [ was keeping
| 1t for good luck" she said
You know" said Mrs. Mills, at
vexed my husband so much to see me
working at those problems. He
would rather l play cards with him
or go out. But ] just delighted in
| the work. And then when l got a
| dollar in the proverb contest 1t gave
Mr. Mills a certain amount of graft
fication-not the amount, but simply
| the fact that / got something.
"And now that l have won 81 900. I
feel quite sure that he will insist that
I enter all the contests The Star con
/ ducts" she concluded