Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-11-01
PRIZE WINNERS
IN THE POSTER
CONTEST NAMED
AdoIph TreidIer and Miss Helen
Dryden Capture First and
Second Honors.
POPULAR VOTE WAS IN
FAVOR or A JERsEYMAN
A. E. Foringer. Of crantwood,
Secures $500 as First
Choice Award.


The judges and the public radically
disagreed in their selection Of first
prize in the Newark poster contest.
The awards were announced today
The $1,000 first prize and $500 sec
ond prize awarded by the judges went
to Adolph Treidler and Miss Helen
Dryden. The winners were both
among the ten specially invited artists
to whom the Committee of One Hum
dred paid 500 each to compete, and
who were selected by the judges as
among the foremost poster artists In
the country. Miss Dryden's was the
only feminine name on the list.
The winner OF the $500 popular first
choice prize was A. e. Foringer, Of
Grantwood, this State. He was not
on the list Of ten. He secured the
largest number of votes cast by the
public during the period the exhibit
was on display in the Free Public
Library.
The $1,000 poster shows Robert
Treat directing the landing Of the
founders of Newark, strong. simple.
virile specimen of poster art, well
adopted to the purposes of the Com
mittee of One Hundred. The $500
poster is typicaliy feminine design,
a gay carnival spirit poster In which
| the festive features of the celebration
are brought to the front. It is rich
in coloring and bright and spirited.
Mr.. Foringer's design Is beautiful
painting in oil. 1t attracted great
attention during the exhibit and was
commented upon as one of the most
beautiful and artistic entries
Mr.. Trei0ler and Frank Bittner
we're the only members Of the spe-
cially invited ten whose designs
ranked among the first twelve in the
public esteem, according to the vote
at the library. Mr.. Treidler's poster
was eighth in the number Of votes
secured, and Mr.. Bittner's eleventh.
A poster by Byron g. Dreifoos, OF
III West Kinney street. Newark. ran
Mr.. Foringer's a very close second,
and was only three votes behind IN
the popular count. It was number
Indian gazing into 'rlstal Kail''
amazed at seeing the city that hszd
grown on his hurting grounds.
The Triumph Of Conndence.
Students of psychology will have a
first award, for 1t appears to be a
triumph of confidence. In August.
before he knew all the conditions OF
the contest. Mr.. Treidler, In his letter
telling the Committee of One Hun
dred he would compete, wroteaI ex-
pect to be married about fifteen min
utes after get your check for 81, 600. !"
AS all the designs went by Numbers
until after the awards were made,
the Judges didn't know one from an
other which proves how confident
Treidler was. Mr. TreidIer's inter-
probation OF his poster is interesting.
1t reads:
II felt in the poster depicting Rob-
ert Treat directing landing OF found
ers OF Newark that 1t was in order
that the actual founders, and in par
ticular the man who 1t seems or
ganized and directed the first efforts
Of the colonists, deserved to have
their labors definitely and in a digni-
fed. and In so far as the limitations
of Doster design permitted. realistic
wav commemorative in the official
poster of what is after all the anni-
versary Of what they did rather than
the celebration of subsequent happen
ings in the growth of Newark though,
of course, there are many reasons for
drawing attention to the results or
their labor"
Mr. Treldler's Career.
sketch Of Mr.. Treidler's life Is
contained in a letter he wrote Sec
retary Wilson j. Vance, of the Conn
mittee of One Hundred. He wrote:
II never had q real photograph of
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