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unday Bee PAST TWO WOMAN'S SECTION PAGES ONE TO EIGHT PAST IV 0 EDITORIAL SECTION PAGES ONE TO EIGHT VOL. XLI NO. OMAHA, SUNDAY MOliNIXO, AUGUST 6, 1911. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. IIZQ ill ID lizzie Contes AWARDS MADE BY JUDGES f r FIRST PRIZE WINNER, SKCOXD PRIZK WINNER. THIRD PRIZK WINNER. The Omaha Booklovers Who Won The Omaha t Two Grand Prize Winners in Omaha and Two Out of City. FLORIST BLOOMS AS FIRST MAN J. H. Bath, 14123 Harney Street, to Be Frond roanraaor of Grand Apper oa Tearing Car Offered to Beat Passl Gaeaser. Wlauera of Dim Beoklovera Prlin FIEST-J. H. BATH, 1623 Harney street, Omaha. SECOND PAUL CALNON. Lyoni, Neb. THIRD R. W. MOORE, 109 North Twenty-sixth afreet, Omaha. FOURTH CLIFFORD HAMP TON, Western, Neb. The four grand prtxen In this con test were: First, $2,000 Apperaon Jack Rabbit car, model four-thirty; second. 1760 Kimball player-piano; third, ITiOO building lot In A. P. Tu key'a Her addition; fourth, $200 - Regent grafonola and G0 worth of records. To J. H. Bath, Paul Calnon, R W. Moore and Clifford Hampton, the Judges of The Eee'a Booklovers contest awarded the four grand prizes. Theee four men had the largest number of correct answers to the seventy-five pictures which appeared In the Booklovers' contest between April 5 and June 19. There were no ties for these leading prises, and the Judges made the awards entirely on the merits of the con testant's work Mr. Bath, who Is a florist In the Boyd theater building at Sixteenth and Harney streets, won the big Apperson touring car with a total of seventy-two correct pussies. He answered all the puzzles except two with the correct titles, but had an error In his spelling of the name of one author. This error counted against him Just as errors in spelling were counted against all. Lyons Boy Winner. Paul Calnon, a young man of Lyons, Neb., came second and pulled down the Kimball player-piano with a total of aeventy-one puzzles answered correctly. He used a total of 168 coupons. The winner of the first prize used 222. The third prise was won by R. W. Moore, 109 North Twenty sixth street, with all but six of the pictures answered correctly. Mr. Moore used 192 coupon t and captured the 9500 lot Clifford Hampton of Western, Neb., won the fourth grand prize by havin g only even answers wrong and through the' use of MS coupons. J. J. Haydon of Lyons. Neb., lost ou( for fourth prize because he used mora coupons than were employed by Mr. Hampton. He bad a total of 148 an swers and had all the puzzles correctly solved with tile exception of seven, the same number that Mr. Hampton mlased. Six Had Sevea Wronf, Including the fourth prise winner there were six of the contestants who had seven of the pussies wrong. The fact that all but Mr. Hampton used more than 143 coupons lost them the Orafonola Regent. Bach of the winners of the 310 cash prises solved the same number of puzzles, for they com posed the ones who had the seven wrong. The cash prlzea of 15 each went to five contestants who had all the puzzles solved but eight, and to five who had all solved but nine. There were eight of the par ticipants who failed to answer correctly nine of the puzzles. Twelve of the prize winnerz had ten of the puzzles wrong. Five of the winners had eleven of the puzzles wrong. There were six other contestants who failed to win prizes who also had eleven of the puzzles wrong. There were a few that answered all but thirteen, some who answered all but fifteen, but a vast majority has more than fifteen of the puz zles wrong. Carefal Aboat Cheeking-. The Judges were very careful about the that no mistakes were made. They ex amlned all the high numbers and aaw that no error had crept into the work. The prise winners were named became they had done the beat work, and no ' awards were made for neatness because there were no ties, and this was not necessary. The winner of the first prise used more coupons than were employed by any other grand prize winner. His total was 222. The winner of second prise used 166. winner of third 193 and winner of fourth 143. In the recbecklng of the coupons some of those sets which would have been among the grand prize winners had they not been looked aver more than once, were taken down several notches "and fell among those that captured II and 35 prizes. Many con testants made mistakes. In spelling. The titles of some of the books published In The Bee's catalogue of 5.000 titles wefe in correct, but If these were uaed by the con testable they were not counted as wrong. No mistakes In the catalogue went against the contestants. The total number of answers was more than 3.000, and kept a large force of clerks at work for more than three weeks. All the coupons were gone over more than once. t- 'MM?- -t- ' J. H. BATH, OMAHA. J. H. Bath, winner of the first prize the big- Apperson touring, car 1b a florist who conducts a little shop in the 'northwest corner of the Boyd theater building, where he may be seen every day. He has time to work puzzles, when trade is not brisk, and he spent his spare hours at work on the Booklovers. Decision of the Contest Board We, the members of The Omaha Bee's Booklovers' Contest Board appointed to check the answers and award the prises in this Contest, find the winners to. b a named In the attached list. - All coupons submitted have beert duly checked and rechecked and the winoejfs as named by us stand With the largest number of correct answers to the aeventy-flve pictures. Cfcalrman. C, j. k. . -J lM.rSTHAT10S TI1RY FAILED OX Pletnrc No. 40 Probably llardrat ,ot Any of Dranlaa;. The picture that was misled by a ma msjerlty of the contestants In the Book lovers' game was No. 40, representing a woman cook leaving the home of a family for which she had been working. The cor rect title to this puzzle was "The Deser- (Continucd on rage Eight.) Titles of Puzzles Number of Title of Book Picture. Represented. Author. No. 1 American Boys Afloat Oliver Optic. No. 2 Eight Girls and a Dog Carolyn Wells. No. 3 The Doctor Ralph Connor." No. 4 Field and Forest Oliver Optic No. 5 The Fifth String John P. Sousa. No. 6 Love Among Chickens P. J. Wodehouse. No. 7-The Fall of Man F. W. Farrar. No. 8 Sign of the Four A. C. Doyle. No. 9 Southerner Cyrus T. Brady. No. 10 The Writing on the Wall-Edward Marshall. No. 11-Girls Clyde Fitch. No. 12 The Deerslayer J. Fenimore Cooper. " No. 13 The Spectator Joseph Addison. No. 14 Facing the Flag Jules Verne. No. 15 The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington. No. 16-Paid in Full John W. Harding. No. 17-Four Boys E. S. Ellis. No. 18 The Initials Baroness Tautphoeus. No. 19 The Itule of Three Alma M. Estabrook. No. 20 The Man on the Box Harold MacGrath. No. 21 Black Beauty Anna Seawell. 4MS : k f : "3 V? r A -v JAUL CALNON. LYONS, NtiB. The winner of the second prize, a 750 Kimball Player Piano, in the great contest Is Patol Calnon, a young man of Lyons, Neb. How much be worked on the puzzles Is not known. He sent in a set that was not an example of neatness, but it had the second largest number of correct solutions and was given the second prize. No. 22 Mother and Baby Mary D. Brine. No. 23 Little Minister J. M. Barrie. No. 24 Teddy-James Otis. No. 25 Just for Two Mary S. Cutting. ' No. 26 The Spoilers Rex E. Beach." No. 27 Professor at the Breakfast Table Oliver W. Holmes. No. 28 No Other Way Walter Besant. No. 29 The Girl in the Poster Bliss Carmen. No. 30 His Two Wives M. Clemmer. No. 31 The Insurgent Chief G. Aimard. No. 32 King's Children J. F. Cowan. No. 33 Two College Girls Helen D. Brown. No. 34 Facing the Footlights Florence Marryat. No. 35 His Star in the East L. Parks. No. 36-The Top o' the World M. Ei Swan. No. 37 The Call of the Wild-Tack London. No. 38 An Old Sweetheart of Mine James. W. Riley. No. 39 In a Balcony Robert Browning. No. 40 The Deserter Charles King. No. 41 Shadow of the Czar J. R. Carling. No. 42 Behind a Mask L. S. Cooper. No. 43 Along, the Shore Rose H. Lathrop. No. 44 The American Henry James. No. 45 The Girl at the Half-way House Emerson Hough. . No. 46 City People James M. Flagg. No. 47 The Captive John Gay. No. 48 The Master Irving Bacheller. No. 49 The Message Louis Tracy. No. 50 The Gate of the Kiss-John W. Harding. No. 51 In the Clouds Charles Egbert Craddock. No. 52 The Liars Henry Arthur Jones. No. 53 The Invisible Man H. G. Wells. No. 54 The Raggedy Man James W. Riley. No. 55-Home Work D. L. Moody. No. 56 Honest E. S. Ellis. No. 57 The Lion Henry F. Chorley. No. 58 The Listening Child Lucy W. Thacher. No. 59 The Crowd Gustave Le Bon. No. 60 A Caged Lion C. M. Yonge. No. 61 The Slim Princess George Ade. No. 62 Pardners Rex E. Beach. 1 No. 63 Little Johnnie Jones George M. Cohan. No. 64 The Ring and the Man C. T. Brady. No. 65 The King's Fool Michael Barrington.. No. 66-The Price of a Wife John Strange Winter. No. 67 The Son of a Fiddler Jeanette Lee. No. 68 Facing the World Horatio Alger, Jr. No. 69 The Preacher Arthur S, noyt. No. 70 The Gambler Kathrine C. Thurston. No. 71 The Planter Herman Whitaker. No. 72 The Show Girl Max Pemberton. No. 73 Judge-E. W. Peattie. No. 74 Alone Marion Harland. No. 75 The Car and the Lady P. F. Margard. -; V. 4 k a. m f . 1 i t -. - Vi . ' 'S felilv 'VrZM :: ft " st ,f y ''' ij , Lt R. W. MOORE. OMAHA. R. W. Moore, a traveling representative of the Kirkendall Bhoe company who lives at 109 North Twenty-Sixth street, captured the third prize, the 1500 lot in A. P. Tukey & Son's Her addition. Names of Winners ( .pinners . No. Wrong. 1 J. H. Bath, 1623 Harney Street, Omaha. . .3 2 Paul. Calnon, Lyons, Neb. .4 3 R. W. Moore, 109 No. 26th St., Omaha. . .6 4 Clifford Hampton, Western, Neb 7 5 J J. Haydon, Lyons, Neb .7 6 W. S. Pierce, Albion, Neb. 7 7 Myrtise R. Quinn, 2113 Grand A., Omaha 7 8 Rob't H. Lord, No. 1 Worthington Place 7 9 Hattie M. Carney, 2216 Davenport St.... 7 10 F. R. Capune, 1728 So. 15th St., Omaha. .8 11 Frank E. Beeman, Kearney, Neb 8 12 Mae T. Carney, 2216 Davenport St 8 13 Minnie F. Thomas, 1012 So. 29th St 8 14 Marion L. Chadwick, 14 Arlington Blk..8 15 Paul Alcorn, Creighton, Neb 9 16 Simeon Beardsley, Clarks, Neb 9 17 Mrs. Emma P. Carpenter, Tekamah, Neb. 9 18 Helen Peters, 322 So. Lynn Ave., Benson'. 9 19 C. A. Gleason, Cortland,-Neb 9 20 Mary M. Beck, 403 McCague Bldg 9 21 Helen M. Givtis, 312 No. 22d St 9 22 Eva Elliott, 2304 I St., So. Omaha 9 23 Mrs. D. Dougherty, 3420 Poppleton St. .10 24 M. S. Hussie, 3432 Lafayette Ave 10 25 Dr. J. P. Merritt,.Takamah, Neb 10 26 Bernice Wilcox, 1812 Lothrop St 10 27 Miss M. C. Tillotson, 1305 So. 32d St.. . .10 28 Harry D. Flory, Tawnee City, Neb 10 29 Daisy F. Bonnell, 211 South 35th St 10 30 Ella L. Phelps, 1007 So. 30th Ave 10 31 R. J. Richards, Hartington, Neb 10 32 Mrs. H. Hanson, Box 426 Wahoo, Neb. 10 33 MrsIda Dudley, Box 210. Wisner, Neb.. .10 34 Ida Pearl Switzer, Ft. Crook, Neb .10 35 Mrs. II. E. Cotton, 1321 So. 26th St 11 36 L. A. Schryver, 1203 Farnam St 11 37 Cora M. De Freea, Sidney, Neb 11 38 E. W. Stoltenberg, 436 Board of Trade. .11 39 Mrs. J. S. Higgins, 2774 Burt St 11 Coupons. Prize 222 Auto. 166 Piano 102 Lot 143 Grafanola 148 $10.00 154 163 198 148 88 225 274 300 320 . 93 126 158 170 182 213 216 306 105 107 108 118 119 124 129 139 142 154 164 222 82 91 100 104 107 $10.00 $10,00 $10.00 $10.00 $5.00 $5.00 1 $5.00 $5.00 $5.00 ' $5.00 $5,00 $5.00 $5.00 $5.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1,00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00 $1,00 $1.00 $1.00 ' $1.00 $i.oa; $1,00 $1.00 $1.00 $1.00' $1,00 $1.00 $1,00 $1.00 History of Booklovers' Contest The Booklovers' contest of The Bee was started in the morning Issue of Wednesday, April 6, and was continued for seventy-five days, a picture appearing each day. The last picture was printed in this paper on June It. After the last Illustration was published the contestants were given until ( o'clock on the evening of July 1 In which to send in their answer. Ths force of clerks be gan the checking of the answers the next week. Each day during the contest the editor In charge of the gam carried a letter con taining a puszle picture to the Omaha Na tional bank, where he deposited It In a box In the safety deposit vault. The pic ture waa marked with the time of filing, the name of the author and the title of the book. When the contest board began Its sessions the chairman of this body and the contest editor took the envelopes with the pictures from the vault and laid them before the board. These wera examined and found correct. Doane Powell waa the art let who drew the Illustrations for the puzzles. He mad aeveral of the puzzles in one day, the aug gestlona for the same being given to him by the contest editor. Ha did not know what the titles were. No one but the con tut editor knew the official names. Extra coupons were sold contestants dur ing the days of the game. Several hundred people visited the bualness office of The Bee during the closing days of the game in order to get extra coupons, and the girls In charge of th sal of these pic tures were kept busy until after regular hours. f Aietier Hie (Ereat Bootdovers' Citests to tarted In next Sunday's Bee August 13 will appear details of a second great Booklovers' Contest, which will begin soon. Read next Sunday's Bee and prepare to join the Booklovers', ranks