Show fACTS FACT AND fEATURES Of GREATEST Lj CONTEST IT AND SUCCESS EVER SCORED I IN W THE TH BIG WIDE MOUNTAIN WEST 14 a joyous Thanksgiving day to at least twenty persons yesterday esterday These hese twenty were the candidates who came out of The Heralds competition win winners winners ners flers Although the publication of the list of winners was not possible until this morning news nes spread rapidly When hen the tho judges of the contest How Howard ard Stowe John W Alford and W J Bateman arrived at The Herald office at 10 yesterday morning they found a large crowd already there This was composed of candidates relatives I and friends impatient to learn how the therace therace therace race had resulted Interest In Counting The he Judges unlocked The Heralds big safe sate and inside was the ballot box taped sealed and fastened tight In a half dozen ways just as the judges had left it the night before Candidates present examined it and after atter all had hada a look the box was taken to the Con Contest Contest Contest test Department offices and there opened by the judges Then while I eager candidates listened and watched I breathlessly the votes deposited be between between between tween last Sunday and Wednesday mid midnight midnight I night were counted The list of win winners I ners Tiers with the judges statement pre prepared pr 1 pared and ard a d signed by them before all allI I present appears in other columns It Itis ItIs ItIs is felt that this list will wilt get first at attention attention attention anyhow it will wilt have been looked for forand and found and read over and andover andover andover over again before this column will have received notice Sensations Discovered II I As the counting proceeded proceeded and one by one winners became known excitement increased Candi Candidates Candidates I dates present who were were among the win winners winners winners ners congratulated one another and candidates not present learned of or the I I results by telephone or telegraph Im immediately j mediately through friends In this city Not Kot until the last vote had been count counted counti i ed and all aU details checked was vas the thet I t whole final result known nor could It I be guessed guesse Sensations predicted wore discovered in greater number than pre predicted predicted predicted Remarkable climbs were ere seen en ento to have been made malIe and in many in instances Instances instances stances thrilling races were found to have haye been run in the dark candidates and all aU Interested having known how no noone noone noone one stood since last Sunday Sunda ig Crowd Present The Contest Departments quarters were were vere crowded cro ded with spectators through olt r the best portion of the theay day while the th votes were being counted count d Owing to the surprising ability of the judges many man hours were saved and thousands of votes counted in remarkable time Candidates checked with the judges as the counting went on und and with others possibilities of errors no noI I I matter how boa slight were precluded The Thelast Thelast Thelast last affairs of the contest went through I with the same smoothness harmony harmon and dispatch that have haye made this contest I I the greatest ever held in the west vest and something The Thi Herald Is proud proul tp t have Included as a chapter in its history Pleasant Feature Candidates winners and those less les fortunate have been lavish in their praise for tor or the manner in which this contest has been conducted and the fairness displayed ed throughout Those who won no prizes were among the first to congratulate the winners and to ut utter utter Utter ter praises about the competition This unstinted unexpected praise coming from those who did not win is a source lof of great pleasure and pride to The Her Herald H r ald aid It will wUl be a most pleasant mem memory memory ory The Judges who so kindly offered their expert assistance toward the end and who took charge so 80 remarkably well welt at atthe atthe atthe the end contributed to the chorus of praise and were In turn recipients of praise It was surely aurely Thanks Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thanksgiving giving for tor The he Herald and Its friends Facts and Features Facts arid add features which made the contest a success from every stand standpoint standpoint standpoint point are Interesting The very vel first thing which demands consideration is the tremendous number of votes cast During the competition over votes were cast This tells tell the story it leaves comment unnecessary unnecessary Were nothing else printed regarding the af at affair affair fair this would mark it as an astound astounding astoundIng astoundIng ing success Candidates who won deserve congratulations congratulations and are getting them from all allhands allhands allhands hands One of the first features noticed by the public was that the best prizes obtainable were offered those who were to participate in the competition The public saw the prizes admired them and expressions of admiration were given freely by all So the candidates who ho won won high and big The Her Herald Herald ald aid congratulates them Consolation And The Herald is proud of those who did not win and congratulates them too Everyone could not win and those in the less fortunate list realize that to have made a n good try is something to regard proudly prou lj The made good runs and furnished no end of competition They hey kept the race exciting ing h g from start to finish and have shown their popularity throughout the inter intermountain Intermountain intermountain mountain region and beyond its boun boundaries boundaries boundaries daries The proved that they have friends by b the scores and a wide circle of ot acquaintance is some something something thing only the best men and women can have The large followings shown by bythe b bythe the as well as the win winners winners ners tiers proved that those who entered the contest have hae something which is a fac factor factOr factor tor in life more valuable and highly treasured than material things All AU candidates and there were about entrants in this competition have spoken time and time again of ot the up upright upright upright right and generous methods pursued by those In charge of the contest and are arenow arenow arenow now repeating these welcome speeches peeches Alls Well That Etc The contest is over prizes have been tried for lost or won The happiest feature was that it closed with the can candidates candidates proud of their relation to The Herald and The Herald proud of hay hav having ha haIng haying ing them entered In its competition Nothing could be more gratifying than such a glorious termination to toa a glori glorious glorIous glorious ous contest The friendships born of or the contest and nursed by it will no not terminate with the termination of the contest Those who have been in tn any way ay Interested in inor Inor Inor or connected with the affair just closed will go on being friendly towards this paper Each Bach friendship thus formed will lead to others being formed In having found The Herald the best squarest most generous paper in the west vest nil all candidates will be its friends and champions when this contest will wilt willbo willbe be bo but a memory The Herald realizes this and finds much to be bo thankful for aside from the business advancement still another result Business Results The great increase in circulation re resulting r suIting from the competition is all rep represented resented in prepaid business ranging from rpm a minimum of three months to a maximum of or five years cars duration This prepaid business prepaid not in the form of optional contracts of short du lu duration duration ration and its being for such lengths of time means that The Herald had added to Its great family of ot readers many more of or the best and I most prominent people of the inter intermountain Intermountain Intermountain mountain country the sort of patrons patron I with money the sort that spends it and it follows naturally the sort the adver advertiser advertiser J tiser Is most desirous of reaching with his offerings The Herald famed tamed as an I j it iti t excellent newspaper because of Its set setting setting j j ting the pace as a metropolitan news C gathering and instrument ment and because of ot its many and con constantly I growing special features will 1 have the majority of these new nev sub subscribers subscribers i scribers after their present subscriptions Hons will have haye expired and during all t time all these new friends will be the i agencies through which other new I friends will be made This contest has added thousands of ot friends to The Her Heralds t aIds list they the In turn will wilt attract and an Interest others because The Herald Hamid once read Is always s read It is clean k i kand and fair fall in everything whether it be beIn b bIn bein In conducting a contest or printing a news note J Herald Big Leader Final figures have not been compiled complied yet but up to the closing day of tile Ulf contest the exact number of subscribers rs shows an increase prepaid and from three months to five years of or between 20 and 25 per cent These hese figures are arc based upon the number of subscribers two months ago The Herald has shown snow recently by br an official inspection of t the l hooks and accounts of Salt Lake newspapers that It had then tha tle th largest circulation of at any newspaper in lu I Salt Lake City Now with the notable Increase contributed by bi y the contest Just closed The Herald stands head and shoulders over oyer all other newspapers In Inthe inthe i ithe the great mountain west And through throughout i out this contest old subscribers have J been renewing their subscriptions as i f rapidly is lS s they expired showing again that once read The Herald is always r I read Its circulation is now the largest by hy great numbers and will continue to grow gro more more and more rapidly The Her Hei Herald I I aid ald will grow with the west for tor It is t the first newspaper the newspaper of the west Regarding Advertising J What th j contest cont st did lid in regard to classified want ads is another story and ind anda inda a splendid one During the tho contest votes were also given glen on classified or want ad coupon books Advertisers t paid in advance for these books and in inso Inso inso so doing received a small discount and the privilege of casting a scheduled I number of votes for tor the tho fa date Each book contains contain a If given num nuni number number ber her of jr are by byTho The Tho Herald In payment p yin nt of cl ss fl So well did lid these little cou coupon pon non books take with the advertisers when presented by candidates that Tho The Heralds classified advertising leaped to C unprecedented proportions And It mu t tl l he be e remembered that there Is a double meaning to this for tor more classified ad advertising means more readers and this attention to the class classi classified tied fled columns column The Tho Herald of last Sun Sunday Sunday ft day dRY carried more advertising of this nature than has hRS any anyone one issue ever carried In the history of Utah newspapers pers And the tho classified increase of ap up approximately proximately 30 per cent is no doubt Just Justa a starter By this Increase In the little t tads ads from countless sources and firms and Individuals The Herald steps with one quick stride from second place far Into the lead load leadIn I In a word The Herald management Is surprised ed at these great results and Is la lamore Ismore ismore more than grateful to Its many friends who have made all this possible and a ti glorious reality Thanksgiving Yen TCP indeed this November marked m real j earnest thanksgiving |