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Show Tliree Menclrecl Dollars Foundation to Fortune Rich Man Tells How He Labored and Saved to Get Start; Now Is Among City's Wealthiest Men. razzle ramcams notice Ti.i conform with the rulings of the post office department. The Tribune, for its own protection, announces a change in the published method of deciding de-ciding ties. The new ruling is the cue originally used by the originator of the puzzle plan, after submitting sub-mitting same to the department. The method as announced in The 'Tribune was a departure from the original form, and as some doubt has been expressed ex-pressed regarding same, the original and 0. K.'d plan wilJ lie adopted. the new ruling applies to ties only, and has no bearing upon any other feature, but The Tribune is anxious to have the change and the reasons therefor there-for thoroughly understood by all. The new rule covering ties as arranged and approved follows: DECIDING TIES In ease of a tie a seeond puzzle will lie presented. This puzzle "ill be praetieahle and solvable. Only those tied will be permitted to solve Puzzle Xo. 2. No money will have to aeconipany the solution of this puzzle. The ' seeond puzzle will be printed three times, and those tied will have three weeks in whieh to solve it. Mail subscribers at a distance, if tied, will be allowed three weeks from the time they receive the second puzzle, the time to be determined by postmark. In ease of another tie a third puzzle, also perfectly solv- I able, will be presented. Jt will be subject to the sanie'eondi- tions as the second puzzle. The second and third puzzles will I be used only in case of n tie. Their purpose will be merely to decide ties, so that in the event there is a tie the prize's carr be awarded without having to divide them or without resorting to chance. However, only three puzzles will be presented, and in the seemingly impossible event of still another tie the' prizes will be equally divided. Should there be any ties, as many prizes will he reserved re-served as there are people tied before any prizes are awarded to those sending less correct solutions. That is, if two people ! tied on the absolutely correct answer, they would have to ! solve the second puzzle to determine which was entitled to j the first and which to the second prize. Then the one who sent the next best answer would be entitled to the third prize I This rule will apply generally. ' " I Tf there are no ties there will be. o 1 1 lv nne puzzle ' Xo prizes will he distributed until the contest is finallv ' i decided. j |