The evening world. Newspaper, April 4, 1901, Page 3

THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENIN Oe . APRIL 4, 1901. owe Forty-three Slacky Vou Young Women Receive Rewards for Their Good Taste in Selection. 3 he Be fe ofe of fe of obs ofe ofe abe ofe ofe fe age ofe of ole 8 Bee a eote coer THE PRIZES. 2 tume content of The Evening World—|.. Foslowing are the prizes awarded ++ reading a pile of letters that looked]. to the forty-three winners, as an- 4 overwhelming. As 12 o'clock struck they). nounced previously in the contest . Anished the last letter and wrote out 4/4, advertisement: + Statement of their decision. And to-day]. + are announced the forty-three prize-|.4. ‘oup I. + — winners in one of the moat Interesting|.2 Fire, Prize $10) Paster Outtt of contests Tho Evening World has ever}. (nciuding conn, hat, shoes and gloves) had ap | Serond Prize. 75 aster Oust « Vee When the judges entered room No. 5.13. (nsiudine t. shoes and gloves.) Pulltzer Building, at 7.39 o'clock 1st!) rhirg Prise $0 Kanter Ouent evening and mot Mrs. Harriet Hubbard Ayer the table was piled with thousands of letters—some of them six pages long— every one of which had carefully to be read. i ‘This is the way, in detail, the Judges began and carried through the dificult task of awarding the prizes to the forty-three most deserving contestants “(Including gown, sh Fourth Prize oh Pith Prize oh Sixth Prize oh Seventh Prise . of Vienth Prize .. Sf Ninch Prise oh Tenth Mize of Eleventh Priz of Twelfth Prise... oh Thirteenth Prize hat, shoes and gloves.) fe $35 Tamer Gown $15 Fester Hat + $10 Easter tat «$8 Easter Shirt Walet 4 Eimer Shirt Waist 36 Bamer Shove +} $5 Faster Shoes 45 Faster Shoes of «$3 Faster Gloves fe $3 Esater Gloves fe Letters Divided. ‘The letters were divided Into ten plies, Wanamaker's. of as nearly equal ecze as possible, and|*F Fourteenth to Thirteth Prites + one pile was latd before each judge. |% teen Prizee) each These letters e opened and those] *F = eligible for a prize were placed in an-|*F roup other pile oy the side of each judge, or; Fire Prize. $30 Tatlor-made Easter Gown of thrown on the floor as out of the con-|*h Second Prize. $25 Tallor-made Earcer Gown qe test If they fatled to comply with the} *h Third Prize. ..$20 Tatlor-made Easter Gown ele conditions, + ‘The division wae made upon only a Groap I. + of Firat Prize Second Prize, Thint Prive Fourth Prize oh Fittn Prise $20 Raster Hat is Kamer Hat of $10 Raster Ita: of $8 taster $7 Eanter fow, since the rules were very sim: Thos So 1. Letters deecril lected at stores not among The lds advertixers wi Letters aeser‘olng costumes] + without mentioning shop at all. cy No.3. Letters which mentioned no] First Prize eh Second Prize 38 Easter Shir Wate: qe $6 Vawter Shirt Walet of of Fourth Prize. $4 Faster shirt Wate ob of Pitch Prize $2 Easter Shirt Watst «f PEEEEE EEE EEE EEE EE to be prices of the articlen selected. 0.4. Letters which did not give the name of the employer of the writer, No. Letters from contemants living: At too great a distance from New York to be considered tn the vicinity. No.6 Letters containing requests for er gowns with no description at a eres: and r again, As fant as the letters were marked as pomalble prize-winners they were claasi- fled by an assistant in the four divisions in which the prizes were offered in The Evening World's advertisement. This simplified the work aomewbat when the | JMdges were ready for the final readings. were ready gone MISS ANNIE COULTE Midley's, Letters containing descriptions pon being read alond for the i} the judges, were ¢ led to taste. were promptly opinion « be in bad All wuch and not considered thrown out thod fi dunt The reet of the etters—letters describ. inree best loilere: mast accurately ing pretty, tastefa gow following | complying with the prescribed condi and clearly the conditions| Hone had been separated from the rest ‘ cing good shopping} That was all—and it sounds x0 almple and showing good shopping} tnt’ che dimeulty of doing. justice to judgment, each judge and marked for one of the prizes—the number of prizes suggested being marke! {n pencil upon the letier were jaid in separate piles Dy) everybody will hardly be appreciated. However, by bearing In mind the con- ditions of the contest and by an exercise of remarkably good judgment, the com- mittee on awards arrived at what is by the judge who considered it a pos-) certainly a jerfeec:ly fair and impartial stble. winner. judgment, 5 Every Letter Read. A Clever Committec. This policy was followed until every pata E pages hd Gus one of the letters had been read through | Qetunate in haviig such a clever ota, once. It took hours, but every of | They were- wo hin the those letters submitted was gone over | departments Ing World's agvert!s carefully and conscientious! It war resented, and all of borne in mind that the letters all repre- | perts tn sented thought and time and some Inbor, re inv edie fe) ay recommendatio: although of a pleasant aort; and nc-| their «tore While the reading went cordingly each letter received its full| on there were frequent comment upon Measure of attention. the letters, ani + ‘B® LO au one pn: quiet decisions which proved the Judges The result of the firat reading was! masters of thelr spectaliles ‘and fully that some forty letters had been laid | equippe: be trusted with the im- aside by each judge an possible prize- on they had been asked : winners. Then began the second read- ing. The letters, reduced to about %0 by that firat reading, were then re-read] THE PRIZE’ Megel-Co PEGBED SELLS representntive of the sort of WINNERS. uttt by each judge. This second readin, ahe woold wish to have for Enuater, | p. ily cel 1 was most carcful, and when in doubt | For the prettiest and mont ecom) jira: prize—sioy asier outtlt (nell: ‘ the Judges frequently read the letters |Momical Easter owtat, consieting | ing gown, hat, shoe and gloves), Mis joud and acted upon the consensus of [of mown, hat, boots and glo opinion of the entire committee. Solfor a girl wage-carner an = the bert of the 3) Were separated from| gested by a gir ener a —FAYAL PURSE T [SHOT BY A WOMAN, | BE $2350.00, MRS. KECK SWEARS Her Former Friend, She Says, Sent Two Labouchere Raps King Bullets Into Her Body. Edward on Court Pomp and Ambition. Nellie Dempster, 8. Sharum, No. street. employed by 62 West Tweniy-# shot her pei (Special to The Evening World) uxe of trouble over money a matters, BIEGPRIEDS, Pa. April 6 MT ninen hud dicagamared int 3 lly Keck, the handsome wife of Os DUE Tater was arrested ¢ pea iT cree atthe ar Keck, of this place, Isat St. Luke's! Tris sid, that phe ctata mane ttee ap; der changes jet. | Warm friends until rece non Mrs tn the civil list recommends that the | Hospital, Allentown, with one PUllet- | itch ngs loaned Mrs k money to now civil Hst be fixe about £470.00), {Hole in her breast and another In the} open a miill moter Be ua follo rivy purve, £110.09; sala- | back of the ne friendship to { ries of household and retired allowances,| The police have arrested Mrs, Alice] 1 laialleae pat vat theat £12 nsex of household, £193,000; | Hitchings, a former friend, whom Mrs. |W Chings is wald to have. t . £2,000; royal bounty, alms and | Keck accuses of the shooting. get pven for the of her money. | xervicey, £13,000, and sundries,| Mrs. Keck was found late last evening) Another version x that Mex. 1t}t Ines | in a lonely road near her home. She | AS, epurned i} acl report recommends an annulty of | was unconyclous and bleeding. 4 When she regained consciousness she made the startling charge against Mrs. Th Hitehings. live with her husband, She sald that the Intter wastatd and | conducts a pawnahop. HUSBAND SUES J. DE CORDOVA. Breckinridge Wants $25,000 for Alienation of Wife's Affections. £20.00 to the Duke of Cornwall and York, £10,000 to the Duchess of Cornwall and York, and £6,000 to each of the King's daughters. The Queen's annu: fn the event of her surviving the King, 1s Increased to £70,000, and an annulty “ of £3.00 {x provided for the Duchess of Cornwall and York In the event of her surviving the Duke. ‘The proposils for the clyil ist show a@ net increase of £67,000, Henry Labouchere, the sole signatory of the minority report, thinks that no increase necessury, Commenting on ft he say : “The committee did not deem tt within the scope of thelr inquiry to consider whether a continuance of the pomp of, pride and ceremony of the court Is de- sirable. Suggestions have been rife that the'cost of Hving has gone up among . a ‘4 4 Hes Sean hlasTotaeuentalneel nent oteratae (Spectal to The’ Evening World.) pMra. Breckinridge cna had ison Jexty ascended the throne. BOSTON, Mass, April 4.—Jullan De {Blonde. She lives at No, 89 Huntingcon “This idea weems to be due to the| Cordova, President of the Union Giass| Avenue. Mr. De Cordova tx apparently nitty years old. He married the daugh- resent ostentatious expenditure of some! ct ee thow who have suddenly acquired] CCmPany Prominent in woclety in the) ter of Thomax Dana, the millionaire, large fortunes. But your committee does Back Bay district, who in temporarily! Mr, and Mrs, De Corde not believe) the ove eign wows desire] absent from hia home at the veut [in 8 Ser ' They ‘o.enter Into monetary competition with; Empire, is made defendant in a wult|in New: York and Boston. some d ple much vaingloriou ah Mettler ea brought by George E. Breckinridge, a; dy sensational testimony. will be pro-| part of his subjects. traveiling salesman, to recover $2,000 duced, as the 2urties to the sult have! ——__ damages for allenation of the affections | figured prominently In the social Ife of ‘Toes Cri 45 Lockjaw Killed, | of hin wife, Grace M. Breckinridze. Boston for some tim: ‘At present a complaint {s pending in a does Hit but ctim is married, ‘Mr hay MISS HELEN O'KEEFE. MISS LEAH LOWENTHAL. rn, MISS NELLIE DEMPSTER WINNER OF FIRST PRIZE COSTUME _ IN THE EVENING WORLD'S CONTEST FOR EASTER OUTFITS. EIGHT JUDGES IN EVENING WORLD'S PRIZE. COSTUME CONTEST. Re meyer ae (ONS Easter dn. outnit | Second ind glow luding | Mins Oy teenth Starms, aunle | Third’ prizes Easter ing Kown, hat, sh ang Blanche Dui 1a M eutnt dni ven), West F ‘DENY HAVING SEEN FAIR Anna Six- | NURSE STRANGELY ee | efeleteteleleteteletsieieietetet MISS EMMA ROTH. Koch MISS H. N. GOLDBERG. Hothenhers’s. Ceyle. Jonasson ste COOOOOOUNOOOu Thousands of Letters Received and Every One Carefully Exani- ined—Many Fine Examples. STATEMENT OF JUDGES WHO AWARDED PRIZES. April 3, 1901. NG WORLD'S BASTER have selected from the letters of the thousands of co written by the young women to-day announced as entitled to the prizes placed opposite thelr names Also we certify that the awarding of prizes was made with ebsolute fairness and without favoritism. Miss If O’KBEFE, #2 Firat avenue, saleswoman in the ault depart- ment at Wanamaker's Miss PEAKL DENNIS, 111 Weet Twenty-second street, saleswoman in the clonk department at Sterna’s Misa EMILIE HOFFMAN, 590 Nostrand avenue, Brooklyn, saleswoman, ia the u partment at Bauland’ Miss A cot , 647 Eas: One Hundred and Forty-first atrests/, foorwalker at Ridley Mian RAY ABRAMS, 21 West One Hundred and Eleventh atreg, manager 4; at WOH Hall's, Mise HANNAH GOLDBERG, 3% Clinton atreet, head of millinery at Rothenberg’s. Mins LEAH LOWENTHAL, 910 Bedford street, head of the skirt depart- ment at Slegel-Cooper Company's. * ANNA COYLE, 1575 Third avenue, model .n Jacket department at Meyer Jonasson’. EMMA ROTI, 23% Seventh avenue, maleswoman sult Ketan Koch's, One Hundrea and Twenty-fifth etreet. Miss ROSE WADE, 311 East One Hundred and Twenty-third etreet, buyer In millinery vepartment at Lord & Taylor’ We. the Committee on Award In THE EV Gow NTEST, temanta those M Mi w York Life Insurance Com- 46 Broadway prize—Sine Ora E. Mac- Ninety-eighth str 1 & Miller, No, E iglitecnt prize—Miss Edna M. Smith, No. 336 Greene avenu imployed by Second Prope No gen street, soyed bythe the Tong Distance Tele phone rd Prize—Mies Cora Van Arn, No 1 East One Hundred and Nineteest® street. Eroployed at Rothenberg’s, ei MO Bixby & 4 Heater ntreet. ROUP III. o pXinetecnth prise —atien Evelyn Riker, C . 0 Orange street, Newark, N. J: Employed ty Wharten & Co., 1c | mncratnes prettiest Commerce atreat. Newark, Ni: wentieth prize—Misa ‘Pearl jen, Employed by Mre, Curry, No, 9 Ster- wage-carner as representative of ling place. the sort of hat she weulé wish te first prize—Miss Minnie Eis- for Easter. ‘Twent BG Ennt Seventy-second street, First Prise—Mise Sarah J. Thursk, Nae, ved by Benalger Brothers, No. : 33 Barclay street M Cooper street, Brooklyn. Employed by Twenty-second prize—Mlaa 1. Peters, | Hanan & Son. 168 East Ninety-second street, mn: ved by Louls Hirsh, Nos, 14-151] Second Prize—Miss Lena Levy, No. 318° Madison atreet. man & Levi, No. Employed by Zimmere on iia oy aR eh street Twenty-third prize—Miss Belle Per- kins, Rye, N.Y. Employed by Mise C.| "Third Prize—Stiaa Lulu Wal 30, 4 ves, Htye, as a waltreas. Third avenue. Employed by Brumme fourth prixe—lisa Elizabeth | Sixth avenue and Eighteenth street. No. ¥% . Decatur street, | Fourth Prize—Miss Addie Lyons, No. ployed by Mr. and Mrs. | 107 Van WAlet. avenue, Astoria, La. Nee {th prise—Stles Alice a, Far-| dredcead Ra yee, Bet con, Firat wenty t prize: ice G. Far- and ween Fi; No. ist Bust’ Eugnty fifth ; | and Second aven yed by John Fifth Prise—Miss Louise Leslie, |S Empl xh Herbert, | 210 East Twelfth street. prize. 121 Carlton avenue, Brooklyn, Em-|H. Goldfarb, No. 640 Broadway. dluyed by Mra. A. Beecher, No, 4 La- | w. GROUP IV. For Cheap Shirt-Walat.. ) For the prettiest most eees Easter shirt-watet fer @ 1289 Third MeNally, 1th street Twenty-ninth Prize~Miss Eisie Rerm- 3 Weat One Hundred and 48 Weat “ emplosed ae rapier) th prize—Miss et ate by J. Reed, > 41 Read : 6 Bast fwelftth stre | : beeen sh a tf / Peete) jab Annate Carter! she would wish to have fee ! Bteventhepriseceails Employed by | Raster, de Te Pint Pelzer alse Le V. Burgess, Me. East teenth street. mplo; GROUP II. 3) Wanamaner as telephone operacoron, ployed by ata Second Prize Miss Rose Basiln. touche Hal . erat ed ty -meco! Xt prize-Minn Kitty. Mi For Economical Gown. Third. Prize—Miss Myrtle Gard, No. 1 Pat No dit Hrowdway {| For the prettiest and most ccon-| East Fifty-fourth atreei. Employed nth prize—Minw Margaret A. Me- ke & Mrother, No. it West Feur- me. Wiggens's dressmaking es Jieucly, Shipbuliters Mame. Fersiwn | twenen mreet omienl Easter costame for # wtrl| ment, No. 44 Fifth avenue, Hetgnis, Ginployed by Mr. Rélde, Sedges | Mouttecntt Miss 3 wnge-enrner. summested by a| Fourth Prive Silas Lillle Ha si wick avenue, Mordham One Handred ang Sentry aiel wage-earner aa representa- |\?. JCatek ort y-necond iatres' ighth prize-—M Ha Sheridan, No. » s. r loved in Higgins’s carpe: mills, West) _ 13H St Haus fiveniesderaeyscityed im: Ft es TIENEN tive of the costume would wish ® hird street, between et by ullivan, 3 On. | mm! Mivs R. Wletn No, 24 of % F enh aire.” Hinployed at @1[ 00 Rave for Easter, ar . Ley J. Romans, yrlze- Hroadwiy rize—Miss Matilda Callet, 64 Be Felix street. lyn, clerk in BS Varick stre SL eth prize—Miss Charlotte Fel ntic avenue, Isrooklyn, executly ened of the Bradstreet mb, No. man, No. 20 Seventh avenue, Bimploy esl “4 by Ehriich & Co Company, Broadway, vo, BABES AND Born Just Hard Luck Period Ceased. She odd disap ot Inieleleetelelelieleletet Report that Mary Hoftman Has Gone to San Fran- cisco Home. Dentile were mad pital and at the Mill« for Nurses that Mis: former stud at Dellevue Hoss Training School Mary Hoffman + who Ix reporte one to Europe simultanroualy: James Le Baron Johnson, curate of Grace Chur Staten Inland Masons! New Home, | Richard Keating, of No, 34 Decbrostes ot ‘dled in the Hud: the Criminal Court against the couple, pies the Hudson Street Hos-| os ing tem with adultery. The wife| HAVE YOU ANY RUSINERS FROP- been) arralgned.. She pleaded not ry (0 let?. Sunday World Wants guilty “aud waa held for examination, find tenants quickly, lockt ss been crushed while andl! | ea the iver’ Tine vist, ne freight sete Tompkins Lodge of Masons last night voted oe) for a new hoagie (24 ‘eal is said to have gone bnek to San Francisco, nlelnbleleinintntalnteimtetadet nfter pearance, HELPS OVER THE HILL, eet tetitiiit | ot Lots cf Brain Work? UieGrape-Nuts. of the Fire Department, had returned ty or ana this elty irape-Nuts very helpful to Miss ‘Tingley, a former roommate of a man troubled with the cares and | Mixa Hoffman, who was gra from! worrlment of business,” vays Louts the. training achool within wk, ix| Fink, Jr, of 59S. 4th street, Phila- da letter from ber | delpt had returned to her] “At the time I where her fam. the food 1 was My promin of properly select naon, who married | he help I re Rensselaer, of ylerftl food elements Fee eee to ne in| Was Indeed wonderful. wald to bay stating thet re rhe inciaco, commenced using 1 food in Grape-Nuts un in y and do not think a breakfast ~' complete without it,” There's a reason why thls food loige. [Cis proposed to a bullding Bs aren ai fea at the corner of Band nna Hay ntewces, BYE Age thet feeling of ney rally, Stapieton, 8. 1, and negotiations for the "nd vigor, Actual use proves ¢ puree, of i ite were beguu tu-day, proposition. ~ SHAUN REECK. as Celtic forested e Hospital wuthorities to. | een of Shaun Reeck two Labtes, now In the hes eof the bent x inn tn Shaun y weak from want | od from the pow- | ‘ome to use the food regu- | HK Batterman Broadway, Graham and Flushing Aves., Brooklyn. But Three Days For Easter Shopping. | | Infants’ and Children’s Caps and Hats. eam China Silk Caps—French—full ruche—or Po 256, 49. 62c, 15cng8a t. 98c., 1.25 and 1.49 ttractive tine of ¢ ffect all st nl hae Ink, blue or white, y handsome line of FI r Quality Silk Caps, Bonnets and I desirable shapes or colors Children’s Dresses. Children’s White Lawn Dresses, trimmed with ribton, lace and embroidery, full wide skirt, 1.98, 2.98, 3.98, 5.98 <= 5.00 to 10.00 OND FLOOR) Boys’ Clothing | yiels Long Pants Suits, Young Men's Spring Overe 14 to 20, Tan and Oxfont 5.95 Toy for Boys, 3 tod and Oxford, 2.98 10 3.98 i Vestee ‘Tuxedo and Manly Sulte, 3 to 19, 1,98 to 4.50 Sailor Suits, 2 to 10, 1.98 to 4.50 Ruslan louse Serge Sults, navy, royal blue and garnet, 3.98 Little Noys’ Satlor and Round Collar Reefers, 2 t 2.98 Velvet Tuxedo Sutts, beautifully trimmed, 3 tos, 4.98. Double-Breasted 2-plece Suits, 6 to 16, Special Easter Sulte.7, 9849 6,00. Ladies’ Silk Waists. Ladies’ Taffeta Waists, 20. styles; corded, all the new and fashionable colors, value $6.C0 to $7.00, hemstitched, tucked and tas : SELL YOUR SECO} nograph. Advertise it in ‘the Sun: day, World, _ - BE