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Twenty-three Puzzle Awards and Answers.
The West carried off the honors in the Twenty-three Club Contest, and
they are high honors, for the questions were very difficult. The answers
follow. The authority for most of them is Mr. Joseph West Moore's
_History of the American Congress_, just published.
1. Nathaniel Macon. 2. Benjamin Harrison, great-grandfather of
ex-President Benjamin Harrison. 3. John Hancock. 4. James Oglethorpe. 5.
Gen. John Newton. 6. Jonathan Edwards. 7. Miles Standish; Gov. William
Bradford. 8. Eliphalet Nott. 9. Thos. H. Benton. 10. Thomas Corwin. 11.
Gen. Sam Houston. 12. James Otis. 13. George Washington. 14. Davy
Crockett. 15. Geo. B. Roberts. 16. James Fitch. 17. Jared Ingersoll. 18.
Thomas Godfrey. 19. Bayard Taylor. 20. Charles Ellet. 21. Robt. R.
Livingston. 22. Anne C. de la Luzerne. 23. Henry D. Thoreau. 24. George
Inness. 25. Henry Inman. 26. John Adams. 27. William Lloyd Garrison. 28.
Oliver Hazard Perry. 29. Stephen A. Douglas. 30. Timothy Ruggles.
Longfellow credits Miles Standish with the sending back of the
snake-skin, and the "S" in his name is needed to get the second answer:
but the act is also credited to Governor William Bradford. Hence both
were accepted. George Inness is the correct answer to Number 24, for the
puzzle was particular to say "the late."
The first prize, for sending correct answers to the greatest number of
questions, was won by Alga Fawcett, of Minnesota, and is $10 in money.
Two second prizes of $3 each are awarded to John Morton Espey, of
Pennsylvania, and Frances C. Bliven, of distant Washington. Two third
prizes of $1 each are given to John H. Blair, of New York (Ithaca), and
Walter Johnson, of Minnesota. And nine Columbian half-dollars, as fourth
prizes, are sent to Marion Miller, of Maryland; Marguerite Clow, of
Minnesota; Edmund Rice, Jr., of Washington; Harold D. Sampson and
Kenneth Burton, of Wisconsin; Gertrude G. Wilcox, of Massachusetts;
Esther Neilson, of Pennsylvania; Mary T. Porter, of New York, and Katie
Bartholow, of Maryland.
The first prize winner got 25 correct answers; the second, 24; the
third, 23, and the Columbian half-dollar winners, 22 and 21.
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