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.
If the last names of the twenty-three members of the Club be rightly arranged the initials spell "The Landing of the Pilgrims." Prizes of bound volumes of Harper's Young People were offered for finding this sentence, no regard being had for the number of names found. The winners are: Pennsylvania, William F. Campbell; Wisconsin, Harold D. Sampson and Kenneth Burton; Washington, Edmund Rice, Jr.; Illinois, Alice Enright; New England, Helen C. Hopkins; Minnesota, Alice E. Dyar; Michigan, Henry Martin Jones; Indiana, James Gibbons; New York and New Jersey, Mary T. Porter (New York); Missouri and Kansas, Mary T. Robinson; Tennessee, Frank Hopkins; Manitoba, Jules E. Marjoribanks; and "at large," Pansy Caldwell, of Alabama, and Maddie C. Marshall, of South Carolina.
Round Table Chapters.
No. 687.—The Washington Chapter, of Warsaw, Ill. Phillip Dallam, Willie Hoffman. Box 106, Warsaw.
No. 688.—The Grove Literary and Musical Chapter, of New York city. Hattie Lovell; Edythe G. Hathaway, 67 Horatio street.