The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-01
THE UNTERRIFIED COMPROMISE.
Preparations for the Democratic
National Convention.
BALTIMORE GETTING IT'S BEST SIDE OUT.
Where the Great Powwow
Will Be Held.
Elegant and Commonplace Quar-
tiers for the Delegates.
Feeling in the City---TaIks
and Walks There.
Interviews with Maryland's
Hard Shell Leaders.
Greeley Not Preference, but Accepted
as a Necessity.
Feeling in the City---TaIks
and Walks There.
Interviews with Maryland's
Hard-Sheu Leaders.
Greeley Not a Preference, but Accepted
as a Necessity.
ANYTHING TO BEAT GRANT.

INC eVlucnCeS OF tne convention are nOt wanting
IN the Monumental town. Even the weather ac-
knOwledges that something Is expected and the
thermometer stands on tiptoe among the nineties.
Friday and Saturday have been days warmed up to
the occasion, and to-day especially, between twelve
O'Clock and three, Baltimore street has scarcely
afforded q sight OF a wOman's dress, animation
being suspended and perspiratlon having all Its
own way. Equally warm weather week hence
viii put discredit upon delay of any national
ventlon whatsoever to period 50 late Id the hot
season. ..s.-.-... ..,s. ~
political conventions" said an old gentleman at
she COlOnnade, with q palmleaf fan in his hand,
"Ought to be held In the camp-meetlng style. Go
into the woods for 'em, we Methodists in Mary
land do and bvouaci Get OF experience for o
week. Keep away from the brick pavements aud
tavern food. Why, the savlors of the country viii
be carried or with sunstroke as the thing goes
uowln
THE PLACE FOR HOLDING THE CONVENTION.
Invent through Ford's Theatre to-day the place
OF meeting for the democratic representatives, and
found that, with the gas all lighted, it was
spot admirably adapted to expedite business Of
warm day.
1t stands In the western end Of the city, about
half q me from the Carl0llton Hotel and Barnum's
and only one block from the Eutaw Hotel. The
Washington Railway station is close at hand all
handy for Southern delegates, and the new Potomac
Railway station, which win commence running
trains on the cheap line next Tuesday at a fare OF
sixty some say eighty cents, half the price
charged by tue old line, is no great way Off.
FORD's THEATRE
is a new edifce on Fayette street by Eutaw, built
In the new style, with Mansard pavilions severa
entrances and two galleries. The parquet and
parquet circle will hold 800 persons and the whole
w ~ IN I olt Iota
than Friday night on the occasion Of school exhl-
billion, there were 800 people crowded into it.
1t is small, however, compared to the buildings
where the party conventions OF the present year
have been held, although larger than the Front
street Theatre and the Holiday Street Theatre
the latter also controlled by Mr.. Ford-where pre-
vious great national nominating conventions have
met The stage is about fifty feet deep. The nies
will be removed for the Convention, and platform,
inclined upward and backward, laid down to &C.
cOmmodate the officers, the telegraph operators
and 200 correspondents Chairs, with leather Seats
will be provided for these, and the seats in the body
OF the house are reversible, padded with leather
and framed of ron in sets. The colors Of the house
are bun and green, with gildings upon the iron
columns and woven iron work enclosing
the galleries. The gas is lighted by cleo.
srieity, and the wires are already carried
into the house and the instruments attached by
the Franklin, Pacific and Western Union Com
panies for newspaper uses. All the side scenes
will be taken from the stage during the proceed
ings Of the Convention. Committees must retire
to the dressing looms below the stage to one Of
the foyer rooms on the third floor 'front.' There are
elk private boxes, and seats will be distributed, 1t
"a said, to the unnecessary and uncomfortable num-
Der OF 1900 spectators.
THE DECORATIONS.
The proprietors OF the theatre keep bar for
soda and beverages generally in the saloon under
the vestibule, and are now fitting up additional
bars on the second aud third gallery floors, where
there are commodous front apartments, so that
beer and alcohol will not be wanting. The
rich carpet will be taken up In the
drawing room the second floor, but tho
tine portraits OF actors In character there will not
be disturbed These pictures are the property OF Mr.
Ford, and are features in keeping with the house
and Of good deal Of merit In themselves. They are
nearly all by Baltimore artists, and comprise, per-
haps, the best collection in the hands OF any Amer
can manager These pictures are Joe Jefferson as
Rip, by Allen @. Redmond George Holland, as Dog
berry, by w. A. Walker; Owens as Ollapod, by G..
DAlmanie; the elder Warren Fastarf, by Saur-
vein; Edwin Booth Richard ILL.,; several good
landscapes and, finally portrait OF manager Ford,
;, himself historic the owner of the theatre at
The Resident Committee takes charge. of the
theatre for the uses OF the Convention, and has
fully done Its work.
HOW THE DELEGATIONS WILL SIT.
The seats in Ford's Theatre have been already
distributed among the State delegations, and
plan OF the theatre prepared to put the arrange
ment within the comprehension OF every delegate.
Maryland, with her sixteen delegates, sits In the
extreme rear, farthest OF all from the stage, be-
hind even the eight Territories, which, with their
two delegates apiece sit in front of her, 1anked by
bsaf AxfAta 1nfu oil nxt
OF seats immediately under the stage, In the par
guet, will be occupied, on the right hand of the
President, by Maine, with her fourteen votes, and
Louisiana, with her sixteen, on the Presidents LETT
Next behind comes Arkansas, with twelve dele
gates; Michigan with ten and Rhode Island with
eight. In the third row viii sit Mississippi with
sixteen votes; Connecticut with twelve and the
District of Columbia with two. Next be-
hind, and quite across the middle OF the parquet
will be Missouri, with thirty votes; Massachusetts,
with twentysiX Virginia, with twenty-five; Ind-
ana, with thirty; North Carolina, with twenty; and
finally, In the rear OF the parquct, under the
OF the gallery VIII be West Virginia with ten
Georgia, with twenty-five, and Illinois. with forty
two.
The seats in the parquet circle, which are not so
good, but still afford fair view OF the stage, will be
'. delegates; Immediately behind Pennsylvania
ffty.eight. and then, continuing back on the right
hand side o towards tine tae rear WIN be Kansas, With
twenty two; Michigan, with twenty-five; Nebraska,
with six, and Minnesota, with ten.
On the lett hand side OF the main aisle, the front
row OF the parquet circle will be filed with Della.
wares six votes, Fioridas eight aud Alabama g
twenty Next behind, on the same side, come Ten
nessee's twenty -four and Kentuckys twenty-fOur.
Behind Tennessee will be Ohi0's fortyfour and
behind Kentucky Caliiornia's twelve, New Jersey 3
eighteen, the sixteen votes OF Texas and tie SIX or
oregon.
THE STAGE AND FIxIYGs.
The Secretaries Will sit on either side OF the Pres
ident, and the Vice Presidents behind them, upon
the stage, and prominent In 'front.' will be the Asso-
Cated Press reporters, banked Mt the wings by the
Western Union Telegraph ON the one side and the
Franklin and Pacific ON the other.
TO make the matter % delegates seats more dis.