Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-19
CONVENTION CELEBRITIES.
Where Leading Politicians of Both
Parties Will Stop.

chicago News.
Building additional stories, laying in
supplies of an edible nature, repairing
rooms, and ordering cots arc q few of
the duties hotel keepers are now dis.
charging in anticipation of the two
national conventions. 1t is no light task
to prepare accommodations for upward of
one hundred thousand extra people. This
is the number which it is calculated the
republican and democratic conferences
will bring to Chicago. Whether the cal.
culations will fall below or 20 beyond
those who actually will come It is not
possible to say. The hotel-keepers are as
much in doubt as anybody else, but they
are laying their plans 80 that they will
cover any emergency, and even il the
crowd is greater than expected no evil no.
suits will accrue.
both conventions have already bespoken
accommodations. The members of the
conferences will therefore not be cleft"
however much chance outsiders run of
81 seping on tho roof or under the starry
canopy of heaven. The two conventions
will draw to Chicago the foremost men of
the nation, and many of those who have
experience from past similar congrega-
tions have either taken the initiative or
proftted by the example of delegates and
secured quarters in advance. The Grand
Pacific hotel and the Palmer house are
the favorite hostelries, and in the rot
undas of either the features made fam
liar by the clever caricaturist and
cartoonist one may reasonably expect can
be seen on any evening closely preceding
the conventions. So far the convention
delegates chosen do not include the names
of any very distinguished statesmen.
Distinguished statesmen will be here,
however, as kilograms and letters request
ing rooms attest. Ben Butler will occupy
parlor 81 of the Palmer house. Next
door to him, in parlor l, the corpulent
frame of the Tammany chieftain. John
Kelly, is expected to repose in a bed
which will be selected with special refer.
ence to his avoirdupois. Parlor E was
engaged some months ago by ex-senator
w. Ii. Barnum, 80 that the Massachu.
sets statesman, the Tammany brave, and
the chairman of the democratic commit
tee will find no difficulty in coming
together at odd times for a social game of
draw.
The Pslmer's list includes, besides
these, Ex-senator Henry G. Davis, of
West Virginia, Congressman John S..
Barbour, of Virginia, all members of the
national democratic committee, and a
host of others equally prominent, who
may or may not come as delegates. Jo-
seph E. Mcdonald will have a handsome
room with a stout arm chair and a handy
cupboard (screened from sight by the
tall head board of a double bed) at the
Grand Pacific. Here, also, Thomas A.
Hendricks will find quarters awaiting
him, but at the other end of the hall
from Mr.. Mcdonald. William r. Nor.
rison will have a couple of rooms, one
for his tariff bill and the other for him.
self, on the parlor floor of the Palmer.
In engaging quarters for Samuel J.. Ran
dali, also at the Palmer, a Philadelphia
friend who wrote desired that the e1-
speaker should be put as far away from
the Illinois solons as possible. "If,
however, he wrote to Potter Palmer,
''you haven't sufficient room, and will be
obliged to give them blankets both on
the same floor, look around and get a
high protective tariff screen to put up be-
tween them. There must be no light
ming until after Randall is nominated.
In distributing apartments Mr.. Drake
gave out room SO of the Grand Pacific to
Fitz John Porter, who wrote that he was
going to be here to see the fun, and he
didn't wish to be forgotten. This room
was always occupied be Gen. John A.
Logan, and Mr.. Bailey Dawson, a gen
tleman who is familiar with the minutest
details of the preparations, expostulated
when the arrangement became known,
saying that Senator Logan would proba-
bly, want his own room. "No," said Mr..
Drake, ''that is all right Senator Logan
intends to spend the days on which the
convention will be held in Shawneetown,
and wrote me that ! could give his room
20 any of his friends who happened to
want it," Ex-senator Dorsey and Col
Bob Ingersoll will occupy together room
26, which is at the head of the Grand
Pacific steps. Neither Tilden, President
Arthur, nor Blaine have ~bespoken accom-
modations yet, and 1t is not thought
either of them will be here. Should the
president come he will be given rooms l
to 8 of the Pacific, which he has occupied
on two previous occasions. Henry B..
Payne will be the guest of Potter Palmer
should he come to Chicago, and General
Sherman will be the guest of Gen. Scho-
field in a similar event. Neither is re-
garded as likely. Senator Sabin, John
@. New, Secretary Folger, and a hundred
others of equal note will knock up
against Mcdonald, Hendricks, and
Henry Ward Beecher at the Grand Pa
cifc. So will Assistant Postmaster Hat
ton.
Ex.Secretary Belknap will be separated
from his friend, Gen. Grant. The former
will stop at the Leland, and the EXPIRE
sident will find Potter Palmer's Egyptian
parlor passably comfortable. At the
Leland also will be Congressman Sprin-
ger, ex Gov. Dorsheimer, Gen. Slocum,
Gen. Ketchum, Sheriff AL Doggett, of
Brooklyn, and Sheriff Davidson (should
he escape conviction). Ex-Gov. Edgerly,
of Massachusetts, who is a democrat, and
Gov. Nehemiah G. Ordway, of Dakota,
will sample the bar of the fremont each
morning of the conventions session.
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