, 1884-06-04
Will be Inducted as Permanent
Chairman To-day.
Exhaustive Report of the Pro-
ceedings so Far.
HALL.
A Brilliant Description of Its Vast
Interior Expanse.

CHICAGO, June 3.-Thc Republican
National convention, the eighth in the
history of tn, party, convened at 1901 to-
day. The spectacle presented at the open
ing was a notable one in many ways, and
its description would be worthy of a high
flight of the Imagination. The working
body of the convention, the greatest in
point of numbers of any national political
assemblage, occupied only Il small portion
of the vast auditorium. The remaining
body of the hall was filled by an audience
which occupied every point of vantage,
and made up a picture as viewed from the
press stand of an almost unending
sea of faces of solid black and uncovered
heads relieved by the rich colors and iut-
tering toilets of the ladies who were pres
ent in great force. The hall is the largest
and has been termed the most complete
ever thrown open for the work of a vast
deliberative body. 1t is in one sense tenn
porary, having been constructed within
the walls of the exposition building, situat-
ed on the east line of the city, on
THE SHORES OF LAKE MICHIGAN.
Its seating capacity approximates 49,
600. Springing from the east and west
sides of the hall are vast arches which
rise 200 feet in the air and relieve the
view through the entire expanse of the
auditorium. The Speakers desk rests
on a platform twelve feet
above the seats of the dele
gates, and the press occupies an in
termediate space midway in height, or
about on a level with the heads of the
delegates, as they occupy their chairs.
Back Of the chairs, arranged in a semi
circle and on a level space, are seated the
remaining officers of the convention,
members of the national committee and
their immediate friends. But of this
circle on
A SHARPLY using INCLINE
are 1000 seats occupied by a great many
persons of national repute, whose presence
is by the grace of the national committee
men. Swinging over the desk of the
chairman, and fairly touching the arches,
is a wide spreading sounding board EN-
bracing the side extremes of the building.
The delegates and a~lternates occupy n
level space bounded by square lines.
They are hemmed in on two sides by
tiers of boxes occupied mainly by
GUESTS OF THE DELEGATES.
The section of the hall occupied by the
working body of the convention is bound
ed by four wide aisles, from the edges of
which rise Roman standards, pendant
with blue silk banners imprinted on gold
with the names of the states and
territories. Beginning on the left,
facing the stage, is the state
of Alabama and back through the
first tiers of seats follow Arkansas, Colo.
RADIO, Connecticut and down through the
line of states in alphabetical turn to Maine.
Beginning again on the right and rear is
Maryland with Massachusetts immediate,
ly in her front, and ending with the Dis
trict of Columbia. In the front row o.
the second tier,
NEW YORK OCCUPIES THE FRONT RANK,
In the third Ohio holds the ranking pc
sition, and in the fourth and remaining
tier. Back of the delegates the space il
occupied by the alternates and separated
from the main body by a hardly precep
tible partition. In the rear of the alter
mates is a commodious seating space, tn,
chairs resting on an easy incline and Gu
off from the space occupied by the alter
mates by a line of pickets. Beginnin < a
a point 100 feet in rear Of the alternate
is another dividing wall, and from tina
point rises tier upon tier of seats to
point almost midway between the level Q
the hall and the apex of the dome-lik
roof. To complete the picture, narro'
galleries run along the east and west side
of the hall its entire length and are
SEEMINGLY SUSPENDED IN MID-AIR.
The front Of this gallery is faced with til
coats-of-arms of the several states on
back ground Of festooned flags. Flute
ing from the arches are the nation.
colors and the flags of all nations. III
prevailing color in the body Of the hall
a dull Indian red to a point where Il
arches seem to spring from the galleri'