, 1888-06-20

audiences, and the whole scene bathed in
a flood of electric light shed by $500 in
candescent lamps thrills ever the
MOST SLUGGISH HEART.
The auditorium is 260 feet long, 100
feet wide, with two side balconies and a
great gallery, the seats in which rise tier
on tier at an angle of forty degrees. The
stage. but slightly raised above the floor
of the hall, commands a view not only of
the great audience in front, but of the
large balcony in the rear, and the tier of
boxes at either side of this stage stretches
from side to side of the hall,
dating in addition to the president plat
form in the center several hundred news
paper representatives. There are Just
8, 100 seats in the hall, and as the conven-
ton is called to order probably 5000
people are within the glance of Chairman
Jones eye. The decorations appear q
trItie ~bewildering at first. The walls,
ceiling, and every post, pillar and panel
is covered with flags, bunting and stream
ers in varied artistic designs, and colors
and portraits and paintings of historic
scenes meet the eye everywhere. Red,
white and blue are conspicuous, OF course,
everywhere, but a great sheet of terra
Gotta bunting hangs as the root between
the sunlight which pours through it from
the great open space, just above the
great gallery, and relieves the otherwise
monotony of SO prodigal a
DISPLAY OF NATIONAL ooLoRs.
But aver the sunlight shines but dimly
in the great hall, the electric light being
depended upon, because of the impossi-
bility of protecting the audience in the
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The arrangement OF the electric lamps in
great stars suspended from the roof and
walls of the hall is one of the most effect
i've and beautiful features of the scene
which greets Chairman Jones as he stands,
himself a striking figure, tall, erect, with
the appearance and air of a patriarch,
with suspended gavel to hush the great
stir and hustle before HIM to present the
clergyman who is to ask Divine benedic-
ton upon the deliberations of the conven-
ton. Some of the details of the audi
torium are worth special mention. At
the apex, in front of the chairman's desk,
is a gilded American eagle; beneath it the
portrait of Washington. On the right of
the chairman's desk is q plaster bust of
the late John A. Logan in heroic cast,
draped with
The AMEhlCAN FLAG.
Hanging from one OF the boxes at the
right is a large painting of Logan charge
at the battle of Atlanta. On the face of
the north and south walls of the auditor.
ium, framed in a festoon OF large Ameri-
can flags and surmounted by a circle of
electric stars are the portraits OF Lincoln
and Grant, the designs being mammoth
in proportion and form two of the most
striking details of the decoration. Flash
ing its parti colored brilliancy full into the
face OF the audience and delegates is a
suspended American shield, formed of
different colored electric lamps. This
shield, Its horizon of stars, its stripes of
the Union, all pictured out and put in a
basso relieve of light by flashing gems
through red, white and blue globes. At
the entrance to the hall, which dip like
great wells into the auditorium, are the na-
tons standards planted at either side and
draped so as to hide the rough boards
which form the staircases OF these aven-
ues 70 the convention, of which there are
sufficient to empty the hallin case of an
accident
IN THREE MINUTES.
A Boston club has planted its magni-
ficent banner five feet long, just behind
the stage, and it proudly floats there in
letters Of gold. upon a field of blue, which
appear to be uppermost in the minds of
the delegation. The banner is inscribed:
Home Market club of Boston; American
wages for American w%orkingmen; Ameri-
can markets for American people; protec-
ton for American homes" This banner
is marked by delegates as they come into
the hall, and by spectators as they gather