St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-23
AJAM UNPARALLELED.
Nothing Like it Has Ever Reen
Seen Since the Great Fire.

Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, June 22.-The jam around
the auditorium tonight was something
awful. Nothing like it has ever been
seen i'm Chicago since the day when
with FIRE and smoke to the right of
them and cinders and desolation to the
left of them the homeless citizens
pressed i'll solid mass of thousands to
the lake front. At ) o'clock it was with
difficulty that the cable cars could force
a passage through Wabash ayenve in the
vicinity of the hall. Half an hour later
their further progress was impossible.
1t was as if the entire population of the
city, with its myriadS of strangers, had
moved by one common impulse flocked
ell masse to the locality. The
police and gatekeepers looked
''aghast over the ocean of heads
and prepared for an emergency.
Ropes, ladders-everythin that could
be used for temporary barricades were
brought into lequisition, and in this
way, with the aid of small army of
policemen, something of semblance
of method was secured, and the dele
gates and ticket holders, having forced.
their way through the throng, were
enabled to reach the interior of the
building with comparative ease. At
intervals shouts would be raised for
Blaine, Sherman or some other candi-
dates but it was noticeable that the
name of the first-named had
LOST NONE OF ITS MAGNETISM.
In the visitors sections the hall filled up
rapidly. ard men and women poured in
in a continuous stream through score
| of entrances. The delegates themselves
were hardly as yolumin0uS at $50 as
they had been half an hour before the
opening in the morning. but this was
explained by the fact that most Of them
had been participating i'll caucuses of
| their respective delegations. Around
! the hotels in the afternoon the air was
! charged with rumors. 1t was reported
| that the Sherman men were preparing
| to spring mine that would
elect their candidate before three
more ballots had been taken:
that the friends of Mckinley had held a
meeting and decided to make an effort
| to stampede the convention in his be-
| half; that the Blaine contingent would
adopt the same methods; that combi-
nation had been made in the interest of
Gresham, and so on adj infinitum and
! ad nauSeam. In response to a touch
upon an electric button at $50 o'clock,
| thousands of electric jets sprang out,
| throwing mellow lights upon the vast
! throng that was concentrated within
! the four walls of the hall. Gen. Crook,
his features obscured by big SLOUGH
hat, came in through the press entrance
and was introduced to Senator Hiscock.
THE VALIANT WARRIOR
glanced over the throng which had it
but recognized him would have given
him royal greeting. In the circle i'm
mediately in front of the New York
delegation, Gov. Foraker and Gen. Ma
hone were in earnest conversation.
Senator Spooner stood few yards
away, exchanging condolences with the
entertaining Butterworth; and John r.
Lynch, the colored statesman from Mis-
sissippi, with his hand on the shoulder
of Delegate LangSton, the equally well
known colored orator of Virginia, was
engaged in animated conversation.
Senator Hoar beamed through his gold
trimmed glasses as he was accosted by
Flanagan, OF Texas, and ex-senator
Sewelf, of New Jersey, a magnificent
specimen of manhood, was listening at
tentiyely to something which was being
said, and accompanied by numerous
gestures by Chauncey l. Filley, the Mis-
souri, eX-secretary of the Republican
national committee. 1t was gathering
| of famous faces.