St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-26
Executive and subcommittee
Members Find They Labor
Under Difficulties.
The Numerous Queer Reasons
Why People Seek to Get
on Committees.
The Hotel Committee Having
Trouble in the Assigning
Of Rooms.
Minneapolis Now Has a Good
Chance to Test the Snow
Ordinance.

The gentlemen who have undertaken
the work of appointing the su0cOmmit-
tees on convention and the gentlemen
who are getting places on those sub
committees are not lying on beds OF
stemmed roses and covered with April
violet cOunterpanes. They are Just be-
ginning to realize the magnitude of the
job. They are doing their best, but that
is of little effect, there is so much to be
done and there are so many to do it,
To begin with the subcommittee:
There are any number of applications
for places on those committees. The
trouble is not in getting the men for the
places, but in getting the right kind of
men. Most Of those who are seeking
places on the committees are men who
are actuated by the most selfish
motives. They have no intention
OF doing any work if appointed.
A c0terie OF swell young Republicans
with deliberately barbered hair and
cute" muStacheS have been doing their
best to secure appointments on the en-
tertainment committee. And what do
You suppose they want those places for?
They have never considered that the
entertainment committee will be called
upon 10 do some of the heaviest work
entailed by the coming of the conven-
ton. Not a bit Of it. They seem to
think that the executive cO&amittee will
set apart certain sum of alaple pro-
portions to be expended in buying
wine, women and cigars for the VS.
itOrS, and that the members OF the en-
tertainment committee wiz be given
complete supervision over the spending
of the money. They will be able to
''show the town" to the visitors, to
swell around as prominent citizens, to
have jolly good time themselves, and
to do all this without intllctiug any Sc
we're punishment on their own pocket
books. They will be fooled. George
A. Bracket, the chairman OF the ex-
ecutive committee, will not allow the
naming of any of these young men. He
wants some men who can work.
There is another class that want TO
get on the subcommittee for the ''pull'
ii will give them. One of them was
frank in his application for place on a
committee. He said that he expected a
good many friends from the East duril q
the convention and he wanted to be i'm a
position to be able to supply them with
all the tickets to the convention hall
they might need. He has not yet been
appointed. Still another was equally
frank. lie cOntidad TO a friend that he
wanted to be member of a committee
because all the members of the commit
tee Will have badges, and he wanted to
get badge to show to his children
when they grow up and feel inclined to
doubt his stories of his prominence in
public affairs when young man. And
SO one might run on for column and
then not ehumerate all the queer.
quaint and silly-mOStly the lattef-ey-
cuSeS advanced by men ambitious to get
Oh committee.
The subcommittee on hotels will have
the hardest work of any Of the commit
lees. They must assign all the appli-
cantS for rooms to quarters, and thew
must make out these designations with
such tact that every one will be salts
he'd. Every delegation, every club,
every prominent citizen coming to Min
neap0liS 10 the convention wants rooms
at the West hotel. The walls of the
West are not rubber. They cannot be
stretched beyond certain point All
that can be sent to the West will be
sent there, but some must put uD with
accommodations at other hotels. and
there are other good hotels in Minneap-
oils. The hotel committee has put its
loot down on one thing tine committee
Will reserve to itself the right, the absO-
lutte right, 10 assign convention corners
as best it can. That has been talked
over and has been decided upon. The
committee finds already that it must
take action of this sort or become in
vOlved in endless trouble.
The executive committee will hold
another meeting tonight. 1t is prob
able that some more OF the subcO mmit-
tees will be named at the meeting.
Minneapolis has already begun to
reap the reward in advertising that it
Will get from its efforts in taking care of
the convention. Travellers who put up
at the West say that the railroad brake
man and the pOrterS on the sIeepinp
cars have already commenced to discard
the name Minneapolis" when calling
the stations. They sing out ''Conven-
ton City" and leave the traveller to find
out what city is meant. A man who has
"COnventiOn City" Numbered in his
ears early in the morning while he is
collecting his traps after night spent
III the fetid atmosphere of a sleepino
car is not likely 10 soon forget where he
heard it. Would it not be a good plan
to pay bonus to the ''Black Barts'' OF
the sleeping car service for the ir efforts
TO advertise Minneapolis?
Inc travelling men OF the Northwest
will meet at the Nicollet house Today al
~ W t"ih ONeI SOlnc schemes toward
helping the executive committee take
care of the convention. One of the
ideas has been mentioned heretofore
that the travelling men act as ushers i,
the convention hall. Another is Il
have all the travelling men lay off dur
ing the convention week and make MS,
OF their vast knowledge gained through
varied experiences, in helping all tn,
convention visitors get the very bes
the town affords.