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 suOcOmmit-
tees on convention and the gentlemen
who are getting places on those sub
committees are not lying on beds or
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 50 much to be
done and there are so many 10 do il.
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" muStacnes 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 bit of it. They seem to
think that the executive cOs2mittee will
set apart a certain sum of aIaple pro-
portions to be expended in buying
wine, women and cigars" for the Wis
! itOrS, and that the members of the en-
/ tertainment committee viii; 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 intiIcting 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. lie said that he expected a
| good many friends from the East duril &
the convention and he wanted to be in 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 c0ntidad to a friend that he
! wanted to be member of a committee
because all the members of the commit
tee viii have badges. and he wanted to
get 4 badge to show 10 his children
when they grow up and feel inclined tC
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 sily-mOstly the latteT-eX-
cuSes advanced by men ambitious to ge
Oh committee.
The subcommittee on hotels will have
the hardest work of any Of the commit
tees. They mast assign all the aDpli
cants for rooms to quarters, and they
must make out these designations will
such tact that every one will be salts
fed. Every delegation, every club
every prominent citizen coming to Min
neapOliS To the convention wants room.
at the West hotel. The walls of the
West are not rubber. They cannot be
stretched beyond a certain point AL
that can be sent to the West will bt
sent there, but some must put up with
accommodations at other hotels. anC
there are other good hotels in MinneaD
Oils. The hotel committee has put it,
foot down on one thing tine committed
will reserve to itself the right, the abSO
lutte right, 20 assign convention conner:
as best it can. That has been talked
|
committee finds already that it mus
take action of this sort or become in
vOlved in endless trouble.
The executive committee will hOl
another meeting tonight. 1t is prot
able that some more Of the subcO mmit
tees will be named at the meeting.
Minneapolis has already begun (
reap the reward in advertising that
will get from its efforts in taking care 0
the convention. Travellers who put II
at the West say that the railroad brake
man and the pOrterS on the Sleepin
cars have already commenced to discar
the name Minneapolis when calm
the stations. They sing out "ConveI
ton City, and leave the traveller to fine
out what city is meant. A man who ha
"COnventiOn City" Numbered in hi
ears early in the morning while he
collecting his traps after night spen
III the fetid atmosphere of a sleepin
car is not likely 10 soon forget where h
; heard it. Would it not be a good pla
, TO pay bonus to the "Black BartS'' {
| the sleeping car service for the If effort
TO advertise Minneapolis?
The travelling men of the NOrthWe.
will meet at the NicOllet house today
80 to talk over some schemes tOwar
helping the executive committee tai
care of the convention. One of til
ideas has been mentioned heretofore
that the travelling men act as uSherS
, the convention hall. Another is
> have all the travelling men lay off du
. ing the convention week and make IL
!. of their vast knowledge gained throus
: varied experiences, in helping all &
\ convention visitors get the very be
the town affords.