The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-06-08
THE GAVEL FALLS.
Everything in the Flour City III Fever
lsh Excitement.
THE HAsHERIEs ARE oyERRUN.
Paying Four Dollars Night for Bed
in Which to Sleep.
RAILWAY OFFICIALS WORRIED.
The booming Clubs. and the Red, white
and Blue Umbrella Brfsades---
Other Notes.

MINNEAPOLIS, June S.-When the
gavel fell this morning, and delegates
were seated for business, glance over
the convention was convincing proof
that everybody felt like adjourning i'm
mediately, that they might take rest
before proceeding to business. The WIS.,
itors to the twin cities numbers close on
to 100, 900. and the railway people were
pushed to the verge of their resources to
handle them.
Decidedly the great feature of the con-
ventio, is the booming clubs. They are
making dreadful efforts to distinguish
themselves in the manner that Coils P.
Huntington told Cotton was calculated
to offend the public eye. The trouble
with them is that there is a lack of pic
turesque inventive genius among them.
they are all applying red paint in the
same way. The Iowa republican club,
band,- wear long hats and carry red
white and blue umbrellas. They in
dulge in street parades and interfere
with the electric car system. Chairman
Clarkson is at the head of the club, and
where he goes the club escort him.
Three special trains are needed to carry
the club. its band and umbrellas, and as
there is no place large enough here the
crowd will occupy the Sol Smith Russell
House in st. Paul.
Five hundred free silver men are here
from Colorado, and they parade in white
coats and carry red, white and blue UNI
brellas. These free silver boomers are
all against Harrison, and they make
things very loud in their vicinity. The
Chicago Senators also carry red, white
and blue umbrellas, march to the music
of a band and parade in the interest of
Blaine.
The New York delegates used nine
cars to carry them. The train question
gives the Chicago and st. Paul lines
good deal of bother. The delegations
that travel in bodies began to arrive Fri
day, and the whole crowd landed here
in three days. At an average of forty
people to the car, which is fair count,
it took ,250 cars to land the passengers
on Saturday.
Minneapolis is doing some fine figur-
ing on receipts that may or may not be
accurate. The convention is expected
to spend here at least 81 ,0O0, 900 day
for five days. That would be an average
of $40 per day on each of 100000 people,
and up this way that is very high esti-
mate for living, but the men from the
west and northwest are expected to
spend twice as much as their economical
eastern brethren. Where no special
contracts have been made, and even in
piany such cases, rooms without meals
cost from "a to $s per night. In the
hotel halls cots with meals are rated at
81 per day, and a fair kind of Il parlor
suit can't be got for less than $40 per
day.
Before this rush came Minneapolis
got nervous over the subject of accom-
lnodations and the house question. but
the ladies made that all right by taking
all the empty. stores and available halls
and establishing lunch rooms. Nelson.
the big lurnberman ofLittle falls, in a
jocular way, said that no one should
starve for he would build regular lum-
herman s. cook housesof logs, and feed the
whole crowd on beans. He wanted to
show how they in Minnesota camps.
and he soon had an enormous log house
erected close to the Exposition building.
It nearly drove Minneapolis insane when
st. Paul published picture of the
place and solemnly declared that the ac-
commodations in Minneapolis were so
poor that the delegates would be com
PEELED to live on mbermen's beans.
They are nervous on the subject of tele-
graphing now, and that is why reporters
do not send full particulars. Correspond
ents calculate on 1000, 900 words a day.
This would be an average of $500 words
to each correspondent, which is not a
particularly high estimate if it becomes