Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-30

tried TO get some sleep, and this
ng took the early regular north
train for their homes. All were
ely exhausted and agreed, with
ssenting voice, that the week
n one of the worst experiences,
purely physical point Of view,
lives.
THE CROWDED CITY.
at the REGISTER stated on the
ling day can be reiterated, and the
should be borne in mind when fu-
State conventions are located. A
OF the size OF ParkerSburg cannot
bly furnish anything like adequate
mmodations for the great number
eople who desire 20 attend. Park
q. urg did wonderfully well, but she
was eovermatched, and as a result at
least q thousand people had 20 remain
out on doors all during Wednesday
night, sleeping In front yards, on por-
ticoes, on dOOr-stepS, in chairs, on
boxes. or walked about the streets,
while hundreds caught furtiye
maps in hotel lObbies, sa-
looms. and such places, and other hun
dreds sleep on the door in hotel halls
and corridors, or in the rooms Of friends.
Often a room with one or two beds
would have half dozen men sleeping
on the foor on bed ticks, or on the un-
welding carpet, with only their outer
clothes pulled of. Two or three days
of this sort Of thing, In such a tempera-
ture. with no opportunity TO change
their clothing or even 20 do so much as
wash their faces and hands,
ant them In terrible shape, pbisi-
cally. and il is a standing wonder
that many were not overcome
with heat. Then the eating facilities
were from adequate, although bet
ter than might be expected. Those first
al the tables az meal time In the prlncl-
pal hotels got paSSable food, but late
comers bad some tough experiences,
and many persons got but one or two
meals on Wednesday and Thursday
The people OF the town at large, and
the hotel men particularly, did all that
IN was possible for them 10 do, but the
task assigned them was simply beyond
their abilities. For a small town Par
hersburg is we'll provided for the enter
ltainment OF strangers, aud had 10 not
been for the encampment, the Christian
Endeavor meeting, the State Board Of
Health and the Congressional cOnven-
tion, the State convention might have
gotten along better.
THE wIGwAN.
There was a good deal Of kicking on
the wigwam, but by comparison with
the two cities il was much better than
the National Convection had at Chi
caQo. and was not such a bad thing after
All. To be sure, the ventilating facil-
ities were inadequate, drinking water
was rot provided for the county dele
cations the police force put at
the command Of the sergeant-at-arms
was grossly inadequate, and as result
nothing could be done to keep the aisles
clear until the Convention appointed
dozen OF its own members as assistant
Sergeants-at-Arms, but after all, these
matters were not wholly 20 be blamed
mon the Committee which had the
erection and management Of the wig
van in char e, and although they
night have q 0vided drinking water,
ard done some ling to keep the news
1aner men fro4 being crowded 20 death
Nv outsiders, il vas not 50 bad but that
n might hay been worse. By the
wav. the new men were badly
treated, In atter Of crowding
into theiE DELEGATES and even
spsctator owed to crush into
the limif set aside for the re-
portsrS, ,nt-at-Arms nor the