The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-07-01
ALL is READY NOW
The Big Crowd Will Find Room in
the City of Omaha.
The Money for Entertainment Is All
Subscribed To-day.
ABOUT THE BIG BUILDING FOR THEM
The Largest and Most Important Crowd
of Delegates Ever Gathered in
the United States.

The local entertainment committee that
is looking up accommodations for those
who will be the city's visitors during the
Independent convention is at work can
vassing for rooms, and has now list
showing accommodations for little over
- 900 people.
The finance committee had secured
$6,853 yesterday on subscription, and of
this amount $4,000 been paid in. The
outstanding 81 900 is as good as collected,
as it was subscribed for specific purposes,
and will be forthcoming when needed.
The street railway company which sub
scribed $500. has paid in $500, and the
! remaining 81 900 is for the rent of the
chairs which are now being placed in the
coliseum, and will be paid when called
for, and the $4,000 which was required
to make up the committees pledge, was
Thousands are coming and thousands
are here.
Grand Master Workman Powderly, of
the knights of Labor, left Chicago last
evening with a number of the officials of
the order and large number of the east
ern delegates to the convention on a spe-
cial train over the Northwestern. They
arrived this morning.
The convention hall has a seating ca
pacity of about 1000, with ample space
in the aisles and passageways for 1000
or {, 900 more in crush. Committee rooms
have been arranged in the annex to the
rear, where also the telegraph companies
will be provided with ample working
space.
The street car company has agreed 10
run a stub line from the Twenty-fourth
street motor line over to Twentieth and
to extend that line over to Sixteenth
street, making a connection with the
motor line on that thoroughfare. This
will give three lines of cars between the
city and Coliseum building. With in
creased car service it is estimated that
the vast crowds can be handled readily.
Chairman Strickler says that the Co.
liseum building will be in readiness for
the guests by noon to day.
The arrangements Of the chairs, and
the elevation on an inclined plane of all
chairs, outside of the space allotted for
delegates in the center Of the building, is
far superior to anything that has hereto
fore been made in the building. A plat
form 100 feet long and thirty feet wide
has been built on the west side of the
hall fOr the chairman, secretaries, ma
tional committee and the newspaper men
The two press associations, will have
prominent places On either side of the
speakers stand. Next in position to
these will be the editors of the promi-
nent independent newspapers of the
country. After these are provided fol
the representatives of the metropolitan
press throughout the country will be as
signed to places, and the remaining seats
will be allotted to the editors of the Ne
braska weekly newspapers.
AS to the candidates all is at sea. While
General J. B. Weaver, of Iowa, seemed
to have the support of the local inde
pendents up to the time of the return o.
the disgruntled silver men from the Chi
cago convention and the announcement
of their decision TO come here and seet
satisfaction at the hands of the indepen
dents, the sentiment has changed and i
is now openly asserted that Weaver i:
! no longer III IL. L nc ta4A Il All III IdFoI
of a nominee from mining state. and
Stewart, of Nevada, and Adams, of Col
orado, have the call, with Watson, Of
Georgia, for second place.
I This, however, would destroy the pleas
| ing ALTERATION that many of the new
, movement have been counting on. Fol-
while they counted on Donnelly and
Davis-Ignatius, of Minnesota, and J. G..
of Texas. Then Polk and Powderll
!. caught the popular fancy, but the deatl
q of one and the absolute refusal of tht
!. other to be considered for either first ol
second place, necessitated the election o.