Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-03
ARRANGEMENTS MAKING FOR THE ENTER
TAINMENT OF THB
Biz RspubHcan National OOnvsn6On-Ths City
win b Beautifully Decorated Throughout
and livery Effort viii b Made %
Please The Gys GassS

pathic hospital arranged % open a
iunch.room on second avenue south
Most Of these extra eating houses VII
serve cold meals and hot coffee or tea.
Some of them will cook regular meals
The committee estimates az tnls TINE
that IN has arranged % feed between
5000 and 10000 a day Ga addition %
those who will be taken care OF az
the hotels and boarding houses.
This capacity, GO Is expected,
viii be increased very considerably
within the next day OF Two. Ihls
morning the committee rented three ue-
sirabls downtown rooms, and these
will be taken almost as soon as they are
oHAed. As an inducement TO people 20
engage Ia this work $1,000 has been set
aside from the general fund TO pay for
the use Of gas stoves for al who may De
willing 70 serve lunches at noon ana
evening. The crowds &C breakfast Will
be comparatively light. Many people
will stop 40 the lakes, others viii stay
I'm 81. Paul, and others still al points In
Minneapolis not convenient 70 the down
town district. All this class OF visitors
must be fed IN the city at noon, while
most OF them will want supper also. TO
look after this class OF wants the res
taurant committee is hard at work.
HAVE BOOKED 10000 STRANGERS.
Chairman Steele, of the accOmmOda-
tions committee, when seen this morn
ing said: "In addition TO the thousands
of persons We have arranged TO place In
private families, ia quarters outside OF
the better downtown hotels and board
ing houses, il is safe 20 say that 1880 70
500 of the visitors, among whom Will
be some OF the most prominent OF them,
will 20 direct 70 homes or friends,
where arrangements for entertainment
have been made independent OF our gen
eral committee. have interested several
well-knOwn ladies in the work OF in
curing along this line, and from their
reports estimate that practically all the
houses OF the more prominent citizens
will be filed. This does not include
the large number who will be housed
and fed by Minneapolis friends in
somewhat less pretentiOuS way. There
is not the slightest possibility that we
can fail in taking care Of all who may
come. estimate that we have already
arranged for aud booked sleeping &C
commOdations for 10000 people.
EASY FOR THE USHERS.
Sergeant alarms Meek this morning
settled the usher question, two-thirdS
OF whom viii come from other States.
Col Meek will have assistant sergeants-
alarms located all over the trst or en-
trance floor 70 the building. The
moment a ticket-holder makes his ap-
pearance his ticket will be scanned tc
see what part OF the house be should
A -. Ide assistant seTgeGnt-at-arms Will
(then direct him to the proper entrance.
In this way every person who enters
the building will be sent TO the proper
inner stairway Here he will find the
ushers for that section OF the hall. The
ushers will know when he sees man
coming up the stairway that that man
belongs in his section. In this way the
ushers will not be obliged TO look over
the ticket checks In order to find out
whether the person assigned to him be-
longs IN his section or not and can seat
the people with the utmost facility.
Col. Meek decided to-day to do away
with the delegation designations. He
said that this would be unnecessary.
tie will have the ushers at work with
the delegations the first day guiding
them TO their places, and after that he
says they will need no ushering and no
designation Of delegations. 1t had been
intended 90 suspend the names OF the
various States from the roof and thus
do away with the Old-time standards.
WILL DECORATE THE CITY.
The Citizens Executive Committee
this morning issued the following ad-
dress:
ave want to see the city decorated in
manner that will attract the attention OF
every visitor and show that our citizens
appreciate the great honor which has been
conferred upon them bv fixing MlnneapO-
lis as The place for holding the convention.
We therefore urge upon all citizens Of this
city 70 decorate their business houses and
private residences during the time Of the
holding Of this convention. We suggest
that this decoration take upon itself ma
tiOnal character. largely composed OF ma
tiOnal colOrs We would also suggest 10
the citizens and owners Of cottages at Lake
MinnetOnka that thousands Of our visitors
win take the opportunity of their presence
here 10 visit the lake, and we ask that the
cottages be decorated in keeping with the
decoration of the city. We should spare
no time, labor or expense in decorating
Minneapolis in cOlors SO beautiful as 70
make every visitor fall in love with her."
CARE FOR NEWSPAPER MEX.
The original plan was 70 open the
New York Life Insurance building as 4
hall for newspaper men on Saturday of
this week aud the cafe on Sunday
morning. The fact that so many news
paper men will be here Friday night
and the further fact that the eighty or
more Washington correspondents, in
charge of Col. Carson, will get here on
their special train az o'clock Friday
morning, has altered this plan, and il is
now arranged 20 have the rooms in read
mess as the newspaper men arrive. 1t
has been found Impossible, however, TO
open the cafe al the same time and no
meals will be served, therefore, until
sunday morning.
tessrs. Mind and Harris of the COM
e estimate il will be possible 10
400 meals in every twenty-four
only about two hundred and
newspaper men have been as
Oms in this building, aud II
them takes three meals q day
ich is not all likely, il will still
rgin Of 1850 meals which can
TO the outside public. AS
Der of correspondents will
at the West, Nicollet and
Is easily seen that there
ot about every newspaper
he wants 20 eat.
interest will be centered
oomS on each side OF
as there will be quar-,
aud Chicago Blaine