St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-11
The Famous Architect Re-
ports on the Flour City
Convention Hall.
1t Will Far Excel Anything Of
the Kind Ever Before
Constructed.
Detailed Description OF Ar
raDgements--Hotel Ac-
commodations.
Morton and Rusk Proposed
as a Ticket--Vexatious
Vaporings.

CHICAGO, Feb. 10. - David Adler,
world-famOus as the designer OF the
Chicago Auditorium, and for many
years past widely celebrated as the spe-
cial architect for the national political
conventions of sboth leading parties
wherever held in the United States, re-
turned from Minneapolis today with
report indicating that the Twin Cities
are in the lead as the convention center
for the future.
Proyerbiaily painstaking and method
lcal, Mr.. Adler is slow to become an en-
thuSiaSt, and for that reason his COM
prehensive grasp of large possibilities
in an affair of magnitude is weighty
and interesting. MIR. Adler's report
says:
Arrangements for the conversion of
the Minneapolis exposition building
into hall for the Republican national
convention have progressed suffi-
GENTLY to justify the prediction
that Minneapolis will furnish the
Republican party the best convention
hall yet constructed in this country.
While at first glance nothing can be i'm
agined further from the requirements
OF lood convention hall than the Min
iieapolis exposition building, yet the
Willingness of the owners of the build
ing 10 permit the removal from the in
terror of alarge portion of the floors,
aid the opening up i'll that way of the
entire lnternalSpace into one
Large, Magnificent Room.
has given rs all 10 be required for the
accomplishment of the result above
predicted. The plan of arrangement
first contemplated involved the utiliza-
fion for seating purposes of every square
inch of space in the exposition building.
This, however. would have required the
tearing out of SO much of the interior
OF the building that the more conServa-
tive and tlmid of the owners OF the
building would not consent to the exc
cutiono of this project.
The arrangement now agreed upon leaves
untouched fiftystwo feet in width of the
floors all around the building. and reduces
The seatiag capacity by about 1000 from tnat
first contemplated, but of the remaining
seats-of which there will be between
a freean unobstfucted view of the entire
space occupied by the delegates Every
spectator in the hall will be able to see and
hear every one who may rise to- speak in the
beay.of= the delegates or from the rostrom
IN general way. the arrangement OF the hail
may be described as follows:
Hall Arrangements.
( In the center will bs space nearly
square which will besoccupied by the
delegates. for whom settees or opera
chairs will be provided. The aisles will
be so arranged as to render easy the ap-
prOach to the seats themselves, and
communication between the diff
ferent delegations. Immediately in
front of the space occupied by
the delegates and extending across ITS
entire width will be an elevated ros-
ztrum. in the center of which will be an-
other elevation, which is to be occupied
by the chairman of tine convention, the
clerk of the convention, and the
stand for the speakers. Immediately
behind this will be seats for the ma
.tional committee, and for the honored
guests of the convention.
10 each side of the rOStrum for the
officers of the convention will be
tables, firstfOr the representatives of
the press associations and for the chief
representatives of the telegraph COM
panles, then for the reporters of the
leading dailies of the country: in ad-
editiOn to these will be chairs for those
representatives of the press not engaged
In the Immediate work of making yer
batim reports of proceedings, but en-
gagged in description writing, etc.
Seats for Spectators
will rise in every direction from the
central space before described upon a
method of stepping technically known
as the ''iSacOuStic curve" the purpose
and effect of which is to give the best
and most effective combination of sight
and sound lines known 10 modern
science. Those who were in the opera
festival in the exposition building in
1885, OF in the Auditorium at the Repub-
lican convention of 1883. will remember
the thrilling effect of the sight of so
many faces at one glance.
This effect will be surpassed at the
Minneapolis convention hall. inasmuch
posed for this purpose than upon those
memorable occasions. 1t is safe to as
sumo that each person seated in the
house will be able to take in at one
glance the faces of at least 5000 people.
Barring the difference as between the
curvelinear and the rectangular plan,
the conditions will resemble more those
of the Roman amphitheater than those
OF the interior of any modern structure.
The means of ingress and egress will be
similar to those in use at the various
music festivals and conventions held in
former times in our exposition building
and now in use in the Auditorium. The
seats will be subdiyided into compare
lively small sections, each with
Separate Entrance,
and such arrangements will be made in
the printing and designating of the
tickets that the entire mammoth audi
ence can he seated as rapidly as the
audience of an ordinary theater. The
arrangements made for egress from the
house involve the erection of new
stairways, aggregating 120 feet In
width. The arrangements made
for the comfort and convenience
of the representatives of the press and
for the telegraph companies will be,
thanks to some peculiaritles of the plan
OF the existing building, better than
could have been hoped for in any exist
ing structure. far better than they were
In the Auditorium in 1888. Committee
rooms, cloak rooms, restaurants, etc.,
are being arranged for on the most lib
eral scale.
Work upon the drawings is being
prosecuted with the utmost diligence
simultaneously at the office of Warren
II. Hayes, of Minneapolis, and Adler &
Sullivan, of Chicago, and it is expected
that the work will be ready for letting
contracts within two weeks. The citi-
zens OF Minneapolis have taken hold of
the preparations for this convention
with zeal and enthusiasm that prom
ises great results. Men of the highest
business standing seem ready and at
hand for committee work. Their only
DurpOSe was To he that of making tho