The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-22

cNyS 8 ns cago to Minneapolis.
lsxssS.S Take care of the
~ convention twas the
81 L1, reply. "Weil, I
should smile Minneapolis can take care
of two such crowds and not feel il. BY
Gingernatil you people of the East can't
understand the possibilities of the West.
We work quick out here, and the bigger
the thing is the better we like it !"
"But how can you feed and sleep such
crowd 2" | asked.
''There is no trouble about that" was
the Minneapolis mans reply. I'VE have
plenty of potatoes and turnips, and we
can haul In enough straw for bedding.
We can take care of them. BY gingernati,
we can take care of them" And with
that the citizen burst into hoarse laugh
and repeated, "Let them come, by Ginger
natl, we can take care of them!"
This, of course. is facetious. It en-
bodies, however, the idea that some PEG.
pie of the etfete East have of the wild and
woolly West-an idea which will be
changed after they come to the conven-
ton. Minneapolis has as good food and
as fine hotels as any city of the East. She
is really ready for the convention. and she
could take care Of it if it were called
together today. have spent some time
in looking into her preparations, and
predict that the delegates and visitors to
this convention will be better cared for
than any convention in our history. The
people are making the matter personal
one, and the town has city pride that is
making it do all it can to make the dele
gates comfortable. Minneapolis has some
of the finest residences of the United
xoxc .<xC. A.. -. 4.
told, intend to move their families out to
the hotels on Lake Minnetonka and to
give up their houses to some of the dele
gates. The people are throwing open
their homes to the convention as though
it was a religious synod or conference,
and increased hotel and rooming accom-
modations have been provided. The
crowd will be large one, and can best
give some idea of it by repeatin 2 chat
had yesterday with Colonel McCrory, the
secretary of the committee on arrange
ments for the convention. Said Colonel
McCrory: "We expect to have at least
5000 strangers here at the convention.
You have no idea how applications for
quarters are coming in. Some of our peo-
pie expect the number will reach 10000,
but it will undoubtedly be one of the big
gest conventions ever held. The states of
Ohio and Iowa will empty themselves out
here in June, and we will have delegations
from $50 Republican clubs in Ohio alone.
Suppose ten come from each club; this will
make $500, and we will have bigger dele
CATION from Iowa. The Iowa men have
been here to look up accommodations and
they are organizing to come in crowds.
We have had delegations here from all of
the Western states, and Illinois is organ
izing to bring big crowd here. There
will be single club of 400 from Phiiade-
phia, and the states of Oregon and Wash
ington will be largely represented"
what are the railroads gong to do2"I
asked
They will make one fair for the round
trip and some of the roads will do much
better. For instance, a rate will be made
which will bring people here from Port
land, Me-, and then take them back at
half a cent mile, or $3.50 for the trip of
nearly 5000 miles. These reductions will
bring enormous crowds and the rush to
the Northwest will take advantage of the
low rates. and the number Of summer visit
ors, which we always have. will add to the
list. There are now thousands of people
who come here to spend the summer on
account of the climate and our lakes, and
the tide of emigration has turned here
since the big crops. We expect thousands
OF farmers and men who want to invest in
-tOttIWt5ttFn lHe5e are coming
now and you would be surprised at the
change that has taken place. Lands in
the Dakotas and this state have nearly
doubled since those big crops and the
prospect is that these crops will continue.
The outlook for this year is far better than
it was for 1891 and we are going to have
boom. / got an order from man in Rus
STA last week to buy him 10000 acres of
land and l bought him 1900 acres at
prices ranging from SO to $50 per acre. At
this time last year | could have bought
the same land at from s. to $12 per acre.
These would-be investors will increase our
crowd and, all told, / shall not be sur
prised if we have more than 5000"
well, suppose you have that many?
Can you take care Of them? ?"
Eyes, without doubt" was the reply.
''Our present hotels and their annexes VIII
accommodate q, 600, and we can take care
of another 5000 in our clearinghouse
and private families. Then they can go
out to the big hotels at Lake Minnetonka
IN twenty minutes, and these, together
with ST. Paul, which is no further off and
is reached at a l0-cent fare by electric and
steam cars. can accommodate %, 600 more.
we have already gotten accommodations
for something like Is. go who have applied,
and our ability to feed the crowd is bevond
question. We make, for instance 5000
barrels Of -four day at our mills here. and
this would make enough bread to feed
We" OFh anu DToOhlyn ana leaVe some
thousands of barrels over for cakes and
pies. We have big meat packing estab-
lishments here, and you can get anything
to eat in Minneapolis that you can get at
any place in the United States"
There Will be a great many newspaper
correspondents at che convention and all
the big papers of the United States have
arranged Tor quarters The accomoda-
tons in this respect Will be better than at
any previous convention and more than
80 of working journalists have already
applied for quarters. The chairman of
the press committee is ex-senator Gil
Pierce, who is now editor OF the Minneapo-
lls Tribune, and the secretary is j. Newton
Mind, one of the well-known newspaper
men Of the Northwest. He tells me that
there will be no trouble about accommo-
dations, and that the New York Life In
surance building will accommodate 200
This building is TO be given up entirely TO
the press, with the exception of three
rooms which have been reserved for the
president OF the company, who is coming
TO the convention with his family. The
New York Life building is within a ten-
minutes walk Of the convention hall and
il is easily accessible by street cars 1t -
one of the many fne buildings OF Mime
apolis and it would be credit 10 any
@city in the country. It is an
eleven story structure of granite and
pressed brick, and il covers nearly
half an acre of ground It's roof is higher
than the spire of the average country