The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-06-07

The arrangements for tickets are as
| follows: Each delegate will have four
1 tickets; each alternate will have one
ticket; there are forty eight members of
the National Committee, each one will be
entitled to forty tickets. The local press
will have $50 tickets-that will be nearly
| 1000 tickets. This will leave nearly {, 900
| tickets to be disposed of, and the under
standing is that not until every visitor or
| delegate is supplied, as far as visitor or
| delegate is entitled to the same, shall any
citizen of Minneapolis apply for ticket
for himself or his family.
The gavel of the convention will be
made of Minnesota wood, and will be the
workmanship of the boys of the public
school OF Minneapolis. The boys asked
the privilege of making this gavel, and it
was accorded.
There will be concert and ball in the
hall the evening before the convention.
One of the Committee on Arrangements
said:
GIVE could have seated 10000 people,
because we have not gone to the outer
walls on any side of the building; but
after consultation with the National
Committee and the architects, the Local
Committee concluded room for 1900
would be ample. Upon this basis we have
been at work, and I am convinced that
we will disappoint fewer people than did
Chicago four years ago.
"Before leaving the building" he con-
tinued, 81 want to point out the arrange
ment for lighting. With the great ex-
panse OF skylight there would be far too
much light on sunny days, such as we are
to except in June, so workmen are engaged
in painting all the glass blue, cutting off
a considerable portion of the light and
softening the remainder. Calculating
that one or two evening sessions would be
held, we have put in 1000 electric lights,
which can be set going by the touching
of button. In the event of cloudy
weather these artificial lights will come
in handy.
"Our arrangements for keeping the OBJ
streperous gallery gods in check are, l
think, excellent. For June z, s and 9.
and longer if necessary, Mayor Winston
will assign fifty officers of the regular
force daily to take charge of the EXPOSE
tion building. Besides these the conven-
tion proper will engage 100 special police
men. No unusual disorder is expected.
and the officers will be there merely as a
precautionary measure. OF course no at
tempt will be made to restrain the claouers
of any candidate, but the man who dis
turbs the serenity of the convention be-
cause of the wine he has imbibed will not
be permitted to remain in the halI.''
Passing to the outside of the building,
the committeeman pointed out numerous
stairways leading from the upper stories
of the building. eve don't propose" ne
said, "to have anybody burned to death
or have any unnecessary delay in getting
out of the building. At the sound of a
fire. gong all the door at the four sides
could be thrown open and every one of
the Is, 600 people could be in the street in
five minutes, and that without unneces-
sary crowding."
In filling the building none of these side
stairways will be used. The main BODY
of the spectators will enter the EXPOSE
ton on the west side, next the Missis-
sippi. The delegates will enter the build
ing on the north side and be escorted to
their seats by special ushers. The dis
tinguished ladies will also enter the
building from the north.