St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-09
He Is Not Prepared as Yet to
Discuss Details Of Neees-
sary Changes.
Health Commissioner KellyBe-
came So Angry He Threat
ened to Resign.
Prospects for More Water De-
partment War--Court
Cases.

You will have in Minneapolis the
best convention hall that we have ever
had said D. Adler, the Chicago archi-
teet in conversation with GLOBE rep
resentative last night at the West hotel.
Mr.. Adler. who will be associated with
Architect Hayes, of this city, in the SUI
perviSion of the reconstruction of the
exposition building, arrived in the city
yesterday, accompanied by A. T..
Thomas, general Western manager of
the Associated Press. Mr.. Adler spent
the morning i'll consultation with
Architect Hayes, George a. Brack-
EFT, Col. Nj. McCrary and &. l..
Travis, of the committee, and
the afternoon at the exposition build
ing. He followed the remark quoted
with a brief general talk on the SUBJ
iect of the building and the proposed
changes, as follows: "Our plans are
as yet in the rough. and am unable TO
give you definite Information as to the
proposed changes. The conference of
the committee today was held for the
purpose of arranging details, and, al
though everything has not yet been
agreed upon, we have made some
progress. The general form of the
auditorium will be that of Roman
round, with the delegates seated in the
central square, and the seats for spec
tators slanting rapidly back from there.
BY this Arrangement you Will readily
see, every spectator will not only be
able TO see every delegate as he rises in
his seat 10 speak, but three-fourths or
nearly all of his fellow spectators.
There is no great difficulty which
will confront us but which we can. 10y
careful planning. overcome to great
extent. There are great many posts
which will retard the view, but by care
in arranging the aiSleS this annoyance
can be greatly lessened. The building
will have TO be changed to a great eX-
tent, of course, as this purpose is SO
different from that for which it was
built. However, the general form of
the inside will remain much the same.
Il cannot say what the cost of remod-
cling the building will be, as l do hot
know how your local contractors will
figure Oil the work. do not like to
guess on these things. L cannot say
how MANY people we can seat until our
working plans have been prepared. |
think we will have things in shape to
begin figuring with the contractors in
two weeks and, if necessary, the build
ing can be completed within eight
weeks from the time work is begun.
OF course there is plenty of time, and
we will probably take more time to it.
II have at home a large quantity of
memoranda gathered during the prepar-
alton of the three convention buildings
which have assisted in constructing,
and it is our purpose in making these
plans to profit by this past experience,
as it were.
Il don't know what kind of conven-
ton hall the Democrats will have at
Chicago. but they WILMA to do great
deal to beat this one. We will aim to
have ours SO near perfection that no
matter what they do they cannot out
slime US.
Il will stay over tomorrow to arrange
further details and will return to Chica-
go tomorrow night. Then L WILL come
back to Minneapolis later to assist in
completing the DIanS''