Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-11-24
WANTS THE CONVENTION.
Pittsburg Making a Show Of Her En-
tertaining Capacity.
The Facilities for Handling the
News Of a National Convention
and Getting it Out are not Better
in any City-Capacity Of the Tel
egraph COmpanies-Press AssO-
Citations Well Fixed.

Pittsburg, November 23.-The COM
mittee of citizens organized TO secure
the holding of the Republican national
convention in Pittsburg next year sent
to each member of the National Execu-
tive Committee this evening circulars
relative to the Geographic facilities of
Pittsburg.
J. d. Flynn, superintendent of the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
says the facilities are equal to the
needs of any convention, no matter
how large. Dividing their through
wires and looping them to the conven-
ton hall, it would require the services
of eighty operators to man them, and
as these wires run to all points Of the
compass, the committee can form a
general idea of what can be done. The
wires leased to the press associations
and those used for local purposes are
not included in this statement.
The Postal Telegraph Company says
there is not a city in the country so well
equipped as Pittsburg, which is now
and has always been the center relay
station and distributing point Of all the
principal telegraphic companies. The
large number OF wires radiating from
Pittsburg. east. west, north and south,
will afford ample facilities for the
handling of vastly more business than
any national convention can supply.
If necessary nearly every large news
paper in the country can be supplied
with an exclusive wire. 1t can be said
without exaggeratiOn that it will not be
possible for any other city in the coun-
try to furnish the convention facilities
equal to Pittsburg
The United Press manager says the
facilities are ample, and they could not
be better for the handling OF the re-
ports which the United Press would
make of the proceedings Of a great ma
tiOnal convention.
The agent of the Associated Press
SAYS Pittsburg IS recognized as the prin-
cipal repeating station between the east
and the west. and a force large enough
to handle any convention is steadily
maintained here. Atmospheric dis
turbances in any one part Of the coun-
try would affect only that locality, and
all other parts of the country could be
supplied with the news without inter
ruption on account of Pittsburg's cen
uai location. This would not be true
of cities east or west of Pittsburg, for
with such a storm communication would
be greatly embarrassed or completely
shut off. The news Of the Johnstown
food and of the Homestead strike,
handled with entire satisfaction to the
press Of the country, demonstrates the
excellent telegraph facilities Of Pitts
burg. The news can be sent simultan-
eously to New York, Philadelphia,
Washington, Baltimore, Cincinnati,
Louisville. New Orleans, st. Louis,
indianapolis, Columbus, Cleveland Chi
cago. Milwaukee, St Paul, Omaha, Den
yer and San Francisco, which can
scarcely be exceeded by any city in the
country.
"P!ttsburg's facilities for supplying
the world with the news of any conven-
ton are unsurpassed" IS the conclusion
of the argument Of the Associated Press
representative.