Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-18

tending back up to the roof. will seat 5000.
At the time of the convention the delegates
will be thus surrounded by banks of gaily
dressed humanity. They will be inclosed,
as 1t WERE in hanging gardens Of fashion
able women and distinguished men-gar-
dens more wonderful than the Hanging
Gardens Of Babylon.
The Officers and the Press.
In front Of the delegates and alternates.
on platform about as high as table. will
sit the chairman or president Of the con-
vention, with the secretaries and tally clerks
on each side of him. Back Of them will be
the national committee and the distin-
guished men of the party, while on each side
of the president, and a little lower down,
will be the tables for the workingmen of
the press. Each press table will accom-
modate several men. Each table will have
to the telegraph offices, which will be To-
Gated under the seats at the front of the
building, and as the reporters write their
dispatches they can send them to the wires,
sheet by sheet, as they finish them. There
are to be 400 seats for the press. There will
probably be LOCO newspaper men at the con-
vention, but these seats are for those who
are doing Geographic work, and not for
drones and fancy writer's. Arrangements
are being made with the Geographic COM
panies to handle large amount of matter
Estimating that 400 papers of the United
States will take an average of three col
Vention, the wires will be loaded down with
at least 100000 words daily One of the
volumes Of Blaine's book contains, l Judge
about 100000 words. The matter sent out
lished, make about ten volumes of that size
How to Get Seats.
have spent some time at st. Louis with
T. NJ. Byrnes Of Minneapolis. Mr..
Byrnes was the sergeant-at-arms at the
Minneapolis convention. He has been
chosen the sergeant-at-arms of this con-
Vention, and he is by all odds the most
important man just now connected with it.
He has to do with the seating of the crowd
and has entire charge of the tickets. All
press men must make their applica tons to
him, and they will be forwarded to a press
committee here Mr. Byrnes will have the
custody of the tickets as soon as they are
printed, and through his kindness I was
able to get sight of the wash drawings
from which the tickets will be engraved.
These drawings have been kept a secret
No tickets will be given out for fear they
may be counterfeited. Tickets to a con-
Vention like this are worth money Good
seats to the Minneapolis convention sold
for $lOO and upward, some bringing 1925
and there will be large number offered
Ior sale at st. Louis. Mr.. Byrnes will have
an immense vault In the convention hall
for the storing of the tickets. He is re-
sponsible for them to the national commit
tee, and has to account for every one of
on hand at the time, and only those having
tickets will get in.
100000 Tickets.
Two hundred thousand tickets will be
printed. This will make a bulk big enough
to fill good-sized cart. This number is
estimated on the ground that there might
possibly be three sessions each day and
that the convention may last five days.
One ticket Is printed for each session, and
1900 tickets day for fifteen sessions
would require 100000 tickets. There win
not be this many sessions day, but the
convention may last longer than Ave days.
The contract for printing the tickets is an
important one. and Is worth considerable
money. The big engraving companies of
New York and st. Louis competed for 1t,
put st. Louis company got the job hav-
Ing. underbid the New York companies, I
understand. more than $1,000. by being the
owners and inventors of q new printing
press, which will print the finest of steel
plate engravings by machinery.
Heretofore all such VIC rk has been done by
hand. The tickets to the convention Will,
1 think, be the most beautiful ones ever