St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-04-19

on the ground that there might possibly be
! three sessions each day and that the conven-
ton may last five days. One ticket is printed
for each session, and 1900 tickets a day for
| fifteen sessions would require 210 900 tickets
There will not be this many sessions day,
| but the convention may last longer than five
! days. The contract for printing the tickets
| is an important one, and is worth considera-
BILE money. The big engraving companies Of
New York and St. Louis competed for it, but
st. Louis company got the job, having IN
| derb1d the New York companies, l under
stand, more than 81, 900. The tickets are be-
! ing engraved by Woodward & Tiernan, of
| this city, who were able to underbid the
| Eastern companies by being the owners and
inventors of new printing press, which will
| print the finest of steel plate engravings by
machinery.
| Heretofore all such work has been done by
hand. The tickets to the convention will, 1
think, be the most beautiful ones ever made
! for a convention. The engraving upon them
VIII be as line as that of bank note, and
as there is a ticket to each session with
| single coupon upon it, every man who goes
| into the convention will be able to keep his
ticket a souvenir. The ticket the artists
drawing of which 1 saw, is about the width of
a column of newspaper and about the
| length of postal card. On the back of it
! there is picture Of the convention hall.
| On the front, the left half of the card has
| beautiful engraving of st. Louis, showing
| the bridge over the Mississippi river, while
on the lower right-hand corner there is a lit
| tie engraving of the log cabin in which Gen.
Grant lived on his farm near st. Louis when
! he was poor and unknown and hauled wood
| into ST. Louis for sale. On the face of the
| ticket will be engraved the words "Repub-
lican National Convention, 1896, Joseph Man
| ley, Chairman" and also the words Guests
ticket" or Delegates ticket" of Press
| ticket" as the case may be.
TICKET DISTRIBUTION.
Three thousand five hundred of these tick
! cts are to be given to the Business Mems
League of st. Louis, through whom the
money for building the hall was secured.
Each Of the 924 delegates will have three
tickets, and each Of the alternates will have
think-though I am not sure-only one.
The best chance for visitors to the convention
to get tickets will be through their delegates,
or, if they have friends in the Southern
states, by writing to them and asking them
| to try to work the matter through Southern
! delegates whom they know as the Southern
visitors will be comparatively few. Five
hundred tickets are to be given to the Grand
Army OF the Republic. In addition to these
there will be number Of people who will
be admitted as employees of the convention
Orders have been given for the printing of
1000 badges, about one-half of which go to
Ch0 ueleSdISS, dltSTndteS ana national COM
mitteemen. Nine hundred press badges are
being made, and there will be lot of badges
Tor distinguished guests and other notabIes.
All tickets will be issued Monday, June Is.
at the convention hall, but application should
be made at once for those who wish tn pet
them. There will be band of 800 pieces
IN the hall, and these will also have badges
and tickets.
THE CROWD AT ST. LOUIS.
Every indication points to an immense crowd
mere at the convention. Col. Richard C. Ker
ems, OF the national committee and Senator
Tom Carter each estimate that there will he at
least 10O,Oo0 strangers In st. Louis at that
time, and there is probability that this num-
per VIII De exceeded. There will be at least
5O'Ooo from Missouri. Col. Hahn tells me that
there will be from twenty to TWENTY-FIVE thon-
sano mere from Ohio, and that Cleveland will
send delegation of at least 5000. From IL
uoo 10 2Q0OO people are expected from Iowa to
shout for Allison, and among these will he
l,O0O men who will ride into the CITY on white
horses. The question Of taking care of these
I,ooO white horses will not be a great one for
81 Louis, for people say that this is the larg
est horse and mule market in the world and
they could stable 600 such animals. There
Will De 10,oO0 men from INDIANAPOLIS and its
surroundings. Col. Manley tells me there will
| De large delegation from Maine, and there
VIII pe thousands or Republicans here from
New England to shout for Thomas B. Reed
About 5000 men are expected from Chicago
| New York, 1t is said, will send 600. and am
| told In all the states special cars and trains
! are being engaged by the different clubs and
| by private parties.
/ RAILROAD FACILITIES.
! st. Louis is peculiarly favored as to railroad
facilities. The country surroundin, her is
thickly populated. Twenty-six great railroads
center mere, and the union depot is said to be
the largest in the world. It is certainly the
| finest depot in the United States. and the
! roads running into it have, it is said, mileage
! greater than that of all the railroads of Eng
| land and France combined. The cars are all
| backed into the depot in such way as to
| leave the engines outside and the smoke of
| the ordinary station is thus avoided There
is big corps Of messengers about the station.
/ 1t has barber shop and a hotel connected
| with 1t. 1t is, in fact, little city in itself
| having postoffice book store dining and
| lunch rooms, and more other side establish
| ments than any other depot l have ever en-
| tered. The street cars come right to the depot
| and the visitors for day can go directly to
| the convention hail. The railroads will it is
thought, charge only one fare for the round
trip to ST. Louis and return.
In addition to the railroads there will be
| large number of steamers to bring visitors
from up and down the river. It is estimated
there will be 300 passenger trains going in
| and ont Of the depot daily durlngithe time of
the convention, and it is safe to say that there
will be 10 trouble in landing the $50 900 people
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