The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-22

Delegates to the Two Coming Conventions
Want to be Strictly in the Push and
They are Engaging Rooms in Advance
Great Fad for Telegraphing in Advance
But the Hotel Keepers are Onto Their
Jobs and Try to Please Everybody
Twice More Rooms Now Engaged Than
They are in All the Hotels.
The great problem now staring the
hotel keepers in the face Is how 10 ac-
commOdate the delegates 10 the two
Republican conventions 10 be held here
next month.
Wichita has just as good hotel accom-
modatbons as any city in the state. but
the two conventions coming together
Will tax the hotels TO their utmost ca
pacity.
The great trouble with conventions
OF this kind IS that all the delegates who
come to them want 10 be in the push
and hence crowd to the hotel where the
| push Is. kanSans are different from the
people Of eastern states in this respect.
In the eastern states delegates 10 big
| conventions board and lodge on the
gates board and lodge wherever the big
politicians are. even if il costs them
50 per day. If they haven't got the S.
they VIII borrow il. Kansas politicians
may feel cheap occasionally, but they
never want anybody else 10 think that
they are cheap. Some men who know
very We'll that they must put a chattel
| mortgage on the brindle COW before
they can come here, are telegraphing
for rooms at the Carey already Tele-
graphing three weeks ahead for rooms
is a fad peculiar to Kansas politicians
and II IS a clever one. John Smith
heard BIZ Jones say that he telegraphed
for room and he at once says TO him
self: l can afford to be as bloodei as
Jones, l canot afford TO be less bIooded
| and 1 guess 1 viii telegraph for a room,
too.
The result OF all this telegraphing IS
that about 500 rooms are engaged at the
Carey or about 400 more than the hotel
| has. The Carey people, of course, are
on TO their jobs. There is trick in all
trades, and the hotel business is no ex-
ception. When Ed. KOhr gets a tele-
gram from some chap asking him to
save room he takes his pencil out OF
his cigar pocket and registers him a
room with as much GOODNESS and meth
Cd as if he had a thousand rooms 10
spare. When the politician telegraphs
for a room that is the last of il and he
semeingly don't care whether ne gets
one or not. The great point is In the
telegraphing. The hotel people all
know this and in most cases they are
as Indifferent about the room as the FED
low that telegraphed for il, When the
convention day comes and the dele
gates arrive they rush up 10 the coun-
ter like a shot out of a cannon and ask:
Did you get my telegram"
Yes, sir"
Did you save me a room?"
Eyes, sir, but we are little crowded
today and l suppose you wouldn't mind
if somebody else was in the room, toe"
"Oh, no, not at all. Is there a fire in
it?"
Yes. sir. steam"
That's better"
Nine chances out of ten the man
doesn't go to bed till o'clock in the
morning and at that time he doesn't
care a rap how many room mates he
has More than that he will be per-
fectly satisfied if there are not more
than three in his bed when he gets there
OF course he tells them that he tele-
graphed for a room and they will say
that they telegraphed, TOO. Then all OF
them will show their magnanmity to-
wards the hotel man and their hospital
ty towards one another. The little va
lise is opened, the bottle Is pulled out
and all take a drink and are satisfied
with their lay out.
Some people come to a convention Ike
they would come to a funeral and want
10 sleep when their mission is ended.
The hotel man knows these people and
have them located in private rooms.
There is great interest centered in
these conventions and especially in the
second days convention, and this ac-
counts for the fears of the hotel men
that they VIII not have much room TO
spare about their places. They are all
engaging outside rooms for the expect
ted overflow.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Staltings
against the city is still out, unable 10
a ey-aa rIrTu a verdict