Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-04-18

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1HR SEATING CAPACITY
The hall will seat 1901 persons. It
will have. Il is said, the largest seating
capacity Of any building ever erected for
a convention, With perhaps, the cNcep-
ton OF The hall in which James A. Oar
field was nominated In 1880. This is
said to have had 1900 seats. Inc M.n-
ncapOIis convention nall had about ~ 600
seats, and q great part Of the view in
that hall va, shut oil by posts and pil.
lars, There will be no such o,is in this
hall am told that every seat will be a
good one, and that the acoustic proper.
ties Of the hall-by means OF great sound
ny boards will be such tuat all can
hear Zach seat will be a chair, and
about 90 600 chairs will be bought for
the occasion. The seats will be affaf ged
m the shape OF rectangular ampni
thcatcr. They will rise up on four sides
OF the quarc pit which forms the ground
iloor and winch is occupied by the dele
safes aud the alternatas. This pit will
he about one halt an acre IN size. In
the middle, IN three great blocks OF rows
OF chairs with aislus running through
them, will 81, the ga delegates, those
from each state beng together The
states will be- allotted seats On alltabeti-
cal order, beg inning Win Alabama and
Arkansas 90 tue hight Il the s. caEcr,
and ending with the states beginning
with W, the place oi each state being
marked by pole with q litt'c'H1g bear.
iug rs name. Ga the tight and lett OF
the delegates Ia the vi, will be the seats
Tor the Jitgrnstes, and on the iour sides
ufthe pi, rising to the back walls OF the
building in two great banks ol seals,
will sil the spectators. The floor and
tue lower bank will seat abou, COZ PEG.
pie. The upper bank, which is gal.
lefy forty feet vide, running around the
hall and extending back up 10 the roof,
will seat o 900. AZ the time Of the con.
vcnuon the delegates will be thus sur.
rounded by banks ui gsi y.drcssed
humanity. They vii, be inyIus d, as II
were, In hanging gardens OF fashionable
women and distinguished men gardens
more wonderful than the Hanging Car.
dens OF Babylon.
TilE OFFICERS ASD THE PRESS.
/ IN front Of the delegates and alter
I mates, on platform about as high as a
| table, will NJ the chairman or preside I
Of the convention, with the sectetir O.,
| and tally clerks on each side OF him.
| Back Of them will be the national com
] miitee and the distinguished men OF the
/ party, while on each site II the prcI
| dent, and little lower down, will be the
tables Tor the workiugmen OF the press.
Each press table will accommodate scy.
eral men, Each table will have pneu.
matte tube connected with IL running to
the Telegraph offices, which will be iora.
| ted under the seats a. the front Of the
| building, and as the reporters write their
/ dispatches q ey can send them to the
/ wires sheet by sheet as they flush them.
| There are to be 900 seats for the press
There Will probably be 1000 newspaper
/ men a. the convention, but these seats
arc for those who are dong Geographic
/ work, and not Tor droncs ana fancy
wnteri. Arrangements are being made
| with the Geographic companies 10 han.
| die large amour Of matter. Esiimat.
! Ing that 800 papers Of the United States
wi take an average OF three co umns. or
| goo words a day from the convention,
the wires wall be loaded down with nj
| least 1000 600 words daily one OF the
volumes OF BlaInc's book contains.
Judge, about 900 600 words. The mat,
Ter sent out from this convention dali,
would, II published, make about ten vol
umes OF that size.
TIKI CONVENTION SEATS AND now To
CIT THEN.
have spent some time at St. Louis
with the Hon. +. NJ. Byrnes OF Mime
apOlIs. Mr. Byrnes was the sergeant.at
arms at the Minneapolis convention. liz
has been chosen the sergeant.ata arms o
this convention, ID he Is by all odds IN,
most important man Just now connected
with H. lie has 10 do with the seat
iug Of the crowd aud has entire charg,
OF the tickets. All press men must max,
their application to him, and they will b,
t1SgaTdci to press committee here
~ Byrnes will have the custody lof In,
tickets as soon as they are printed, anl
through his kindness / was able to get ,
sight OF the wash drawings from which
the tickets will be engraved. Thes,
drawings have been kept secret NJ
! tickets will be gwen out for fear the,
may be countetieited. Tickets to a con
| ventiOn Ike this are worth money. Coco
seats to the Minneapolis, convention SOLD
for 500 and upward some bringing gI5r
and there will be large number for sal,
al St. Louis. Mr.. Byrnes will have AZ
immense vault In the convention hal
Tor the storing OF the tickets, lie is re
sponslbe tor them to the national com
mittee. and has to account for every ont
OF them. There will be a big army o
police IN hand at the time, and only lhos,
having tickets will get in.
200 600 TICKETS,
Two hundred thousand tickets will BIT
printed This will make a bulk bi,
enough to il a good.sized cart. Thi
number Is estimated on the ground tina
there might possibly be three session.
each day and lhtt the convention ma,
last five days One ticket Is printed fol
each session and II,oCo tickets a do,
for fifteen sessions would require 7I1,oo,
tickets. There will not be this ma B.,
sessions a day, but the convention ma,
last longer than live DAYS, The contrac
Tor printing the tickets is an impurtan
one, and /, worth considerable money
The big engraving companies OF New
York and Il J. us competed Tor Il bu
81. Louis company got the job haynl
II derbId the New York companies,
understand more than = 600, The tic
kcts are being engraved by Woodwat,
& Herman Of tbs city, who were able /
undeTDii the eastern companies by be
| g,,,, tho nunerg and inyen aFq nj a nau