The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13

principal owner of the Iron Mountain
road it went up in fire one night with the
sacrifice of many lives and wrote on the
smoke darkened sky in letters of flame
perpetual advertisement for Kate Claxton.
Rebuilt, it became famous as the scene of
that crime of international interest, the
murder of Arthur Preller by his friend
Walter Maxwell. Later x-Governor Tom
Reynolds dashed himself to death from the
galleries which look on the rotunda.
RotuEda Rallying Places.
The Planters House will - another rail-
lying place, though its rot1Sz0a is not SO
spacious 1t has big open hallway on
the second floor reached by broad stair
way, and this will be place where many
meet both day and night. The Lindell also
has a good lobby, and the ST. Nicholas will
be the scene of many conferences. Already
Reed and Mckinley have headquarters en-
gagged at the Southern hotel. Mckinley
has auxiliary quarters also at the other
hotels.
The Southern will shelter the New Eng
land delegations. Most of them have en-
gagged quarters there. The southern dele
cations will go to the smaller hotels. The
westerners will be found chiefly at the
Lindell, though the liberal Pacific coast
delegation will probably be at the Plant
ers House. The Colorado delegation will
go to the Southern hotel. The national
committee, too, will be at the Southern.
The expenses of the national committee
men will be paid by the people of St. Louis.
That is part of the bargain the St. Louis
delegation made with the national COM
mittee in Washington. The convention
was not put up at auction, as some of the
newspapers said, but it is true that tho
committee fixed price for the convention
and that ST. Louis agreed to pay it, That
price included:
The expenses of the members of the ma
tional committee and their families.
A hall acceptable to the national COM
mittee.
All tickets and other preliminary print
ing
A stenographic report of the proceedings
and the publication of it.
A guarantee that there will be no adj
vance in hotel rates.
A guarantee of reasonable railroad fares.
And, finally, a guarantee, the terms of
which are known to a very few, that part
of the debt of the national committee be
paid.
When it was reported some weeks ago
that the committee would not give tho
convention to a city which would not
guarantee the payment of the committee's
debts, ex-Congressman Nathan Frank Of
fered in the st. Louis meeting a virtuous
resolution not to assume this debt. Tho
resolution was passed. But when r. G.
Kerens, Misscuri's member of the national
committee, found the convention hinged
on tho payment of at least part of the
SOS, 900 the committee owes the st. Louis
delegation authorized him to make the
bargain. So the convention will cost the
people of the city probably $780, 600. The
convention of 1888 cost $50, 600, and Gov
ernor D. r. Francis of Missouri personally
guaranteed that amount to secure it. FIX
Senator John B. Henderson and Nathan
Frank guaranteed $40, 600 to secure one of
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tured both.
Tho convention of 1888 met in the north
nave of the Exposition building, 50, 00o,-
600 structure, which has the distinction of
being the only permanent enterprise of it's
kind in the world which has paid divi-
dend. The Chamber of Commerce stands
On Third street, q narrow thcroug hfare in
the heart of the mercantile section. The
Exposition building covers the entire space
once occupied by a public park, between
Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Olive and St.
Charles streets, between the shopping and