El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-06
Y. p. S. C.. e.
international Convention at Denver.

international convention al tOSHtST'
NASHVILLE, Tenn. July 6.-Nash-
vile is nearly all agog preparing for
the international convention Of the
Christian Endeavor society. The ad-
vance guard of the delegates put in an
appearance this morning in the shape
of scattering delegations from various
parts of the South, and this evening
the rush will be inaugurated in earnest
with the arrival of the big Chicago
delegation which is enjoying pre-
convention jaunt to places
of interest in the east
ern part of the state. From now on the
trains will come in quick succession
bringing delegates from New England,
Canada, West Virginia, Michigan. In
diana, Ohio, Colorado, Californis, Tex
as and elsewhere.
Fifty thousand flags, together with
countless yards of streamers, festoons
and banners, decorate in prOfusion pub
lie and private buildings. The official
colore of the society, crimson and
white, intertwined with the stars
and stripes, and here and there q
flag of free Cuba, meet the eye
everywhere today. A new
and surprising decoration is to be seen
in the residence districts where the
yards, gardens and public parks con-
tain monogram flower beds, the G. E.
idea in red and white being carried
out in every conceivable manner. The
interior of the railway stations pre-
sent brilliant appearance on
account of the quantities of bunt-
ing suspended therein, and
the Union Gospel Tabernacle
where Rev. Wilbur Chapman will pre-
side during the convention, the
Duncan Hotel, the headquarters of the
United Society; Auditorium Endeavor
and Hall Williston at Centennial Park,
where some of the sessions are to be
held, are all one mass of variegated
color. The Tulane Hotel, the head
quarters of the Illinois, Iowa, Texas
and New Jersey delegations, is
gayly attired, the exterior from
roof to sidewalk being hung with
streamers of red, white and blue. The
merchants down town have decorated
their shop windows with the conven-
tion colors, fsncifully worked out with
a display of their stock in trade, and
the facades of all the principal build
ings rival the churches in the profu-
sion of display. Two hundred work.
men are rushing today completing
the arrangements in the Audi
torium Endeavor, the interior of which,
even in the days when the exposition
was at its height, never presented q
more beautiful spectacle. The holding
of the sessions in large airy buildings,
such as the Auditorium and Willison
hall, is expected to be far more satis-
factory to the visitors than If the
gatherings were held in tents as has
been frequently done in the past. The
ventilation OF the two halls is perfect
and the platforms and seats have been
constructed so ss to afford the greatest
possible convenience both to the speak
ers and the audience. The interior
decorations are on most magnificent
scale. Broad streamers of crimson
and white form canopies overhead, and
the same colors have been used lavish
ly, together with the ma
tional flags, state seals,
and Christian Endeavor emblems upon
the stage fronts and walls of the halls.
The corps of ushers, numbering near
ly three hundred young men, have
been in careful training for weeks
past, SO as to avoid possible confusion
in the work of seating the hundreds of
delegates on the occasion of the formal
opening Thursday afternoon.