The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-03
Plans Have Been Perfected
for Seating the 1000
Delegates and Alternates,
and Provision Has Been
Made TO Care for 10000
Visitors.

lille the country at large has been
NAf fussing and fuming over who Is
" to go to the national Republican
w convention and what the delegates
are TO do after they get there.
down IN Philadelphia tho descendants of
William Penn have been putting chairs
into a big hall and numbering sections
and picking out appropriate music for the
band to play. and making ready for the
time when delegates md spectators SHAH
have arrived It is big job making reife
for such a gathering as is 10 assemble in
Philadelphia on june ~ But already the
plans for seating the 20oo delegates aud
alternates are perfected. tho various com
nnittee rooms assigned and the small army
OF employees that Is 70 take care Of the big
army of e00Oo delegates and spectators FRO
vifed for
sorgeant-at-Arms George y wiswall -
field marshal Of the little army and his
chief ~ stan 8 David C. Owen whose
official ttle Is assistant serreant-at.arms
md general organizer Of the convention
force II Is = much longer and higher
sounding title than that Of president ~ the
Tinted States. but not % lucrative JOHN
w Ronev. of Chicago. will he captain ~
The rerortera' section He was captain ~
volunteers during the war ~ tho rebel-
lior ard has heen q member Of three
this.
serreant-at-Arms Wlswets corps win
consist Of I roo q 'tant sergennts-at-
arms So doorkeeners r0o ushers 30 uagcs
ao messengers and go tanitors Addod 70
mis- array win he 200 mcn detailed from
the bureau o. public safety 10 assist in
preserving order. n Is called bureau OF
public safety In PHILADELPHIA and means
1usf the same ~ police depa rtment
ali Isa ia
and tho work ~ putting the exposition
building In condition for properly seating
the delegates and spectators and the MAX
ing az the committee and retiring rooms
- well on toward completion on the m atn
floor fourteen entrances have been provil-
cd ON the north side, which is the frort
Of the building, There are seven entrances
each on the east and west sides and i've
IN the rear or stage end. Of the hall The
delegates viii he tod I'm four solid
squares hanked BY two long paralelosrems
lettered A n G and n Three wide aisles
run north and south through this portion
of the auditorium and one east and west.
The last rev OF delegates will he seated
precisely In the center Of tho hall The
aternates will he seated IN a great som,-
lunar space iust hack Of tho delegates and
separated from them nv a broad aisle run
ming east and west. The aiternates' sec.
tons are lettered ", r G. and " In the
horseshoe reaching from the press seats
10 the front Of the building and COMPLETELY
enconpa s-ing the delegates md alternates
will be the sections for ticketholders and
Iettered I 10 seriatlm, Back OF this
horseshoe on the east and west sides OF
tho building will be other sections for snec-
tators At the north end ~ the building
n n balcony that will scat 40 and this
has been given over entirely to- the people
OF philadelphia. In tho center Of this bal
cnny ia tho band stand
Al the south end OF the hall Is the grcat
stage " the exposition building. Just IN
front " which - % smaller stage, which "a
60 he the speakers stand. On the Staec
are TWO sections W seats, A and ~. which
arr so he reserved for the national corn
mttrcmen aud 80 notnbes and Invited
guests
ON each side o. the stage and speakers
stand and also IN front Of them are the
four sections ~ seats reserved for the
pres. Tho press seats are on a plat form
fouT feet lboyc the level OF the noot cn
which the delegates At Reservation mas