Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-06-05
PLANS OF KANSAS CITY.
Preparations Being Made For
the Democratic Convention.
MANY HOMES OPENED TO VISITORS

! ISie Citizens Determined to Send All
Their Guests Away Well Satisfied
| With Their Treatment-Fine Quar-
tiers For the National Conn ittee.
seats For Fifteen Hundred Dele
gates Provided.
The local committees in charge of the
accommodation of those who VIII at
tend the Democratic national conven-
ton July are now we'll satisfied that
every one who is i'll Kansas City dur
ing the first week In July unless he
is Overparticular will go away well
satisfied that Kansas City did not un-
dertake more than she could do.
In securing the national convention
. for this city two great questions were
involved. One was the raising OF the
money for the direct expenses of the
gathering. and the other was the hous-
Ing and feeding of 100000 visitors. 1t
is not really expected that over $4,000
will lie here. but the committee has
worked upon the basis of 100000 so as
to allow ample margin for the unex:
pectcd. says j. D. Whelpley. the Chica-
90 Times HeFald's Kansas City CORE
Spondent.
There are three first class hotels in
Kansas City generally known to the
travelling public. There are a number
Of others perhaps as good. but where
the rates are slightly lower and which
are not so very well known. These
three hotels are the Midland. Coates
and Baltimore. and the will be the
centers around which will surge the
great crowds during convention week.
All Of the state delegations have secur-
ed headquarters at one of these three
hotels.
John X. Mclean OF Cincinnati has
engaged two of the best rooms for him
self land friend at the Baltimore. w.
n. Clark Of Montana has engaged the
best accommodation lie could secure
ut the Midland. Other we'll known men
who Will stop at hotels are nearly all at
the same hotels at which will be found
their state delegations. Many celebri-
ties will be entertained at the houses
of friends in Kansas City, and nearly
every one with accommodations for
more than his own family will have
visitors during the week of the July
convention.
The Kansas City club has turned its
fine building over to the national COM
mittee for use during the convention.
Never before has n national committee
been offered such facilities as the Dem
ociA.ic organization will have at Kan
sas City. The club building, with its
reading rooms. reception rooms, sleep
ing rooms and splendid bar and cafe,
all within hailinG distance of the con-
Vention hall, will be held exclusively
as a private residence for the members
Of the committee. The convention hall |
IS on the northeast corner of Thirteenth |
and Central streets. The committee |
headquarters at the club will be but |
one block from the hall. The Midland |
hotel is nine blocks. the Coates three |
blocks and the Baltimore three blocks.
There are three other hotels which |
Will probably rank next to the three |
These are the Centropolis, |
Savoy and Blossom House. the latter |
the old headquarters of the Kansas pol |
iticians for many years. The Savoy is |
4 hotel which has been in existence for |
some years. and it is regarded with IA
vor by the travelling public. The Bios |
som is down by the Union depot and |
some distance from the center of the |
town. The Centropolis is n new hotel. |
just completed, with 40 rooms. which
promises TO be very desira BILE place to
stop. except for the fact that it is is |
blocks from the convention hall.
The Midland, Coates and Baltimore
will house about 300 people and feed
possibly 1000. The other hotels men,
toned. with the numberless smaller or
family hotels, which will be used for
purposes during the week,
will take care of at least 10000 TO 200
more people. These hotels may be
called the first line of defense. The
second line of defense is the great num-
Der OF boarding houses with which
Kansas City is well supplied. and the
boarding house district is included |
within 4 radius of ten blocks of the
hall.
Every effort has apparently been
made by the committee To prevent ex-
tortion. The standard rate at the ho-
tells for a place to sleep and three
meals n day viii be 81. This means
from three to five men in a room.
though IL is more than probable the av-
erage Will not be over three. Hundreds
IF outside rooms within easy distance
" the convention hall can be secured
az from 81 to 81 a day. and there will
be at least 100 places to secure meals
outside OF the regular hotel dining
rooms. which will accommodate many |
more people than the hotel rooms Will
be able to shelter.
The plan will be TO have n headquar-
ters for the local committee on accom-
modationS in the New York Life build
nG on Ninth street. near the principal
junction OF all the street car lines OF
the city. Tor several days preceding
and during the convention there will
De a large number of substations. with
L member OF the committee in charge
II each. At all these stations will be ;
Kept lists of rooms and accommoda-
lows of oil g, ~. L =