The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-06-15
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lean convention cityof 1900 b as every
thing in readiness, practically, for the
qnadrennial gathering Of the repub-
Leans ms OF the United States. All the
hard work and all the anxious moments
attending the preparations for the
coming of the republican hosts are
over, and the city is beginning to
dress up to receive it's guests. The
magnificent convention hail, on the
west bank of the Schuylkill river, is
complete. in every detail, and awaits
only the hour of noon, June 10. Desir-
able hotel accommodations for the
next two weeks will be extremely. hard
to find, as all the larger hostelries and
the exclusive apartment houses have
been booked to their capacity. Quite
number of state delegations have
rented houses entirely for all of next
week.
The storm center of the convention
between the sessions will be the Hotel
Walton, at Broad and Locust streets.
At that hotel the national committee
will have its headquarters, occupying
the entire fifth floor. The meetings, of
the national committee, beginning next
Wednesday, will be held in one of the
banquet rooms on the tenth or top
floor of the hotel. The room is we'll
adapted for the purpose, being large
enough to accommodate the full com.
mittee, witnesses and representatives
of the contrasting delegations.
The Walton leo will Io ho - -,
grounds Of the Maine, Connecticut,
New York, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin
and Missouri state delegations. The
vice presidential booms of the sons of
three states will also find Judgement
at the Walton. National Chairman
Hanna and Secretary Dick will occupy
suites of rooms at the Bellevue, a block
from the Walton, along with Senator
Lodge, of Massachusetts,, and other
leading republicans. At the Lafayette
hotel will be quartered the delegations
from Alaska, Indiana, Idaho, Mime
sofa, New Jersey, Rhode Island, South
Dakota and Virginia, while the Con-
tinental hotel will house the Alabama,
Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Kan.
sas, Maryland, North Dakota, Texas
and Wyoming contingents. The Stem.
ton will care for the Colorado, Della
ware, Massachusetts, New Mexico dele
cations. West Virginia and Nebraska
have engaged rooms at the Stratford.
and Tennessee, California and Louisi-
ana will hold forth at the Bingham
house. Other state delegations will be
quartered at various smaller hotels and
boarding houses.
The convention hall is located in
West Philadelphia, close to the Uni.
versity of Pennsylvania group of build
ings, and is W. miles from the national
committee headquarters and the hotel
district. Transportation to and from
the hall is ample, the facilities in this
respect having been thoroughly tested
time and time again last fall during the
National Export exposition, on which
grounds the great hall is located and to
whom it belongs.
The seating capacity of the place is
close to 10000. The main floor is pro.
vided with "a entrances. The main
entrance is at the north, and the
stage is at the southern end, eight
feet above the main floor. The press
stand for 500 working newspaper men
is directly in front of the stage, and is
four feet above the main floor. In
front of the press stand is the space
for the delegates, which is exactly in
the center of the hall. In back of the
delegates are the alternates' seats,
On all four sides of the hall, running
from the main floor we'll up to the
roof, are banked row after row of
seats. There is only one gallery,
which runs the entire width of the
hall at the rear. The band will be To-
Gated in the center of the gallery.
Back of the stage and away from the
noise of the crowd are located numer-
Gus committee rooms. The telegraphic
facilities are ample, the Western
Union and Postal Telegraph compa-
MES and the Associated Press having
spacious rooms close to the stage, and
which are reached by tunnels under
the seats. There are nearly 200 wires
running into the hall.
The, exterior view of the hall is
beautiful. For months the city's for
ester and landscape gardeners have
been at work identifying the grounds
surrounding the hall. The main en-
trance to the building stands back
600 feet from the gate of the fence
which surrounds the grounds The
approach to the hall, known locally as
ho Es-1oro1o g
shrubbery and young trees.
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