Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-06-26
KANSAS ctTY,s TROUBLES
How to Feed aud Lodge 10000 Wis.,
| itors Is a Question.

itOrS Is a Question.
There will be big crowds and big times
in Kansas City during the national Dem
ocratic convention in July, writes cor
respondent. 1t is estimated tlslt at least
10000 strangers will be in the city the
week of the convention, and it is a big
problem how all of them will be fed
and furnished places for rest at night.
But the hotel man smiles, for right at
the start he and his brethren decided
what they would do. They would put six
persons in a room and charge each one
full rates as if he had the room to him
self. That is one way of getting around
the problem of insufficient hotel capacity
The nervous ,lan who insists at home on
perfect quiet and an open window that
he may sleep will do right we'll with
seven husky strangers sleeping on cots
and in the bed with him-seyen men of
various habits and methods of wooing
balmy slumber. The man who cannot
sleep until he smokes goodnight cigar
and the other fellow who always takes
few puffS at a cigarette before retiring
may be in the room with him. The man
who snores will be present in numbers
and the man who CRASHES his teeth prob
ably will share the bed, since no one
man can have a bed to himself in such
stirring times. At So a day these ac-
commodations will be boon to everyone.
Cots of all sizes and degrees of weak
ness have been ordered by private citi-
zens with spare rooms and are arriving
by the car load The sign painters are
having en- unexampled boom" in paint
ing placards announcing Rooms to
rent" and Sleeping accommodations, :"
which will be plastered all over the town.
The family win have to sleep out in the
woodshed for a week when the rooms
will bring $40 each and some of the pros
pective landlords have the money spent
already.
A lot Of wise persons who have little
money to spend are going to beat the
game" by living in Pullman cars during
the excitement. The cars viii be switch
ed to side tracks in the railroad yards
and there the travellers will repair every
night to sleep.
But if sleeping is a prime consideration
in the eyes of many, there are those who
viii take a chance on sleeping accommo-
dations if they are sure of eating regu-
larly. 1t is nearly always the case when
a national convention is held in a small
city with a few first-class hotels that the
dining rooms are damned at meal time so
that those who are paying for their meals
on the American plan" are unable to
get near the tables for hours. When ev-
cry seat is taken the management closes
the doors of the dining room in the face
of dense mob besieging them and lets
the people in by the half dozen as the
diners get through and 90 out. This is
no good way for those who are in hur-
ry, like the delegates, and are obliged TO
set back to another session OF the con-
vention after il adjourns for luncheon.
Therefore the restaurants are prepar-
ing to take care of a major portion of
the crowd and hundreds of temporary
lunch stands under canvas and in hooks
and corners will be run up for conven-
ton week.
1t is estimated that at least 10000
strangers will be in Kansas City during
the convention proceedings. To feed that
army in n short space of time, in addi-
ton to the resident population which
will also want to eat, is something of Il
task, to be sprung on n city all at once
and as each restaurant is private en-
terprise, managed to suit the proprie-
tors ideas, some disappointment proba-
bly, will result. Managers of eating
houses are timorous about employing an
army of help and laying in great stocks
of provisions lest their individual bust
ness should not be great enough to war
rant the outlay. Therefore when the
crowd focks in it finds half dozen wait
ers struggling to meet the demands OF a
hundred people and in few minutes ev-
crything on the bill is call out"
Just what arrangements will be made
to face these problems are matters for
the future to disclose, but certain it is
that Kansas City, as a whole, has a lot
10 think about