The Alamogordo news. (Alamogordo, N.M.) 1899-1912, 1900-06-21
Is How a Correspondent Refers to
the Philadelphia Convention
Preparations Elaborate.
GREAT PARADE OF MARCHING CLUBS.
Five Hundred Seats For Reporters and
Telegraphers Western Newspapers
Benefit Because of Difference in
Time-What the Hall Cost.
Special Correspondence tMoudayl:

Special Correspondence lMoudayl:
PHILADELPHIA, PA, June 1s.-The
Preparations for the Republican ma
tional convention, which will soon as
semble at Philadelphia, are nearly COM
plete 1t will be great Republican
love feast, but it is now seen that, al
though its business could be transacted
in one day, if that were thought neces-
sary, or in two at the most, the mana
gers have agreed that it shall last three
days, says the New York Post. No
provisions are made for holding night
sessions, which will prevent hurrying
through the convention work, while at
the same time the town is alive with
plans for the political entertainment
of delegates and guests outside the con
yention hall. On Monday evening,
o IS, there will be great parade
OF rching clubs from every part of
the country. Word has been received
in Philadelphia that the Cook County
Republican club of Chicago alone will
bring 500 men, coming in its own spe-
cial train, with band of so pieces.
Philadelphia seems likely to prove a
good convention city. The great build
ing erected for the National Export ex-
position on the west bank Of the
Schuylkill has been made into conven-
tlon hall, and it is the testimony of
those who have attended conventions
for % years that better facilities were
never provided, although there have
been larger halls. The architect of the
interior seems to have been a politician
as well as craftsman. He has brought
the platform surprisingly near the CEN
ter of the hall, so as to give an enor-
nous range of stage seats" as the
chairs on the ascent to the back of the
presiding officer are customarily called.
"Stage seats" are peculiar and much
coveted honor. These will differ from
others in the hall in the sharpness of
the ascent which the floor beneath
them makes from the pit where the
delegates and alternates sit so that the
occupants of this part of the house will
get view of the spectacular features
of the gathering quite unsurpassed.
They will not be able to hear so well;
they will be looking at the back of the
orators head, getting what may be
termed IAN unfamiliar view" of our
great statesmen.
1t is inevitable that this hall should
be hot. In spite of the openings for
ventilation over the greater part of the
space nothing but the roof lies between
the assemblage and the rays of the
sun. which. with $4,000 closely packed
human beings, each possessed of tenn
perature of 9S.6 degrees, ought to in
sure a startling elevation of the mer-
curry thereabout. The chairs are not
models Of comfort either. They are the
simplest thing that could be made and,
fortunately, unvarnished, for it goes
without saying that In the cost of any
article of which so many had to be pur-
chased the difference of only a few
cents would count greatly in the total
AS il is, about $4,000 will have been
expended in putting the hall into read
mess for the convention. Whether this
sum will come out Of the 100000 Of
fered by the city of Philadelphia or be
in addition to 1t seems not yet to be de-
cided. The city has raised the round
sum and will do the best 1t can toward
paying the other expenses, but may not
be able to pass over the check without
some few bills for the national COM
mittee to settle.
While 1t seemed like an act of ex-
treme Iiberality to offer this amount of
money for the privilege of holding a
political ratification meeting in Phila-
delphla, 1t now appears to have been
very shrewd piece of business. Every
man who gave 500 gets ticket for
each session of the convention. In a
hall no larger than this, in a great city
on the Atlantic seaboard which is In
the center of an enormous population,
quite different from that about Mime
apolis or st. Louis, the rivalry to get
into the convention will be intense,
and the price Of seats, 1t is predicted,
may go up to nearly the $50 mark. Ten
thousand people In Philadelphia alone,
1t is estimated, have made up their
minds to attend the convention. The
thousands upon thousands who will
come as marching clubs and other po-
litlcal organizations would be unwill-
ing to 60 home without attending at
least the sessions of one day. or, course
there will be many tickets to give
away, for each national committeeman
is entitled to 25 and each delegate to
two, In addition to bis own, but most
Of these will be taken by persons who
come to Philadelphia on invitation to
accept and occupy them. The great
army Of people who arrive IN Philadel-
phia unproylded will have to look to
the curbstone ven Iers, and their sup.
plies win be drawn from somewhat
limited sources. Besides having tickets
at their disposal of a commercial value
not much below the 100000 which
Philadelphia offered. this city win reap
rich harvest from the entertainment
Of so many people and the advertise
ment which 4he presence of strangers
from all parts of the country always
kives 10 the Institutions of town.