The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-07
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
CONVENTION NEXT JUNE
Only 23o Actual Newspaper Re
porters VIII Be Permitted in
the Press Circle.
SEATS WILL BE SCARCE
No Room for Editors of Trade
Papers and Miscellaneous
Periodicals.
SEATS WILL BE SCARCE

CHICAGO Feb. 6.-The subcommittee of
the national Republican committee, which
has been making preliminary preparations
for the national Republican convention, to
be held at Chicago June q, concluded its
work to-day and adjourned Committeeman
Harry S. New of Indiana, r. B. Schneider,
of Nebraska, and w. F. Stone of Mary
land, sergeant-at-arms of the national COM
mittee, will meet again in Chicago about
May 20. continuing at work until after the
convention has adjourned.
The subcommittee spent most of the day
in discussion of the seating arrangements
of the Coliseum, where the convention will
be held. On the projection of the platform
near the speakers will be seats for the
chairman of the national committee, the
chairman of the convention, the secretary
of the convention and the sergeant at arms.
Back of them, on a platform elevated four
and one-half feet, come the hfty-one MEM
bers of the national committee. Back OF
the committeeman has been arranged an
incline with 460 seats for distinguished
guests, party leaders. etc.
The press circle, accommodating about
go men, is arranged in semicircle around
the speakers stage, and the platform oc-
cupied by the national committee. Owing
to the necessity for the economizing of
space, an absolute rule has been made by
Sergeant-at-arms Stone that the press seats
will be allotted only to press representa-
tives actually telegraphing reports OF the
progress of the convention. All tickets and
badges for the. convention, including those
for reporters, delegates, alternates, etc,
will be given out by the sergeant-at-arms
at the headquarters of the committee on
arrangements at the Auditorium Annex on
June 20, the day before the convention. Mr..
Stone. to whom has been left the work of
securing the tickets, has decided that they
shall be designed in style emblematic of
the Republican party, and be in such form
as to be suitable for preservation as
souvenirs.
The allotment of press tickets, Mr.. Stone
explains, TO actual working newspaper re-
porters excludes absolutely representatives
of trade papers, weekly journals, and the
like. When the new building ordinance was
adopted following the Iroquois Theater fire
it cost the Coliseum 5000 seats, reducing
the seating capacity to $500. AS the COM
mittee had counted on nearly 1900 seats,
this exclusion was found necessary. APP
plications for seats in the press section,
it is announced, must be addressed to Ser
geant-at-arms Stone, at the customs house,
Baltimore.
An interesting innovation is planned in
the institution of a telephone system in
the Coliseum which will enable the sergeant
alarms to communicate instantly with all
exits. In order that the machinery for
handling the crowds may be nearly per-
feet as possible the local committee has
agreed to turn the convention hall over to
Mr.. Stone at least two days before the
convention to give him time to drill the
ushers. door keepers and other assistants.
Working rooms and sleeping quarters for
the subcommittee have been secured at
the Auditorium Annex and the green parlor
with seats for $50 people. at the same hos
telry, for the national committee. In this
parlor the committee will meet probably a
week before the convention to hear con-
tested election cases. Living rooms for
Chairman Hanna, Secretary Heath and AS
sistant Secretary Owens have also been
taken at the Annex.