Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-15
JAM Of BIGGEST SORT
Delegates Coming Into Chicago
With a Rush.
DISTRICT MEN ON HAND
Local Representatives Confer With
Sidney Bieber.
DISTINGUISHED LOOKERS-ON
DISTRICT MEN ON HAND
DISTINGUISHED LOOKERS.ON
Presidents Sister, Mrs. Mark Hanna,
Mr.. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth
and Mrs. Logan Expected.
Special From q stsfr CORRESPONDENT.


and continued today. and this morning
there was the biggest kind of a jam in
| the whirlpool district where delegates,
newspaper men and visitors foregather to
exchange ideas and swap an astonishing
amount of misinformation. The vanguard
Of the convention hosts are arriving every
| minute with bands playing and flags fly
ing. and regular and special trains are
emptying thousands of strangers and
| casuals into the convention mecca.
H. H. Father, cashier of Riggs Ma
tional Bank In that dear Washington.
who is one of the District delegates to the
convention which opens for business at
noon tomorrow. was one os yesterday s
| arrivals. r. r. Horner. the colored dele
gate. and DR.. William Tindall and Sam
uel Murray, the alternates on the Father
Horner ticket, are expected some time
today.
District Delegates There.
Mr.. Flather had no sooner registered at
the Annex and deposited his toothbrush.
other shirt and manual of the republican
platforms. since 1892, in his room. when
he and Sidney Bieber, who is to be the
next District member of the national
committee in succession to DIR. Robert
Reyburn and who has been in Chicago
for week or two looking over the lake
front and thinking deeply, went into con-
ference concerning the organization of a
republican central committee in the Dis
trict and q general reorganization of
things republican in the National capital
They are going to make pronOuncement
on this all-fmportant subject soon as
they have exchanged expressions of mu-
tual regard and esteem, and Mr.. Flather
has assured Mr.. Beber that he is for
no one else for national committeeman.
Fact. is however, that this last is by
way of pleasantly, for Mr.. F'lather and
DR.. Reyburn had heart-to-heart talk
this morning, and after it was over the
doctor. who has displayed somewhat revo-
lutfonary tendencies during the past few
days, agreed that Mr.. Bieber was a loyal
republican. hustling party worker and
much abused citizen. OF course. DIR.
Reyburn really has nothing whatever to
do with the selection of a national COM
mitteeman from the District. this being
altogether up to Messrs. Flather and
Horner-but at the same time it is nice
to have him eating at the same table.
So all is harmony in the District camp,
and the gentle dove of peace. which for
while seemed nervous and fluttery. is
There are lots Of local and semi-local folks
on hand. so much so. in fact. that the
lobby Of the Annex looks for all the world
like the main corridor of the United
States Capitol on busy day. Among
the semi-locals is Harris A. Walters, who
used to live in Washington and make
money out of the brick industry. but who
now halls from Indiana and is a delegate
to the convention from the fifth district
of that state. He told me this morning
that he considered Washington an
afflicted town because of the absence of
suffrage there. and hoped some day to
see the old District of Columbia with
representation in both branches of the
national legislator eat least
Col. w. F. Stone, sergeant -at-arms of
the convention. has had a grand assort-
ment of flowers thrown at him as a re-
suit OF his exceptionally efficient manage
ment of the convention preliminaries.
Yesterday, when almost everybody else
was taking a day off, the colonel was
down at the Coliseum. with his coat off
and his collar Wilted, distributing tickets
and badges and attending to the thou
sand-and-one necessary details. He has
uine ''chronfcs'' are kicking
Tickets for the Convention.
Incidentally, tickets for the convention
are Quoted-quite informally-this morn
ing at $50 each and are expected TO go
higher. Representative Lowden of Ini-
nois. who is "a malefactor of great
wealth" looked over his list this morning
and found he had fifty friends and con-
Stftuents coming to the convention for
whom he hadn't been able to secure tick
ets and gave his private secretary LOCO
real dollars. or the equivalent thereof,
with which to buy the necessary privilege
Mr.. Lowden is less fortunate than some
or MS colleagues. Another member of the
delegation-the irrepressible Rodenbuerg-
nad Slxty-two seats in his possession this
morning and was still collecting. which is
pretty good, considering each congress-
man not delegate. Is entitled to just one
seat as being "a distinguished guest
About a million people in the lobby of
the Annex got a horrible jolt yesterday
afternoon when Representative j. War
rem keifer of Ohio, who is known in
Washington as the only man in public
life VINO wears full-dress evening clothes
by day and by night. roamed in. clad in
light gray hat and trousers. fancy purple
vest. red necktie and patent leather shoes.
Even this rig wouldn't have been so no.
ticeable had the suit originally been con-
structed for a man of the generals size.
but the coat hit him about the waislband
of his trousers and the trousers caressed
the top of his congress CATERS.
Too ID hot for anything else"
was the generals explanation. Then he
added. with prideful downward glance
at his person. and 1 borrowed 'em, too
You'd never know ii. would you?" And
nobody said him nay.
Chicago Hospitality.
dix ABOUT CnlCdSO nOSpltaIlty, why its
simply glorious and grand. Yesterday l
had luncheon at the Auditorium Hotel,
where the apple pie is famous product
The pie lived up to reputation all right,
too. but with it they served a knife as
we'll as a fork. and as the Auditorium is
the real thing in the way of a hotel 1
gently asked the colOred waiter Why"
"Oh. suh.'' he replied with a bored air,
they is so many rubes in town that the
management of this heah house wants
to make 'em all feel at home. Those that
Is used to a fox can use a fox and those
that Is used to knife can us ca knife"
And then he glanced me over. noted that
had finished my lunch and added in a
perfunctory sort OF way. Excuse me.
sub. but will you have pins. toothpicks or
dental floss"
Chicago certainly wants to please every
body.
There's additional evidence of this fact
on every hand. This morning Frank
Hitchcock called my attention to the
flxi~ Of