The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-24
DENVER WILL BE
 COOL IN SUMMER Ideal Place fer Holding the
 Great Convention NO RAISE IN HOTEL PRICES Guarantee Is Given That Delegates Will Pay Same Prices For Accom-
 modations That Are Given
 the Year Round.
NO RAISE IN HOTEL PRICES

Denver, Col, February Especially
 The democratic national convention
 which is to be held in this city July T
 has drawn the attention of the entire
 country upon the wide awake capital of Colorado. Denver got this eonven- tion with reconciliation. She has been
 planning to get the convention since
 four years ago and the determination to nominate in the Queen City of the Plains fulfilled Denver's ambition
 The committee sent from here to
 secure the convention urged that it would be cool in Denver when the con- vention met there. This is certainly true and the fact will be relief to
 those who have had to swelter through conventions in other sections of the
 country where the heat was fairly sig
 zling.
 The records of the weather man in
 Denver for the past 20 years show that the average temperature on July !
 for that city is "A degrees, with no
 humidity. But "A degrees in Denver is a long way from that point in q tide water city. Denver is mile high. The breezes blow here from leagues and leagues of snow capped mountains. The air is light and the
 effects of breathing it are stimulating. It will be a July day when the con vention meets that will permit every delegate to sit in the convention hall
 with his coat on and without a hand kerchief stuffed in his collar. And this
 condition will be very unusual for at
 all political conventions the heat has been intense and delegates and the | newspaper men. whose business forced | them to come there suffered accord
 hgly
 Big Cash Offer.
 l Besides the offer of coolness in Den yer the committee from that city that im- portuned the democratic national com | mittee at it's Washington meeting in
 December had s100,0OO in gold. Den yer was willing to pay that much for 1 the great convention if it would pc
 brought within it's gates. They further l offered that a new fire-proof auditor ium, costing s550,Ooo. and seating 12,- 900 people. would be provided for the delegates and audience.
 1 There was a time in Denver, on | July z, 1884, that the thermometers reg I istered AT degrees This was cool al most to chillness. The weather office sh ows no parallel for this remarkable l pecord, however. and it is probable the
 mercury will hover around TO degrees. | The great auditorium will be swept by breezes from the mountains, whose snow w-capped peaks can be seen from
 the windows. No matter how heated l the controversy, there will be no pros ! trations from the heat It may be that ! from this innovation in low tempera- ture conventions there will nevermore phere. The experiment is one that will be watched with interest.
 No Raise In Prices.
 1 As regards the democratic conven- tion the hotel men are pledged not To
 raise the prices for rooms and meals
 and this promise will be kept inviolate. The same promise was given the Grand Army of the Republic the Benevolent 1 and Protective Order of Elks, the Fra | ternal order of Eagles and all other 1 conventions that have met here in the past few years and there has been no ! instance of overcharging. The, hotel
 keeper who made dollar by over charging a guest would realize that he was giving his city a bad name and l hesitate to let the guest go with out
 making amends for the fault.
 There are sections of the country where the r'native son" has a little l the best of it. Not so in Denver. The
 native son must be friendly at all | times to the stranger an ddiscommode | himself at the behoof of the wayfarer | within the city's gates for is not the name and honor of the place as a hos pitable baliwick at stake?
 | It is amazing what amounts of money are spent in Denver to entertain those l who come as delegates to conventions. | The reception committee of the Grand I Army raised s100.000 and finished its work $15,000 in debt. so lavish was the 1 entertainment. The Elks spent $S0,000 making the city a sea of purple decor ations for the event and dispensing | open handed hospitality on every side. i The Eagles also spent great sum | when their national convention was 1 held in Denver. The city generally
 makes an appropriation for this pur- | pose as also does the state.