The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-01-10
BIC RUSH
HOTEL ROOMS
STATE QUARTERS
BEING RESERVED FOR NATION
AL CONVENTION DELEGATES.

republican national convention com
tinued to pour in from all quarters on
Chicago hotel managers yesterday and
today. The accommodations as rule
are for state delegations, but there are
occasional kilograms of inquiry for
special reservations for individuals,
these being for the most part the lead
ers in the several states.
The managers of the various presi-
Dental candidates, have shown alacrity
in reserving whole suites from which
the glad hand" will be stretched out
to the delegates newt June.
The vigor of the boom of Uncle
Joe" Cannon was shown when the
speaker beat all the White House as
pirants in securing his convention
headquarters. His reservations were
made late Friday evening in advance
of the action of the national commit
tee. through Charles G. Dawes, who
engaged rooms at the Auditorium An
mex. And the speaker got the 'presE-
dental suite" the best apartments in
the house
An indication that Fairbanks is stin
figured in the running was shown
when Mr.. Dawes returned to the Annex
Saturday and made reservation for
the vice president
Friends of Secretary Taft and OF
Senators Foraker and Knox wired the
Auditorium asking for reservations
tentatively, adding that definite quaters
will be arranged for early this week.
In addition to five state delegations
New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massa-
chusetts and Iowa-for which reserva-
lions were made before midnight Satur-
day at the Auditorium and Annex, five
states have secured rooms for their de-
legates. These are Connecticut, New
Jersey, Indiana Kansas and Montana.
Negotiations by a great many in
dividual leaders of the several states
are under way for accommodations at
the Annex and Auditorium, sair Man
aged J. e. Kennedy but in most
cases the arrangements have not been
completed except for the state delega-
tons.
ut has been customary for applica-
tons to be received by us for delegate
quarters as soon as the convention
city has been chosen, but never before
in my memory, has there been such a
scramble for rooms as at this time"
In the leading downtown hotls there
are more than $500 rooms OF this total
the houses operated by the company
headed by r. H. Southgate, the Audi
forum. Auditorium Annex and Great
Northern, have 2,1OO rooms-1, 200 in
the Annex. 400 in the Auditorium and
500 in in the Great Northern The
Palmer house has 635, the Victoria
200, the Stratford $50, the Grand Pa
cific 100, the Sherman 200, the yelling
ton 1913, and the Brevoort 300. Besides
this there is the Virginia, with 400
rooms the Lexington the Chicago Beach
and numerous other hotels in the
outlying districts-as well as many
smaller hostelries down town-making
in all more than 5000 available rooms
for the delegates and camp followers
of the great convention.
Chairman Harry New wired for fifty
rooms at the Auditorium. These will
be on the parlor floor and most of them
will be occupied for administration pur-
poses, as they were four years ago.
At that time the walls and floors were
disguised-or protected-by means of
pine ceiling. painted a subdued green
Since then the price of lumber has gone
up materially, but the hotel manage
ment has saved the old trappings of
parlor floor and they probably can be
used again.
The Great Northern will be head
quarters for the Illinois, Missouri, Iowa
and Kansas delegations, while the
Grand Pacific will care for several
Southern and Western states. At the
Palmer house kilograms have been re-
ceived from Michigan and Nebraska
asking for headquarters.
Chicago's chances of success in Sc
securing the democratic convention are
reported as not being glittering, John
C.. Roth, who has been endeavoring to
raise the fund necessary to secure the
democratic convention, informed Ma
tional Committeeman Roger C. Sullivan
during the day, that only $4,000 had
been pledged.
The democratic national committee
will meet in Washington next Thurs
day to decide upon the time and place
of holding the convention. Denver
will be represented there by0a delega-
ton willing to promise a payment of
100000 in gold This guarantee al
most makes the democrats forget the
exact spot that Denver occupies on the
map and forget that congress passed an
anti-pass law.
IN NEVADA