The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-05-14
Plans for Coming National Con.
yention at Chicago Ready
To Be Announced
1900 TICKETS TO BE ISSUED
Delegates and Alternates to Receive
Tickets and Only 5000 Will
Be Distributed Among
the States

/ Plans for the handling Of delegates
and others who attend the national Re
publican convention, which opens in
Chicago June 16, have been completed
The convention hall will seat 1000
people. 1t is expected that the
attendance will be greater than
four years ago. Then the result of the
convention was cut and dried months
before the opening day.
With the delegations from Wiscon-
sin, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylva-
MIA and New York pledged to fayorite
sons, however, the result of the coming
convention will be in doubt until the
deciding vote is cast. This means add
ed interest in states which are sending
the names Of candidates into the con-
vention, and an awakening Of general
interests
The building in which the convention
will be held is to be nearly perfect in
point Of safety and convenience With
a seating capacity Of 1000, it can be
emptied in three minutes. The building
faces Wabash avenue, Chicago, running
toward Michigan avenue to the alley.
There are twelve. exits, fitted with huge
swing doors. The building will be sur
rounded by open space. There are three
others leading to Wabash avenue and
to the vacant property in the rear.
Will Be $500 Employees
Nearly $500 employees will be scatter
ed throughout the hall when the con-
vention opens. Of these there will be
1900 assistant sergeants-at-a arms, 80
ushers, 800 pages and 80 doorkeepers.
These men will work under the super
vision Of William Ell. Stone, Baltimore,
sergeant-at-arms of the Republican ma
tional committee, and Postmaster David
G. Owen, Milwaukee, first assist SER
geantat arms The office of these Of
fcials will be situated in the annex in
the rear of the speaker S desk which al
so will be occupied by quarters assign
ed to the Postal Telegraph company,
the Western Union Telegraph company,
Associated Press, Hearst News Service
and other press organizations. During
the meetings Mr.. Stone and Mr.. Owen
will occupy. desks near the speaker
Employees to be Hidden
/ The building will be arranged so that
every delegate will command full view
of the speaker. By an ingenious ar
rangement every one of the $500 en-
ployes will be hidden as effectually as
though they had left the building while
the meetings are in progress. In case
of disorder, which is not anticipated,
these men will reappear as if by magic.
Every one Of the employees will be as
signed to a position which he will keep
during the convention. They will be
provided with seats made Of mating.
At the first word Of the. speaker they
will drop these upon the. floor in the
aisles and sit upon Them leaving them
even lower than the delegates.
The newspaper correspondents will be
cared for by an arrangement as ingeni-
GUS. They will sit upon a platform sur
rounding the speaker desk extending
across the building, and fitted with a
tunnel exit much the same as the exit
used by theater orchestra. Through
this tunnel, which passes directly under
the speaker, the reporters will pass, to
be relieved by others waiting in the
annex in the rear.
The Distribution of Tickets
AS has been the custom at other con-
/ ventions, the assignment of tickets will
be made to national committeeman. Of
the 1900 tickets to be issued each
delegate will receive two. The alter
mates will receive one each, leaving
5000 to be distributed Chicago bust
ness men and other citizen who have
prepared the entertainment for the con-
vention will be given 5000 of these,
leaving 5000 to be assigned 10 the vari-
Gus states. The tickets will be assigned
in advance, but will not be issued until
Monday, June Is, the day before the
convention opens. By the system of
bookkeeping used by the national com
mittee every seat viii be accounted for,
even down to the name Of the man who
occupies it.