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1912 CONVENTION.
Baltimore as Logical City for DEM
Ocratic National Convention.

Baltimore as Logical City for Dem
Ocratic National Convention.
Viewing the question from every
standpoint, Baltimore is the logical
city of the Union for the holding Of
the Democratic National Convention
in 1912. The city presents special
inducements in providing for the
comfort and pleasure of the dele
gates and their friends. New York
alone excepted, Baltimore has as
good hotel accommodations as any
city in the country. The new En-
erson hotel, which will open in the
month of September of this year,
will be one of the great hotels of
the world. The Belvedere is one
of the real modern new hotels of
the country, and ranks among the
first. The New Howard and the
Caswell are only few years old
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Stafford, the Rennert and the Ker-
nan are three of the best hotels in
the country. With the Hotel Lex
ington, the Eutaw House, to say
nothing of the thirty other hotels
in the city, along with more than
hundred of the better class private
r.
seen that every visitor to Baltimore
during the Convention will be
housed with comfort. Baltimore is
recognized as having the best retail
markets in America, and it is I'M
necessary to say that all the visitors
will be fed in a true Southern style
which they will never forget.
Location.
Baltimore is ideally located for
the holding of the Convention. 1t
is just forty-five minutes distant, by
trains running every hour on two
roads, from the Nations capital
Washington. An electric railroad,
unsurpassed in equipment and road
bed, running it's trains on a thirty
minute schedule, connects the heart
of Baltimore with that of Washing
ton in seventy minutes. The city
of Annapolis, rich in national his
toric associations and interest, is
reached in thirty minutes by trolley.
-, fhn oil
Academy-the most beautiful of all
the properties maintained by the
National Government-wher mil
Lions of dollars have in the last few
years been spent.
Atlantic City can be reached
from Baltimore in three hours on
daily through trains. Philadelphia
Is two hours from Baltimore. Rich
&ond and Old Point Comfort 4Ei If
ginia, can be reached on magnificent
steamships leaving Baltimore daily.
There are many beautiful bay and
river trips which will delight visit
ors who have time to take them.
It can readily be seen that visit
ors to the Convention will be afford
ed great opportunities at slight ex-
pense and a few hours travel, of
reaching Philadelphia, New York,
Atlantic City, Annapolis, Washing.
ton, Old Point Comfort and Rich
mond. The great battlefield of
Gettysburg one place to which
every American citizen should at
least make one visit and stand
where Abraham Lincoln stood and
made the most famous speech ever
uttered by any man in any language
lis less than two hours distant
from Baltimore.
Convention Hall.
Baltimore has the great conven
ton hall of the country. W. H.
McElfatrick, of New York, designer
of hundreds of theatres and amuse-
ment halls throughout the country,
has the following to say about Bal
timore's great convention hall:
Baltimore, Md, Feb. 13, 1911.
Hon. Robert Grain, Chairman,
Baltimore, Nd.
Dear Sir:
As per your request 1 have just
completed a thorough inspection of
the Fifth Regiment Armory. AS 1
understand the situation, you wish
my unbiased opinion on the follow
ing points:
1. Its seating capacity.
2. Its acoustic properties.
3. It's adaptability for holding the
next Democratic National Con7en-
ton.
Seating Capacity.
The main or ground floor being
200 x 800 feet, comprising 10000
square feet of floor surface, clear
Of any distractions, will seat COM
fortably over $4,000 people, allow
ing ample space for promenades,
aisles, etc. This does not include
the present balconies, which seat
about 500 more. By erecting tenn
porary raised platforms or balconies
each 80 x200 feet, at either end of
the building, this can be increased
BY 7,400 more seats, if found neces-
oary, making a total comfortable
seating capacity of more than 20,-|
600 people. By crowding the seats