Norwich bulletin., 1912-06-12
HEARST HIRES ROOF
 GARDEN FOR CONVENTION
Tammsny Hall Has 20 Rooms Engaged
 at Baltimore.

Work accomplished by the democratic rational convention, which opens here
 on June 2b, will be performed in the
 convention hall The results will ap- pear there, but before these results are sttained lights will burn far into the night at various hotels and office build ings throughout the city, where con- vention headquarters have been estab- Hshed by the national organization and the organizations supporting the can didates for places on the national tick ct.
 The actual work of the convention started here when members of the
 national committee began to arrive. This committee consists of 52 mem bers, one from each state and from
 Alaska, District of Columbia, Hawaii,
 and Porto Rico. It's quarters are at
 the Hotel Belvedere. situated in the Mt Royal district, within walking dis
 tance of the convention hall. The two top floors of the Be1vedere have been
 engaged by the committee, including 66 bedrooms many with sitting rooms attached. In addition, the committee
 has taken the hotel banquet hall for its sessions. In this room the com- m1ttee goes over the papers filed by 1 the contesting delegates and prepares
 the temporary roll of the convention. This roll will be used when the con vention is first called to order. After
 the committee on credentials is ap- pointed those who are dissatisfied with rulings of the national committee will take their claims before the new com- mittee.
 The committee on credentials, and
 the resolutions committee which drafts the platform, have no regular meeting TAo xrar Rf hn4Ys LsrHlF "
 be done at the Belvedere in rooms allotted them by the national commit tee, and some in the rooms assigned them at the convention hall
 Next to the rooms engaged by the national committee, the largest reser- Yation at the Belvedere has been made
 by Thomas Taggart, national commit
 teeman from Indiana. For the mem
 bers of his committee and his friends
 Mir Taggart has taken 50 rooms In the main buildings, with accommodations for 65 persons more in the Annex and
 the Blue parlor on the second floor as state delegation headquarters. Other national committeeman in whose
 name large reservations have been made at the BelYedere are Rover c,
 Sullivan, Illinois; Homer s. Cummings, Connecticut; J. B. Kremer, Montana; A. J. Daly. Alaska; Alvad Adams, Col orado; Edwin O. Wood, Michigan;
 Clark Howell, Georgia; J. M. Guffey, Pennsylvania; Willard Salisbury, Del aware. Urey Wilson of Kentucky, sec retary of the national committee, and Herman Ridder of New York its treasurer, also have their quarters
 here.
 Representative of the candidates for the presidential nomination will be early on the ground, and all of them
 engaged thefr headquarters months
 ago. Several of them have taken suites of offices in the downtown bus mess section, as well as large blocks of rooms in the principal hotels. The Clark campaign committee has offices in the Munsey building, corner Calvert and Fayette streets. Governor Har- mons managers have a suite in the and the Wilson committee has leased an entire small building at No. 10 East Lexington street.
 The Underwood forces are the only ones that expect to have a whole hotel to themselves, They have reserved all the rooms and parlors in t%e- --sutaw house, one of the older hoStelries at the corner of EutaW and Baltimore streets. This hotel was badly damaged by fire a few weeks ago, but it is ex- pected that repairs will be finished be- fore the convention opens.
 The hotel headquarters of the Will son, Harmon and Clark workers are in the Emerson, at the corner of Calvert and Charles streets, in the heart of the business district and only half a block from the Munsey and Equitable build ings. The Wilson committee has the
 .ar, hall l |
 nine floor and 14 bedrooms. The liar mon men have 15 sleeping rooms and parlor on the mezzanine floor for
 their meetings.
 Two of the notable figures in Balti- more during the convention will be
 William J. Bryan and Alton B. Parker, the former thrice and the latter once
 the choice of a democratic presidential convention. Colonel Bryan comes as a
 delegate from Nebraska and Judge Parker as a delegate from New York.
 The Nebraskan and his brother have
 suite at the Belvedere adjoining the rooms of the national committee, and
 the Nebraska delegation also has quar- ters at the same hotel Judge Parker will stay at the Emerson, where the
 New York state delegation will make its headquarters. although not all the 90 delegates from that state have been able to obtain accommodations there.
 Tammany Hall has taken 25 rooms at the Emerson, having abandoned the plan of coming to Baltimore on a big steamer and using the craft as a hotel during the convention. Other celebri- ties from the Empire state who have
 suites at this hotel are Governor Dix, C s. Senator O'Gorman and Charles 4. Murphy, the Tammany Hall leader. Col George Harvey also has announc-
 cd his intention of staying there. The rooms of the New York leaders are expected to become one of the i'm portant skirmish grounds of conven- tion week, since this state sends the | largest delegation and it's representa- tives come uninstructed. Until de- velopments in the convention hall it.
 self are conclusive. the deliberations of | the New York leaders and confer 1 ences at the headquarters of MT. BTy-
 an are expected to attract the greatest tattention.
 ] The most unique-and if the weather 1 is very warm the most comfortable quarters in Baltimore have been en- 1 gagged by William R. Hearst. For the
 use of himself and his friends the New l York editor has taken the big root garden on the Hotel Emerson. Other state delegations that already 1 have established quarters are located as follows: Hotel Rennert-Rhode Is- land, Iowa. Mississippi, Virginia, part 1 Of West Virginia.
 1 Hotel Emerson-Minnesota North Carolina, Vermont Kentucky, Missou-
 Fl, part of West Virginia.
 The handling of the convention ar
 engagements, separate from the purely | political end. is in the hands of a large number of local committees, which l have their quarters on the first floor oi
 the Equitable building. Here a large
 suite of offices filled with employees will be devoted to the work of making 1 the convention visitors comfortable
 and at home.
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