Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-03
PREPARING HALL
FOR CONVENTION
National Republican Session
viii Be Held in Coliseum,
Chicago.

CHICAGO, June 3.-For the third time
since its erection thirteen years ago the
doors of the Coliseum will be thrown
open June IS for the accommodation OF
a Republican national convention. In
1904 the Republicans nominated Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt for President in this
building and in 1908 under the same
roof, william H. Taft was chosen as the
pany's standard-bearer.
The Coliseum is on Wabash avenue,
between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets,
less than a mile from the centre of Chi
cago's retail shopping and hotel district,
and is accessible from all parts of the
city by elevated roads and surface lines.
The Coliseum Is 3O5 feet long, 40 feet
wide and 20 feet in height, built of
stone. brick, steel and concrete and Is
fireproof.
On site Of Old Prison.
1t stands on the site of the old Libby
prison, which was brought to Chicago
from Richmond. Va, in sections and re-
built the year of the Worlds Fair by
Charles F.. Gunther and used to exhibit
n vo,rohlo collection of Civil War relics.
:, - p ou,,rad
with the English costellated type of ar
chiteotire and cost $500, 900. 1t has been
the scene of many notable assemblages.
IL a 80
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Ihe supcohm'.oe on
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."e uiieo'Dn 81 o ono ~n~.an,nas LA
= raan,a na+,onal convention
n-.aA,a.. nar,v mo h,,ldino
=, ,oo geata ,rhtoh , oss arc IN
" - S- , on a. ~ holconv
w,N-a..re. nlo,forn 10 milf against
s..ts ,vau % tho structure and ex-
- : ,ha ont,ro width of the
s,ifd,,g II is ~ foot deen and contains
, 600 saats which will be occupied by the
ahotruon officers of tbe convention. mem
sors ~ tho national ommitte and dis
tingulsheo sues'S'
The seats back of the chairman's table
will be slightly elevated. Directly b.
meath the chairman's table is a space for
four noiseless telegraph instruments and
their operators, by which news OF the
conventions proceedings will be nashed
to the world. On both sides, and extend
ing in a half circle around the front OF
the platform, are seats and tanles ior 4oo
working newspapermen and correspond.
,At, from oil Dnrta of the country.
Directly In front of these are the seats
for the LOIS delegates arrahseo w
States. This space VIII De mcioseu ny
a railing and closely guarded by u iarge
force of sergeants'at-arms. Back OF inns
are the seats for the alternates, inclosed
by a railing. On both sides ana IN the
rear OF the space occupied by the dele
gates and alternates are S'ow eie'ateo
49, h,,,Id,rg . sneciol bandstand will be
erected. In the balcony winch eNtehos
around the -FOUR wahs Oh Tue ouiiuins'
there Will be S'2W sehts Tor Vis''ors'
...as =, ro,.nno,ss
The platforms, aisles and all open
spaces will be covered with mating to
Insure the maximum quiet while the
convention is in session. Five hundred
public telephones and a large number of
telegraph instruments are being installed
in various parts of the building for the
accommodation of delegates and the pub
lie Architect Arthur G.. Brown has ar.
ranged tho seats in such a manner that
tha choirmon's platform NAV be seen
from every section of the large hall.
sorgeapt.at.Arm william n. Stone will
be assisted nv n force of 500 deputy
serqoants.at.arm doorkeepers. ushers and
attendants A snecial telephone system
&C. ho,rg instaIled which win enable Ser.
caon+ot.Arm stone from his desl, ON
tho nlotform immediately IN commnni-