Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-30
AS One Baltimore Woman
Saw the Great Convention
and she hadn't any accredited ticket. but
she got in and she saw and heard few
things that made lasting Impressions.

and she hadn't any accredited ticket. but
she got In and she saw and heard q few
things that made lasting Impressions
One was that women keep their politi-
cal feet on. firm ground, even though
their minds may be UP fn the clouds OF
speechmaking. Senator Rayner set the
masculine crowd wild. and various other
orators created pandomonium with high.
sounding phrases. But the women ap-
plauded and shouted just to be accom-
modating. Most women skip descriptions
in fiction. and they wanted 1acts, facts,
facts" Of the sort which most politicians
find disconcerting.
A whole section Of seats had been CIV
en- over to the visiting press. This, re-
porter explained, meant editors of weekly
newspapers. And 1t developed that
harassed. rural newspaper owners who
wanted to favor certain countryside
henchmen had invariably bestowed their
uals who wouldn't know a printers devil
from the traditional slant-eyebrowed
sort in grand opera.
Every time a special writer from some
little window and got back badge
emitting him to work like slave at q
two-by-four desk near the speakers plat
form some Of these visiting pressmen'
would wonder VINO ne was ana why ne
should be thus favored.
The meetings were called at noon, and
it seemed as If almost as soon as the
harassed ushers got through seating the
people the latter got hungry and wanted
to go out and eat. No rain checks were
or go out and take a chance on finding a
long memoried doorkeeper who would let
one in again. And, as q Baltimorean. 1t
must be admitted that eating was a
problem.
Prices at the hotels were only raised
to bring them even with what flrst-class
Washington hotels charge all the time,
but the food deteriorated- A party OF
Baltimoreans lunching at q certain well
known restaurant there were served with
cooking butter. On protest being made.
the waiter closely inspected the guests
and broke into abject apologies: livery
thin's runnin low an l suttinly forgot
yo all whant convention folks
While various politician press agents
were careering Ill over town, trying to
get articles about their candidates into
the papers and feeling content to earn
a hundred dollars a week. cooks at the
chief hotels were refusing twenty per
day. In explanation of the complaints
about long waits a servant explained
II IS AunOTcO anu seNcHty uo"h All
the kitchen"
"Oh, come down a bit a guest ad-
vised.
NO. /, myself. have stand in that
keet-cheen, and It is a hundred and sew
enty The cooks they come from New
York, and this climate they cannot stand
They are exhausted-they leave-no more
will come, so you wait.
A morbid impression OF the convention
was of those harassed, sleep-Worn faces
of walters and omnibus boys. They
worked twenty hours out OF the twenty
four They were sworn at by cooks
cursed at by guests, ordered around by
the management, until. actually. most OF
them were too frazzled to take any in
terest in tips.
And Just one impression it would be
better not to have-visiting men rarely
remove there hats in the elevator In
which women rode. Was 1t because they
could not reconcile squabbling with a
woman delegate over vote one minute
and treating her with old-fashioned court
esy the next?
Anyway, everybody is having q lovely
time except the men who came here tc
make the convention. They were al
ways away off somewhere in q secretivs
nook Of hotel or convention hall. with
coats off and cigars going. It was the
drone Of the convention who was the
busy little bee Of the stree<s-riding and
! driving and sightseeing and standing
about telling everybody just how 1t was
all going to happen.
And Baltimore will miss theml The
town is going to seem like the old home
stead right after the wedding guests have
gone.