Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1916-05-12
CONVENTION PRELlMINARIEs
BIG CHICAGO PROBLEM
BY Pae. and lntl News Service.

BY Pae. and lntl News Service.
CHICAGO. May 12.-Chicago is pre-
pairing to entertain the largest crowd
in her history the week of June Z,
when thousands OF Republicans in all
their varied states Of belief, will flock
here to select a 1916 standard bearer
maybe two standard bearers.
Never before, according to hotel
men here, who are used to national
conventions, has there been such a
nationwide cry for accommodations
They freely predict that all records
will be broken. Even now, it is prac-
tically impossible to secure accommo-
dations in the hotels in the LOOP"
Besides the male visitors to the Re
publican and Progressive conclaves,
hotel men are confronted with the
task of caring for several thousand
women who will be here to attend the
Woman's Convention the same week
1t Is the women that are planting grey
hairs in the inn-keepers' heads. Local
suffragists and women's clubs are CO.
operating with the hotel men in an at
tempt to solve this problem, but even
with their help 1t has monumental
proportions.
The task of caring for the women is
infinitely more puzzling than that of
the men. Mere men, 1t was pointed
out, can be stuck on cots In semi-pub-
lie places with perfect propriety,
whereas Chicago will hardly permit of
the same treatment to her female
guests.
Extra walters by the hundred are
being drilled and booked for emergen-
cy calls.
Many of the reservations have been
made in the larger hotels ever since
the Republican National Committee
announced that the convention was
coming here.
Headquarters of the various state
delegations have been established.
Following is a partial list of them:
Congress Hotel: California, Colo
RADIO, Connecticut. Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Idaho, Kentucky, Massachusetts,
Michigan. Minnesota, Missouri, Mon
tana, New York, New Jersey, New
Mexico, Ohio, Nebraska, Oklahoma,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennes-
see, Virginia and West Virginia. Wis
consin and Delaware will be at the
Kaiserhof. Maryland and New Hamp.
shire at the La Sale, North Carolina
at the Lexington, Kansas and Utah at
the Auditorium, South Dakota at the
Palmer House. and Florida at the
. Grand Pacific.
Colonel Roosevelt has yet to select
his personal headquarters. Three
suites have been reserved for him-at
the Congress-, Blackstone, and La Sal
lie hotels, respectively. The Progress
sive party has reserved $40 rooms at
the La Sale, 100 rooms at the Audi
torium and the ball room at the latter
place for committees.
All presidential candidates will be
under the Congress roof. The Floren-
tine room Is occupied by the Roose-
velt-Progressive headquarters. Theo.
dore Burton and his Ohio supporters
will be in the Ellzabethan room, and
the English room will be filled with
Charles Warren Fairbanks and his
Indiana and Kentucky adherents.
Senator Cummins and his Iowa
delegation have the Oak room. The
. presidential suite "1102" will be occu
pied by Senator John w. Weeks and
his Massachusetts boosters. Senator
Borah and the Idaho men will be In
lisa.
New York has made its headquart
ers in B.6-B9, from which both the
Hughes and Root candidates. will be
promoted
Pennsylvania has taken the Green
room, expecting to have candidate In
either Knox, Penrose or Brumbaugh.