The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-05-15
Delegates and Visitors to Two Con
ventions Will Number 10000;
Windy City Scurrying to Find
Accommodations
SUFFS WILL STAGE
BIG DEMONSTRATION
Women Asking Ballots Will March 25,-
900 Strong Through Streets While
700 Reporters viii Warm Tele-
graph Wires with Dope
BY United Press.

BY United Press.
Chicago, ILL.,, May 15.-Hotel mana
gers today are attempting to solve
the problem of housing approximately
10000 transients expected to attend
the Republican and Progressive Nat
ional conventions and the great suf-
frage demonstrations to be held here
June Z. This is the largest number
of strangers that has visited Chica-
go since the Worlds Fair in 1913.
Already every available room in the
large hotels have been reserved, and it
seems that accommodations in sec
ond class and smaller hostelries will
be at a premium. In fact, managers
of the "big five" of Chicagos hotels
will not reserve another room, stating
they are holding them "for the usual
run of business"
Although they maintain that the
rates have not been increased, the Of
ficials OF three hostelries, the La Sale,
Congress and Sherman House, have
reserved the right to double or triple
II tne rooms il it becomes necessary"
The same rule will be employed prob
ably at the Auditorium
Four hundred rooms have been re-
served at the Blackstone for months
the rates ranging from s. to $40. No
reservations have been allowed for
headquarters here.
Officials smilingly admit that $50
rooms of the Congress are "gone" at
81 head; the La Sale has been
asked for 500 rooms at $3.50 and $500
a person. Both have a few hundred
rooms left which they allege they will
hold for their regular guests"
The Auditorium, officials say. has
been entirely sold out. There are four
hundred rooms in all, s5 and $40 being
asked. Colonel Roosevelt will make
his headquarters here, having closed
an option upon the three upper floors.
Other hostelries like the Morrison, Vic
toria, Kaiserhoff. Chicago Beach, STRAIT
ford and Palmer house have been de-
luged with applications for lodgings.
Officials of the Illinois Equal Suf-
frage league, who will conduct mon
ster parade coincident with the con-
vention, may have to pitch camp on
the lake. front to accommodate the
900 delegates attending from all
over the country.
They have been refused permission
by the park board here to use the
municipal pier for lodgings. The wo-
men will march from the loop to the
Coliseum, the scene of the republican
convention, equipped with signs and
banners demanding an insertion Of a
plank in the G. o. P platform for equal
suffrage.
The G. o. p. and the Moose local
committees have been busy putting
tue lliifSulHS lOutucs Oi thch piVpol-
ations for the convention. The re-
publicans opened their headquarters
at the Coliseum this week.
The building will be decorated In
gala fashion. The speakers stand will
be in the south end of the building.
Arrangements have been completed to
accommodate 1000 people.
The press will occupy the first 700
chairs encircling the speakers plat
form The 9s5 delegates will follow
and beyond them will be seated as
many alternates. The rear end of the
main floor and the balconies will take
care OF the spectators.
i James B. Preston, head of the press
gallery in the Senate, arrived here
Monday from Washington and laid
out the final plans for the Auditorium
theatre. the stamping ground of the
progressives.
4 This building will hold 1000. The
speakers chair will be placed ON the
stage, which has been heightened anC
+ widened to be able to hold $50 seats
for the press in front Of the speaker