Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-06-25
A BIRDS EYE VIEW
OF BIG CONVENTION
Californians Are Outdoing Them
selves In Preparing for Aus
picious Event
CRv Associated Press)

able for the first time Accommodations
in the Exposition Memorial auditori-
um building sufficient to house under
one roof not only the convention
proper, but committee meetings and
headquarters for candidates as we'll
These are largely to be utilized,
according to J. Bruce Kremer, Butte,
Mont, vice chairman of the national
committee, thus avoiding the incon-
venience and delay usually attendant
upon holding minor conferences away
from the convention hall.
In addition to the main auditorium,
the maximum capacity of which Mr.
kremer estimated at 1880 persons,
the building contains two auxiliary
halls, one that will seat so persons
and the other $50 There are 10 rooms
that may be used for smaller meet
ingS.
A fence around the entire building,
with entrance gates for ticket-holding
spectators, delegates, officials and
news writers, will be used by police
and convention authorities to prevent
crowds from rushing doorkeepers to
obtain admittance. This has occurred
several times during national party
conventions.
The auditorium for three weeks
past has been a scene of noisy activ-
ity. Carpenters have erected the
speakers platform, 80 by 40 feet and
10 feet high, on the south side of the
big hall just in front of the great or
gan and opposite the main entrance.
Several feet lower and extending
along the greater part of that side
of the auditorium is the press section
with seats for SIG working news wri-
ters. Back of the speakers platform
in sound-proof rooms are telephone
booths and fully equipped accomoda-
tions for press associations and news
paper men.
The central portion of the main floor
is reserved for the 1892 delegates and
a like number of alternates. Around
this space a solid railing has been
raised to keep back spectators that
arc admitted to the floor. To aid these
OnlOokers a platform one foot high
has been built over the entire space
they will occupy. The balcony, sweep
ing around three sides of the audito-
rum, will scat 4.416 persons.
Covering the dome is g canopy
weighing 16 tons that forms a false
ceiling. This and drapcries on the
wall and in the corners are designed
to improve the acoustics.
The auditorium will be equipped
with all modern electrical devices, in
Guiding sound-carrying wires and d
telephone system that will enable the
chairman TO transmit orders from
the platform to the scrgeant-at-arms
and other officials and these in turn
To speak to their deputies in any part
of the great hall.
A complete hospital under the di-
rection of the Red Cross and large
restaurant and lunch room have been
installed.
Despite the fact that the $2,00O,OOO
four-story granite and concrete struc-
ture was erected only five years ago,
the interior has been entirely reno
waited and repainted. Flags are to be
used in the decorations, which with
secret decorative effect to be pre-
sented opening day, are described as
"typically Californian"
Weather records running back to
1871 indicate cool "top coat" weather
for the convention period. Overcoats
and hats of spectators and partici-
pants may be checked free of charge
in permanent stations scattered
throughout the building.
The auditorium stands in the oper
civic center that offers much space
for parking automobiles. One corner
touches Market street, the city:
principal thoroughfare, which has two
surface street car lines running il
esach direction, and it is IL block:
from the Palace hotel, where nationa
committee headquarters are located
The San Francisco committee tina
pledged $125,000 to bring the conven
ton here is headed by Charles w
Fay, postmaster; George F. Mara, o
Bridgeport, Conn.,, representing Ho
mer S. Cummings, Stamford, Conn
chairman of the democratic nationa
committee, has been here for nearl.
six months overseeing arrangement
for the convention.
Cummings is to be tempOrar,
chairman Of the convention. He vii
be presented by Kremer, vice chair
man of the national committee.
E. G. Hoffman, of Fort Wayne, Ind
secretary Of the committee, will ac
in a similar capacity for the conven
tion, being assisted by w. R. Hollis
Ter, Of Jefferson City, No, exeeutiv