The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-06-09

several times.
This year electricity will play a
very important part at both the
Republican convention to be held
In the Municipal Auditorium in
Cleveland on June 10, and at the
Democratic Convention which Will
open in New York on June "a at
Madison Square Garden.
Here, incidentally, in 1868 stood
one OF the city's chief railroad sta
lions.
Glitter Of Lights.
Both convention halls will be
lighted. electrically, that in Cleve-
land by 800 gas filled electric lamps
of $50 watts, each placed in sill.
| vered reflectors above q curved
glass ceiling. In New York the
same electric lighting equipment
that for q number Of years has
served to illuminate six-day bicycle
races, expeditions, circuses, rallies
and champion boxing bouts will
provide the general artificial light.
ing. For taking movies" and
news photographs in both places
there will be a special battery of
about two dozen sun arc" electric
lamps. These will be so placed
that. when they are turned on, the
inside Of both convention halls will
be as brilliantly lighted as a set
| in a moving picture studio. Sun
arcs have been selected for this
because the light they produce,
while not as pleasant to the human
eye as the incandescent lamp, has a
| ~
violet rays which delight the eye
Of the camera
At both Cleveland and New York
! the lighting of convention halls
will be simple, and no attempt will
be made to install novel decorative
lighting. Just what Is to be done
in Cleveland in the day Of decora,
| tive lighting OF the outside OF the
streets Is as yet a dark secret, but
will be a most unusual display out.
OF the building on three sides will
be illuminated at night with white
and colored lights, supported by
batteries Of flood lights. Also.
DIANA" the famous bronze.weather
| Towed, designed by the artist Mac.
Monies, will be bathed nightly by
the lights Of several powerful
searchlights.
Halls to Be Cooled.
Venttlating both convention halls
so that the debates may gbe com.
| Portable, regardless Of both weather
and political heat, will be taken care
OF electrically. The Cleveland MI.
| nicipal Auditorium is supplied with
an adequate ventilating equipment.
operated by electric motors, and
Madison Square Garden is to have
a system of electric motor.run blow.
ers and exhaust fans.
The work of telling the general
public what transpires at both con.
ventions will be done by some 500
newspaper correspondents. After
they have written their convention
stories" both telegraph and teIe.
phone will be called upon to carry
these accounts to all parts Of the
country. For over a month tele.
graph and telephone officials have
been busy perfecting the details of
how all these press dispatches are
to be handled. In both convention
halls the news agencies will have
special telegraph operators seated
beside their convention reporters in
space just In front of the speakers
platform. Using silent" telegraph
instruments the operators will tick
Off a running account Of the con.
vention happenings as it is die.
tated to them. Then in the base.
ment Of the convention halls there
will be large wire rooms" where
correspondents of various papers
may file their dispatches.
To handle all these newspaper
dispatches. and they may total well
over a million words a day at both
Cleveland and New York special
cables will connect with the tele-
graphic systems Of the country,
and there will be a force Of a hun
dred or so veteran convention teleg-
raphers on hand, many Of whom
have worked at conventions for a
quarter of century or more.
Battery of Phones.
To connect the convention with
the outside world the work of in
stalling upward of 800 pairs Of
telephone wires has already started.
Over these wires, by the aid Of the
special telephone "centrals' that
will be put in place before the con.
ventions open. will pass both the
local messages of of newspaper
correspondents and delegates. and
a great number or long distance
calls, for newspapers, now fire.
quently receive their important dis.
patches by long distance telephone.
The radio will also play an i'm.
portant part in informing the out
side world of the happenings Of
both conventions. According to
present announcements, the pro-
ceedings of the Republican conven-
ton in Cleveland are to be broad
cast simultaneously from several
broadcasting stations located in diff
ferent parts Of the country. To
make this possible the various sta.