The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
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(Continued From Page One.) on with the speech. On the floor and in the galleries folk sank back to their seats and the moment of excitement was over.
 Keep Their Seats
 A little later Mir. Burton named Cal win Coolidge to the post designed to heap honors upon him. Again seats were vacated and again the convention gave tongue in shouts of approval. Again also the Wisconsin delegation sat fast.
 It was a hearty word of approval the convention sent out toSthe executive in Washington, but again Chairman Bur ton pressed on with his carefully framed address and the noise subsided quickly. .ts
 At many points in his remarks there was applause for his declaration of party principles, but there was only one other time today when wave of feel ing swept the convention into demon stration. That was when Mir. Burton called on "A. W. Mellon, of PeAnsyl- vania," to present a routine resolution,
 The slender figure of the, treasury secretary rose promptly from amidst the group of Pennsylvanians, but q storm of handclapping drowned out his soft voiced reply to the chairman, and he was forced to climb to the speakers s bridge to stand in bashful uneasiness amid the plaudits.
 Lacks Voice
 Even when silence had been restored Mir. Mellon could not find sufficient voice to make himself heard, despite the aid of the amplifiers. He turned the resolution over to another with stouter lungs to read. He stood shift. ing uneasily from foot to fcot while 1t was done, then fled eagerly to the ob- scurity of the platform crowd of notables.
 Tie hall was a marvellous sight as the great through began gathering. It was almost naked of decorations save those few with which the architects permanently marked the soft toned walls Only at the back of the patform, against the back wall of the huge stage, were flags displayed. Hanging there were life size paintings of Lin coin, Roosevelt, and Harding, So great is the auditorium that it is doubtful | that those seated half way back couEd make out whose likenesses were thus framed.
 Electric Effects Displayed
 Before the convention opened the $100,0O0 pipe organ and band perched high in gallery at one corner of the stage itself alernated to while away the time. It was during this wait that kIn all were displayed.
 It was the strains of the Star Spangled Banner" with John Philip Sousa swinging his baton from the speakers stand and his band clustered below him on the convention floor that set the convention in motion. As the strains of the hymn rose and the stand ing thousands caught up the stately song, mighty old glory" dropped slowly down from above the stage to fill all the back wall with its glowing colores. In salute ot it when the first hymn had ended, Sousa swung the 1 band into the strains of his own march, Stars and Stripes Forever" The band aided later when the con- vention and it's guests joined in sing ing America then trooped, back to its stand while the business of national l convention got under way.
 Adams Is Brief
 Chairman Adams of the national committee reduced his speaking part of the program to the limit of breyity. When he named Mir. Burton as tempor- ary chairman and delegation trooped 1 down through the gangway to escort the tall Ohioan to the stand a storm of applause began. The committee chair man had overlooked the formality of convention approval of the selection. He was reminded and turned to ask for the vote on Mir. Burton's election. An uproarious ''aye" answered him and there was laughter at the incident. The address of the temporary chair man was delivered with all the earn estness of which he was capable. De- spite the vast size of the hall, every word he said seemed to be carried to the distant corners by the amplicfiers.