| Show NATIONAL convention what it costs to hold one of them these days ESTIMATED AT but that includes everything attending it Vit various rious ways of stating the amount fifteen acres of dollar bule Bills enough to build tour four great battleships A hundred thousand Thona and strangers expected in st louis I in it a week they will smoke miles of cigars costing casting height ot of the boxes it if piled up some convention nem inis conces copyright isoe by tho the bacheller syndicate atel new T york rk june 10 Conven convention tio talk is in order these days daya when whenever ver and wherever a croup of 0 healthy in minded americans americana have gathered Ka the themselves ives together much at 0 rose this talk is reminiscent and there Is reason to believe th that I 1 IX it all all ine the I 1 lately told etorres oc convention scones were wr written out nd put in book form the volumes would exceed in number those evo ot tho famous alexandrian library still more of the talk is 13 0 ot tile the mathematical variety and naturally a ily this Is not unmixed with prophecy perhaps next week some ot of tho mathematical prophets will declare they have never studied arithmetic and that are only vanity but the story tell tellers r will have more material than ever since another national convention ve will ill then have pasted passed into history it if the mathematical prophets who find themselves mistaken in their predictions and their figures wan want 1 employment of f a congenial nature they may inay find it lit in making figures on oil the cost of such a great political gathering assuredly they will land these figures surprising this matter was brou brought plit up one day last week in a talk that was participated in by wllbur wilbur F wakeman who has been a close indent of 0 conven 40 the matter with hanno hanna eions for the past sixteen years sir mr IV Vl keman akeman thought the total cost coal would riot not a be much less than later C col a harry harr y swords who nho tor for twelve years ears has been sergeant at arm arma ot of the tha national e committee on ittel arid and who surely ought to b lie c a able lal lie to make a a reasonably accurate totaling up ot of the expenses of 0 a convention was asked tor for an estimate RURI RISING calculations first of 0 all 3 said it tile the Colo colonel nol sli should 0 uld be counted the straight ex pon A cs of 0 the con convention tion which will be borne ty by the cil citizens eizens league ot of st louls louis these expenses have sorn sometimes times been as low levy as but they amount pd fd to about S at minneapolis in and will be little it any below that figure at st louis the cost of the hall alone will be not tar far from 1175 and although the structure will remain and be useful for years to come As alts er erection ec tion is rightly chargeable to tho the convention of 0 other bills to be footed by the citizens league will include the expenses ot of the serg at tat at arms ot of the convention various printing accounts the cleaning of the hall ach night its lighting fighting in the evening cven lna teen fees for or police and lire protection big postage bills and a thousand ther other 0 things the expenses of the serg sergeant bant at arms alone will bo be big though I 1 should not like to make lake an estimate s dimate ale has been in ili st louis some time and has had a Us big staff of typewriters lau liesy ay every day and far into the night they occupy an entire suite of rooms in one of the big biff hotels aud and the click of 0 their machines can be heard all over tile the house houge but the to bo be expended by the citizens league la Is a more mero bagatelle compared to the money that will be expended during the convention week by the delegates and others there will be nearly a thousand delegates and as many alternates the colonel continued including the personal following of 0 delegates and alternates ter nates there will be at least 2000 men in III st louis during the convention next work week who will bo be directly interested add the assistant sergeants at arms anns the doorkeepers door keepers and ana the messengers in all 11 about 1000 and the lie newspaper correspondents and reporters and the ip T LIP Q A 0 ac 4 in ui r J L L P lw w IN Z W W LIZ P 7 03 54 INN A ir all ailt W arx 1 WIT W 11 jill convention hall total tola will be at least 2000 now it if each one of 0 these men spends in addition to its ills railroad tare fare and tills this Is a very small average the total will lie be if you ad add ito to this Ms the expenses that will be bat borne ne by the telegraph companies pardon and the big press associations in n retting getting ready to spread tile news the total expenses of tile the citizen league and those directly interested iv will ill no not t bea be a cent less than a round halt million ot of dollars A HUNDRED THOUSAND VISITORS that looks like a good goad deal ot of money to be used up in the expenses expense 3 of a national dional convention it but it Is riot not the limit by a very large sura sum the delegates alternates and attendants at a national convention form but a fraction of those who are arc always present in a convention city during the holding or its 6 sessions ess tons it Is expected that everybody lod y included strangers will go to st louis next week and remain th there ere till the convention adjourns do you think a large estimate why one party ot of 1500 Is going from new york alone and thoin fi oin missouri illinois iowa kentucky tennessee kansas nebraska and other states nearby to st louis there I 1 w ill be myriads almost jt it Is because ae of the money such a vast crowd of visitors will leave in town that tho the citizens league can afford to 0 put up so handsomely to pet get the convention just how much the visitors will it would be impossible to estimate but the amount that will tro go tor for railroad tickets alone will break the back of three quai tera ot of a million dollars and will probably exceed that alir surn aum if each delegate were to spend M S in taic faie and that is 1 a low average the total would be tSO OOOO and this added to the halt half million already accounted for foots up tl dont ask me to make any more estimates the speaker concluded tor for tile the figures nl bt pass belief it if the leader will continue the jill hn ot of above laid down lie he will find that thai only a beginning ot of the total expenses due to the convention will be met by the 13 it will be hard for those shogo who 0 o to st louis next week to average a less expenditure than 3 a day for and divers extras some home indeed will vill set get along with loss less but many will spend a good deal more at 3 a day for each man mail the dally sum expended would amount to iM OOOO and it the convention were to last a full week the total for maintenance would bo be brought up to a hundred thousand more than t while the grand brand total so a far accounted for would be but even this although itin it includes much does not take in ILI uch ouch expenses as will be incurred at the different state headquarters the ct coat t of music at the various candidates headquarters and so on perhaps another hundred thousand doilis s would cover it all and then the total would amount to IN thit ee e and a half millions million a very pretty vcr for neither the expense of g tile the news from st louta louis to the thousands of dally daily papers in the various states slates which must be a very great sum hum nor tile the cost of 0 the thousands ot at private telegrams that win will be sent a smaller but still a considerable bum has been counted in it Is not easy to estimate estl mato either ot of these sums dumn but it Is not koins going too far perhaps to assume that all tho the expenditures due to the convention will use up almost four exceedingly formidable warships allocc could cz be built tor for FIFTEEN ACRES OF DOLLAR BILLS it Is hardly necessary to call the attention ot of any one to the tact fact that tho the most exciting scenes of 0 alie lie st louis convention will occur ahrn the currency question comes up but it a rather interesting illustration of 0 the magnitude oc at tile the expense of a national convention vent lon Is suggested thereby it if tile tl were to be paid out in dollar bills and these bills were to be made in to a 1 l calbet calpet it would be 1000 teet feet long ions and feet feel wide covering an area of 0 1 about fifteen screand acrea acre and the capito carlton I 1 a at 1 washington it placed in the macid middle 1 0 t the cai caipen pet would appear like a toy foy I 1 how boune set on a big bl lue ilig four million i dollars in gold plied in a pyramid four feet each way at the base would be five acet high four million silver dollars would make a pyramid ten feet square at the base and fifteen teet feet high the i ap af A tz q E 4 r c clears to be smoked by the lOO flOO who iv will ill go to st louis boulls allowing five el gars bars a day which la not too many for each cadi man there would be three and ad a half hair millions of 0 them would make maje a p allo if 0 of boxes of 0 60 clears each and this pile would be nuitt two and a halt balf in miles ties high arranged in a tier ot of five boxes side by side the pile would be about 26 1 feet digil or within 20 feet as high as the cap on the liberty that stands on oil the top of 0 the capitols dome placed end to and nd three and a half million dears would read miles almost as far ar as from rom st louis to chicago at an average ot of 8 13 1 3 cents three lh rio for or a quarter these cigars would cost the th elgar cigar of 0 st louis not to speak of men who bell certain other creature comforts ought to be thankful their city has been chosen THE SERGEANT AT ARMS of course there Is an all immense amount ot of work involved lit in holding a national convention find and most ot of the hardest of it falls upon the sergeant at arms the loftice Is one that Is a almost always largely sought for since althous althou ah lt it carries no direct money compensation n mention the incumbent Is supposed I 1 e d to make an all enormous personal acquaintance suie to be of preat great value in latel later political life undoubtedly this buntos tb on Is a correct one but it Is not on record that any mail mai i who he lias ban been sergeant at arms of one national alit convention has ever eer craved I 1 alio 1 a p place 1 ace again it Is full of tribulation 0 and d tho the trouble begins months before t the he late date of the Us big gathering to do the executive work of tho th office simply Is no as the lit want at arma arins la Is the one to attend to tho the printing of admission tickets the providing of the badges the arranging of the pro gramme and a thousand anil and one things that need not be mentioned in detail but ull all these bilings sink into g kf 01 I 1 M Z if no 4 insignificance compared with the worry that comes tram frani the tact fact that the tickets must be assigned as well as provided A HI eat deal of space for spectators in addition to that reserved for the delegates Is always alays provided at a national convention but the demand always outruns the supply and tile the sargeant at arms ai ans la Is dead clead sure to make enemies as well as friends in the dispensing ot of his favors there Is trouble also in the appointing of assistants assistant ss these mm men get 0 a hayand are obliged to work hard in seating arid and otherwise se providing tor for the comfort of the delegates and spectators at each lesston of 0 the convention but by reason of such tree free service they are enabled to be present at tile convention as insiders where they can become known to a a large number of men of their own party consequently although the number of a assistants n Is Is large there are always many me moie le applicants than there are places and a a large proportion of those who apply and tall fall are ever afterwards at swords points with the man who could not find places for all still most sergeants at arma get through their service without suffering buffering anything worse than worry of mind and weariness of the flesh it t Is recorded that one of them hem however who was suspected of issuing issuing admission tickets to men who agreed to yell tor for his favorite candidate was hardly used by a national committeeman who had a favorite candidate of his own the sergeant at arns arn s was nt not only charged with letting in too many of hlo his own faith but also or of ill dishonoring tickets issued by the national committeeman in question at a meeting of one of the committees subcommittees sub of the convention the matter was talked out and the sergeant at aims pie serit said that the accusations male ma le against him wore were lies iles at this tile the con I 1 till t eman ich who had made the 1 chaides fathered them more than that lie he defended mont with hj ills umbrella which aich lie he wrecked wreck cil at the same time I 1 spoiling polling tile the hat anil and marring the face of 0 the offending the committeeman was at ai rested next day wt but li lie was never lined or impi mr air T K U byrnes of minneapolis the current incumbent of the place has no fear or of a a similar experience A convention 11 1111 ATINIS CENCE so many slot stories lea of oc impressive scenes in n national nation all co have recently been printed print d that the reminiscences of 0 most old timers would be in place here yet some of the los related lie here re I 1 within athin the last d day ay or two have not lately been heard one of the most interesting perhaps pel naps haps was told this morning by the hon thomm L james ex postmaster rt it was tile story of the democratic convention that nominated martin van buren in ISIS ile he had biad already served as president but was defeated thit that year it was not a national N convention but a conic convention antion of now new york state free soil sell denic chats who had bolted from the baltimore convention that nominated louis lewis cass onla to be defeated at the polls samuel young presided dod and the ca convention vent I 1 on was he held I 1 d it in I 1 a methodist t chin chuich oil in utica among those present were james W nye afterward united states senator ctorn nevada james K do boo a little later united states slats senator from wisconsin samuel J tilden john van 13 huron prince john son of aklai I 1 i n vin van buren J al francis afterward a mink ter preston W king 33 I 1 butler not the general but actor ticy ney general under jackson and van duren buren and others who after aften hard liard rose to great prominence tt it was my nril convention said fold r gen en james in telling the story and I 1 was greatly by it we did not expect atilt the nominee would win nor did he be indeed he did not cavry cary a single state lie ho was reno in I 1 ila I 1 e d a at I 1 tile tho national convention held in buffalo later the same year and the defection caused by its ills running defeated cass and elected zachary taylor the whig candidate when wo we had guint bated van buren mr jr TIl deri proposed throe three cheers nelch were given with FL a will they awoke ai a drunken man who had been sleeping in tile ali gallery frid hp he sot got up slid and shouted 11 hur u r hur bur ruh lilo forever hurrah no eo loudly and kept it up so long conff that he had to be put out prince john van buren was at lit hl best at that time and the next day he made a speech that I 1 shall never forget he was one ot of the handsomest men I 1 ever saw sair he be had a clear ringing voice and his speeches always roused the wildest enthusiasm H I 1 I 1 ex officio chairman clarkson made his strongest point in ili answer to sor someone neone v w ho he threw a sneering ring question at him to understand this point you must recall the fact act that 1818 was a revolutionary year in eusope ca cais as hal hai eulogistically of louis philippe of 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