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Show THE HERALD-REPUBLICA- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MAY 28, 1916. N, in COLISEUM TO HOU SEANO REPUBL I CANS MEET THERE JU NE 7 FOR FOU RTH R-CONVENTIO- Historic Chicago Building Has a History Richer in Political juv , .Vi'.M,iV.-..,.vr-- f try, Because More National Conventions Have Been Held Than in Any Other f -- Enhanced by ..: , n ., ?:::: " , . 5. ;v;: ,; : ' ,! li - :im ' ' ' 4 -r i 360 f' American Flags. The Chicago coliseum, where the Republican national convention oC 1910 will be held, beginning June 7, has a history rich in political interest. More national political conventions have been lie hi in it than in any other building in the United States. Three Republican national conventions have been held within its walls and it was there also that the Progressive party in 1914 held its first national convention and nominated Col. Theodore Roosevelt for President. The Republicans nominated their QIIICAGO, May "'"" , 12- :: - ? SI ::.:.vK Build- ing; 15,000 Yards Cloth Used in Decorative Scheme This Year, A mmmm Significance Than Any Other Similar Structure in the Coun- in It iiylE . ml f-s- w. 27. - v- XT:-:- f . I ,r.A li ... 'V . .. I presidential ticket in the Chicago coliseum in 1901 1903 and 1912. The building was designated as a model convention hall, but later adapted to broader uses. It was built by Charles E. Gunther and several business associates on the site of the old Libby prison war museum, at Wabash avenue and Fifteenth street, less than a mile from the hotel and retail shopping district. The castellated walls of the old war prison were used for the "Wabash avenue .side of the structure. It was built of stone, brick, steel and glass and was finished in 1900. The building is 403 feet long, 170 feet. wide and 110 feet high, and cost nearly $1,000,000. .It has a wide balcony extending around three of the wall3 and is well lighted and ventilated. For this year's convention two additional balconies with seats for 732 persons have been built between the main floor and the regular balcony. This gives a total seating capacity of 12,400, of which 9100 seats are on the main floor and 3000 in the balconies. The crowds will enter through four main doors on the "Wabash avenue side. There are twenty-tw- o exits. There will bo 100 doorkeepers and 100 ushers, in addition to a large special detail of police to handle the great crowds. The seating arrangements will follow the general plan of former conventions, although several changes have been made, which, it is believed, will add to the comfort and convenience of the delegates and visitors." The speaker's platform, twenty feet long and forty feet wide, is at the south end of the building. It will provide seats for the officers of the convention and members of the Republican national committee. Suspended over the stand ia a specially designed sounding board. It consists of an inverted concaved pyramid built of wood with the apex over the head of the presiding officer. It is designed to throw the voice through the hall. Directly in the rear of the speaker's stand is a raised platform with 2000 seats for the use of the presidential candidates and other distinguished guests. On either side of the speaker's platform, extending the entire width of the building, is a press section containing 53S seats for working newspaper men. In the front of the speaker's stand are the seats for tho 991 delegates, and back of these is the space set aside for the seating of the alternates. The section reserved for delegates and alternates is enclosed with a heavy rail. The rest of the main floor and all the balconies will be used for sweats to accommodate the crowds of visitors. Adjoining the Coliseum on the south is an annex three stories high, 170 feet deep and with a frontage of about 100 feet on Wabash avenue. It is connected with the main building bv several broad entrances. In the basement of the annex, at the south end of the main building and near the speaker stand, is the telegraph and telephone room, where scores of special wires have been in &y HARRIS & - n it At i J ' - . --,?- .. ? . ??x ' : , .I..: : ... v ri . '. i , v f 'vi'"--- . .. a'.'"!.. .:- i - I f i - .v.i-::r- vv i ; .f ,i . 'A i! .(. - J. J ..,::?s;. v. lit --' y ' "v. , v , .. ' . i I '4: vj 6(rV l.- - n: rr' J stalled for the use of the news gathering associations and newspapers in sending stories of the convention to every section of the country. In the basement ot the main building h a completely equipped temporary hosof Chipital in charge of twenty-fiv- e cago's leading physicians and surgeons, who have volunteered their services for the occasion. The upper floors of the annex have been fitted up with the administrative rooms of the officers of the convention. Here are the private offices of the chairman, secretary, treasurer and a score of minor officials. The convention postoffice for the prompt distribution of mail to the officials and delegates is in this section. There is a large meeting room for the Republican national committee and numerous rooms for use of the committees of the convention. In the decoration of the convention hall the managers departed from the practice of practically relying exclusively on flags and hunting to obtain the desired artistic effect. This year the scheme of interior organization is more elaborate and artistic than ever before, according to experts. The plan was designed by C. R. Hall, superintendent of the Coliseum, and Julius Floto, an architect. White and gold dominate tho color scheme, while American flag3, shields and bunting are used to complete the working out of the decorative plan. Eight thousand yards of white cloth, 4000 yards of gold cloth, 3000 yards of red, white and blue bunting and 300 American flairs and shields ed I i" iii. long-establish- '1 '..V"-T- ',;..v--r- - 1 MJ.LB-.L- - J I -!. J IJU" were used in the interior ornamentation of the convention hall. The bare briek walls and steel girders which support the roof are concealed by 26 panels of white cloth, each 25x55 feet. Each panel is decorated with a deep flounce of gold cloth. Hanging from the roof in the center under the large glass ventilators are large bars of gold cloth, which add to the artistic effect without obstructing light and air. The balconies are tastefully festooned with red, white and blue bunting caught every ten feet with bunches of small American flags and shields. On the wall back of the speaker's stand is hung a large oil portrait of Abraham Lincoln, which has been in six Republican national conventions since it was painted in 1S64. It was loaned to the convention by its owner, George Prince of New York. The officers of the convention are: Senator Temporary Chairman Warren G. Harding, Ohio. Lafayette Temporary Secretary B. Gleason, New York. F. William Sergeant-at-Arm- s Stone, Maryland. Chief Clerk Edmund J. Wachter, Maryland. . Official Stenographer George L. Hart, Virginia. Chief Doorkeeper John J. Hanson, Maryland. e, Chief Usher William Nelson Illinois. The arduous work of making the preliminary plans for the convention was in charge of the subcommittee on arrangements of the Republican national committee, composed of the following: Chairman Charles D. Hilles, New New York. Sergeant-at-Arm- William s F. Stone, Maryland. ' James P. Goodrich', Indiana; John T. Adams, Iowa; Fred Stanley, Kansas;. Charles B. Warren, Michigan; T. K. Niedringhaus, Missouri ; Fred W. Estabrook, New Hampshire; Franklin Murphy, New Jersey; E. 0. Duncan, North Carolina; Ralph E. Williams, Oregon, and Alva II. Martin, Virginia. The local committee, composed of Chicago business men, which raised $100,000 to bring the convention to this city, includes: Fred W. Upham, chairman; Walter J. Malatesta, assistant to chairman; Kay Wood, vice chairman; John C. Roth, treasurer, . and A. Sheldon Clark, secretary. f 1 1141 York. James R. Reynolds, Secretary Washington, D. C. Treasurer George R. Sheldon, J if Above at the left is a recent portrait of Charles E. Hughes, former governor of New York and now a justice of the supreme court of the United States. At the right, Theodore Roosevelt, also a former governor of New York and former President of the United States. In the middle row, from the left, Senator John W. Meeks of Massachusetts, former Senator, Theodore E. Burton of Ohio and Charles W. Fairbanks, former senator of Indiana and former vice president of the United States. At the right, Gen. T. Coleman Du Pont of Delaware. , The bottom row, from the left; Albert B. Cummins, former governor of Iowa and new one of the senators of that state; Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio, who will be temporary chairman of the convention; and Elihu Root, former senator of New York state and a member of the McKinley and Roosevelt cabinets. In the center of the page is a view of the Chicago Coliseum, in which the convention will be held, the scene of the Republican convention of 1912 and of several noted political conventions of former years. ft a - v. t r in ."K 1 . ' tir' 7 -j Pe-louz- ' v-- : A ; l... 5 ik t: WA :iMiwidv::::. rmn n-- : :':- - ''T . asr . yyy' fjz V u r - v J, - x r . ''.: vv i-.- v? ' Vi |