The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 27, 1896, Page 1

Call SAN FRANCISCO, SATUR DAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1896. PRICE FIVE CENTS PREPARING FOR THE CONVENTION, Democratic National Com- mittees Are Hard at Work. LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS. | Out-of-Town Men to Be Selected for Nearly All Minor Positions, FACILITIES FOR THE PRESS. Colone! John L Martin, the Sergeant. | it-Arms, Perfecting Every | Detail, | | | CHICAGO, Irn., June 26.—The sub- | committee on general arrangements, press ‘ i telegraphic facilities of the National ‘ ocratic Convention assembled at the mer House at 11 o’clock to-day for the purpose of further considering the matters nder its charge. Sergeant-at-Arms Mar- | was called in, and behind closed doors | sub-committee discussed his an- | unced determination to make up his of doorkeepers and all other sub-| cials having control of entrances from applicants outside the city. The commit- tee will probably sustain Colonel Martin in the stand he bas taken. The following official notice was given to The United Press for the general in- formation of the press: “The committee on pressand telegraphic JOHN BULL’S NIGHTMARE. with Hon. Perry Belmont at the railway station to-night as Mr. Belmont was start- ing for Havre on his way to Chicago, where he goes to attend the National Democratic Convention. The full text of the Democratic platform adopted at the New York State Convention at Saratoga has not yet been received here, and there- many. They keep getting 1n each other’s way, and are not nearly so effective as a smaller force better disciplined. Each of these assistants to the sergeant-at-arms will have charge of a section, with several ushers under him. There will be plenty of ushers, probably 300, and a large num- ber of special officers between the assist- telegraph as to the train they will arrive on to Harry Wilkinson, secretary of the | reception committee, Iroquois Club, | Chicago. They will then be notified of the specific arrangements made for their reception. Delegates not coming in a| body will be met by committees and | directed to their headquarters if applica- accommodations and facilities for the tion is made to that committee. ants and the ushers in authority. These | fore Mr. Belmont said its precise scope Democratic National Convention will| Colonel John I. Martin of St. Louis, the | special officers will be there for emergen- | could not be correctly appreciated. make the assignments of seats on the | sergeant-at-arms of the National Demo- | cies. Then there will of course be a large | If, however, as he believed, the platform declared that the New York Democracy protested against any further purchase of silyer by the treasury and against silver coinage, otherwise than on the basis of an international agreement, and that the number of pages.”’ In his efforts to get a perfect organiza- tion Colonel Martin will appoint & num- ber of chiefs of police of various cities as assistants, press platform on Tuesday, June 30, and will submit the result of their labors to the sub-committee in charge of convention nents at its meeting Wednesday, Immediately thereafter the news cratic Convention, is bard at work per- fecting the details of his department. He says that the regulations for this conven- tion will be more sirict than those of any previous one, and he declares they will be L rs will be notified of their assign- | enforced. This is the only way, he be-| *1haveapplications from a number of | Democracy will do everything possible to S. P. SHEERIKX, lieves, by which the crowds can be | chiefs of police,” he said, “and of course obt_nin and secure a fixed mternnnom?x Secretaty Democratic - National Com- | handled properly and with justice to all, | they are just the kind of men I want for | ralio between the two metals, and if it mittee.” “In my arrangements for handling the | these positions. Their experience in or- | has urged the cancellation of greenbacks and treasury notes bhereafter presented to the treasury and paid in gold, that utter- ance will, Mr. Belmont is confident, com- mand the approbation of an overwhelm- ing majority of the votersin every Eastern State. Mr. Belmont said he had known quite well, during his years in Congress; a great many of the Southern Democrats who are pressing for the immediate free coinage of silver at the rate of 16 to 1, and had also met them four years ago at Chicago when they contributed to the nomination of Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Belmont did not be- lieve that the Southern Democrats now wished, or would tolerate, the disunion at Chicago of the National Democracy. “The State of New York,” continued Mr. Belmont, ‘‘is now committed by both of its party organizations to international bimetallism and a world-wide bimetallic par. Democratic leaders, such as Tilden and Manning, have favored itin the past ana the Southern Democracy also. The governor of the Bank of France told me a few days ago that France cannot and will not consent to a ratio of 16 to 1. France prefers 15}4 to 1. *If the National Democracy will at Chi- cago remain united, McKinleyism can be crushed in November and a fixed interna- tional ratio for silver and gold put within range of practical effort. Another McKin- ley tariff can be prevented, the issue of ganizing men and handling crowds will make their services very valuable. There will be eight or ten of them appointed as- sistants to the sergeant-at-arms. “I want to annoumce positively,” said the coionel, *‘that there will be no ‘pass- ing’ anybody into the convention hall without a ticket. By that I mean just what I say. There is room for just so many and no more. At St. Louis there were seats for 13,800. At the Coliseum here we can seat 15,000, and tickets will be given out for all those seats. No badges of any kind will be honored without a ticket, and if the President himself should come up without the necessary card of admission he could not get in until he had one. Every precaution will be taken to prevent persons getting into the hall who have no business there. Even the ushers will have to show their tickets. “The big room on the Sixty-third-street side of the Colliseum will be used as a re- ception-room. Here the public can mingle with the delegates as freely as desired. The man who wishes to enter the conven- tion hall, however, must run a gauntlet even greater than at the St. Louis conven- tion. There will be fiity or sixty door- keepers, assisted by details of police, to preserve order. As a man starts to enter the hall he will pass between two door- keepers on the outside, who make him show his ticket. Just inside another pair will examine his ticket to sift out those who are trying to work their way in with- out pasteboards and who have passed the guardson the outside. Still further inside two more will be stationed to tear off the coupons, and then the ushers will take the man in hand and find his seat.” i PERRY BELMONT’'S BELIEF. Preparations are being made by local | Democrats to have delegations of the ! Iroquois Club and other party organiza- | tions meet arriving State delegations to | bers. Chairman Harrity of the National the tional Convention. Wherever dele- | Committee, Secretary Sheerin, the archi- ions come in a body an effort will be | tect, and myself, spent some little time in ade to meet them at the station with an | 8t. Louis studying the arrangements there, ort sisting of & marching club and a | and we shall endeavor to profit by the ex- usic to accompyny them to their | periences of the Republican Convention. respective headquarters. | “In the first place I shall appoint about Chairmen of the delegations which have | 100 assistants instead of about 900, as they decided to come in a body should write or [ had in St. Louis. Nine hundred is too | = | | ynel John 1. Martin of St. Louis, Sergeant-at-Arms of the Democratic National Convention. crowds in Convention Hall,” said Colonel Martin, “I shall depend more upon the organization of my staff than upon num- sary, the National credit upheld, our ex- ports increased and the wages of working- men North and South not to be reduced to a fifty-cent dollar. Itcannot but be that rather than have disunion in the National Democracy, as in 1860, the Southern Demo- crats, with whom New York co-operated in the 1892 election of Mr, Cleveland, will consent to a reasonable plan whereby free silver coinage can be deferred until a prac- tical effort 18 made by a Democratic Presi- dent and Democratic Congress to obtain a fixed international bimetallic ratio.” CEELZN T The Westbote Will Bolt. COLUMBUS, Oxuro, June 26.—The West- bote, the oldest and most influential Ger- man Democratic newspaper published in the State, announces this afternoon that it will not support the platform nor the He Says Southern Democrats Will Support a Gold Standard Platform. PARIS, FrANCE, June 26.—A representa- tive of the United Press had an interview Convention this week. The editor, W. F. Kemler, recently resigned as Consul to Horgen, Switzerland. . — No Tonger a Republican. MINNEAPOLIS, MixN., June 26— Lieutenant-Governor Day, in his paper, i the Fairmount Sentinel, says that he can & no longer act with the Republican party on account of its position on the money question. *, TR Rt o 2 WHERE THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION WILL BE HELD. THE CHICAGO COLISEUM, The Coliseum is situated at what was the entrance to the World’s Fair grounds of 1892 and is in the Italian renaissance style of architecture. It has brick walls, and 1ts trusses, girders and columns are of steel. On the first story the color of the brick 1s buff and the walls are pierced with a regular series 91 large arched openings, each opening being fifteen feet in width and filled with glass windows that form a light and beautiful arcade, continuing all the way around the bullding. The main entrance Jeads directly into the center of a stretch of flooring 325 teet long and 300 feet wide. The area of the ground floor is fully five acres and a half. The actual seating capacity of the Colisenm, the owners declare, is for 20,000 persons. It is twice the size of the Madison-square Garden in New York. Froxp the City Hul the Coliseum is a fwenty minutes’ ride. The Ilhnois Central Raiiway, the Chicago City Railway, the Alley Elevated Railway, the South Chicago and the Calumet Electric railways run within' fifty feet of the main entrance of the building. The railway company managers have pledged themseives to the local commitiee to operate as many trains as may be needed. Train service will also be provided at night. > 3 3 A more Government bonds made unneces- ticket nominated by the party at the State | 'RAH FOR CORNELL! | | GREAT BOATRACE i LIthaca Giants Take First Honors in Superb Style. WIN BY FOUR LENGTHS. A Prettier Contest Was Never Witnessed on American Waters. MULTITUDES OF - SPECTATORS. Indescribable Enthusiasm Among the Friends of the Respective Crews. POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., June 26.— “Rah for Cornell!” Eighteen thousand people grouped upon the picturesque banks of the Hudson with the last rays of the setiing sun casting a golden sheen upon the water saw the stal- wart eight from Tthaca win first honors | over Harvard, Pennsylvania and Colum- ba. It was a great race. Probably no prettier has been rowed before a greater crowd in American waters. All conditions of air and water were perfect. Nota flaw marred the contest from the crack of the starter’s pistol to the crossing of the finish line. Cornell won by four lengths, in 19:29, official time. Harvard was second, Penn- sylvania third and Columbia a poor fourth. As a spectacular scene the race was one long to be remembered. The course,a four- mile stretch, straight as the crow flies, lay near the west bank of the Hudson, and was _spanned by the great cantilever bridge, the finish being one mile below that structure and the start three miles above. The cloudiness of the morning had given way to bright sunshine, and the multitude which assembled on both banks of the river and filled the decks of the imposing fieet of yachts, excursion steam- ers and pleasure craft of all descriptions added brightness and color to the scene. On every hand the flags, ribbons and banners of the respective colleges were seen. The crimson of Harvard and the blue and white of Columbia, the red and blue of Pennsylvania and the red and white of Cornell were waved from tugs, steamers and from groups on the banks. The steep slopes of the highlands on the west bank, with the railroad track at their foot, furnished excellent points for view- ing the race, and crowds of onlookers utilized the natural amphitheater. An observation train of .forty-two cars, with seats for 3500 persons and every seat occupied, pulled out of the Highland sta- tion and made its way to the starting point just before the crews were sent off. It started with the crews and kept abreast of them all the way to the finish. Itwas filled for the most part with college stu- dents or colleze graduates and ladies. There were some notables on the train, but while the race was on all hands seemed to have lost all dignity and united in a mad chorus of yells for the different crews. The shouts for Cornell drowned the others and there was a flash of red and kept the course clear under the recently passed United States law. No bat ex- cept the referee’s boat and the crews of launches were permitted to foll>w the crews over the course. This regulation gave the four crews a perfectly clear course and the water was undisturbed. All the afternoon special trains from New York and from Hudson River towns rolled into the denots on both sides of the river. All were packed with college en- thusiasts and other people anxious to see the great race. ' The two undersized ferry-boats that ply between Highland and Poughkeepsie pushed their way through the waters with passengers hanging on like flies. Crowds blockaded the ferry-houses just before and immediately after the race. It was a hot, perspiring crowd, but good-natured withal. ‘When the crowd had finally distributed itself along the grassy knolls by the river’s banks and filled the long observation train the spectators themselves furnished a marvelous addition of life and color to the scene. The long train of flatcars, packed with gayly costumed women and men with flags of the different colleges, vresented a kaleidoscopic mass of color that was dazzling to the eye. The yachts in the river were decked with bunting from stem to stern, and each group of on- lookers along the shore stood out in relief on the dark-green setting of the wooded hillsides. The ‘greatest gathering was near the finish, for all wanted to see the victors cross the line. Venturesome lads climbed trees and some ascended from rowboats to the.stone piers of the bridge. In all the crowd there was probably none who did’' not have a good view of some portion of the race, and a grander strug- gle has seldom been seen. When the anxious. crowds near the finish caught their first glimpse of the crews they were as four specks upen the water. Gradually BUTTE COUNTY'S -~ FAIR GODDESS: Miss Bessie Collins Chosen in a Lively Battle of Ballots. IS A NATIVE DAUGHTER. Voters Select a Popular Belle to Represent Them at Monterey. RICH IN BEAUTY AND TACT. The Winner a State Normal School Graduate When Seventeen Years Old. CHICO, Cavn., June 26. — Miss Bessie Collins will represent Butte County at the Monterey flag-raising celebration. Sheig the winner of one of the most exciting | elections ever held in the county—a con« test in which nine-tenths of the population 1 figured as active partisans. RED BLUFF'S GODDESS OF LIBERTY. Miss Lena Frank, a pronounced brunctte and one of the most popular society belles of Tehama County, was elected after an exciting contest to rule over the Fourth of July revelers in Red Bluff. forty days, and several young ladies alternated in the finally winning by a large plurality. The balloting continued for lead, Miss Frank BUTTE COUNTY’S GODDESS OF LIBERTY. Miss Bessie Collins is to represcnt her community at Monterey when the anniversary of the raising of the American flag by Commodore Sloat is cele- brated. She is a pretty and accomplishcd blonde, and her popularity was at- tested by a plurality of 3000 votes received in a warmly contested clection. white flags as the victorious crew crossed the line. Out in the stream, anchored in a line from the three and one-half mile point down to the finish there were over 100 yachts, excursion steamers and river craft of every description. Their decks were filled with spectators, and in the thick cluster near the line there was danger of serious accident. The only mishap reported, however, was a collision between the referee’s boat Hel- vetia and the Albany steamer Whitney, resulting in a hole in the latter's bow. This occurred before the race and did not interfere with eithér boat fulfilling her duties, The revenue cutters Manhattan and Hudson and the police boats Walia Walla and Busie, aided by auxiliary launches, assigned boats o anchorage positions and they drew near and took on the appear- ance of racing shells, each boat propelled by eight strong men, moving with the pre- cision of clockwork, throwicg brawn and muscle into their work, yet moving with the science gaught by long training. It was a contest of the giants. Strength and skill won the day, and no crew that failed to win had excuses to make. It was a clean victory. No crews ever raced under more equal conditions, and the vanquished were beaten because they were no maich for the winners. The start was a pretty one. The Co- lumbia crew, being on the outside and nearest the referee, caught the flash of the pistol before their rivals and they took the water first. The others zot off in the order of their placings from the pistol. Conlinued on Third Page. The voting ended at midnight last night. The 'committee appointed to make the count then repaired to the office of the Chronicle-Record where the arduous duty of counting the thousands of coupons con- sumed two hours—hours full of anxiety for the friends and workers of the several rival beauties. As the judge of the elec- tion stepped forth and announced that Maiss Bessie Coilins was the choice of Butte County by 3000 majority loud were the cheers from the gathered throng. During the contest it was impossible to guess the winner, as the other candidates— Miss Katie Wertsbaugher and Miss Jennie Clark—were supported by stanch friends. First one and then the other would be in the lead. Miss Collins, now the ‘Goddess of Butte,” is one of the most popular young ladies of this county. She was in the con- test for the Queen of May, and was elected by a handsome majority as a maid of honor to the Queen, whom she served well during the May fiesta, Miss Collins is of average height, graceful and well formed. She is a blonde, with large blue eyes and a luxurient growth of wavy hair. Sheisa graduate of '95 of the Chico State Normal School, having finished her course when but 17 vears of age, passiug as one of the highest in the class. Miss Bessie was born on the Llano Seco rancho, of which her father was for many years the supe?in- tendent, and has resided in Chico most of her life. READ Barry’s Star; full of meat. —————— Arrested at Marysville, MARYSVILLE, CAL., June 26.—George Kline, & member of the local corps of the Salvation Army, was arrested to-day ona warrant from Travers charging embezzle- ment. The prisoner is silent as to the details of his offense, claiming he was drunk when he made the mistake. Summer Begins at 5:20 P. M. To-day. 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