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Me bot ai aa. | THE RVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JUNE 29, HARDING PLATFORM HIT HARD. BY PERMANENT CHAIRMAN Senator Robinson in Taking Place of Cummings, Attacks Republicans for Use of Money and Defeat of Treaty. 1920 EDGREN’S IMPRESSIONS OF ‘SOME CONVENTION N LEADERS, Swett Une waascttty 0b tre coraratt: iN favor @ compromise on the qutstion, Senator Glaus, himself hos drawn « plank that may tsatisty the extreme wets but will, idopted, win the support of many favor some modification of exist- ing conditions with respect to the Volstead taw. ‘The signifieant thing ie that most of the drys—excluding, of course, ge Bryan—seo the necessity of saying something to appease the demand for ‘& Btatement on the Prohib{tion ques- 3a which will not be interpreted by Fibs t in wet States as inflextbie DELEGATES ARE IN NO HURRY T0 QUIT AND GO ROME /San Francisco Outdoes Itself as Host and Profiteer Is Not Known. ¥ immutable. other vital point is the apparent inty that once the platform \s an opportunity will come for r Cox and Mr. McAdoo to tel- yg o@faph to the Chairman of the Res~ Iutions Committee their approva: of pith ‘platform. ‘This will mean the @limination of al) doubt concerning =the wiltingness of candidates to run on the platform adopted and if Me- ©, <Adoo should express his approval of |» whatever compromise plank may be | _ @ffered on the Prohibition issue some eae the delegates who have been in- iryMfinet toward Cox on this question + Would shirt toward McAdoo. GAIN FRANCISCO, June 29.—ena- tor Robinson of Arkanaas, Permanent Chainman of the Democratic National Convention, in ‘his #peech to-day as- sailed the Republican Party for its Chicago platform, for the disclosures of large sums of money tn pre-con- vention contests, and particularly at- tacked the Republican Senators who fought the ratification of the peace treaty with the League of Nations covenant. “Tested by every standard which voters usually apply,” sald he, “the platform favoring the ratification o the treaty without destructive reser | vutions. ‘The women of America | stand for peace and against war. | “Never before hag a nation wide Political battle been waged in the cause of international justice, huinan~ ity and peace. The opposition has taken low and untenable ground/ Let the Democratic Party occupy the heights. Never again will any great political party In America openly in- vite disaster by trifling with great problems, RIFT IN HARMONY By Herbert Pulitzer. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.—8an Francisco is certainly a great town, Delegates and newspaper men all agree on that, It seems to be one of the few places which has had no ex- perience with the profiteer. The hotels have not raised their prices on account of the convention. The best restaurants in town will give you a’first class lunch or dinner for $2; a meal that would cost be- Deen ann, “Tee Bee Lana ony Mute. , re A Geen, Leoneue |WILD ENTHUSIASM AND COLOR AT THE’ CONVENTION SUGGEST - » Qnee the wet and dry plank is dis- “posed of, New York's delegates are Rot unlikely to swing to McAdoo as they will want to be on the band Sesh Bryan is. represented as “softening in his opposition to Mc- but it all depends on whether approves or disapproves the drawn by McAdoo's friends. writer has just made an ex- haustive investigation of the McAdoo ‘situation, and after several days of qrinquiry among the men who ard be active in advancing the name . Mr. McAdoo for the Preaidency facta stand out conspicuously: doo has not sent a single message to any delegate or leader here encouraging ‘activity in hie behalf. Nor hae he expressed hie on any questions being con- red at this convent +n either of y or platform policy. He has ily kept hands off, —Nobody outside of San Francisco ‘Ws directing the McAdoo forces mm Efforts to draw Daniel C. ri Roper, McAdoo's chief political ad- viper, into conrrention matters Have a roved futile. q fmessage of any kind, oral or “written, has come from the White either from Secretary Tum- or President Wil any one ie Washington in touch directly or oH lireotly with President Wilson, po taerine ing ve the remotest degree upon ae Cabinet officer here has pub- ¢ Acly or privatel, said anything td Indicate that he knew even ‘by implication the wishes of President ison with respect to the nomina- gn of candidates. —The story that McAdoo declined to be a candidate becaus, of ill- ith is not true, ‘It was at Sim pewelites id this cor- respondent and other people here be- of the abruptness of the Mo- po ‘announcement and because high in the councils of the party 4 the bellet that McAdoo suffering from tuberculosis of rowt. writer is convinced that the ‘es wholly wrong, and that no “whether McAdoo is nomi- or defeated here, an unjust preasion which the publication of ‘the rumor may have given should be from the minds of reade lke fair In, politics. in a much "Netter Position iceek ienow than those who (be tered for the story ass He hnqveationabie were: that tn good health and that for declining the nomination ’ nothing whatever to do with his physical fitness, YORK STATE ALONE IN OPEN SNUB 10 PRESIDENT (Continued From First Page.) to the New Yorkers to “stay out of the parade.” He laid hands on the standard and Bs mosses at once pushed him away. Roosevelt caught the eye of Gov. ith and by a head movement indl- ted & request to be allowed to take Ee standard into the procession, ‘The , ernor nodded an amused ‘assent. Mahone bristling and apparently alertly “on the joo” of keeping the Standard in its set place, missed the exchange of signals, As Roosevelt again seized the » stendard, Mahoney tackled him and Mayor Lunn rushed into the action ch spread up and down the, rows feats, five deep and three or four om the aisle, W. W. Farley, Vice Ohairman of the delegation, got into P the twngle and swiftly passed, tho Word to let Roosevelt have his Sand shooed the gathering supporters § Of Mehoney back to their weats. Parley said afterward he had been dif it was not a good plan to ve New York join the parade, “I plied ‘No,’ he sald, “because I felt At was well to emphasize the fast shat ew York delegation had cont to convention on serious business d not for horseplay, There way no fF any fussypver the State ute and boos’ directed at York delegation throughout the With increasing intensity showed ad of resentment of the 1 Democritic Party t# entitled to vie- tory in the coming campaign, Com- parison of the Democratic and Re- publican records, contrasts of po- litical policies and party leadership justifies the belief that the Repub- ean Party will be driven from power in both branches of Congress, end that complete control of the Govern- ment will be restored to the Demo- cratic Party in the November elec- OF WOMEN LEADERS AT SAN FRANCISCO the public confidence, the | G. Oo. STRADDLES AND SLANDERS. “The Republican platform adopted at'Chieago is an amazing jumble of ambiguities, inconsistencies, jons, misrepresentations, and ‘slandgrs.’ evas- “The plank in the Republican plat- form respecting taxation is mani- festly insincere. tax burdens during the war, vexatious tax necessarily imposed There are many that should be re- pealed now that the war is over. The big joker in that amazing docuntent is the plank In the Republican plat- form concerning profiteering: ‘We condemn the Democratic Admin- istration for failure impartially to enforce the anti-profiteering laws enacted by the Republican Party.” “Who will be deceived by this ab- surd pretense? The Republican Con- gress enacted no anti-profiteering laws, The amendments to the Food Control Act were suggested by the ‘President and supported by the Dem-~- ocrats in Congress. ‘The President recommended four additional meas- ures to prevent and penalize profi- teering. “All these measures were pigeon- holed, Nothing was proposed by the Republicans in place of them. Is the Democratic Administration to be de- nounced for failing to enforce meas- ures which the Republicans. refused to pass? OMITS ALL MENTION OF THE USE OF MONEY. “Perhaps the most significant omission from the Republican plat- form is in respect to the excessive use of money in Federal elections. In apite of the general indignation aroused by the expenditure of more than one million and one-half dollars the lin behalf of Gen. Wodd and almost a million dollars in behalf of Gov. Low- den and the nomination of a dark horse as the result, no mention of the subject is found in the Chicago. plat- form, The November election, how- ever, will demonstrate the fact that “Ithe Presidency cannot be auctioned, ‘It has been said that partisanship ceases at the water's edge, The polit- teal reeord of the last few months belies this declaration. ‘The Republl- can Party in the Senate and in its recent’ vonvention presents to the world the humiliating spectacle of discordant’ and confiicting factions seoking to discredit the President in his efforts to. maintain the respect and confidence of our Allies. “The plain fact is that the enemies of the league dictated the policy of the majority of the Senate and con- trolled the platform declaration at Chicago, CHIEF ISSUE PLACE IN THE “The chief issue is whether the United States shall contract with other nations to prevent unnecessary wars; whether the waste and sucri- 1S AMERICA'S WORLD, the settlement of Nations, If the Republicans win, small nations which obtain thelr in- dependence through association the war with the Allies will be over- come by their recent enemies pre-war condition of oppre threatened anarchy, Out country wil! irresponsibility which will centuries to c unteract indifferent cause rendering impoasible the of such a struge nded? It is profoundly significan that the movement for Woman Suf frage and for the p: to the of pr of the delegates as the st: fort of the New } ark imma) amendment wi the ‘ tions because that party has earned P, PLATFORM FULL OF ‘straddles’ They promised no substantial relief from the exacting fices of unjustifiable conflicts shall be superseded by qrderly tribunals for disputes among the in and Europe quickly will collapse into its fon and incur the distrust and contempt of her former Allies and our people will yarn wu reputation for selfishness and | require “Will the women of America who gave their men to our uniform piove forcver recurrence as the wac just |'Mited States with the rank of Am- vention of nved- less Wars proceed simultaneously, The three servants. te ratification of the equal te re-establish the friendly relations ure vic- formerly existing between the two untries, | a Fall Out at» Caucus Over League of Nations, but Will Hold Another. SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.—Fftorts to restore harmony among the women delegates to the Democrade National Convention were being made by wom- en leaders to-day before a caucus of fominine delegates and alternates 1s called to order late this afternoon, ‘To-day's meeting follows an attempt- ed caucus held yesterday, which was adjourned after a resolution indors- WOMEN URGE FIVE SPECIAL PLANKS FOR PLATFORM Discussion of Labor, Liquor, Irish and Bonus Resolutions Taken Up This Morning. ing the Cummings keynoto speech was passed, but not before a large rift in the heretofore solid front of harmoay among the women had been made. After the meeting hotel corridors buzzed with the angry talk of some delegates charging “steamroller” meth- ods had been used by Mrs. George Bass, Chairman of the Women's Bu- reau of the Democratic National Com- mittee, The League of Nations issue was the cause’of the clash. Following the Presentation of a blanket indorsement of Chairman Cummings’s keynote ad- dress, Miss Laura Clay of Kentucky gave an impassioned talk, urging the women not to place themselyes on record “in favor of the League of N. tions without safeguard: “Opinion athong the women Is widely divided as to the League of Nations,” Miss Clay said. “Some of the Democratic women favor the ‘League as it stands; others want it with reservations. We should not, at this time, give a blanket indorsement of Cummings’s speech, which favored @n out and out indorsement of the League without reservations.” Mrs. George Bass announced that the meeting had not been called for a debate on the League of Nations and called for a vote on the resolu- tlon of commendation. The resolu- tion phssed with a few dissenting votes, but the seeds of serious dis- sent had been sown. Among the delegates who urged oa free discussion of the League should be allowed was Mra. M. L. T. Sidden of Portland, Ore. But further parley was prevented by the motion of Mrs. Percy Pennebacker, former President of the General Federation of Women’s Organizations, that the meeting be adjourned, To-day leaders were striving to soothe the ruffled feelings of many delegates who charged thelr execu- tives “with controlling’ yesterday's meeting: ‘caine DELAY IN MURPHY PLEADING. Three Menthe’ Con in Glucose 1 Former Judge W. M. K. Olcott as spokesmen for the counsel for Tam- many leader Charies F, Murphy, Ar- thur J. Baldwin, John A, McCarthy, Assistant District Attorney James BE. Smith, Ernest Walden, Vice President of the Corn Products Company and the Corn Products Company as a cor- poration, asked Justice Weeks in tho Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court to-day to adjourn the arraignment of the defendants for pleading for two weeks, Judge Olcott said the lawyers had not had time to prepare their motions Decause of the intricate nature of the indictment and the fact that Murphy was in San Francisco and Baldwin waa in Gersaany, They are charged With conspiracy to defraud the Gov- ernment of taxes and coerce N. Hinrtog. to drop his ‘litigation’ again Murphy and the others, Justice Weeks set the pleadings for October 4 without objection trom. Spe- " Attorney-General Rand. It was explained that Justice Weeks | golng to Belgium next month to um- pire at the Olymple games and will not be back untll late in September, Mextco's Pen WASHINGTON, June 29.—Fernan- do Iglesias Calderon, appointed High Commissioner of Mexico to the t | bansador, arrived here yesterday, He ‘was accompanied by his sister, Tulla Iglesias Calderon, Nis sveretary and (Special from a Staff Correspondent . of The Evening World. SAN FRANCISCO, June 2.—The Committee on Resolutions went {nto executive session at the Auditorium for a short half hour last night. Then United States Senator John G. Nugent of Idaho came out to the crowd walt- ing in, the corridor and announced that Senator Glass had been made chairman and a steering committee had ‘een appointed consisting of Senators Nugent and Patrick Harri- son of Missouri and National Com- mitteeman Patrick Quinn of Rhode Island to arrange the order of hear- ings. ‘The meeting was then opened to the public with a ten-minute time IMmit on each speech and not nfore than three speakers on each subject. Mrs. George Bass of Chicago was the first of several women speakers offering planks drawn by the Na- tional League of ‘Women Voters. These consisted of: 1. Child welfare, adequate appro- priation for a Children’s Bureau and a Federal programme for maternity and infancy care, 2, A Federal Department of Educa- tion, headed by a Secretary of Bdu- cation in the Cabinet and an increase in teachers’ salaries. %. Government supervision of mar- kets, é&c., to reduce the cost of the home. 4. Promotion of the welfare of working women by establishing a Woman's Bureau in the Department of Labor, freeing the Federal Civil Service from sex discrimination, &o, 5. Independent citizenship tor mag- ried women. Among the women who spoke on these topics were Mra. Williams of Tennessee and Mrs. Pennybacker of Texas, Gov, Stewart of Montana spoke {n favor of reclamation of arid lands and flood control planks, Bainbridge Colby seemed much in- terested in a plank offered by Dele- @ate John B, Colpoys of Washington for granting full Governmental privi- leges to the residents of the District of Columbia, State Senator Cotillo of New York pleaded for support of Italy's claim to Fiume, and to estab- lish peace on the Adriatic. Oscar’ H, Waters, colored delegate from New York, desired @ plank of equal rights for the negro and the condemnation of lynching and mob rule generally. When the hearings were resumed At 9.30 to-day the labor, liquor, Irish taken up. oo HEINEKEN TO SEE BENSON. Philip ©. Heineken, director genera’ of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company, accompanied by two direc= tors, a secretary and a naval construc- tor, arrived to-day on the Holland- America Line steamship Nicuw Am- sterdam, Air, Heineken sald he had come to have a conference with Admi- Fal Benson of the Shipping Board in reference to the ships of the line located to American companies and also to see if arrangements could be made to rent pler and ternilnal factil- He declined to commit himself to an opinion aa to the future of German shipoins He added that Germans had uty to perform 4 seeing that the Sontri itions made by Germany to commerce be freed from what he ented cloud of misapprehension which distorts the picture to our prejudje: His special task is and soldiers’ bonus planks were to be FOOTBALL GAME, SAYS EDGREN Old-Time Delegates Have Discarded Prince Alberts and “Six Guns,” While Women Bring Flower Garden Touch. By Robert Bdgren. SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.—For real enthusiasm give me a Democratic Convention. It has a Yale-Princeton football game beaten, In Yale Bowl they start the snake dance after the game, but in the great auditorium in San Francisco the Democrats began snake dancing before the kick-off. In many ways the Civic Audi- torlum is like Yale Bowl. The huge! stone building has entrances on all sides, with lettered and numbered passageways leading directly into the seat sections, The hall can be filled in a few minutes without the/ slightest’ crowding or confusion and Mf the audience doesn't like a speech {t can reach the open alr just as quickly, The ground floor is larger than that of Madison Square Garden, and the galleries slope back on all sides like the seat sections of a foot- | pant stadium. There are no posts or pillars to obstruct the view, the roof being held up by tremendous arches that cross the building from sfde to side. ‘The crowd that came into the con- vention hall was for all the world like a crowd at a big Eastern foot- ball game, a well-dressed, prosperous gathering. Inside the hall the scene, was indescribably beautiful. On the walls were draped thousands of American banners. I> the ‘lofty dome hundreds of electric lights sent a soft glow down on the floor below. And that floor when the crowd gath- ered was like a flower garden. Everywhere were groups of ladies, both in the roped off space where the delegates sat and in the seat sections reserved for spectators. FAIR SEX BRINGS COLOR TO CONVENTION, All the colors of California were there, and the colors of the visiting East, There were hats like clusters of purple desert verbenas, hats like beds of hellotrope and violets, little splotches of rose pink, of chrysan- themum yellow, of glowing carmine, ‘There's no question about it, the fair sex bas brought color into the dull gray of political life. I never saw anything quite like this Democratic party, In the old days all the men in this Western country and from the South wore broad brimmed felt hats or gray Sfetsons and long-tailed Prince Albert coats. Most of them wore boots, and some had a bulge over the right hip pocket that might indicate elther . flask or a six gun. But times have changed. Apparently the boys from Texas and down in Alabama and from out Nevada way get their clothes from little old New York, They wear the latest in straw hats. Some of them are Palm Beach clad. Their hip pockets lie as flat as a tourist's pocketbook. In the old days there was quite @ ttle zip and rep in the start of any political event. I remember one Western delegate at a sage brush convention who made an impassioned speech urging the passage of a reso- lution that it should be no erime to shoot @ cartoonist on sight. He had a long, drooping black mustache of the pattern popular when Bret Harte made California famous, and I had drawn him with the mustache neatly ted at the ends with pink ribbons, You can't do that any more, The modern delegate is clean shaven, pink smooth and immaculate. Also, 1 ‘carries is a founfhin pen, | torlum, | As I remember, lacross the brim, and boots. a straw hat with striped band, “Where's the old artillery?" 1 askod. CHEWING GUM REPLACES HIS OLD “ARTILLERY.” He grinned; drew o package of chow- ——— he isn't likely to make any gun play for @ cartoonist, for the only weapon ho I happened to run across one of the "| old timers in the lobby of the audl- he used to | pack two guns and sometimes a knits, He wore a Stetson hat two feet wide When 1 bumped into him he was in a whlte Paim Beach suit, and on his head was a blue and red ing gum from his hip pocket ard pulled the pocket inside out to show that it had no more deadly weapon, Yea, times have changed. San Francisco has changed, too. It used to be the custom to zigzag along the route to any political gathering of elther party, Zigzagsing consisted of | progressing along the street without | missing a chance to accumflate liquid refreshment on either side. It isu’: done any more. Hardly worth while to cross the street to get another choco- late soda, * Now a delegate gocs straight to the convention by tax! or trolley. San Francisco streets are wide, Where the convention is being held, in the splendid auditorium near the new City Hall, a dozen wide boulevards ven- tre. All along these streets long be- fore noon long rows of cars were parked. On the sidewalks the con- gestion of delegates and spectators marched. Here and there was the crash of a brass band and the boom-| ing of a bass drum, a rolling cheer, a shrill yell for some far away State, a campaign song. . Outside the hall posts had been sunk into the pavement of the street, and wire ropes were stretched to} keep the crowd from rushing the guarded entrances. But there was ny need for a fence. There was no dis- order. The people strolled in, scat- tered to their lettered gateways, They passed batteries of moving picture cameras, grinding away steadily, In- side, they were ushered quickly to thelr seats. SEEMS LIKE OPENING OF PEACE CONFERENCE. There may be a battle impending In this convention, but the opening day was like a peace conference. Everybody was happy. When the del- egates had taken their seats the sec- tions held by the different States and Territories could be picked out from the gallery by the big square white signs at the tops of forest pine poles, Somewhere back of the plat- form a band began to play the na- tional anthem, and all the great crowd on the main floor and in the gul- leries stood up until it was fin- ished, Then the band played “Dixie.” Be- side me stood a tall old timer, turned around with glistening eyes, ‘Ien't Wt great?’ he said, “My name's Hooper. I haven't missed a Democratic Convention for forty ythe wide He} years, My father voted the Demo- cratic tleket all hie life, Hager gecoanaiog wn Aare Deuaate. father did too. He cast his vote for| Cleveland in 1884 when he was. 102! years old, walked down to the polls | as straight as a soldier and dropped | his baHot invaghe box just the way he always did Down in front marines stood on guardpn the platform. ‘All over the ball there was a rustling and a stirr- ing about. The Temporary Chairman went through the opening formall- ties, and ashe closed @here was a fluttering under the are Ights in the dome, and down fluttered a great American flag that stretched across auditorium from aide to side, There was a wild cheering then, everybody up. DEAFENING CHEERS WILSON PORTRAIT. The flag hung for a few moments and then gently lifted to, disclose @ big painting of President Woodrow Wilson that had been hung across the big pipe organ. A roaring, deat- ney, crash of cheering. Songs start- ed. Up sprang the delegates around the State banners, struggling to see who would be the first tu hold them aloft, Hats, handkerchi flags were waving in air. Then the Nevaua bamner began dancing along the a.sie, upheld by a big raw boned Ne- yadan. Oklahoma followed close be- hind, Then came South Dakota, Idaho, Texas, Alaska, Oregon. One after another the banner fc‘) into line, the State delegates snake- dancing in weaving rows behind, New York, the District of Columbia and Iowa were still seated. But there was a swirl, a confusion, @ scramble, and young Roosevelt had the New York uanner and was in ine, and the others followed, All the banners were moving now, the dele- gates dancing after them in a long single golumn thut stretched out until it surrounded the delegate section. Around and around the big floor the snake-dance went while the crowd cheered. And the band began to play “What the Hell Do We Care.” Wild hur- rhs now, shrill yells, from all the Solid South. More waving, fluttering flaga, frantic spéctators. ‘Confusion unending for a long, lohg time. It's the popular custom, I believe, to‘state that these bursts last fifteen minutes. Perhaps this did. The Chairman pounded and pounded with his gavel, and at every ‘ime the gavel could be heard it was drowned out in a new burst of yell But at last the dancers marched back to their places. A bald-headed old gentleman who was up in front, near the platform, cing an Irish jig all by himself and with all his might, sat down. The uproar died out, rose again and dwindled away to silence. The business of the conven- tion was about to begin. After that, through the routine of squaring away for uction, everything was decorous. At every motion there was a roaring “Aye,” and invariably the lone comedian shouted “No" in turn. When John I, Martin, Honorary Sergeant at Arms in all National Democratic Conyentions for twenty- four years, was appointed, there was a burst of cheering again, It quieted down, The delegates were milling. From the gallery I could see Bourke Cockran's big white shock of hair bobbing about, The crowd grew quiet And then came Chairman Homer 8. Cummings up the aisle and into his place. to deliver his hour-long ad- dress, to hold the crowd tense, in- tent, until his last tribute to the party and its great leaders started again the tumult of wild applause that crashed against the huge dome and sent the myriad banners fluttering as GREET My grand- |r they wished to join, BARLEY sUGAR CUTS—One our ally of Hard Candies, piitve: wets lone ef plewsit Kegular ery uti BOSTON BROKEN CANDY — Another fa- flavors. The wrown ups like 29¢ em too. 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The city is doing everything to make its visitors’ stay as pleasant as it can, Sunday the Mayor invited the delegates and members of the press to his place in the country, provided automobiles, lunch and everything, and yesterday morning a 2,000 passenger steamer was put at ; the disposal of the members of the \convention and thetr families for « | two-and-a-half-hour trip around the |bay. In the afternoon bunches of flowers arrived fur all the delegates and newspaper correspondents, sent by the San Francisco Citizens’ Com- mittee. | In Chicago, after the first few days of the Republican convention, the delegates had that “let's nominate some one, anyway, and go home” feeling. Here, however, most of the delegates would be delighted if the convention would last three weeks. for nobody wants to leave, Long before the hour set for the convention opening all the police in San Francisco seemed to be gathered outside the Auditorium and along the two fences which had been put up to hold back the crowds. How- er, at 11 A. M. there was only a fair sized stream of taxies drawing up to the gates, and a couple of straggling processions of women wandering with "lift the blockade on itussia” bnnners. The reason was that the crowd had been trickling Into the conven- {ion hall since early morning, so there was no rush hour, The bullding in- tide was jammed with a crowd, fill- ing every seat. The scene was a cross between a big fight night at Madison Square Garden and n Har- vard and Yale football game, ‘The crowd packed on long rows of wooden seats In the main body of the hall, the steep sloping gallaries black with people, the roar of voices, the blinding circle of electric bulbs in the middle of the ceiling, lighting the “ring” through an atmosphere blue with tobacco smoke, and finally the ropes stretched between gray wooden posts inclosing the speakers’ platform, all were reminiscent of a prize fight. On the other hand, the cheering, yelling, struggling crowds, the way ing pennants on which Palmer’ name boldly appeared, the vari-col- ored balloons floating above the heads of the crowd, the singing and the band all reminded the spectators of a big intercollegiate game. Anchored ¢o New York for forty odd years! Four convenient moor- ings! Moneyback, if anything’s not ship-shape. Plenty men’s suits, $50 and $60. Youth’s $45 up. Boys’ Norfolks, $15 up. 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