CHICAGO, June 5 (by Associated
Press).—The Chicago Coliseum, the
historic building where the Republi
can National Convention of 1920 will
be held, beginning next Tuesday, has
^ history rich in political interest.
Five national political conventions
have been held within its walls, a
record unsurpassed by any building in
tbc United States.
Every four years since 1904 the Re
publican party has met in the Colise
um to nominate its candidates for
president and vice-president, and in
1912 the Progressive party also met
to nominate Colonel Theodore Roose
velt for president.
The Coliseum was completed in
1906. It was designed as a model
convention hall and erected on the
site of the old Libby War Prison Mu
seum. at Wabash avenue and Fif
teenth 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 ave
nue side of the structure. It was
built of stone, brick, steel and glass
and is 40 feet long. 70 feet wide, and
cost nearly $1,000,000. It has a wide
balcony extending around three of the
walls, and this has been amplified
this year’s convention by the ad
dition of a second balcony on the
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As a result the seating capacity,
13.187, is the greatest in the building’s
history. Only 12,400 were seated at
the 1916 convention.
The main floor of the Coliseum will
seat 9-400 delegates, alternates, press
representatives and spectators. There
will be 100 doorkeepers, 200 ushers
and 2,000 sergeant-at-arms- All the
ushers and doorkeepers will be over
seas soldiers, sailors and marines,
^working with military discipline under
the direction of former army officers.
By this system the national commit
tee hopes to avert the over-crowding
of four years ago when hundreds of
persons stormed the doors, force
their way passed the untrained door
keepers and preempted seats for
which they held no tickets.
The speaker’s platform at the south
end of the building will provide seats
Tor the officers of the convention and
members of the Republican National
committee. Behind this is a raised
platform with 2,000 seats for the use
of presidential candidates and other
distinguished guests. On either side
of the speaker’s platform, extending
across the building is a press section
containing 575 seats for working news
nanpr nipn
Facing the speakers are the seats
for the 984 delegates and an equal
number of alternates. This section is
enclosed by a heavy rail to hold back
the crowds of frenzied spectators who
frequently, during moments of intense
enthusiasm, attempt to storm the
spe&ked’s stand. The rest of the main
floor and all the balconies will be
given over to visitors.
Tickets for spectators have been
divided among the national commit
teemen from each state, in proportion
to the state representation in the
convention, with the exception of a
block of about 2,500 seats, which go
to the Chicago convention committee,
which financed the convention ar
rangements. With less than 10-000
visitor’s seats to be distributed, the
committeemen had received more
than 75,000 requests for tickets weeks
in advance of the convention.
The Chicago Convention committee
of which Fred W. Upham, Republican
national treasurer is chairman,
raised $150,000 to bring the conven
tion to Chicago. The high cost of
everything has hit the convention.
Music, which cost $2,800 for the en
tire convention in 1916, costs $1,000
a day for a band of 50 pieces this year.
Other expenses are in proportion.
^The Republican National committee
moved its executive offices to the
Coliseum several weeks in advence of
the convention. Adjoining the main
building is an annex connected with
the Coliseum proper by several broad
arches and entrances. Here are lo
cated the executive offices and ad
ministrative headquarters, a tempor
ary hospital in charge of 100 Chicago
physicians, and. in the basement, a
telegraph and telephone room where
scores of special wires have been in
stalled for the use of the news gath
ering associations and newspapers
which will cover the convention.
The annex also boasts a branch
postoffice to facilitate speedy collec
tion and distribution of mail to the
convention officials and numerou*
committee rooms for the Nationa
lommittee and various committees of
he convention.
In the decoration of the conven
;ion hall the managers have abided
ay the long established custom of re
lying exclusively on profuse display
Df the American flag. Four years ago
:his custom was departed from in the
use of gold and white bunting, but the
20st was found excessive this year
D. R. Hall, superintendent of the Col
iseum who is in charge of the decora
tions, used hundreds of big and little
American flags to completely cover
the girders and iron framework of the
building.
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