THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. SUNDAY, MAT THE CII1 OF FLOUR And How It Will Take Care of the Thousands of Con vention Visitors. THE PLANS LOOK WELL. Low fiailroad Bates and the Big Boom Have Sent Land Way Up. KSIDB THE MAMMOTH BUILDING. LoEEinjrCamp Restaurant and Other Feat ures That Are Novel. XOT A FKOXTIER TOWN EI AST MEANS rcoRR:roNDzvcE or the cikpatch.i MnwrEAPOLls, May 20. "Can Minneap olis take care of the crowd at the coming Xational Conven tion?" I asked this ques tion of a rather rough looking Minneapolis citizen who sat oppo cite me in the sleeper on my way from Chi cago to Minneapolis. "Take care of the convention!" was the reply. ""Well. I fehonld smilel Min neapolis can take care of two such crowds CT and not feel it By G.JL mTn i"fim' Com- mittee. Gingernati ! you peo pie of the East can't understand the pos sibilities of the "West. "We work quick out here and the bigger the thing is the bet ter we like it!" "But how can you feed and sleep such a crowd?" I asked. "There is no trouble about that," was the Minneapolis man's reply. "We have plenty of potatoes and turnips, and we can haul in enough straw for bedding. We can take care of them." And with that the citizen burst into a horse laugh and re peated, "Let 'em come. By Gingernati, we can take care of 'em!" 2o Trouble About Accommodations. This, of course, is facetious. It em bodies, however, the idea that some people of the effete East have of the wild and woolly West an idea which will be changed after they come to the convention. Minne apolis has as good lood and as fine hotels as any city of the East. She is really ready for the conven tion, and she could jj. Bm jmgaa chalr take care of it if it man Finance Com were called together mittee. to-day. I have spent some time in looking into her preparations, and I predict that the delegates and visitors to this convention will be better cared lor than any convention in our history. The people are making the matter a per sonal one, and the town has a city pride 7 to v Bracketl. "THERE I FOUND THIS CREDIT." Sliakespeare s Twelfth Night How many a man has had to congratulate himself with these words as, looking around his well-furnished house, his mind reverts to szeec-s-s: THE QUESTION OF FOLDING BEDS VS. BEDROOM SETS IS AGITATED AS MUCH AS EVER. THE PROS MAKE A POINT IN FAVOR OF THEIR STYLE. THE CONS EQUALLY GOOD ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF THEIR FAVORITE. IT'S FOR YOU TO DECIDE WHETHER IT SHALL BE A FOLDING BED OR A BEDROOM SET, OR BOTH. A FULL SET FOR ONE ROOM AND A FOLDING BED FOR ANOTHER. that is making it do all it can to make the delegates comfortable. Minneapolis has some ot the finest residences of the United States, and a number of its rich men, I am told, intend to move their families ont to the hotels on Lake Minnetonka and to give up their houses to some of the delegates. The people are throwing open their homes to the convention as though it was a relig ious synod or conference, and increased hotel and rooming accommodations have been provided. The crowd will be a large one, and I can best give some idea of it by re peating a chat I had vesterday with Colonel McCrory, the Secretary of the Committee on Arrangements for the Convention. A Convention Crowd of 75,000 People. Said Colonel McCrory! "We expeot to have at least 75,000 strangers here at the convention. You ,,:f"2 -v have no idea how Ps''. our applications for Jnf ouarters are comincr in. Some of our people expect the number will reach 150,000. but it will undoubtedly be one of the biggest con ventions ever held. The States of Ohio and Iowa will empty themselves out here in June, and we will have delegations TT. B. Steele, Chairman from 6g0 Republican Accommodation Com- clubs Jn ohio aone mxtUe- Suppose 10 come from each club. This will make 6,800, and we will have a bigger delegation from Iowa. The Iowa men have been here to look up accommodations, and they are organizing to come in crowds. "We have had delegations here from all of the "Western States, and Illinois is organizing to bring a big crowd here. There will be a single club of 400 from Philadelphia, and the States of Oregon and Washington will be largely repre sented." ., 3 .,,., "What are the railroads going to do?" I asked. "They will make one fare for the round trip and some of the roads will do much better. For instance, a rate will be made which will bring people here from Port land, Me., and take them back at about half a cent a mile, or ?13 SO lor the trip of nearly 3,000 miles. What Low Railroad Rates Mean. "These reductions will bring enormous crowds and the rush to the Northwest will take advantage of the low rates, and the number of summer visitors, which we al ways have, will add to the list There are now thousands 01 peo ple who come here to spend the summer on account of the climate and our lakes, and the tide of emigration has turned here since the big crops. We expect thousands of farmers and men who want to invest in If orthwestern lands. These are com inz now. and vou would be surprised at the Mrs. Mayor TTiniton, change that has taken Ircsident oftheWom plac em' Cleaning Club. "Lands in the Dxkotas and this State have nearly doubled since those big crops, and the prospect is that these crops will continue. The outlook for this year is far better than it was lor 1891, and we are going to have a boom. I got an order from a man in Russia last week to.buy him 100,000 acres of land, and I bought him 75,000 acres at prices ranging from 58 to ?20 per acre. At this time last year I could have bought the same land at from ?5 to $12 per acre. These would-be investors will increase our crowd, and, all told, I shall not be surprised if we have more than 75,000." "Well, suppose you have that many; can you take car: of them?" now They Figure on Sleeping Rooms. "Yes, without doubt," was the replv. "Our present hotels and their annexes will accommodate 25,000, and we can take care of another 25,000 in our boarding houses aod private families. Then they oun go out to m ?2y '& tjS) I ISfW' SS Pi J! mem Hw THE G-TJiq-T ZFOZQZDIIsra- BED. Not a store in the city shows a larger assortment than we do of the various styles, the maker of each of which thinks he has struck the acme of perfection in his particular make. We show a handsome Folding Bed in Solid Oak, with large mirror front, at S40. SOLE AGENTS FOR THE "GUNN" FOLDING BED, Illustration of which we present. We candidly think it the best yet made. Here are some of its good points : & Base of operation. Does not wear out the carpet. Leaves the tf Cabinet or Mirror in front when bed is down. No springs to get $ out of order. Best of ventilation. Perfectly safe. Easily cleaned. -Jf In the Gunn Combination you can have anything in Furniture, the various styles making appropriate pieces for any room. It is a really handsome piece of Furniture, open or closed, and the nearest perfection yet invented. We present the entire line of styles, and shall be pleased to shov them to you. SEE THE "GUNN" And then buy any make you like, but SEE THE "GUIr ipiRST1535 the big hotels at Lake Minnetonka In 20 minutes, and these, together with St Paul, which is no further off and is reached at a 10-cent fare bv electric and steam cars, can accommodate'25,000 more. We have al ready gotten accommodations for something like 15,000 who have applied, and our abil ity to leed the crowd is beyond question. We make, lor instance, 35,000 barrels of flour a day at our mills here, and this would make enough bread to feed New York and Brooklyn and leave some thousands of bar rels over for cakes and pies. We have big meat packing establishments here, and you can get anything to eat in Minneapolis that yon can get at any place in the United States." There will be a great many newspaper correspondents at the convention, and all the big papers of the United States have ar ranged for quarters. The accommodations in this respect will be better than at any previous convention, and more than 250 of working journalists have already applied for quarters. The Chairman of the Press Commit tee is ex-Senator GiL Pearce.who is now ed itor of the Minneapolis Tribune, and the Secretary is J. Newton Nind, one of the well-known newspaper men of the North west Where the Newspaper Men Will Be. He tells me that there will be no trouble about accommodations, and that the New York Life Insurance building will accom modate 200. This building is to be given up entirely to the press, with the exception of three rooms which havebeenreserveafor the president of the company who is coming to 1 3 S3? -IlKrr n Press Headquarters. the convention with his family. The build ing is within ten minutes' walk of the con vention hall, and it is easily accessible by street cars. It is one of the many fine buildings of Minneapolis, and it would be a credit to any city in the country. It is'an 11-story structure of granite and pressed brick, and it covers nearly one-half an acre of ground. Its roof is higher than the spire of the average country church, and it cost about $1,000,000. In its porticoes are the largest blocks of stone used in any building in America, and the 200 odd rooms which are to be given up to the correspondents are finished in cherry and are reached by lour passenger elevators. Each of these rooms will be supplied with beds and tables and all conveniences tor writing, and in no room will there be more than two beds or four men. Some of the newspaper men will have rooms to themselves, and the prices have been fixed according to the number in a room. The price of a room with one bed for one person will be $4; less, if two occupv a room with one bed in it, and still less if there are four in a room with two beds. There will be a restaurant in the building and telegraphic arrangements. Itrports May Be Dictated. The Press Committee is trying to provide a corps of tested stenographers and type writers for the correspondents. Many of the best newspaper men of to-day do not s&i r ' ' write at all. They dictate their reports to shorthand men or directly to the type writer. The Press Committee is now test ing the pretty typewriter girls of St Paul and here, and tney are also experimenting with the various shorthand men, so that such correspondents as want such assistance can be supplied with efficient help at once on application to the committee. In company with the Hon. R. G. Evans, of the National Republican Committee, and Colonel McCrory, I took a look this after noon at the hall where the convention is to be held. It is not lar from the hotels, and 5 1-I.t CHS ?&CTTCIU Interior View of HalU is reached by the electric cars and is within a few minutes' walk from the. railway sta tions. The building itself is worth notice. It covers nearly three acres of ground, and has within half' an acre a base area equal to that of the Capitol at Washington. It is built of brick and stone, and its walls are from two to four leet thick. You must im agine hundreds of flags floating from its roof and from its towers. Yon mnst drape bunting over the doors and along the win dows and on the wooden stairways leading up to the second story on every side, and you get an idea of the hall as it will be within two weeks. Room for Twelve Thousand People. The interior arrangements are now about completed. The hall proper is on the sec ond floor, and it consists of a full acre of spaoe built up inide the building and en tered by about two-score entrances. This hall is in the form of a square with seats rising from a central space of about half an acre, backward on the four sides until they reach the wall. Above these seats there is a wide gallery which also slopes upward with its seats in tiers, so that the view of every man in the hall cannot be obstructed by the people in front ot him., The hall will seat about 12,000 people. The seats are wooden chairs arranged in sections and numbered. These chairs are nailed to boards, and there is about three feet of space allowed to each spectator. The acre of space in the center is for the dele gates, and this is seated with opera chairs, and in the orchestra circle, back of these, are seats for the alternates. Around the space reserved for the delegates is a little wooden fence three feet high, and directly in front ot the delegates there is a rostrum of the same height extending out in the middle perhaps six feet into the delegates' space. Upon this arm of the rostrum the nominating speeches will be made, and di rectly back of it will be the seat of the President of the convention. At the right and left are the quarters for the working newspaper men. There are enough of seats to accommodate about 300. The newspaper men will write on poplar tables, and each man will have plenty of room. Wonderful Acoustic Properties. There will be pneumatic tubes connecting with these tables by which the dispatches can be shot down into the telegraph offices and the telegraph arrangements are already in. The acoustic properties of this hall are perfect It was here that the great Chris tian Endeavor Convention of a year or so ago was held, and a large number of tne speakers at this convention were girls who read their reports in an ordinary tone of voice and were heard in every part of the hall. At my request Mr. Evans, the Na tional committeeman, spoke standing from the rostrum in an ordinary conversational HBB tone.and hJfcvoice. could be heard in the gal leries up against the wall. The hall is perfectly ventilated and thor oughly lighted. There is a glass roof of about an acre directly over the delegates, and this can be raised here and there. The lighting is an important matter, for it will be remembered at the conventtonthat nomi nated Hayes some trouble arose with the gas, which prevented the convention from meet ing at night, and thereby brought about Hayes' nomination. The situation was such that Blaine would have surely been nomi nated, and Secretary Charles Foster told me not long as-o that it was the failure of the gas that made Haves President of the United States. It is not generally known, but this failure was not accidental, but in tentional, and the man who was in charge of the hall made a misstatement in regard to the situation. It's Lighted by Electricity. There is no chance "of such a things hap pening at Minneapolis. This hall is lighted by electricity, ana there are more than 1,200 incandescent lights and 150 arclights in the convention building. In addition to this the hall and building are equipped with gas, so that if one thing fails the other can be turned on, and there can be no fraud about the lights. The building is thoroughly fire proof, and the exits are suoh that it could be emptied in six minutes if a fire should break out. There are 28 staircases leading to the galleries, and about the only wood work in the building is that which has been put up to make it available for the conven tion. The construction of this building will give you some idea of how they manage things in the Northwest It cost 325,000, and it is one of the largest and most per manent exposition buildings in Ihe world. It is thoroughly solid and a large part of tne interior and the floor beams are of iron. The floors are three inches thick and there are three sets of floors. There are alto gether about seven acres of floor space in the building, and it is, all told, a structure which in Washington or New York would consume from six months to two years in building. It Rose In Eighty-Four Days. It was built here in 84 days. Minneapolis took a notion in January, 1886, that it would have an Exposition, and on the fol lowing May the corner stone was laid and a number of advance agents were sent out by the town to Europe to gather up art works Senator Washbume's Residence. and other exhibits. Before August was well under way the building was Hone, and by the last of the month the exhibits were in and a very fine art collection had been brought here from Europe. The Exposi tion will be held this year, beginning on August 31 and closing September 24. And I am told that it will have an average daily attendance of at least 12,000 people. There are some curious things abont this convention that will be interesting to the visitor. The band, for instance, will be seated on a platform right above the dele gates. This platform is hung by iron rods between the great posts which support the convention roof, and the music will be fur nished without attracting attention or tak -REFRIGERATORS You can't do without one much longer, for in this climate they are not only a luxury but a necessity. Neither are they a costly necessity; they save more than they cost. That is, the kind we keep do. They save your food and your ice bills. We have an immense line, embracing every common sense and practical make. Our prices will demonstrate the wisdom of coming to us to get one. BABY : The weather will soon be too hot to lug the baby around on your arm. Bad for you and worse for the child. Gee a Baby Carriage. An end less assortment, from the plainest to the mast fancy. Give a sufficient price to insure getting one that will prove serviceable, and then add to that all the fancy you think you oujht to afford. Don't buy a mean carriage because it's cheap. jrs.7 '. tnt pn !'i 1-ri.l7:aiK, scssju- , in VISIT OUR CARPET ROOMS. It will pay you. Out of the hundreds of patterns we show you can't fail to make a selection that will please. CHINA AND JAPANESE MATTINGS. An elegant assortment. A great improvement on the designs of previous yea rs, and the best in quality we everold. ing up space which could otherwise be used for seating spectators. The convention hall will have a finished appearance. Minne apolis has gotten an army of decorators at work and even the posts whioh heretofore have been painted a dirty blue, and which looked rather unsightly have been covered with bronze. The Pillars Will Be in Its Way. These posts are twice as big around as a telegraph pole and the chief objection to them is that there are so many of them in the hall. They cannot, however, obstruot the view for any great length of time as the speaking will be all over the hall and they can come in the way of only a few of the spectators. There will be a restaurant In the convention building, but this will prob ably be only for the delegates, the employes ana tne newspaper men. The queerest restaurant is one just out side the convention ground. This is to be called the Logging Camp and it is to con sist of a big loz cabin or a number of cabins built after the Style of the logging camps of Michigan and the Northwest, and here a regular lumberman's dinner will be served. There will be coffee and corn bread and baoon, and this dinner promises to be both popular and curious. Minneapolis is a great lumber town, and bv this it calls attention to its immense lumber interests. It is, in fact, the greatest lumber producing point in the world at least Minneapolis people say so. By the last census it had 16,500,000 worth of lumber a year, and this is 50 per cent more than that ot any other city in the country. Sawing Up the Logs. One of the sights to the convention vis itors will be these immense booms of logs on the Mississippi, and the sawmills work ing at them. These sawmills work day and night, and they use electricity to light the mills at night They take up the largest of pine logs, run them "into the mill, and with one sawing turn them into boards bv great gang saws which will cut a number of boards at a time. Minneapolis, in fact, cuts about 350,000,000 feet of lumber every year with these mills, and she turns out enough boards to make a boardwalk a foot wide twice around the world, taking in sea and land, every year. The convention visitors will be aston ished at how these people do business in the Northwest. Minneapolis has as fine buildings as you will find in any of the big citiesof the East, and it has a half dozen bnildings which would be a credit to New York. The most striking thing, however, to a stranger about Minneapolis is its im mense elevators. These rise in every direc tion, and they are, as It were, monuments for this great grain center. One of these elevators hold 2,500,000 bushels of grain and the 21 elevators which are now in oper tion here, hold more than 16,000,000 bushels. The most of the grain stored in them is wheat, and the immense crops of last fall have packed them to bursting. The Streets and the Street Cars. I am surprised at the electric street rail ways of Minneapolis. There are herein this city and in St Paul 284 miles of street railways under oue management and tbey run these cars by electricity. The over head wire is used and the cars go as fast as 12 miles an hour. There is an electric line between here and St Paul and there are lines rnnning out to the suburbs and you can go to St Paul lor a dime and to any place throughout the city for a nickel. Speaking of board walks, Minneapolis has as well paved streets as you will find in any city of the country. There are 40 miles of such streets here. And the most of these are made of granite and cedar blocks. The cedar blocks are the most popular except where heavy hauling is required in which case granite is used. The city extends over a large territory and like many Western towns, its corporation limits reach out into the country. It is ten mile3 long and six miles wide and as its area is, all told, about 54 miles, it has plenty of room to grow. It has many residences as fine as that of Sen ator Washburn, which is here shown. Frank G. Carpenter. Wimderhere Awhtsoi. at Mamaus & Son's 539 Penn avenue. Tel. 1972. Thsu BUGGIES. .V!i.;i M An Evenness of Weave and Finish Not Before Attained. 12 l2c -TO- 45 Cents PER YARD. A iyK til OR, FOUR YEARS ON A NEW BEDFORD WHALER. , WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH BY CAPTAIN J. H. B. ROBINSON. The Straightforward Tale of a Plain Sailor's Actual Adventures on a Cruise in the Stormiest Seas of the World. CHAPTER XIL AMONG THE KANAKAS. For several days after the death of our third mate we were busy cleaning the ship. We usually scrubbed the decks at daylight and finished all necessary work before the sun was high. For several hours in the middle of the day we performed no labor, on account of the intense heat, and we im proved the time to lay in a supply of lime juice for use in other latitudes. Limes are to be had in abundance, and each man filled every available receptacle with lime juice, which is a certain protection from scurvy, besides being pleasant to drink with water as a beverage. One day a number of the natives were in the steerage. I had given my "flem" an old cap, which delighted him beyond meas ure, although a more useless present could not have been made, as they use no head covering on the hottest days. As we were seated around the steerage on chests and inverted buckets, while natives sat cross-legged on the floor. I performed a simple sleight-of-hand trick, thinking to amuse andmvstifr them. The mystfficatlon was complete, but in stead of deriving any amusement therefrom they rushed on deck "to a man, shouting: "Covey-coveyl Too much devil I" It required all my powers of persuasion to induce them to come near me until at last I was forced to explain my trick to them, and even then they looked upon me with distrust for a long time. On the first day I had liberty ashore my "flem," whose name I found was Manassa, met me on the beach and escorted me to his hut. where he entertained me in a most hos pitable manner. He placed before me chicken, eggs and the choicest fruits the island afforded, and tried in every way to testify his delight at my visit and his de sire to place his earthly possessions at my disposal. It was on this occasion I first saw a Kan aka ascend a cocoanut tree. I expressed a desire for a green cocoanut, which in their language is called "neo," and my host de liberately Walked to the foot of a tall tree without a limb for at least 30 feet, and placing his hands and the soles of his feet on either side of the tree walked, rather than climbed, to the top without any ap parent distress. I tried it I will only say that I failed signally, to the enjoyment of the natives present The green nuts are not harder than a pumpkin, and it is only necessary to pierce the outer fiber with any sharp substance and a most delicions drink is readily obtained. There are no springs on this island and all the fresh water is obtained during rains, when it is saved in huge hollow logs. The THE LARGEST CREDIT HOUSE - mm THE CITYX Invites you within its portals. An establishment where the needs of tha Mechanic, the Clerk or the Millionaire are all provided for. The name is now a household word. KEE0BE DINING ROOM FURNITURE. The Dining Room can be made and should be made one of tha most attractive and inviting rooms in the house. It's not alone a place to eat and run, but a place of social converse. Our prices on the furniture needed for the room will help you to make it what it ought to be. CHAIRS TABLES SIDEBOARDS Not another such an assortment in the city, and our prices can't bo matched. The newest and most artistic designs can be found here as . soon as they appear on the market. An elegant line of 1 I O Q II O " g 1 1 Hi " "f $-- -zh i SIDEBOARDS No family should be without one at the prices we make on them. We have them in many styles of wood and numberless designs which it will t pay you to come and see. The one illustrated is of fine quartered oak, with large, handsome mirror, worth $40- But we have them from $12 up. W5 cocoanut tree furnishes an unfailing supplT of drink, meat, clothes, and in fact almost everything the natives use. In spite of the good which the missionaries are supposed, to have done in these islands, I am still of the opinion that they would have been far better off in every way had the white man never found them, for their readiness to embrace our religion is much more than counterbalanced by the facility with which they adapt themselves to our vices. And only those who have actually been among the islands in the South Pacific can fully realize the truth in this apparently heath enish statement My friend saw me admiring a tortolsa shell comb and he immediately forced it upon me, at the same time telling ma ths name "hals." He also gave me a mat mads of cocoanut fibers, which is "fala" In their language. I felt ashamed to accept what must have taken days to plait, even in their rude way, and I gave him mv Jackknife. I believe he would have risked his life to possess suoh an article and he went through the most extraordinary pantomime to ex press his gratitude. The orange trees are scattered all overths island, and we had rare sport in using the fruit as baseballs, and astonishing the na tives by our skill in catching them at a great distance. Food, generally speaking, is called "ki-ki," which also means "hungry." Any thing good is "la-la." "Covey-covey" sig nifies ''bad." They greet each other with the fame sal utation always. It is "Ofa," and this answers for all hours of the day and night The men are slow to anger, bnt brave when aroused. Their huts are models of neatness, and, were it not for the universal habit of anointing the whole body with cocoannt oil, the same could be said of the occupants. The meat of a cocoanut is placed in a bottle, laid in the sun, which speedily draws ths oil out It has a pleasant odor when fresh, but soon becomes rancid and very offensive; to a European. Nature has given them long, straight, black hair, but even here "fashion" steps in and decrees it more stylish to change ths natural hue of their tresses to something lighter. Accordingly they literally plaster their heads with a white clay, which is strongly impregnated with lime, and bleaches the hair to a dirty red, which is considered "the thing" in hair. When any especial gathering is to occur the head is thus "done up" lor a day or two previous, and on the eventful day tha clay is thoroughly removed. The hair is then daubed with oil and combed, standing out in all directions in an immense shock, which throws the face into insignificance, as a peacock's tail does its proud owner. With the exception of a cloth about tha waist and falling to the knee, clothes ara unknown, and accustomed from infancy to if , fv fc&ft&.-iiii- Biiiiaiyir'- . '