The earlier comers were mostly the journalists who had come from almost over the whole inhabited world.

King Rupert, who does things well, had made a camp for their exclusive use.

There was a separate tent for each--of course, a small one, as there were over a thousand journalists--but there were big tents for general use scattered about--refectories, reading and writing rooms, a library, idle rooms for rest, etc.

In the rooms for reading and writing, which were the work-rooms for general use, were newspapers, the latest attainable from all over the world, Blue-Books, guides, directories, and all such aids to work as forethought could arrange.
There was for this special service a body of some hundreds of capable servants in special dress and bearing identification numbers--in fact, King Rupert "did us fine," to use a slang phrase of pregnant meaning.
There were other camps for special service, all of them well arranged, and with plenty of facility for transport.

Each of the Federating Monarchs had a camp of his own, in which he had erected a magnificent pavilion.