The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-12-10

There is also a second place OF exit from tho
dent people could readily Jump from the lobby
windows into tho motel yard. The stage en-
trance Is from crosby street. The LOBBY alt
around the parquet IL from to II feet In width.
From each side Of the parquet stairway six
feet wide rises TO the nrst and second tiers, aud
nm independent stairway, feet o inches wide.
from Crosby street, leads TO the top tier-with
doors ON each tier belOw-for use in case Of dam
the fiat roof of the parquet corridor. The scene
room aud other dangerous departments are all
in hreproof buildings apart from the theatre
proper. and the water arrangements are thor
ough. The house seats 1,s2 persons.
The Union square Theatre has one entrance
way only. rs ieer wide aud 80 feet long from
Fourteenth street to the pnfquet door, through
which all the audience for parquet, orchestra.
aud balcony must ilud ngress aud egress. An-
box once. leads TO the gallery staircase. which
is 4 feet inches wide. The stairway to the bal
cOny. 9 feet wide, starts just at the door Of the
parquet. and at Irighi angles with the main en-
trance, and Is broken by two platforms into
three hights, at right angles with each other.
The eDace available Is small. the height
to be gained IL great. aud this stairway
l. necessarily steep, II Is practicable to open
stairs but 1t IL not very apparent that doing so,
in case OF a rush, would be productive Of much
good ne Ditch Of the balcons Il excessively
steep. 1t has only three aisics. the central u
which Is three feet wide, those along the sides
two feet eight inches wide. The aisles ia the
parquet are three feet aud two feet seven
inches; those IN the gallery three feet eight
inches and three feet four inches. The addi-
tiOnal entrance WAYS are to be Immediately prO-
vded. As the building nowis, IL can be emptied
in six minutes.
Wallacks Theatre has a large lobby "a feet
inches 10y ~ feet on the parquet, to which lead
entrance waNs from Broadway and thirteenth
street, the former 10 feet wide and % feet long,
the latter ~ feet in width From this lobby tise
two starways x feet u inches wide to tho first
und second tiers, enc for VaCh. he tier NU3tl-
Dulles arc amulc, the doors Wide and sufficiently
abundant. and the aislcs of ordinary capacity.
Ihc scene room II In "A separate building. closed
on ~ ron doors on the Fourth avenue cui AMI
NJ the side uf tne main building. Tue stage en-
trance y ON curtin Avenue II Is 81 imcd Ga Y
the audit urium con be cmpticd within four
minutes. even when its fun seating capacity Of
luiU H. ompluNtd. Hose are attacl ed 10 too Ire
plugs here and stretched ready for Instant use
at every Performance.
The Iiitn Avenue Theatre "a practically ali
doorway tn front. There are also doors from
the parpuet ana first tier TO he used IN an
sinersenci, which VIII aye egress through the
Gilscy building % Broadway. 1he stage door
- on lweuty-niutn street. and iron IRE escapes
are provided. by which people on tue stage can
cross from the nrst and second story dressing
rooms to the Gilsey building and Broadway.
Two stairwAys, each feet Inches Wild ON
opposite sides on the uuiding, extend 10 the
uip'r ueis. Ihere are Two turns on each
night. The Hi,es are Of ordinary width, the
central four icet. and the side ones three feet,
AMI ~ thcle II no pane the house can toe cmptrd,
IL I. Clrintl, lu four minutes. lhe row ui boxes
at the back of the parquct might he seriously In
the way OF frightened thrOng charging over
The seats. but AS uuD slow and periluus progress
ciuif. in amy event. Ia made in laundering over
the tpmng ron seats now ~ general use. here
log. The scene room l. built outside the
theatre aud shut OF from II by an non door.
NhicktIlu- Hal rs NluWel ~ may with very
" rave apVfthtu-lpn. Whlic "a reporter whS nc
the Department Of Building, Yesterday, Mr.
Morris Is. Jcsup came in to lodge a complaint
against 10 witn lie SuIcrintendenn saving tnat
ne recently attended a performance There. ma
believed himself To have, IA so doing. hcrn IN
more imminent danger than at any other time
In many Veir-. lhe main staircase from the
front on University place goes up twenty steps
o. lnr IL
lobny OF the main floor II toe hall. From that
LOBBY or Vtstipule are Two uoOr-, each six feet
vide. INTO the main hall. Thence another line
oi star., seven ieet vide ascends on eacn side
10 the gallery. The space Is contracted, both on
the landings aud ~ the Hobbies. There Is all
other stairway I've ieet sA inches vide. from
nn Eishteenth stree; entrance w to tne main
Moor and thence threef ct siX inches Wide to the
gtllcp, hut IL Is contracted. has several turns,
ana l. known 30 but few Of tho. WHO 20 to the
h4l. Mr. Jesuu WI, not aware OF its existence.
aud after seei'g 10 various platforms ANA rig
~ 10 means confident that "A iui knowledge of
IL would nave maze hini irel any sailr.
The olympic Theatre ma. a hallway Is feet
wide AMI a. feet long, ut tue extreme end ct
when uic two sinirways eaeh feet Inches
up To the balcony. From the entrance south OF
the nam hallway a staifC lse feet Inches VIDE,
rises to the Z llgry IN two Ions iitghfs. Xxi 10
CROSBY street may be gained b, mo stage doors
Tony iastors place, the Old Metropolitan
."'Nlf' W - hn Vli'l"h'c wy ~ Zee, Nc'N' M
~ case 90 panic thef' might De rOdolc nom the
al rai-laicnt 81 the 0uuu!e staircase TO tAc bal
CNuN. once PAT mt point. hOwrNff. there
would mot ue much danger in the long ball az 10
f. ~. feet iu.les Md. ami can Dc supple
Mented VITA nunthcr fret ( inches wide. lLc
stage door a. un Mercer sect.
lhc Pafk helirc's worst feature b. the in-c-
u' 90. system ui which IT, stllrwHNs are CON
-,iDct,d. Nll.u is such THAI 10 could scarcely
ful Go tu.lb.e many persons az the DORM any
violent rush. There ire 81 aces Of exit from tho
utfplct ON both broadway ANA Iwen,y-secoud
street, aul ll.ccs % cat Nom the stage Oh
Ivcnty-reruud street; exit from the balcony
hDth tN iar in IA entrance Snu Dy another stair
Case lctDiAg u WA L. ~. auWay north of tue
main one. The second flcl has ouN one uisht
the balcony. A. THIS theatre seats only
ABOUT 40 u'i sons, iis modes Of cgrt -
mUl be deemed sufficient, but the luuci-
pal stAfMa'o, VITA tne uritN rteps at the
private on e door, the steps al right anal with
tue outu WING the from the parguet. and tue
uual round stepsiutO tue luuuy might, seeming
- with advantage, be rendered les complex.
Inc ~an francesca Minstrel Hail entrance l.
only eleven feet wide. ono ink 900 A-ccnl- six
another platform. then sixteen stsps more up to-
the hai, the latter ilgnt AZ tgnt Angles with the
preceding. From the second platform anHrruN
winding staircase lo 4ds w T. tho gallery. There
h. also anuthUi -iAlN ~ lLs Nc the AHiI, from tIr
llerN 10 tne main NOR, The stige door Is on
iWeuty-uinth street, where u IRON staircase
outside tne hul dlng LEAFS down to the street.
he Theatre tamiquc pNruuct cnttnnct T. luD
feet from the street, nut tue hallway /, twenty
The main hall cighfl ieei from the street door,
lhei are twelve feet VIDE 10 the platform
thence double, i've ieet ~iA iurhr, on cacn side.
q iiight ie id- from the uhi' "ns 90 the lieti.
and there H. also separate gai.ery .a,TWuh Quiz
side the building, rom crosby street, iOur feet
IA Niath.
The Lyceum Theatre il pronounced by the
superintendent Of Budliues one Il the safest
ior an audience. tie stage door j. on tilt, rnth
hHt~ that tu1 81 thc establishment may nOt Ice
90 sale tor the people cmuuyVd there. lue
irlut l., ike tnnt Of the fiith Avenue Theatre.
prt' mncn hll door, aud the stair"aya a,s oil
good PROPORTIONS.