Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-10-26

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Tho ninth and part OF the eighth story are
occupied by tho Chicago Conserv vatory Of Art
iand 4usic. On tho tenth floor are the offices
cf the architects and other officers Of the
building. Tho rooms on the other floors are
spacious and fitted with all modern improve
menta Many are occupied by musicians and
other professional people, and 1t IL expected
that the building will become the art center
OF Chicago. It's great height places It above
both the smoke and the noise, while the view
from the upper floors extends over the whole
city.
Tho tower-24O feet highs q feature in
itself, and Its six stories devoted to Office
purposes will include rs many rooms rs are
70 b found In many individual Office build
tngA There are nine passenger and four
freight elevators In the building. all operated
BY hydraulic power. The tanks for this pur-
pos arc on the fifteenth story Of tho tower.
There are eleven Of these Those for the
elevators have capacity Of 2S0OO gallons,
while tho house tanks contain $4,000 gallons
An artestan well, which has already been
sunk to depth OF 200 feet, will furnish $50
gallons OF water per minute for the use of
The auditorium hotel. There are elevators
In the tower as well as In the main building,
% that access can readily be had to the high
1T point.
The electrical department of the audlto-
rum building Is on q scale commensurate
with tho magnitude Of tho structure. The
dynamo room Of the hall contains six en-
gines and SIX dynamos, with capacity Of
5000 sixteen candle lamps, besides furnishing
1l6 horse power OF electric motors for the
ventilating fans. There are five engines and
nvs dynamos for the hotel department, with
. capacity Of 4 4,600 sixteen candle lamps and
l<- 4
be run both on the American ard European
plan, rooms being furnished either with board
or without 1t, as may be desired.
Public interest In this great building CEN
tiers In the hall or auditorium, the finest room
: devotsd to public purposes in the world
Even when In its incomplete state it was
utilized for the meeting Of tho National Re-
publican convention Of 1885, its magnificent
proportions Impressed all who saw it, The
hall covers space 120x266 feet Its main en-
trance Is on Congress street, the gallery en-
trance on Wabash avenue, and there are
emergency exits ON Wabash avenue and on
the alley to the north. The seating capacity
Of the hall is 5000, and by an ingenious
arrangement Of movable ceilings, or more
properly iron curtains, the upper galleries
can be entirely cut off, and the seating capac-
ity reduced to 4,2o0 or $500, as may be de-
dred.
The main floor Including the forty-two
boxes, has 800 seats. There are no prosce-
MUM boxes, the space usually taken up by
them being devoted 10 the great organ.
There are about l,7OO seats in the main bal
couy. and $50 in each of the two galleries.
Tho stage, 70 feet deep and 1lO feet wide. is
lS65s~ than that Of Dn,ry lane and only in.
fsrior to the stages OF Ia scala. at Milan.
apd the Grand Onera bopse. AT Paris Thers
ars two iron cnr,.ins nv ,ho rs. :, ,,,h,,,,
1hs .t.gs ora,,,ra 81. a.. ~ .nv - "n.u
n feet. The entire nlace ;s st.nroo, .nS
the stage can be completely cut on from the