St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-12-11
SOCIETY IN NEW YORK.
Madison Square GardeH.-A building
of Which the City is Proud.

Madison Square Garden.-A Building
of Which the City is Proud.
IFrorn our Regular Correspondent
NEW YORK, Dec. >.
The sharp, brisk Thanksgiving weather
awakened from its Iistless state the fash
ionabIe society of New York, and each
dav brings new announcements of balls,
parties, receptions and Germans. We'd
dings in high life are also announced by
the score, and brilliant and fashionabl
affairs without number will keep the
social ball rolling from now until the
Lenten season comes.
The first subscription ball will be the
magnificent annual Patriarchs' on De
cember at DelmOnico's, and the debu-
tantes are already pluming themselves
for this incident. The annual assembly
balls and the subscription balls Will be
held, this year. in the new gorgeous ball
room of the Madison Square Garden.
This is wonderful place. 1t is finished
in the Louis XVIth style and though
the walls Will not be colored this year,
they will eventually be finished i'll tones
ofivory, gold and pink. The designers
are the same who did the rooms in Del
monicos The idea III constructing the
room. was that it should not look like
concert hall. but rather like great
chamber such as might be found in
kings palace: and the deep arched bays
at the sides. the ceiling and the upper
walls are most royal in appearance 1t
has boxes. gallery, dressing and retir-
ing rooms and ample supper room at
tached. The room will easily accom-
mOdate 1900 people.
The Madison Square Garden, which
has Just been completed on the site of the
old garden Twenty-sixth to Twenty
seventh streets and Madison to Fourth
avenues Is the largest and most magnifi-
cent building of its kind in existence. 1t
not alone represents the OUTLAY of mil
lions of money, by corporation of long
headed capitalists, but 1T bespeakS the
enterprise. the far sighted Judgment and
the metropolitan spirit OF the great city
of New York. The bare statement that
the great building is 200 feet wide and
400 feet long gives but an insufficient
idea of its actual dimensions. This meas
urement comprises an ampItheatre, the
largest in existence Il theatre, a reStau-
rant. ball room with side rooms and
supper room as already described, roof
garden a tower and a number OF smaller
meeting rooms with all possible conven-
fences and adapted for public and private
entertainments
The structure from foundation to top,
has been built, not with eye to pro-
vide great accommodation in several
sorts of halls for all the public purposes
that call people together but from first
to last the object has been kept in view
that here should be building in which
the art of architecture should have full
display; and this object has been at
tanned. In one part is simplicity; in an
other. richness; in another, unique; in
all there Is harmony of design and of
color, and a consistent scheme OF archi-
lecture and decoration. The amphitheatre
contains 10000 square feet, with seat
ing capacity of 10000 persons. The
theatre seats 1900 and can seat 400
more, while the roof garden will hold
5000 people. Enough has been said to
give the readers of the Caledonian an
idea of one of the buildings OF which
New Workers are proud
T. B. PENFIELD.