The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-09
l MAMMOTH TEMPLE.
TO BE REARED ON MADISON
SQUARE GARDENS RUINS.

a 100000 Structure, Combining
Amphitheater, Theater. Horse Show,
Concert Hall, Ball Room and Roof
Garden-To Open with Grand Di-
rectors' Ball in May-lt VIII be the
Greatest in America.
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New YORK, March s.-The last traces of
the old Madison Square garden-the scene
of revels. shows, balls, and spectacles innu-
merable-have disappeared. For over
twenty years New Workers have gone
there in droves to circuses, walking
matches and horse shows. The old garden
witnessed the rise and decline of the peies-
trian craze, and Charley RoweIl, the s'trot-
ting Englishman," with many others after
him, entered it poor enough and left it as
a rich man. All the great American and
English modern pugilists have won
fistlc fame there, and it was upon its
platform that John L. Sullivan thumped his
way into the hearts of sport-loving New
Workers. The memories of the garden are
a weird tumble of Barnum and Buffalo Bill.
gay French balls and roller-skating car
nlvals, political meetings and dog shows.
With the exception of the memorable acct
dent, when the falling of platform while
homeopathic fair was in progress several
years ago caused the death of nearly a score
or persons, no serious disaster mars the
record OF the greatest of Gotham's many
old-fashioned pleasure resorts.
Six hundred workmen are now busily
engaged on the site of the old garden, con-
structing what is to be the largest, if not
the costliest temple of amusement in the
world. The new building will occupy the
entire block from Fourth to Madison
avenues, between Twenty-sixth and Twenty
seventh streets, with depth Of 425 feet and
frontage on the two avenues of 2971% feet.
-Four millions of Pittsburg brick and fully
5000 tons OF iron will be used
1t will include an amphitheater
3l0xl94 feet, and so feet high,
with an area containing 10000
square feet, and track one-tenth of a mile
long. The seating capacity will be for 5000
persons. including those who can be accom-
modated in the $50 boxes hut during polit-
zeal or similar gatherings, 1900 can be
safely admitted. Besides the amphitheater,
there will be a beautiful theater, decorated
in Louis XIV. style, In white and gold,
and with seating capacity of 1900. There
will also be restaurant, a concert hall, and
a roof garden, the equipments and decora-
tons Of which, it is promised, will eclipse in
magni6cence anything heretofore seen in
New York.
OF course the projectors are men of mill
ions. They are J. Pierpont Morgan, Darius
o. Mills, Adrian Iselin, Charles Lanier,
Hiram Hitchcock. Adolf Ladenburg, Her
man Oelrichs, and w. A. Haines, names
equally well known in Wall street and on
Murray Hill. They propose to expend
S1,500,000 on the building, and the lot cost
exactly the same amount.
One of the stockholders in the new vent
Of h.
project.
I'VE expect to have the amphitheater
finished in April" he said, shut the entire
building will not be completed before July
or August. 1t will probably be opened
with grand ball, given by the directors,
and at which the best people in town will
be present. No, can't SAY just yet whether
Ward McAllister will have charge of the
arrangements. It's little too early. The
ball will take place about the middle of
May, and Strauss and his entire Vienna
orchestra will render the kind of music that
New Workers go wild over This will be
followed by musical festival. During the
summer the amphitheater will be occupied
as circus, and in the fall the Paris hippo
drome will come over and exhibit. They
are not permitted to leave France in sum-
mer, you know"
'Whar will be the general appearance of
the new buildingg'
''The buff brick will be embellished with
terra Gotta on the Madison and Fourth
avenue sides. On the former. at the south
west corner, will be tower 300 feet high,
the architectural decorations on which are
to be especially fine. The main entrance to
the amphitheater will be on Madison ave-
nue., but there will be another on Fourth
avenue, and these, with six additional
exits, will be sufficient to empty the b. =
ing in a very few minutes, no matter no
crowded. Under the amphitheater, CT tt,
ground floor, will be a great hall, avallas4e
for horse shows, and containing fifty stalls.
The drainage system will be the most
scientific In the United States. The amphi-
theater which is the full width of the lot,
and 800 feet long, will have iron trusses,
with span OF 1853 feet.
"Our theater-which we shall call the
Madison Square Garden theater-will be
more like a boudoir than an ordinary play
house. The stage will be wide enough to
permit of the most elaborate productions
Like the rest of the building, it
will be absolutely ire-proof. The
entrance will be on the Twenty
seventh street side. The restaurant,
which will be the equal of Delmonico's
in its equipments, will be on the Twenty
sixth street corner of Madison avenue, and
the kitchen will be on the roof Immedi-
ately over the restaurant will be the con-
cert hall, which can be used as ballroom
or for banquets. Fifteen hundred persons
can be seated there. Like the theater. it
will be beautifully decorated in the style of
Louis Quatorze, white and gold being the
prevailing tOnen G. II SANDISoN