Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-13

hundred more. In the accompanying
| ground plan the arrangement of seats in
! the tents is clearly shown. Broad aisles
| divide the auditorium into sections, and
| the seats, except in the middle section, will
be placed obliquey to the platform, econo-
MIXING space. and securing an arrange
| ment most convenient for those who are to
see and hear. Against the extreme ends of
the platform the benches will be at right
angles to it, forming sort of ''amen cor
ners." Numerous exits will be provided, so
that it will be possible to fill and empty
the tents in a brief space of time and
with g minimum of discomfort.
The seats for the audience viii be all on
a level; the platform seats will be raised
tier on tier, in sem-circular form, nearly
to the roof of the tents. The platforms
alone will hold more persons than most
OF tbs churches of TIE city. The main
section will be reserved for the chorus
and the two thanking sections for ministers
and those holding platform seats. Five or
six hundred Seats on the platforms in each
of the three tents will be specially reserved
for pastors and the speakers at the con-
ven.ion. Tickets for these seats are even
now being issued at general headquarters
in Boston. Ii the front and center there
will be placed about twenty-five or thirty
chairs for the use of the presiding officers,
chorus leaders. musicians and speakers,
and at the front edge of the platform a
rostrum is to be built, from which the
addresses will be delivered. Directly be-
cath will be the tables for the press repre-
sentatves.
The ideal convention meeting place,
here the three tents to be pitched, is
the White Lot in the cart of the city,
free from the roar and hustle of every day
traffic, approachable from all directions
and close to the leading car lines The
other audItoriums are also easily acces-
sible from all parts of Washington and
easily reached from the tents themselves
Half way down the famous stretch of
Pennsylvania avenue, between the treas
ury and the Capitol-the scene Of the most
magnificent military pageants this CONT
rent has witnessed-is situated the Center
market, over one wing of which is Central
Hall, the largest of the auxiliary meeting
This auditorium will seat about three
thousand persons, and is one of the most
attractive and commodioLs halls in the
city. 1t was dedicated for public use by
the Christian E.ndeavorers of the District
last January, on the occasion of their
fourth annual convention, and many i'm
portant sessions of the interna tional gath
ering will be hello there.
The five churches which have been
chosen for meeting places, In addition to
the tents and the hall, are all of them
large ones, of historic interest, and stu
ated especially convenient to one another
and to the White Lot, where the tents will
he Those from outside the city who have
inspected the many advantages of situa-
ton and convenience apparent in the ar
engagements invariably have manifested
the greatest enthusiasm and the close
proximity of these five churches has been
frequently the subject of most favorable
comment.
One square east Of the treasury-at the
south end of which the tents are to be
stretched-is the Foundry NJ. E. Church,
one OF the meeting places, located right in
the heart of the hotel district 1t is one
of the three of the churches selected which
are or have been known as Presidents
churches President Hayes worshiped