The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-05-01

rection, the Auditorium will get it., The building will stand several feet higher than the level of the street. The nearest houses on the south. west and east are from lS0 to 160 feet distant, and only two or three are over two sto- ries high
 The Auditorium will have the ap- pearance when finished of a stone or marble building. It will look. somer thing like the handsome buildings of the Worlds Fair at Chicago. The sides are to be lathed, plastered, coated With a concrete mixture, and then blocked off and allowed to dry. The contractors call it broken ashlar or random range work. The lathing for the marble walls" will be begun next week, We expect to have the build ing under roof in Q couple of weeks more" said MT Mcclure. The con- Vention is to meet June 18th. By the lst of June will turn the building over to the local committee, complete. The chairs will be in and everything I am to furnish. The hall may not be deco rated and ready for use on June 1, but if wanted then everything would be in place. The wiring for the electric lights can be done while am putting in chairs and finishing up the walls and floor. The telegraph and telephone wires and pneumatic tubes for the press can be put in at the same time. The flag and banner decorations could be put up without interfering with the other work. There is no doubt what ever that the building will be ready for convention business by June 16th."
 The Auditorium will be well lighted. A flood of light will pour in from all sides so long as the sun shines, If night sessions are held or cloudy weather prevails the hall and other rooms will be lighted with electricity The building is to have 10S arc lights. The contract for this portion of the work will be let probably in few days Fourteen thousand chairs are to be rented for the convention. Most of them will be substantial wooden chairs, built for endurance rather than orna- ment or special comfort. Those for the delegates, alternates and occupants of the platform will be of a better order. The pit or parquet portion of the audi torium is to be reserved for delegates and alternates exclusively The 924 del- egates will sit directly in front of the speakers platform; on the north side of this parallellogram, and to the right and left of them will be the alternates, 462 on each side.
 Accommodations for six hundred members of the press will be provided. They will have seats to the right and left of the platform, immediately in front of the dress circle, on the north side of the house Space has also been reserved here for large force of tele- graph operators, in four patches Then, underneath the dress circle and first gallery, in what may be called the first floor of the north side of the build ing, extending almost it's entire length will be d number of rooms for newspa- per workers. The Associated Press and United Press association will have offices there, as above, and so will the | Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies. On the Twelfth street side | the ground floor will contain more press offices, a public lobby and a res | taurant. The latter will extend around
 to the Clark avenue side, and run al most to the main entrance there. Or l the west will be a room for the ser l geant-at-arnls and his force The south side is to have two large commit
 tee rooms. The toilet rooms will be To- l cated at the sides Of the four main en- | frances.
 1 One of the best features of the Audi l torium will be the provision made fol | getting in and out of it. As many as l eighteen thousand people will attenG | some of the sessions of the convention ! MT. Mcclure says they will be able tC
 get out of the building in four minutes
 The seven or eight thousand in the sec. | ond or upper gallery will leave by fou, sets of stairways, two in each set
 Each stairway will be twelve feet wide l But that is not all. The upper gallery 1 is to have four other exits-a seven 1 foot stairway at each corner of tho
 building. The gallery will be so parti toned off as to make eight apartments one for each corner stairway, and ont
 for each set of stairways at the side ! This arrangement gives the upper gal Iery eight twelve foot and four seven | foot stairways
 The eight or ten thousand people oc ] cupying the dress circle, first gallery 1 pit and platforms will have twent,
 places of exit-six each on the nortl
 and south sides, and four each on th' l east and west sides. Each hallwa,
 leads directly out to the open air T' l these twenty exits below and twelv' l above must be added a number of oth
 CTS, for the restaurant, press, telegraph
 and committee rooms on the ground floor.
 The building stands fifty feet iron Twelfth street, the same distance iron Clark avenue. All this space is nov
 bare ground. MT. Mcclure suggest that it be sowed with oats about the Is
 of June If well watered and other wise attended to, a crop of oats ther
 will grow pretty high in ten or twelv days" he said. 'It will look like gras
 and be just the thing"
 1 ROSE.