The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-07

with q greater average width. 1t IS the
beast of Chicago that the Coliseum is
the largest building in the world, and
perhaps that boast is Justified. It has no
permanent interior arrangements for
spectators. no tiers upon tiers of galleries
as its old Roman prototype had; nothing
but Q level floor suggesting fts use as a
hyppodrome. On every occasion that the
building may be put to use-as a race
course, concert hail. q fair, a ball or
for convention purposes, temporary
stages and galleries have to be construct
ed. SO that 1t will Of itself require the
services Of quite an army Of carpenters
decorators and workmell
TnaN has been the case in connection
with the Democratic National Conven-
ton Too Inonsmously large, even for
such a purpose, about one-third OF its
length had to be partitioned off leaving
the other two-tnirds to be utilized for the
convention. And the space thus left is
still moro than adequate. Provision was
made for seating 1S.ooo-about the same
number as were provided for at the ST.
Louis Republican Convention. But in St
Louis there were rows of deep wide gal
leries overlapping each other and the
spaces left for aisles and passages were
nues, giving access to all sections. and
there are no galleries. The spaces assigned
to spectators consist of some fifty or
more tiers of seats rising in easy grada-
tions from far out on the floor to the
four walls of the building. The cnly FIX
ture in the shape of a gallery is one raised
above the platform, and this is probably
intended for the use of bands of music
on ordinary occasions.
The internal arrangement IL little diff
ferent from that at the ST. Louis conven-
ton. The platform for the presiding
officer. secretary and. clerks is in the CEN
tre of the building looking to the west
II is elevated by some six sfeetsfron the
flooring with some hundreds asof chairs
ranged back of 1t for distinguished wish
tcrs, and with desks for reporters and
newspaper correspondents stretching in
four terraces on either side. In front are
the seats, nearly thousand in number
for the delegates, ard Ranking them on
three sides are an equal number of seats
for the alternates Back Of these rise
tier upon tier. the thirteen thousand seats
for the spectators.
The interior of the building is resplen-
didly gay with a display Of bunting. The
high partition which cuts it off from the
rest OF the building is covered with cloth
Of red, white and blue. The girders
which support the roef, and all other OBJ
jects that lend themselves to that ssyle
of adornment are also covered with
bunting. The National flag is hung, in
many editions, from the roof centre all
the whole length from north to south.
Over the platform is displayd on a large
canvass picture of the American Eagle
holding in his bealz a ribbon with the
scroll, ''E Piurfous Unum" ard with his
talons resting (rather unnaturally) on the
coat of arms of the United States, the
flag being gathered in graceful folds at
zach of the upper corners. To the right
end left are hung the coats OF arms of
the States of New York. Pennsylvania.
Ohio, and all these are carried at intervals
all along the four sides of the square.
Everywhere are flags, banners and drap-
cries Of red, white and blue. which give
cent hall