Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-17

CARSON, Nevada, March l7.-Al
Carson was up and doing early, thi
morning. The sun was scarcely full il
the horizon when the hotels and board
ing houses and extemporized shantie
began to pour out their streams ol
OF humanity. All through th'
night and morning, special train
continued to arrive at frequent in
tervals, and their loads of passenger
lost no time in making an eleventh
hour acquaintance with the geography
of the town. Vendors of buttons and
badges filled the air with their shrill OF
hoarse cries, and pretty we'll every.
body wore token TO indicate his
preference. The fears that had beer
entertained that the food supply would
be inadequate to the demands of the
thousands Of strangers, fortunately
failed to materialize, and, such as il
was, there was plenty for all, although
the desire Of everybody to be first
served led to endless confusion in 9
good many PLACES and in one or two
instances nearly provoked melee
Taking all IN all, nowevers gooa Ieei-
ing and decidedly good order prevailed
CARSON, Nevada. March LEX
pressions of admiration were heard on
every hand as the carly ticket holders
passed through the turnstiles into the
arena. 1t was universally conceded to
be an ideal structure for the purpose.
1t was located in the center of the in
field of the race track, built entirely oi
lumber, with twelve sides and twenty
six feet in height. There was no roof.
The six entrances were equi-distant,
four being allotted to the owners of re-
. served seats and boxes and the other
two to the patrons OF the peanut gal
lery, or general admission stand. From
each entrance an aisle four feet in
width oonverged towards the ring,
these connecting with eighteen other
aislss, making twenty -four in all. In
the center of the arena was a twenty
feur foot ring on platform four feet
from the ground. Aspacs around this
platform, six feet in depth, was kept
cleared OF seats and all distractions.
Outside this space were the extcmpor-
ized pine tables and benches for the
press and telegraph companies. Behind
these again, were the private boxes,
two sections deep, each section being
separated by an aisle four feet IN width.
The outer ssction of the boxes was a
foot higher than the inner section.
Only the boxes were provided with
chairs, ell the rest OF the seating &C.
commodations being pine benches.
There were twenty-one tiers divided
into three sections, those Immediately
In the rear of the boxes being tho re-
served seats, the next the intermediate
and those towards the roof, the general
admission. Altogether, there was a
total seating capacity Of IL 900, and in
the entire structure and seats some
thing over 100000 feet Of lumber had
been used. 1t cost Dan Stuart &c.,
600 to put up the pavilion, and the last
bill was paid by the Texas promoter
when the contractors turned over
the structure to him, last evening. The
ring was the same in which Corbett
fought Sailor Tom Sharkey and in
which Fitz had his noted engagement
with the same opponent in San
Francisco.
The peace arrangements are excel
lent. One hundred Pinkerton men
from Philadelphia, st. LOUIS, Boston,
Chicago, New York, Denver and San
francisco were scattered among the
crowd within and without the pavilion
under the personal direction of William
Pinkerton. The latter, in addition,
had at his command 600 deputies who
had been sworn in by the sheriff.
These were distributed among each
section, upstairs and down, with a
captain to each squad.
CARSON, Nevada, March 17.-AI
Smith, of New York, the stakeholder
and depository, was one Of the early
arrivals at the ring. He had with him
certified checks for the S16, 900 purse,
for the side bet Of $5 900 each put up
by Corbett and Filzsimmons and tor
the S2. 500 deposited by each contest
ant, and which was to be forfeited in
case of either man failing to appear In
the ring. An understanding had pre-
viously been reached that the certified
checks would be as satisfactory to Fltz-
simmons as the sight cash. When the
Cornishman got into the ring for his
fight with Maher, he demanded q sight
OF the stake money in green backs, and
declined to recognize as legal tender
the certified check that was produced
by Smith. The latter took this as a
rsHection on bis honesty, and demand
ed to know whether the Cornishman
regarded him as fool enough to bring
o big wad Of bills up into such
dIggings and into such company.
1t looked for moment as
though the mill would be off. but after
. glance at the angry faces about him
and few pointed remarks from Par
son Davies and others, the Kangaroo
came to the conclusion that it was q
good time to exercise some discretion,
and accordingly announced that he
would eight II be never got dollar,
He found NO trouble, however, IN cash
ing the check after be had won it.
Carson. New, March 17.---Et is i'm
possible to make even toughest Of |
the rough estimate Of the amount Of |
money wagefed on the result Of the
contest thronehont Ihe country By tbe