New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-25

Of tickets at any price Whlch the nroprielors OK
the stands can obtain
From as early o'clock yesterday morning
until late last night thousands OF persons walked
I'D and down Riverside Drive looking for hfty-cent
seats on the stands erected on the park property.
Only a few of them succeeded in obtaining what
they were looking for. At nearly every one OF the
stands built on the park grounds they were told
that there were tickets TO be had at less than
g. and In some cases IS was asked Where they
learned that there no tickets 10 be had AT am
price they were Informed that the seats had been
sold TO a club or other large party Of persons Tor
whom the stand had been built. Between one
hundred and sixth-st. and the drive there are at
least twenty stands looming up on sites granted
to the builders by the Park Department Trib-
une reporter visited most OF these stands yesterday
Several other persons got afty-cent seats at the
same stand. These persons told the reporter that
they had been seeking number OF halfdollar tick.
cts for many hours. but everywhere else they mad
s. 10 s. 80. - ,n, ,,ox.,. o,
grandstand seats at and near Ciaremont Tor o.
eey one to build stana he seats of Which were
10 be sold at 80 cents each. The average cost OF
erecting stand 10 seat about eight hundred to one
thousand persons is 200 and the builder would BE-
OF pocket unless he realized about 81 sea-,
Had the privileges for erecting stands on park
properly been awarded some months ago, there
might possibly have been some 5o-cent tickets Tor
sale. When these stands were erected the lunber
dealers were overwhelmed with orders for timber.
and 1t hard find labcrers who were willing 10
work the usual wages
The work of erecting the stands along the route
Of the parade went rapidly yesterday. and the
completion of the majority OF them before tuesday
was assured. There was one, however; at Yne.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and the Boulevard or
which the work had Jagged in 4 remarkable man
The stand Is to seat loe', nut whsther or
not II will be ready 10 seat anybody on TUESDAY
was a conundrum last night which no one ap-
peared able 10 solve. $500
Superintendent Constable OF the Building Depart
nent. and his force Of inspectors have been busy
Issuing permits for erecting stands and inspecting
the work IL has been done. About two hundred
and twenty-five permits forstands were granted w
to last night by the building Department. and
dred and nfty thousand. The small platforms IN
front OF windows and houses. while they cannot
be described stands. will probably seat vooU
more.
Since the building OF the stands began superln-
tendent Constable has had seven inspectors patrol
Ing the district between Seventy-elgnth-sL and mo
In number OF cases me inspectors ~
they had stop the work OF the builders UNI, mo
after made extensive alterations IN tIsn psns
stands. which aided the inspectors IN iesIiDhg 20
their superors just how the work OF building was
being done. Many tests have also Deen madc Oh me
the Stands stood 1t well and showed that they wets
fully capable OF holding all the weights for when
thsy were erected There was remarkaoiS n,,s . ~
bration to the stands when they were being SUP.
jected TO the tests Along the route or me pa ad
below Seventy-eighth-st each Inspector mas hau
territory to look after by himself. a.. ,i
The Buildings Department VIII not relaA ~ s,h,N
lance however In relation the stands until atter
ihe parade is over. Inspectors Will he detailed 20
yart.Sed :, IS proposed 10 cali ali owners to &C
count n they attempt crowd more % Ople on tis
stands than their permits call for; u namhs,
on,v will he permitted 10 go upon II. the police WI.
he caedalpon TO assist the inspectors IN seeing thaI
this law IL carried out