The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-12

aforementioned visitor viii be directed
by a uniformed guard to the entrance
of his section. So far as exits and en-
frances are concerned. the problem Of
emptying the immense building is
merely the problem of emptying one
section. The architect claims that a
crowd of 1900 persons should be taken
through the door in four minutes.
The Temple of Games.
In designing the stadium the arch
itect had in mind the comfort Of the
spectators and the imperative direction
that the interior be so arranged that
the view OF no spectator could be IN
any way interrupted. To do this the
building planned viii be constructed
around steel tFusses with a span of
twenty feet greater than the span of
the trusses of the manufacturers
building at the Columbian exposition.
This is an immense scale, the span
being 400 feet and the height $50 feet
There will be fifteen of these trusses,
but not a pillar or post in the whole
interior to rise up and shut off the
view at the moment, perhaps, when
some straining athlete is making new
worlds record. Fifty rows Of seats are
provided in the plans. and when it is
/ considered that the building will cover
approximately eleven acres, and that
the length of the arena alone is equal
to two ordinary city blocks, the IL
mensity of this temple of games may
in a measure be grasped.
The first row of seats will be five feet
above the arena, and the topmost row
sixty feet higher. The line of cornice
around the building will be seventy
I FIVE feet from the ground, or fifteen feet
/ higher than the peristyle at the
! Worlds fair. The columns in the deco
| rative treatment Of the structure will
/ be of me colossal COrinthian order and
| will be sixty-three feet in height, or
! thirteen feet higher than the columns
( of the peTistyle.
! An unusual feature in the construc-
! ton of the stadium will be an ar
| rangement for dividing it into three or
! more buildings for special occasions
! where the whole building will not De
! required. At either end of the build
/ ing, or in the center, a beautiful con-
ventiOn hall for musical festivals, ma
! tiOnal conventions. political gatherings,
! etc. can be made in three or four days
/ at a nominal expense. It may be add
/ ed that in the history of large build
/ ings such a thing has never been at
/ tempted, and the plans as worked out
would seem 70 indicate that this Will
| be one of the special and attractive
| features Of this great structure.
! 1t is somewhat difficult to explain al
/ the details of this novel construction
/ but it may be said that it viii be &C
/ cOmplished by a system Of upright AND
! horizontal bars, partly supported from
/ the roof and partly sustained by q spe-
ciaI foundation provided, to be nlled
! in with sheet metal panels, strength
ened by angle iron placed at right an
/ giles across the panels. The building
/ as separated, will have perfect accoUs-
tic properties.
How Athletics Have Advanced.
1t is claimed that 100000 could be
raised for d permanent stadium a:
easily as a much smaller sum for tht
construction of a merely temporary
building to be torn down at the con
clusion of the Olympian games.
The Olympian games Of 1904, it is pre-
dicted, will be greater than any eve
before held at any period in history
Athletics have advanced with the art:
and sciences, and where the ancien
Greeks had but few tests of strength
and endurance. there are now scores
In the Chicago stadium the ancien
sports will be reproduced, but it i
thought safe to say that the moderi
games of all nations will attract tn