Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-01-02
WANTS PUBLIC ARENAS
General Sickles Suggests Erect
ing Them In Our Big Cities.
STRUCTURES TO BE PERMANENT.

He Thinks Crowds mt Public Events
Could Thus De Better AccOmmO-
dnted-By Copying European
Idea, He Declares, PIblic Spirited
Citizens Could Do Much Good.
The great game just played between ,
the West Point cadets and the middies !
at the Annapolis Naval academy meant
more than good football to Major Cen
cral Daniel Il. Sickles, says the Phil J
adelpha Press. 1t meant more than
nm exciting two hours or even spec !
tAcle unique in American sporting an
nails, 1t meant to him Il text of what
this country still has to learn from
Europe. of what a great municipality
like Philadelphia could do. of what
Americas rich men might do-and
don't.
General Sickles believes that in all
great cities there should be permanent,
| comfortable. slightly structures, capable
of seating from 10000 to 10000 peo-
pie, where such contests as the army
| navy game might he held. He thinks
it would pay Il first class municipality
to build such arenas. He is sure that
! millionaires could memoralize their
names in 10 way so surely as by erect
ing such buildings.
"When it comes to crowds said the
general as he sat in his room at the
Walton. in Philadelphia, the other
night, "America can beat the world IN
size, variety and good humor, but new
err in their accommodation. That there
are not more fearful accidents than
there are is due partly to the pam
horse sense of the average cltlzeh Oh
this great nation and little to the
dispensation Of Providence. Perhaps
this is why city like Philadelphia
does not seem to think it worth WINE
to learn few things from the Old
world.
Take Yesterdays game NOV 3ol,
for example. Roughly speaking, thefe
were 2S.OOo people there. THAT'S JUST
about the number that used to attend
the Olympic games of Greece twenty
centuries ago. Yet in those DAYS lhe
mass of spectators was comfortably
cared for and the great men present
seated as bettted their rank. Nova
DAVIS we walk through the mud, SIT
huddled together on decidedly uhcom-
Portable stands, and our notaDllltles
are crowded into unsightly pens.
This may sound like harsh criti'
cism of the management OF the game
but it is not meant to be. The CROWD
was admirably handled considering the
facilities. 1t was made as comfortaDle
as possible in view of the tact that III
football field in the land allows or any
thing really like comfort. l would com
pliment those in charge, ana theh
would emphatically urge our rich mei
TO look across to Europe and help Il
change things.
cover there the city or district o.
whatever else it may be sees to pulia
ing. All the great amphitheaters arr
not ancient. All Of them are not Il
large cities even, Little Nunes has
magnificent arena, safe, commodiou
and slightly. Either they or else TN
authorities accept it as proper par
of their duties to provide for the salet.
and comfort of the great gatherings o
citizens.
IAN American cty-Philadelphia, TO
example-would inevitably find it t
pay. No city could have better adVeE
Using 1t would bring thousands hef
TO sDend thousands of dollars. 1t WON'T
mean such chance to take first piac
among American cities and i'll one yer
important direction as fhilaueiphl
should be glad to seize.
and what better monument cou'
rich man erect to perpctuate III
name? 1t would put his dollars to ia
better use than is customary, ana II
:, would realize it. too, If he would TAX
y his eve off the ticker tape long enous
, to think about it. The Duke dc Mon
:, pensier spent $3,500,000 at Seville |
such a work Don Fernando did a
much for little Cntra in Portuga
The result is that those men Will u
> gratefully remembered as long q
Spain and Portugal ,have enough Cit
. zenS to get up cr9
. We're not up late in all tn
: here in America. S only'a questlo
. Of traffic or speed u dollars and cent
, If Philadelphia Would set the exampl
!. three things would follow-the cit
! would make money, other cities woul
I follow suit. and a noble game like We
= terday's would become a matter
y safety and comfort as wen as OF e.
i element and enthusiasm
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