The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-12
ERECTING A MODEL THEATER.

Work on Klaw & Erlinger's New
Amsterdam theater, on Forty second
street near Broadway, is progressing
rapidly. Over 1000 men are now en-
ployed on this structure. which will
be the most perfect theater in the
world. More than 1000 tons of steel
have been utilized in the building. 1t
will really be two theaters. one erected
on top of the other. The roof theatsE,
which will be as complete in every de-
tail as any Broadway house, and as
large, will be devoted to an entirely
different class of productions than those
presented in the New Amsterdam The
struction employed in this building is
well exemplified in one fact-that the
main girder supporting the roof the
alter is the largest single piece of iron
work ever put into any building in the
world. 1t is 80 feet long. IA feet high
and weighs 20 tons. The balcony and
gallery are constructed on new prin-
ciple and are so strong that they could
support the weight of railroad train.
The new theaters will be absolutely
fireproof. Every piece of inhammable
material used in their construction or
decoration will be treated by process
which will make it's ignition impoSsi-
BILE. Safety, comfort and maanificence,
both in the auditoriums and on the
expense. have been the chief consider
atoms in the planning and construc-
ton of this remarkable building.
CAKE WALK THE, RAGE IN PARIS.
Joseph Herbert, the comic opera
comedian, is enjoying his holiday
abroad at AK, Brussels, Trouville,
Paris, London and anywhere else his
fancy takes him. In a very amusing
letter from Paris just received in New
York the comedian writes, referring to
the cake walk rage" in that city:
Every 'cullud pusson' in Paris is
cake walker. Go to the theaters, what
is the feature Of the entertainment?
LIE cake walk (pronouncez kek walk.
At the Olympia, in the review where
the charming Garmaine Galfois has
has been specially engaged to resem-
BILE our own Lillian Russell, the cake
walk occupies twenty minutes. At Les
Mathurins Otero performs the Cake
Walk Espagnol' At the Marigny forty
brunette Americans appear in LIE Cake
Walk Spectaculaire' Hats are adver-
tised as style cake walk There Is a
new drink at Henry's bar called the
cake walk Two of them would make
man with wooden legs do a shuttle.
Even at the fetes at Neuilly there is
cake walk. saw 1t last night. Two Of
my fellow citizens do a cake walk in
cage with six hyenas. AS the wealth
er was warm and the ventilation poor,
the entertainment was highly divert
ing.
1.-The city has been captured by the
Afro Americans, and the cake walk is
the medium.
That dear old gossip, the Paris New
York Herald, who always keeps the
exile posted on affairs at home informs
us that tunnel will be built from
Thirty second street to Thirty-fifth
street in Herald square. Apropos, Hor-
ace Greeley was great man and COM
manded the respect of his fellow citi-
zens. Use your best endeavor to pre-
vent his being treated as poor un-
fortunate Honore de Balzac has been
In Paris. In tunneling for the Metro
politan they took his statue down,
promising to give him a permanent
resting place, and they have not done
it. saw the horrid spectacle. in the
Review at the Olympia the other even
Ing, of naughty Honore walking about
Paris with his bench under his arm
looking for place to sit and the gen.
darmes ordering him off the stage, tell
ing him to go get another site. Spare
Horace, please. He was a good man
and never wrote wicked stories"