Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-08-20
SALT LAKE FEELS
ITSELF GROWING
Contracts Lei Today for Erection
OF a Big Auditor
ium.
COMPLETION ON OCT rs.
ENca yation for New Building Vas Fin.
ishcd Last Week-What the
Plans Show

salt Lake is beginning 10 feel itself
grow. the expansion IS becoming 50
rapid. That little matter Of an audi.
torium building large enough TO seat
1000 people. and Just the thing for big
conventions. midwinier sports and roll
or skating, was taken up today IN the
ofiicet Of G.. NJ Neuhsusen. architect.
Contracts wee let. calling for the
completion OF the auditorium, not In a
dim and hazy future, but 90 days by
the calendar from Aus. Is. 1905. Five
Gays thereafter, or on oct %. the build
" will be ready for occupancy, ami
band viii be playing jolly skating
ie.s while a crowd has an opportunity
.ou around maple floor going with
grain all the way over a floor space
lU- feet by 100 feet
The excavation for the new auditori-
am was completed last week. and the
letting Of contracts for the mason work
ana carpenter work follows close upon
the completion Of the digging. In COM
pany With Harry j. Hayward, president
of the Salt Lake Building & Manufac-
turing company. PIN ). O'Mara left
Salt lake for Los Angeles Saturday,
and when seen al the depot r. OMara
aud Mr.. Hayward both stated that
their trip had nothing 20 do with the
new auditorium. but vas on a business
matter Dot connected with f. When
asked as TO the Progress II the audi
forum Nh O'Mara said that the con-
tracts were agreed 20 and would be let
today OMara Is the young man who
dropped into salt Lake unceremonious-
ly two months ago. and without con-
sulting any o. the viseacres Of the
city, let contracts FOR the excavations
ON Richards street which are now 10
be used az foundation for the audit
torum.
Mr. OMaIa announced al that time
That he was operating on his own mon
cy, most OF which he has made 10 the
business OF conducting auditoriums In
Nebraska, san Francisco. and other
cities. He didn't claim 10 be a capital
list but 10 De able % swing enough
funds 20 put up & building which h.
would operate himself. He chose the
Richards street site because Of the re-
spectahility Of the street, and the fact
that there b. no traffic on Il after
nightfall, as its commercial concerns
are mostly wholesale houses.
At the Office OF Mr. Neuhausen this
morning News representative was
shown the plans for the big building.
II fronts Oh Richards street. IN the
vacant space few rods north OF
First South street. The frontage Is SO
feet. an is divided into spaces for two
stores. and lobby entrance The en-
trance runs west 50 feet TO the main
building which runs north and south,
l02 hy 100 feet The specifications call
for two ticket Offices in the lobby. and
skate room" from which roller
skates will b. issued Across the south
end Of the main building Il a gallery,
and underneath Il a smoking room.
and ladies parior. The large floor viii
be ~ pine with a maple floor laid over
IL. The boards being laid octsgonally
pa that the skater may circle the entire
floor without any cross grain skating.
No provision has been made for a
basement OF for heating apparatus. "a
being understood that steam heat will
be procured from a nearby structure
in which a furnace rs already installed.
Three rows ~ seats will circle the
main noor space which with the gal
lery win give q seating capacity ~
30 with a clear floor space. Remov-
able seats FOR use by large conven-
lions win increase the capacity 10 5000
people
The building. both The front on
Richards street and the wing viii be
81 brick supported by steel girders and
ample skylights win aid On the ventila-
ton and lighting The contract for the
mason work goes N Marion and Baker,
and for the carpenter work 70 Britain
& co. Mt o. Mara has organized a
corporation with capitalization ~
500 90 20 handle the auditorium. and a
llttle % the stock has gone 10 local
people. Most NJ u however Is retained
hy Mr. O'Mau himself who intends, ne
declares. 20 make his home in Salt
Lake and make the operating Of this
auditorium his only business