The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-04-06
WILL BUILD OPERA HOUSE
Commercial League to Lend Its Aid
This New Enterprise.

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When l.. o. Gale bought the thre,
business buildings just south of the
postofice a short time ago, he did il
with a view of remodeling them into
better structures. Later however,
he conceived the idea of tearing
them down and constructing on the
site an opera house. Mr.. Gale has
finally arrived at the con:lusion OF
building the opera house under one
condition, and it will not be such a
difficult one to solve.
MIR. Gale made a proposition to
the members o. the Commercial
League and they met Saturda
to discuss it, with the result that
they have decided to accept it. Mr..
Gales proposition is simply this: He
asks the citizens of the city to guar.
antee to purchase 500 tickets for the
opening performance at $1U each as
an aid to the construction of the
building. When the list is completed
Mr.. Gale is ready to commence opera
tons. The committee started out
Monday morning to make the solicit
tation for the 500 tickets Citizens
without number have expressed the
need OF a new opera house and the
opportunity will be given to make a
demonstration of their desire. The
success OF the building will depend
wholly on the liberality with which,
the committee is met. We believe
that perfect confidence can be placed
in the fact that Mr.. Gale will erect
a building which will be a credit 80
the city, for it is bis reputation that
what he does is done in a first-class
manner, and so it will be with his
opera house.
MI. Gale will not undertake the
construction of the building unless
he can te assured of the sale of 500
tickets, as that is all the bonus be
asks
Mr.. Gale has made a rough outline
OF his plans for the building. 1t will
be 70X!42 feet. and three stories high,
with a basement under the entire
building, in which a good heating
plant will he installed. The first
floor will be arranged with an en-
trance is feet wide and extending
back 40 feet to the entrance of the
opera house, the ascent to be on an
incline. On either side of the en-
trance will be q store room 2OX4O
feet. The parquet will be 60X7O feet,
and there will be sufficient incline to
the floor to admit of an nnlnterrupt-
Ell view vi the stage flom every pait
of the house. The seats will be
placed so that they will be comforta-
bile and plenty Of room. The stage
will be 40 feet deep and 20 feet wide.
and will be large enough to take on
the scenery of any of the city produce
tions. On the second moor. in the
front-o the building will be arrang-
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will be the balcony On the third
floor in the front will be a hall. and
the gallery. The opera house will
be designed to seat about 1000 peo-
pie and its estimated cost will be
about $40. 900.
1t is not much in the way of as
sistance that is asked of the citizens
OF the city. Time was when an out
slider could come into town and Sc
a good bonus for an enterprise
of this character, and we are quite
sure that the people would much pre-
fer to aid one OF their own citizens i'm
this way than an outsider. Mr.. Gale
has shown IL most commemorate
effort in the past to do all he can
toward building up the business in
terests OF Mitchell and this enter
prise should have the heartiest sup
port Of everybody, and Mitchell will
the finest opera house in the
state, with possibly one or two ex-
cantinne