New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-04-08
.DENVER'S VAST HALL
Where Democratic National Con-
vention Will Be Held.
EXTENSIVE SEATING CAPACITY
For More People
Than In Madison Square Garden.
Building Can Be Emptied In Two
Minutes Snow and Flowers sensa
tionaI Feature of the Meeting.

Building Can Be Emptied In Two |
Minutes-Snow and Flowers Sensa- !,
tionaI Feature of the Meeting.
Costing $550,OO0, seating 1850 peo-
pie. containing probably the most per-
feet heating and ventilating system of
any public building in the world, Den
vers monster Auditorium will throw
open it's doors June q to welcome the
long list of conventions to be held in
Denver this summer, among which
will be the Democratic national con-
vention.
The building is 266 by 200 feet in di-
mansions and is of the height of five
story building. Its seating capacity is
larger than Madison Square Garden in
New York, which holds 10000 people;
the great Coliseum in Chicago, where
the Republican convention is to be
held in June, which holds 11,O11 peo-
pie, or the Mormon tabernacle in Salt
Lake City, which seats 10000. There
are twenty-four exits. including 240
linear feet Of exit space, and the build
Ing can be emptied in two minutes
Two ffteen-foot fans at one end of
the building send air between steam
pipe coils throughout the house Each
| coil contains 1880 feet of pipe Mid
way in the Auditorium two fans ten
feet in diameter will send the air
| through the remainder of the house
| An exhaust fan will draw the foul air
| from below where it lies on the floor
| and expel it from the building, In
summer the heating apparatus is turn
ed into cooling plant by filing the
coils of pipe with cold water instead
| of steam. This system Of ventilation,
heating and cooling Is said to be the
most perfect of any public building in
| the world.
| One Of the great objections to or
binary lighting methods in large build
| ings is the constant buzZing and snap
| ping Of the immense arc lights which
| furnish illumination. In the Denver
Auditorium fourteen immense cluster
lamps will be set in the ceiling, giving
our steady radiance of 1880 candle
power each, which will do away with
the annoyance ordinarily caused by arc
lights. There will also be 10000 small
er lamps arranged about various parts
of the building. The Auditorium is
constructed entirely Of freproof ma
terial and viii be the meeting place of
scores of great national conventions
i every year. This is the first time a
i national political convention has been
held in Denver, but the frequency with
i which that city is chosen by the large
fraternal bodies. such as the El1s
Eagles, knights Templars, the Grand
Army of the Republic and other similar
organizations, as their meeting place
/ required the construction Of an i'm
mense assembly hall for their enter
tainment
Snow and flowers intermingled in
midsummer is a sensational feature
4 that will be seen in Denver at the
i meeting OF the Democratic national
convention. which meets there July T.
said a resident of Denver who recently
4 returned from a trip through Colorado.
There are vast fields of snow within
sixty miles of Denver, and these will
j, be drawn upon for several carloads
each day for the purpose of furnishing
sensational feature to the conven-
ton. There are also thousands of
acres of flowers from which countless
blooms will be gathered, and these will
/ be used as u contrast with the snow
I. Snow in midsummer is a phenomenon
| that is found only in Colorado. During
/ the month of July the flowers which
grow wild in the Rocky mountains are
seen in their greatest profusion, and
the convention hall will be made a
bower Of loneliness with these 1t will
| be the first time in the history of any
large assembly in the world when
of representatives from every section
| of great country.
There is large entertainment fund
being gathered now in Denver for the
purpose of providing astonishing fea-
lures for the delegates and visitors to
the convention Denver always does
| things in fine style when strangers are
4 N1tuluz uetl w u0Il aluSa SIEduu
Army of the Republic met there few
years ago more than $100,O00wa spent
4 in entertainment. When the grand
lodge and annual reunion of Elks met
there a year later there was more than
$4,000 expended. These huge sums
are contributed by citizens who believe
that to entertain literally makes the
visitor go away and report to his friends
at home that they treat you nicer in
Denver than anywhere else in the
/ country.
The attempt to make the gathering
of the Democratic national convention
a success from the standpoint Of the
spectacular and unusual in entertain
ment and hospitality is meeting with
great encoura cement. The railroads run
! ming into Denver have contributed
more than $4,000 to swell the enter
tainment fund and insure the immense
number Of visitors they bring to the
city the most pleasure and excitement