The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-01-30
A BUILDING
INSPECTOR
Tells of the Big Denver
Auditorium.
(From Newspaper Clipping by Courtesy
OF Mrs. W. =. Heftl

| - ''' " . . ''N''I
81 have made a study of audi
toriums in America and from OBJ
servations ] have made, / believe
that the Democratic national con-
vention will meet in the finest con-
vention hall next July, in which
any assemblage of national dele
gates ever gathered in the history
of America"
This is the declaration Of Build
ing Inspector Robert Wilson,
who stated yesterday that the
auditorium to harbor the Demo
cratic convention will be completed
in May.
''From builders and archi-
tect's viewpoint" said WIllison,
"the auditorium is two-thirds fin
ished. Out Of l 500 tons steel
structure, 1000 tons is in place
and about thirds of the brick
has been laid.
"The heavy work, which neces-
sarily requires time, preventing
large forces of workmen from ST.
multaneous attention TO their du
ties during certain portions of the
day was completed about a week
and half ago. What remains of
the building can be pushed almost
as fast as we choose to push it.
Night and day work could now be
introduced, If necessary. But it
is not necessary and if the work
continues as 1t has progressed dur
ing the past six weeks we can
turn the big building over to the
city May /, and have time to
spare.
''We will not be hampered any
more with delay in steel structure,
The remaining 500 tons is ready
to be put into place. About jan
uary l, Oscar Daniels & Co, of
Chicago, will put in the steel
trusses to support the roof in the
auditorium, each of which span
175 feet. The company has prom
ised to put in two trusses a week
and at that rate the roof will be
on the auditorium and all the ex-
terror work will be finished by the
latter part of January.
"Steel domes which will adorn
the building are ready and the in
terror work has been laid ou so
that it can be rushed with prac-
tically unlimited speed. The
plumbers and wire men and inside
carpenters will soon be at work.
This will mean great increase in
the working force with "a natural
consequence that the work will
progress much more rapidly than
it has in the past. That should
be perfectly clear even to the man
who has had no experience in the
building of an auditorium.
"The main hall of the audi
torium will seat exactly 1880
people. This means that the hall
will be one of the largest and
finest in the country. 1t will be
ingeniously tlexable as to the ar
ran cement of seats and boxes. In
the event of a convention as large
as the Democratic convention a
rostrum will be stationed on the
west wall of the big hall for the
speaker and his attendants. 1t
will be surrounded by seats in
circular arrangement so as to
bring the speaker in the rostrum
into an unbroken view from ut
least II, 800 people.
"a feature of the convention
hall will be its acoustic properties.
A speaker on the rostrum will he
enabled to throw his voice to the
extreme corner of the hall in an
ordinary tone OF a speaker voice,
as readily AS TO the people in the
seats nearest him. have to SOME
extent made study of acoustic
properties and believe that the
hall will in that respect be one of
the finest in America. Builders
understand such arrangements
nowadays and that of the Denver
auditorium will be difllcult TO sur
pass.