The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-02-16

den. which in turn was really the res
modelled and r~earranged former stone pas4
senger station OF the New York Central
and Hudson river railroad. This name wa3
Igtven because OF the band concerts giveI
there for many years by Patrick Sarsi
field Gilmore
Ever since its opening the great amphi-
ltheater has been in use for gigantic mu-
steal and social undertakings, such as
the annual French ball, circus perfor-
finances. r%evivals, political mass meetings.
horse and dog shows, six-day bicycle n
foot races, automobile shows, military
tournaments and other mammoth events.
During the week Of May 81. 1892, the
Actors'-Fund fair was held In 1t. The en-
tire floor was laid out as a miniature VIII
lage Of one street in the midst of a plain.
The buildings were models OF famous
theaters OF ancient London and older
New York, and the architecture and pic
turesque local color OF several centuries
and of places far distant from each other
We're cleyerly brought into harmony. On
the evenings OF May 10 to u, and this
sang In association with other d;stin-
guished %soloists. a chorus OF a thousand
volunteers and a grand orchestra, to three
of the largest audiences ever
anywhere. The annual circus at the gar
den is to Juvenile New York what the
horse show is to adult and fashionable
lcircles.
The architects of the Madison Square.
Garden were the famous firm of McKim,
Meade & White. The latter, the lament
ed Stanford White, was especially credit
ed with the design. In dimensions the
building is 400 feet long and 200 feet wide,
its side walls rising to a height of 65 feet
Architecturally 1t is a magnificent struc-
ture, because Of the simplicity of the con-
OF ~, oftor n ~ L<1,o h-l-aa ~ ~ il, 80 a
tails in o-rnamentation. The style is Rem
a%tssance, the materials buff brick and
terra Gotta. The roof is fiat. or nearly
so, but the skyline is broken by a colon
made which arises above the roof at the
Madison avenue end, and extends along
either side for 100 feet; by six open cupo-
las, with semispherica1 domes, which rise
! above the colonnade; by two overs at the
Fourth avenue corners; and by a magnii-
cent square tower which rises from the
T~wenty-sixth street side, with it's line I'M
broken for 249 feet, and then in a series
of open cupolas, decreasing in diameter,
on the smallest and topmost of which is
poised a figure of Diana, of heroic size.
the crown Of whose head is 1872 feet from
the sidewalk.
But the GROWING glory of the garden
is the tower which rises from the south
west corner, an almost exact replica of
the beautiful and historic Giralda at Sc
Vile, Spain. This In turn is surnlounted
by a weather van composed of a whirl-
ing. scarf-draped Diana in glistening
bronze and gold, designed by Augustus
Saint-Gaudens. Thus the beautiful pile
as u whole represents the work of two of
Americas most famous creative artists.
When the garden tower first rose above
the trees of Madison Square there was
only one other lofty structure of the kind
on Manhattan island-the dome of the
World far down town. Within the
last 10 years, however. poor Diana has
been o%vertopped and dwarfed on the south
by the 550-foot Metropolitan clock tower
and belfry; on the north, not far way,
the Belmont hotel raises its lofty square
bulk, while down town the Singer tower
slightly exceeds the Metropolitan in
height. Other and momentous changes
have been going on all around the his
toric site. Fourth avenue, on the east,
formerly d thorousifare OF econd-har nj
curio shops and third-rate hotels, has
lately blossomed out into a new business
street lined with towering steel structures
devoted to various lines of wholesale
trade. All this makes the site of the
garden twice as valuabl as it was 20
years ago. 1t makes the great hall a los
ing venture financially, even on it's early
capitalization.
But it is to be feared that this beautiful
architectural and ornament is
doomed, unless sentiment and fashion
shall prevail over practical business con-
siderations. The mere thought Of tearing
down that beautiful Gfralda with its airy
Diana seems sacrilegious, and many will
mourn thereat, since the garden is known
hy reputation at least to millions of
Anericans-men, women and children
from Portland on the east to that othu,
Portland on the west, ana from the gulr
to the lakes. There is just one hope; and
that is that the whole noble structure may
be removed piecemeal to another and less
expensive site further up town, where fu-
ture generations may feast their eyes
upon its graceful architectural lines and
revel in those diversions for which its