The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-03-14
CONTRACT IS let
FOR AUDITORIUM
New Home for 0skaIoosa Chautau-
qua Assured.
PENN COLLEGE WILL BUILD
Structure Will be Circular and Of
Steel construetion--lt VIII Have
Actual Seating Capacity
r, -f. p of $500.

will be built at once. Contracts were
entered into with the firm of Burnham
& Ives, of Bloomington, Illinois, on
Saturday afternoon, and the building
is to be finished and ready for occu.
pancy by May Is. .., .-.r....5
This assures the Oskaloosa chau'
tauQua permanent home for at least
ten years, and as long thereafter as
the chautauqua association desires to
use 1t. Penn College will also find
the new building fine place in which
to hold its commandments, the Iowa
Yearly Meeting of Friends and other
public gatherings will also find home
in the new building.
The public is vitality interested in
the Improvement as the new struc'
ture is to have an actual seating ca
pacity of $500, or over one-third more
than any audience room in Mahaska
county. There will therefore be no
more crowding on big occasions, un.
less the meeting is an exceptionally
large one. An audience such as greet.
ed Madam Schumann.Heink will be
easily accommodated in the new
structure
The building is to be perfectly cir.
cular in form 1870 feet in diameter and
will bear the appearance of a mon
ster umbrella with the ribs reaching
down to the ground. There will be
only one post in the structure and
that in the center. The roof will be
supported by large arms of street IA.
dating from the center and supported
at the outer edge of the circle by
steel standards.
The contract price for the steel
structure, roof, seating and stage COM
plete is $7,475.00. The college is to
do the grading of the grounds and all
necessary excavating, other than that
required for foundations for the sup
potts. The walls of the building will
be left open and the stage will be in
side the circle. Later OIL, ii it Is de.
sired, walls may be added and the
stage moved back under a separate
roof. thus enlarging the seating space
and making the building disable in
cold weather. 100. ..-..
While Penn College will build and
own the building, the Chautauqua as
ISOLATION is jointly Interested with the
College in furthering the big i'm
provement. To make the building
possible at once the Chautauqua asso-
citation agreed to pay $4,000 cash rent
in advance. This pays for the use Of
the building absolutely for ten an
nual assemblies. In other words the
ChautauQua is paying i'll advance $500
per year for ten years. This is cheap,
or than grounds and buildings have
cost In the past and the facilities and
convcniences are to be greatly in.
creased.
The Chautauqua association has
also obligated itself to assist in ded.
ication enterprise to be held on the
Fourth of July. The proseeds of this
entertainment are all to be used in
fixing up the grounds for chautauqua
purposes and in adding conveniences
that heretofore have not been enjoy
ed by chautauqua patrons.
The chautauqua board of manage
ment feels that it has made good
bargain and has reached a happy so
it. Inasmuch as the Holiness Uniyer.
sity authorities had notified the asso.
citation that no more chautauQua as
semblies could be held on its grounds
the Board has been up against the Sc.
rious proposition of providing new
home. To buy suitable grounds and
erect necessary buildings would cost
$4,000 to $4,000. Under the new
arrangement the chautauqua is cared
for for the next ten years, and after
that can have the use OF building and
grounds as long as it desires for
cash rental of $500 per year to be
paid after the assembly each year.
The college has long needed such
a structure and will find ii great
convenience on many occasions. Os
kalooss is to be congratulated on the
outcome of the negotiations and fol
the big Improvement to the city that
will thus be brought about.
The only other bidder for the jot
at Saturdays meeting was the SeeV
ers Manufacturing Co., of this city
Mr.. Sewers had figured ON an en-
closed structure, on doing the neces
sary grading and other things moi
specified in the contract as let. His
figures - contemplating much NOR,
work--were $4,000. -..s.... 49,.
Mr.. Ives, of the contracting firm
was present at the meeting and re
NAMED over Sunday. He has already
let the contracts for all the work. 9th
er than steel work, to local parties
p. W. Sparks has the contract for the
roof and all the wood work, Other
than the seats. which will be bull
and erected by S. d. Sinclair. The
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