Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-28
WORK ON VALE BOWL
 GOING ON SPEEDILY,
David Dagaett, Chairman of Commit tee, Says it Will be Finished in Time For Next Years Games.

The work on the new Yale bowl has progressed very rapidly within the last month and visitors to the site are impressed with the size of the struc- ture and the immense amount of prep eration that has been necessary to make the work as effective as it now appears, according to David Daggett. chairman of the committee of 21.
 According to the figures of October l, as gwen by engineers and cOntrac- tors, the removing of the IOam from the surface of the field was ninety eight and one-half per cent. .complet- ed This is therefore practically com pleted as it is not necessary to re- move the portions of it which are not 10 be covered by the building Of the th1rty-tW0 entrance tunnels for the spectators, nineteen are now com pIete and three have the forms set and ready to pour the concrete. The embankment upon which the seats will rest os about ten per cent com pIeted. This last has not been pushed until very lately, as it was necessary To complete some portion of the tun- nels before this work could proceed. Tn addition to this the wall around the Whole structure is in process of construction and the contractor has decided to install an extra concrete plant for this purpose This wall will be nine feet high instead of seven, as Originally planned; and this change With the other modification in the contract which experience has shown necessary has somewhat delayed the work. The contractor estimates that he is six weeks behind on his work, Tor which he considers that the com mlttee is responsible for delays and changes aggregating in all about four weeks. At the speed at which the structure is now being built there should be no question but what it will be ready for the Harvard game ir 1914, although the present contract will have to be extended about a month beyond December 15, which was the time limit
 Mere Contracts to Let
 in The opinion of the engineers, the bank for the seats must weather winter and upon this being thorough ly done depends the success of the plan. The present contractor has the removal of the lOam the erection or tLe tunnels, the placing of the ombAnkment the excavation to the level of the playing field, the filling th the meadows, the wall about the sAuCture and the two buildings on either side to do by December 15. It las also been found by experience that the second contract which com p1Ises the seats and the finishing of the structure, is to some extent de- pendent on the way the first con tract is handled and completed and the committee will probably let an- other contract, or the second contract for the structure, within a month";
 Subscriptions are coming in slowly and the committee will probably make another appeal within a fortnight. Those who have visited the site and watched the work are enthusiastic over the plans and over the general scheme of the structure Some idea of the size of the completed structure may be gained if it is compared with the New Haven green. Placed diag- cnafly across the green the bowl would overlap twenty feet on che corners of College and Elm and the same on Church and Chapel streets.