Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-02

the entire auditorium is used whenever
psnver has an opportunity to entertain a
ratlonei political convention or give It to a
cause that will advertise the city no rental
fee is charged.
The twin cities OF Minnesota, St Paul and
Minneapolis. handled the situation a httle
differently. Both have ,auditoriums, but only
81 PauTa has facilties,for national pohti-
cal convention This auditorium was built
by popular subscription at cost OF S4eo'VVV.
II will seat 1900 persons in the theatre out
AZ an auditorium the seating capacity may
be Increased 70 10000. The Minneapolis audi
torium will seat $500.
The other cities OF the Middle West have
been wide awake too. Kansas City was one
OF the first to show the country something
in the business Of building convention halls
This hustling city constructed such hall IN
1899 Mt a cost of s25O0OO which on one occa-
sion was said to have accommodated more
than 20. 600 children Three months before the
National Democratic Convention was sched-
uled to meet I'm It in 1900 the hall was de-
stroyed by FIRE Did Kansas City give up the
convention? Not bit of It. Instead they
began work at once on a new convention
hall and had II completed in time for the
convention. This building seats $1,000, and
can he converted into theatre with seat
ing capacity of 5000 II can also be used Tor
exhibitions, horse shows, etc. MILWAUKEE,
like Kansas City, has spacious municipal
auditorium capable Of taking care OF the
largest conventions.
Chicago has the Coliseum, which is big
enough TO house the most important conven-
tions in addition to the spacious auditorium.
Cincinnati has to use the Music Hall, which
has seating capacity Of only 1850. CleVe-
land has no convention hall, but for such
purposes is Obliged to depend upon armories
and theatres
West Is Ahead of the East
on the Pacific coast, Los Angeles has three
splendid auditorlums, and can take care OF
conventions of virtually any size. Shrine
Auditorium has a seating capacity of 10000.
The Trinity Auditorium will seat 5000 and
the Temple Auditorium 5000. Moving up the
coast we come to Portland, which has to de-
pend upon an armory with a seating capac-
ity of 1900 Seattle has available two audi
toriums both at tho University Of Wash
ington. One is a natural outdoor amphi-
theatre, where 10000 or more can assemble
comfortably. The other is the University
Auditorium. where 5000 can be seated.
There are no municipality owned conven-
tiOn halls In the dig cities Oh tne SdSt' hlaui-
son Square Garden, while not owned by the
city. is available for nearly everything that
will advertise New York. II has seating
capacity of 12,l31 But New York has five
other audltoriums which can be used for
convention purposes. The largest is the
Grand Central Palace, with seating capac-
ity of 5000 Then there Is the Manhattan
opera House. which will accommodate $500;
the Metropolitan Opera House, 2soo' Acad-
emy of Music, $500, and Carnegie Hall, 23o0.
Boston has three good-sized auditoriums,
Mechanics Hail. Exhibition Hall, in the
same building, and the Arena. OF the three,
Mechanics Hall is the largest, and has
seating capacity of more than 5000. Balti-
more has no convention hall, and Is obliged
10 use the 5th Regiment Armory, where the
last Democratic National Convention was
held.
Pittsburgh has no municipal convention
hall but does have Exhibition Hall, which
has a seating capacity of 5000. Buffalo has
what is called the Broadway Auditorium,
with seating capacity of $500. Atlanta
leads all the Southern cities with conven-
ton hall managed by committee Of Coun-
ellis. It was built at cost of $25OOOo, and
seats 1000.