Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1893 — A Revolving Grand Stand. [ARTICLE]

A Revolving Grand Stand.

P. P. Cuplin, of West Bend, lowa, has intended a device which he believes will make racing even more popular than it now is. It is a revolving grand stand, a contrivance that will save the investor in pool tickets the irksome labor of craning his neck and straining his vision to see how his ducats are being carried. The grand stand is supposed to revolve as tlie races go, and the occupants are always facing the horses in their journey to the wire. The inventor’s idea for the mechanical contrivance of a revolving stand is to have it set in a basin filled with water, but he discreetly withholds particulars as to the application of power, but says that it is just as practicable with a stand of 50,000 chairs as with one of 5,000. The judges’ stand is to be constructed as an ordinary elevator. The cage will be gradually raised when the horses start until such a height is reached that the judges may see the horses passing behind the stand through the open space between the roof and the main part of the stand, or between the upper and lower sections, if the stand comprises two stories.—[Chicago Inter Ocean.