Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1911 — TO OUTDO MADISON SQUARE [ARTICLE]

TO OUTDO MADISON SQUARE

Successor of Famous Garden to Be Mammoth Affair—To Be Known ? as “Broadway Gardena.” New York.—4‘Broadway Gardens" Is to take the place of Madison Square Gardens, which has been sold, and shortly will be razed and replaced with business structures. Afanouncement has been made by the archie tects for the new arena that the company organized to built It will be Incorporated next week with $1,500,000 capital. The mammoth structure will occupy the entire block on Broadway between Forty-seventh and Fortyeighth streets, and will extend back to within 100 feet of Eighth avenue.' In every way it will be larger than Madison Square Garden. The main entrance will be on Broadway, and the rest of the Broadway frontage will be occupied by a store and office building six stories in height On the For-ty-seventh street side will be a theater on tbs ground floor, With a seat-

tag capacity of 1,100. Two theaters, a winter garden and a covered garden will occupy the roof. The arena will seat about 20,000 persons. It will be 250 feet in length by 166 feet in width. Underneath the arena will be another one of the *° m f size, available for show purposes. The sides will be constructed, as far as feasible, of glass and steel.