Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1900 — FINE CONVENTION HALL. [ARTICLE]

FINE CONVENTION HALL.

Kansas City Has Good Accommodations for Democrats. The convention hall at Kansas City, where the Democratic convention will be held July 4, is one of the finest in the country, li was opened a year ago. The building is of bridge construction without a column to interfere w-ith the view from any part of the auditorium. The roof is

supported by great steel girders. The general seating arrangement to modeled somewhat after the plan of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. The floor space is divided into arena, arena balcony, balcony and roof garden, boxes skirting the arena and the arena balcony. The stage is situated in the center of the arena. The total seating capacity is nearly 20,000, and, with standing room, the building is capable of holding more than 22,000 persons. The arena alone will seat 4,000. To each side of the arena and under the first balcony are numerous committee rooms, which have their separate street entrances. The building has no stairways, the upper seatings being reached by means of inclined planes. Separate exits are used for the balconies and roof garden. and it to estimated the hall can ba emptied at the rate of 5,000 persons a minute.