Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1902 — JUDGE THOMPSON'S NEW BUILDING. [ARTICLE]

JUDGE THOMPSON'S NEW BUILDING.

Plans Not Completed and Its Erection Not Fully Decided Upon. • . In the published reports of Judge Thompson’s proposed new opera house building, the newspapers were Imposed upon, and the pjans as published were imaginary to a large extent. The plans as published Qfginated in the brain of a Chicago architect who came here to see Judge Thompson but found him absent from the city. The architeot then gave out imaginary plans for the proposed building and succeeded in getting them and his name as architect in many of the newspapers and nearly all the trade journals in the country. He accomplished his purpose, however, of getting much free advertising, even if he hns not been selected as architeot. The facts of the case are that Mr. Thompson has not yet fully decided to build and at no time did he have an opera house building in contemplation, and it is safe in saying the liew building will not contain an opera house. He may, -however, build 'his year, the matter all depending on whether he can secure suitable tenants. The building, if erected, will be designed to meet their reqniremerits, and will be a large three story structure and a credit to oar little city. Nothing is certain -as to the proposed structure, however, at this time, and there is a possibility that it may not be built at all.