New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 2, 1924, Page 12

DEMOCRATS MEETIN | HISTORICAL HALL - Has Been Place of Crowds Since, Time of Civil War 1 with seats for 1,000 is tucked away in one corner of the Garden, staging cally performa independently of | the man biuilding. A conecert hal. is nearly lost in another corner. roof garden was one of the firsl in the city. Since 1912 |h~ financial career of the Garden has been a heetic ‘one. 1t u.;lm[ paying, and 1t was only when ts maintenance was assured for a pm iod of three years by exhibition and sporting interests that it was | kept open. New York, May 2-—Madison Square Garden, where the national demo- s eratic convention will meet in June, &lways has been a place of crowds, from the days of the Civil War period when it was the metropolitan terminal for at railway, on through tne p! f its transforma- tion into a gigan fest-halle,” 51 years ago, until the present. Always its carcer has been spectac- wiar. Crowds have passed through its portals to attend the arrival of pennant-covered trains in times when railroads were making historlc speed Aecords. Grand opera stars have made their debuts there, boxers and ‘wrestiers have gained and lost cham- plonships, six-day bicyclists have pedalled theri weary courses, bron- chos have been busted, elephants | have triumphed and clowns have ca- vorted, flower shows have bloomed, and politicians have thundered under its raiters. Adding notoriety history the Garden rears its weatherbeaten 10 stories above the rest of the structure, was the scene in 1906 of a sensational murder, the killing of the architecct of Madison Square Garden, Stanford White, at the hand of Harry K. Thaw. Before it quit the work-a-day aworld to enter the realm of pleasure, The Garden was the New York & ‘Hartford Railroad's certral station in this eity, Then P. T. Barnum, whose local museums, traveling cir-| cuses and epigrams were bringing him fame, leased the rambling struc- | ture for “entertainment and exhibi tion"” purposes, in 1873, He named it *The Hippodrome,"” Two years later Gilmore the fa- mous bandmaster, gained control of the property, rechristened it “Gil-| more's Garden,” and put on a series of concerts. It was not until 1879 that the place took the name of the beautiful park it faces, and became Madison Square Garden, To the eye, however, it still was a railroad sta- tion. Then, in 1889, largely as a public benevolence, the late J. P, Morgan nd his son and 13 other of New ork’s wealthies men financed the erection of a new building on the site, the one that stands today. It is a structure of brick and stone covering 82 city lots between Madison and Fourth avenues on the edge of Madi- #on Square. Its architecture Is of the Rennaissance style. An heroie| figure of Diana In bronze polses atop | the tower, - The Garden was designed so that it gould be transformed in a few hours| to suit any form of public entertain- ment, and it can seat 15,000 persons. . An army of workmen is on duty al- ways using “props” from the Gar- den’'s huge underground storerooms, to make a swimming tank here, a gc-room for a thousand newspapers to its varigated Tower, which ere, a circus menagerie somewhere e " A conventionally equipped theater Free Sixth Century (-la\ es Show | Pre-Christian Relics | London, May 2.—The discovery of a number of skeletons with numer- | ous funeral relies of pre-Christian | date near Stratford-on-Avon in a sixth century cemetery, is regarded by English archeologists as one of the | most important finds ever made in kngland, The gem of the collection consists ! of a magnificent umbo or hoss of a warrior's shield, which was found with other implements of warfare buried with a body. The shield boss which is proncunced to be unique is of iron, beautifully decorated with plates of cast bronze with gold at- tachments and ornamented with gold on the apex and around the rim. During the course of the excava- | tjons 214 interments were found, some 40 of them having been cre- mated and the - ashes buried in carthenware urns of beautiful designs. POSTAL LABOR AGENTS Geneva, May 2.—Postmasters in New Zealand towns will act as em- ployment agents under a plan re- ported to the International labor Bureau here, In places where there are no government labor agents an employer may apply to the post- master, and if no labor is available the postmaster will forward the ap- plication to the nearest official ‘labor agent, Similarly workers in need of employment may register at the post | office, FATHER AND SOX \ILI.’I‘I\G The New Britain - Rotary elub will observe Father and Son Day on May |22, when each member will bring a boy. A program to appeal to the boys will be arranged. Baby Peggy Oh A Fine Candy 10c Everywhere Free ONE DAY ONLY SATURDAY MAY 3 COUPON GOOD FOR 4 Quarts OF Peerless Motor Qil To Every Car Owner who buys five gallons or more of Peerless Gas at 23c per gallon at our new Filling Station. 534 West Main St. _This Station was formerly at 415 West Main now across the bridge at 534 West Main Street. AL. CHAGNON, Manager. The Singer Oil Co. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1924. [Duke of York. acknowledged the | | conrpliment. ‘I | | 'HIGHLANDERS ADOPT YORK As PRINCE OF SGOTLANDWMN"! the expressed desire of the! ’ G i v 7 Scotch and made one of his sons the | Albert. Duke of York. Picked by In- | Duke of Clarence. Victoria has- | { tened to treat all her subjects equally, fluential Group of Scotchmen as making her second son the Duke of Edinburg ,the third son the Duke of Connaught for Treland, and the fourth son was created Duke of Albany as Lugland’'s own, George V is in a position to emu- | late his grandmother, for he has two sons who are not yet attached to ducal titles. | "IED FOREST May 2.—A small | petrified forest, consisting of a num- Ler of stumps and fallen logs has | bee ndiscovered in the hills that rim the Mohave desert, miles north {east of here. The tallest of the petrified standing stumps is about nine feet high, and is filled with | !mud and lava. | STHMA No cure for it, but welcome relief is often brought The selection has precedent in the action of George TII. who accommo- Their Unoftiwal Prince London, May 2.—Not to be outdone | by Wales, which can boast of its own | royal prince, an influential group of | | Scotchmen have chosen Albert, Duke of York, to be the unofficial Prince lof Scotland. Since the time when Queen K ’hfth robbed Scotland of its royal line, Scotchmen have had only two or three royal princes allotted them by the grace of their English sovereign Now the Scotchmen would like to exercise a c@rtain amount of freedom in selecting a royal prince of their |own. Scotchmen attending the 141st an- niversary dinner of the Highland society, at which the Duke of York was present, took the initiative in adopting him as their favorite son. The Scotchmen pointed out that the Duke of York also held a Scotch !titie “The Earl of Inverness” and that | !furthermore he had married a Scot- | tish duchesg, and they did not neglect jto mote that he is also Scottish by | llineage. | In the course of his speech the! FIND PETR! Los Angeles, POR!;IB Over 17 Million Jars Used specal | 09 DISCOUNT speci FOR SATURDAY ONLY ON ALL HOLLYWOOD HATS AND CAP3 Wright's Hat Shop 282 MAIN STREET NASEBALL BAT, BALL AND GLOVE WITH EVERY SUIT. MOTHER CAN BUY IT FOR ONLY 1)1 Others from $5.50 to $19.5 AT New York Sample Shop 357 MAIN ST. MEN' ere Are Super Val- o Ues In-Spring Suits THEY LAST TWICE AS LONG AND DEFY COMPETITION FROM EVERY STANDPOINT—STYLE, FABRICS, TAILORING AND FIT- TING QUALITIES. THE SELECTION IS AS ATTRACTIVE AS THE VALUES ARE REMARKABLE. YOU SAVE TEN DOLLARS HERE. 292 342 A MODEL TO FIT EVERY SIZE AND FORM. 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