January 5, 1922 



The Rorists'' Review 



27 



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READY FOR BIG SHOW 



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CLEVELAND'S PREPARATIONS. 



The Public Auditorium. 



The Cleveland Public Auditorium will 

 be ready in ample time for the fifth 

 national flower show, to be held March 

 25 to April 1, 1922. The architect's 

 drawing, reproduced on this page, shows 

 how it will look when completed. If 

 cleared out, it could be used at once. 

 This building has been the outstanding 

 trouble in all the flower show plans of 

 the Cleveland florists, principally be- 

 cause of the vexatious delays, some of 

 which were due to the war, many others 

 to labor troubles of various sorts and 

 some to the changes which were made in 

 the early plans. Eecently a rumor was 

 started that the acoustics of the build- 

 ing were defective. About 1,000 people, 

 among whom was the writer, attended a 

 public test, or rehearsal, in the audi- 

 torium to see what truth there was in 

 the rumors, and so far as the trial went 

 everyone expressed himself as satis- 

 fied. The scaffolding had not been re- 

 moved from the side walls, but by the 

 time of the flower show it looks as 

 though things would be in such shape 

 that we need not worry. Two big shows 

 are scheduled to be held there before 

 the big flower show; the American 

 Building Exposition is to open February 

 15 and the grocers are to liokl a food 

 show, opening March 7. Naturally, if 

 these shows take place, the interior will 

 be in better shape for us. Most of the 

 concrete interior work is finislied; tlie 

 staging is almost all down. The magnifi- 

 cent organ is ready for installing at 

 once when the building is in shape. 



Magnificent Building. 



The auditorium has been planned so 

 as to be supplied with licat by tlie 



Electric Illuminating Co. at a cost of 

 $40,000 per annum, but the company 

 would not guarantee heat sufficient to 

 heat it in all weathers, so an auxiliary 

 boiler is being installed at an additional 

 cost of $10,539. The building, as it 

 stands now, has cost over $6,303,000 and 

 it will cost $2,000,000 more when the 

 small halls are added to the two ends of 

 the main building. By the latest figures 

 it will cost over $8,000,000 completed, 

 and it is expected to cost $500 per day 

 to maintain, or $185,000 per year. 



The seating capacity is 14,000. The 

 entire building will be 213x590 feet. Tlie 

 stage is 55x104 feet. A $100,000 organ 

 is to occupy a space on the left side of 

 this stage. On three sides of the main 

 auditorium a stone balcony, eleven feet 

 from the floor, extends over the main 

 hall. In the center of the ceiling a 

 large skylight, seventy-eight feet from 

 the floor, provides light, and an indirect 

 lighting system is also furnished. 



The basement, where the trade dis- 

 play will be held, will be furnished witli 

 comfort rooms. 



The columns supporting the balcony 

 are placed twenty feet apart and each 

 carries water, electric lights and heat- 

 ing units, so that sufficient water and 

 extra lights can be obtained con- 

 veniently. 



The entire exhibition space available 

 throughout the building is 142,000 

 square feet. This gives a much larger 

 space available for exhibits than any 

 flower show ever attempted yet in 

 America, if not in the world. 



Entries for Gardens. 



There was a meeting called by A. D. 

 Taylor, chairman of the interior decora- 

 tton committee, at the Hollondcn hotel, 

 December 28, at 3 p. m., of ;ill the en- 

 trants for the garden prizes. He desired 



to correlate the; different exhibits into 

 a "j)icturc of the whole" at the show. 

 He thought that the whole idea of the 

 flower show was to educate the people, 

 and he worked wholly on that idea. He 

 tried to get a line on where each garden 

 was to be placed and also to formulate 

 some rules to govern certain features; 

 for instance, the maximum height of the 

 shrubbery, the placing and kind of 

 statuary, the design and quality of the 

 exhibits. There was one important 

 change made in the four 1,000-foot 

 gardens. Now these spaces competing 

 for the $5,000 offered by the Society of 

 American Florists stand: Entry 1: The 

 School Gardens of Cleveland. Entry 2: 

 The Cleveland Garden Club, collaborat- 

 ing with the Shaker Heights Garden 

 Club. Entry 3: Walter Cook, Inc. Entry 

 4 lias been changed from the J. M. 

 Gasser Co. to John Merkel, of Mentor, 

 O. F. C. W. Brown, manager of the 

 .1. M. Gasser Co., entered instead two 

 gardens in the spaces covering 500 

 square feet, one a rose garden and the 

 other a bulb garden. Other entries in 

 this class are the Daisy Hill Farm, of 

 which Paul Bakofen is manager; A. C. 

 Fox, the Friedley Co., Carl Hagenburger, 

 of Mentor, and the Heepe Co., of Mace- 

 donia. 



Besides these entries, A. L. Miller, of 

 Jamaica, N. Y., will arrange a space of 

 500 square feet on a non-competitive 

 basis. Thomas Roland, of Nahant, 

 Mass., expects to bring his wonderful 

 collection of acacias to Cleveland. It 

 is estimated that they will occupy about 

 1,000 square feet of space. 



There has so far been only one entry 

 in the class for gardens covering 200 

 s(]uaro feet of space. This entry is made 

 by the Lakewood Garden Club, but no 

 doubt there will be others. A. S. Bus- 



Architect's Drawing Shows how Cleveland Public Auditorium Will Look when National Flower Show Opens. 



