Show MAYOR fAVORS FAVOS CIT CITY OWN HAll Says Conventions Could Be BeWon BeT BeWon T Won Ton on H Here ere and Grand Opera Popularized Tentative plans for a campaign n to build a municipal hall where hal conventions conven conven- tons and ane other othor meetings may be bo held are being formulated by members of ot tho time city commission and persons in interested In- In tere in civic work Mayor W W. Mont Ferry declared at tho the hotel yesterday that ho he Is IB in favor of at tho city erect a n. hall hail hallor hal or building to care for large largo conventions conven conven- tons musical productions IU and other gatherings s. s He declared that one ono of ot the reasons for tho the hl high h cost of good gool amusement has been heen tho the prices which theatres have havo paid for tor ground and ana tho great amount of or money put Into play play- houses Mayor Ferry declared that If It tho the city builds a municipal hall hal that It I will bo be In iii a A position to invite organizations wi to hold conventions here He lie pointed point point- ed out that Detroit receives moro more than eVer every year from Its Is conven con ton He declared that tho the greatest benefit from a municipal hall hail hal would b be In giving hl high h elsie class clas entertainments to tho people at a low cost that with the city owning the hall hal grand opera wih could be lH given at 50 0 cents a sent scat sent Mayor 1 or Ferr Ferry said that ho would give o I his support to an any movement to erect 1118 a owned city owned cl-owned auditorium auditorium |