Show gRAND RAND STANDS b FAILED TO PAY Several Severa Reasons for Losses Received at Meeting of the Executive Committee BILLS FINALLY ALLOWED SMALL SUM REMAINS AFTER AC ACCOUNTS ACCOUNTS ACCOUNTS COUNTS COUNTS ARE SQUARED R B ex ec executive x Several reasons re why the G A committee failed to receive e any substantial revenue from its ItIs S concessions were heard beaM yesterday by c xi committee at the ot which the bills blila of Wilson t McDonald the thc contractors coo tractors were allowed This firm constructed the stand at t the thO Monument corner tl the thC exten si II In front of ot the Z 2 C M I 1 and the thes s st t nd for the living flag at Seventh south addition they obtained the Mi tret et In 4 for tor the erection of Ot the public STand stand at It Seventh South treat street The 1 h contract bid for tor the original ori con eon const const st SI motion of the grand nd stands standa for which tl tn committee was wa to pay was 1180 Ad AO und and alterations made necessary an ann annl n nl ndoI d expenditure of Jl 11 Both bills the committee C yesterday allowed For Vr the concession of building and sell ell elling ir ing seats in the grand stand erected by byI tl I contractors at Seventh South street as ns c an Investment the committee was to tor r jy the first a OO taken in after the c of ot too the stand had been paid fur fr f r Th The concession granted limited the thet t c to 10 an expenditure of gOW JM JI its ls i t construction The stand cost 2250 S OJ build and seats were wert sold at H Hea I 1 ea t L 11 U Under tho the terms of or the conces il ll n Ti the t th contractors i dJ dl the committee tl tho i extra m 79 7 and amI were out by the 1 Vi tUI I if One thi of tile the reasons IOns assigned a by the con conr contractors if tractors r actors for the failure to make the stand standi i 1 I a It profit was that there had been a feat at deal of criticism concerning the thetty tty of the stand Several people who knew nothing of the construction of grand grind stands to the contract contractor or 03 o complained that the stands were un unsafe safe sa and as a result re people who ho other v ise H might have patronized patronised the stands stand fi ft f Hed to do so To allay these fears the f nU aCtors were put to the added ex expense pense of adding more timbering al although although though they th saM said that this was worse than an useless u less since lne the adding of more timber r instead ln tead of strengthening these thee really weakened them The criticism cism of the stands it was declared put filth the contractors and the committee to a needless added lidded expense e Another re reison i son for the failure to make money mone on the grand stands stand was ascribed to to the confusion contusion and of the public as to the locations of the stands The reviewing stand and Its ex extension extension tension at South Temple and Main streets was as for the use of the chief Ilief an awl l the invited guests of the G GA GA GU w U A R It Admission aton to the reviewing stand and Its extension was secured only by bya a blue ticket given If n free to several everal thou thousand thousand thousand sand guests of the tM G A R It Patrons in Wrong Pew One thousand of the holders of the blue ti mistook he me Ie location of the time stand in which they were entitled to seats ts and n i nt to Seventh South street and de do deru ru admission to the public stand ThEY were cre refused admission admi lon and they appealed to the police pollee Lieutenant John Henipel Hempel wh was at this end of the C street compelled the contractors to give UiSe persons per ons scats seats The reverse was also true At the tho Monument corner comer thousands of of f persons sought to buy seats in the r wing fing stand and its extension but buts s re refused refu 1 because the seats were all r for invited guests guest The street streetcar car were not running and the people were v liable to get from one end nd of the street to the other to reach their proper grand grandstands stands The executive committee exonerated the c contractors for the failure to have a can canVas v Vas is stretched above the stand occupied b to the children of the living flag the lack c which is I said to been the cause of cf i the prostration of so many ninny children There Thre re was no provision for a canvas cov cow cring for this stand in the contract but tlc the contractors had agreed to put the thea c a vas in place if the committee would furnish the piping and the canvas Ow 01 Owing ing hg to the plumbers strike the commit t was unable to procure the piping The contractors then attempted to put the canvas In place by means of wooden up uprights uprights upI I rights but it was found that there was wasi i L rave raw danger of the canvas coming down II n fl the children and causing a disastrous impede and the covering for that rea reason reason reason son was abandoned In spite of the vicissitudes of the grand grandstand grandstand grandstand stand enterprise e and the additional cost of ef If construction the committee yesterday e found that after all bills in con tion with them it had left of Its 00 a for grand gr nd stands about i |