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Show YALE MEN CONSIDER PLISJFJlll Will Build New Structure by Means of Bonding Issue Open to All. NEW HAVEN. Conn.. Nov. S. Yale held a mass meeting tonight while finnl plans for the now stadium wore outlined David Duggitt, of this city, secretary of the stadium committee, presided, and details de-tails wcru Kiven bv Noah JI. Swedine, of Philadelphia. YaJo 'f3. Tlio entire plant will cost 5700,000. it is now stated, against estimates of ?500.000 when the scheme was outlined. To Yale men tho at fair Is a. general playground proposition and the stadium only an incident This Includes a' new elubhouso and a new stand to bo used for baseball and track Paying for the stadium will he largely by means of a bonding Issue open to the public, assuring It of a chance, to obtain tickets to the Important games. In case a subscriber takes a $100 bond he will be allowed to purchase at face value two tickets to all the games plavcd in the stadium for fifteen years. In case he takes a -1200 bond he will be allowed three tickets, a ?300 bond will allow him four tickets, and so on up to a fiuou bond. The land bought for the playground directly across the street from the present pres-ent Yale field rost $150,000. about 100 acres being purchased. The stadium, or bowl, as It Is termed, will cost about $300,000, nnil will neat about GO. 000 people, and may be enlarged to seat IO0.O0U. The clubhouse will co.t $100,000 and tho baseball base-ball stand about $150,000. The remainder of the money will bo employed in tbe general development of the grounds and of the. plant. The stadium, or coliseum, will be bowl-Rhaped and will be a partly sunken affair. It will be L'S feet below ;uid 3.-, feet above ground. It B proposed to remove re-move the loam from tho territory to be covered by the field and stands. th.n to excavate the material from the field and use It for constructing an embankment, the Inner slope to bo cut Into steps with a tread of '11 inches and rips varying ifrom IS Inches at the bottom to about I" riches at the top, each rise being about t ireo thirty-Kceonds of an ineh highr than the one bolow it. These stops' are to be protected by a granolithic covering like a s rtewnlk and -urb. On thcs are to be built wood benches, with a back nnl a fpotrest to ralso the feet from the concrete. con-crete. There arc to bo 27 rows of scats. The entrance to the field itself Is to be through a wide reinforced c.onroe tunnel made on a slope from the ground outside the embankment to the field |