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Show Democrats to Name Candidate In Hall of Varied History It the innalsaaaca styla. A heroic flffure of Diana in bronse poises atop the tower. Tbe fardan vm desla-ned so that it could be transformed in m fee? hours to suit any form of. public entertalnnent, and ft can swat IK, 000 persona . , An rmr of workman tn ajri duty always, using' "p"pr from tha curdea's but underground . storerooms, store-rooms, to make a iwlmmlnf tank her, a pressroom for a thou aanri newspapera there, a circus man;-erle man;-erle somewhere alaa. A eonventlonaJIy equipped theatre thea-tre with seats for 1000 la tucked avar In ana corner of the Garden, tasjins; daily performances Independently Inde-pendently of the main build ins;. A coneart hall Is nearly lost In another an-other comer. Its roof garden was one of th first in the city. flinea ltl. the financial career of the Oarden haa been a hectic one. It wasn't paying; and It was only 'when its mahitenanca was aaaured for a period of three years by exhibition and sport ins; interests that It was kept open. NEW YORK. May By A. P.) -Madleoa Square Garden, where tha national Democratic convention wlfl meat In June, always haa beea a placa of crowds, from tha days of the CM1 war period, wlltn It waa tha metropolitan terminal for a great railway, on through the phase of Its transformation into a gigantic . "faet-haJle," fifty-one yea re ago. Until the present. Always its career ha been spectacular. spec-tacular. Crowds- have passed through Its portals to attend the arrival of pennant-corered tralne In times when railroads were making mak-ing historic speed records. Grand opera stars have made their debuts there, boxers and wrestlers have gained and lost championships, six-day six-day bicyclists have pedalled their weary courses. broncme have been busted, elephants have trumpeted and clowns have cavorted, flower ahowg have bloomed, and politicians politi-cians have thundered under lta rafters. Adding notoriety to lta variegated varie-gated history, the Garden tower, which rears Its weather-beaten ten stories above the rest of the structure, struc-ture, waa the scene In 100 of a sensatlonsl murder, tha killing of the architect of Madison Hquare , Garden. Stanford White, at the hand of Harry K. Thaw. Before It quit the work -a -day world to enter the realm of pleae-ure, pleae-ure, the Garden was the New York. New Haven aV Hartford rallroad'e centrmi station In thla city. Then P. T. Btmum, whoaa local museums, mu-seums, traveling circuses and epigrams epi-grams were bringing him fame, leased ths rambling structure for "entertelnment and exhibition pur-poeee. pur-poeee. in 1171. He named It "The HippodLrome. Two years later Gil more, the famous fa-mous band mis tar, gained control of the property, rechriatened It "Glim ore's Garden," and put on a seriee of concerts. It waa not until un-til M7 that tha place took the name of the beautiful park It fares, and became Madison Square Garden. Gar-den. To the eye. however. It still was a railroad station. Then, In 1IS0, Jargely as a nub-Ho nub-Ho benevolence, the late J. P. Morgan Mor-gan and his son and thirteen other of New York's wealthiest men financed the erection of a new budding on the site, tha one that stands today. It Is a structure of brick and stone covering thirty-two thirty-two city lots between Madison and Fourth avenuee on the edge of 1 Mamn- aqtiare. "Tf srcnifvfure |