The New Student's Reference Work/Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden is an amusement hall at the corner of 26th and 27th Streets and Madison and Fourth Avenues, New York City. It contains an amphitheater accommodating over 20,000 people, with a contrivance for covering the floor with water four feet deep for aquatic sports. This amphitheatre is used for flower, dog, poultry and horse shows annually; and mass-meetings, circus performances etc. frequently. There also are a theater, restaurant, concert-room and ball-room. A tower 368 feet high crowns one of the corners, and is surmounted by a gilded statue of Diana, poised as a weather-vane, by St. Gaudens. Visitors are admitted to the tower on payment of 25 cents; and are taken to about 100 feet from the top by an elevator. The whole area occupied by the building is 200x425 feet, every part of which is utilized. It is built entirely of masonry, iron and glass, and is fireproof. It was opened in 1890.