Dog-Shows, Concerts, Hockey Games, Boxing Exhibitions, Vie for Hold on Boston Garden--Scenes Shift Suddenly

Dog-show, prize-fight, operatic concert, wrestling match, flower show, track meet, hockey game all these can follow in rapid succession in Boston Madison Square Garden, the new home of Harvard hockey.

The master tricksters of the vaudeville stage can hardly duplicate in magnitude the work of the unseen gnomes that make possible the housing of such a variety of sporting and non-sporting events under a single roof.

These unearthly creatures burrow into the dark recesses under, above, behind the visible serenity of the place, and turn switches, open and shut valves, carry around bulky objects and do all manner of queer things. They seem to know what they are doing, and there must be some system or order to their efforts, for the results are surprising.

An afternoon sees the Harvard hockey squad working out on a vast sheet of ice, and on the same evening enormous flood lights show great banks of faces gathered around the squared circle of the prize ring.

According to the management of the new Boston Garden in an exclusive interview with a CRIMSON representative, the deicing process and the arrangement of seating accommodations takes but two hours. After using the space of the ice surface for other purposes a new layer of ice can be created in less than six hours in the early morning.

The acoustics of the Garden are guarded by an anti-echo covering of cork on the walls, so that the arean normally devoted to sports may on occasion be devoted to the arts with a concert or opera entertaining the customers.