Clipping:Plans for the Phillies grounds; folding iron seats; admission prices; private boxes
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| Date | Sunday, February 5, 1882 |
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| Text | The stand will be divided into three portions. The centre portion (reserved) will be furnished with six hundred iron folding-chairs with perforated board seats. In the rear, will be seven private boxes seating eight persons each. A large stairway back of the stand will lead to a wide platform to which entrance can be had to the entire stand. The price of seats in reserved coupon section will be twenty-five cents extra. The right arm will seat seven hundred and sixty, and the left arm nine hundred and eighty persons. These seats will cost but fifteen cents extra. This gives a seating capacity in the stand for twenty-three hundred and ninety-six persons. On the roof, directly over the reserved seats, will be placed a reporters' box, to which none but reporters and visiting club officials will be admitted. Along the Columbia avenue side of the grounds will be first-class open seats—having foot rests—for fourteen hundred and fifty persons. Another section, seating the same number, will be placed on the Twenty-fourth street side. The brick building formerly used as a saloon will be repaired and used for club and dressing rooms, with a private office attached for business purposes. In this a telephone will be connected with Reach's Eighth street store, and the result of each inning will be send down as soon as played. A new fence, nine feet high, will be placed around the grounds, to make the change complete. The price of season tickets has been placed at twenty-five dollars, which includes admission to grounds and a numbered reserved chair in the Grand Stand, to all exhibitions held on the grounds between April 1, 1882, and March 31, 1883. most of these tickets have been subscribed for, but a few may be ordered on application to Treasurer Reach. They will be delivered about April 1st, and the season is expected to open about April 10th. The Philadelphia Item February 5, 1882 The changes effected involve the erection of a substantial fence, and also of a grand-stand and four rows of free seats. The main stand has patent perforated numbered folding-chairs. In the rear of these chairs are several handsome private boxes, capable of holding four to eight persons. The wings will be seated with regular chairs, the entire stand accommodating fully 1,500 persons. Along the left and right field fences, seats with foot-rests will be provided sufficient for 2,000 people. The ground has been plowed up, sodded and rolled, and is in splendid condition for ball-playing. Tracks for footracing, bicycling, etc., have been prepared, and the ground is so arranged that almost every known field sport can be indulged in upon it. At the sides of the grand-stand, dressing-rooms for the players and offices for the managers have been erected. On top of the grand-stand a handsome reporters’ stand has been placed. New York Clipper April 1, 1882 |
| Source | Philadelphia Item |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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