Clipping:The Huntingdon Street grounds
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| Date | Saturday, April 30, 1887 |
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| Text | Base ball enthusiasts in this city will be well pleased if the weather to-day is clear and bright, as it will witness the opening of the Philadelphia Ball Park, the new grounds of the Philadelphia Club, at Broad and Huntingdon streets, and it will also be the opening of the National League championship season in this city. President A. J. Reach and Secretary John J. [sic] Rogers were busy yesterday in making the final arrangements for the great event to-day. Over two thousand invitations have been issued to public dignitaries, clergy and men prominent in all callings. To these Colonel Rogers had received nearly fifteen hundred responses. “I had made a calculation,” said Colonel Rogers to a reporter of The Times, “that I would not receive over one thousand acceptances, but here I am snowed under with nearly five hundred more. And not only that; the majority write that they will be accompanied by two or three ladies each and some by four or five. The clergymen of all denominations have responded very favorably to our invitation and they all say they will bring ladies.” Prior to the game, which begins at 4 o’clock, a concert will be given by Beck’s Miliary Band of twenty-five pieces. The concert will begin promptly at 3 o’clock, when the following programme will be rendered....” The Philadelphia Times April 30, 1887 The whole structure has for its foundations one hundred and twenty piers of brick and stone, built from five to eight feet into the solid earth, which uphold the seating platforms. There are no wooden posts on the main floor of the pavilion. Wrought-iron columns, twenty-four feet apart, are set along the front and rear, with none intervening to obstruct the view of the game. From these iron columns, in immense spans, rise the well-braced iron roof trusses, sixteen in number, upon which the roof is constructed. Upon this roof, facing the ball field, are fifty-seven private boxes, the three central ones being reserved for the press and directors. The end boxes are quite large, the others are purposely built small enough to contain eight seats, with standing room for several more. These boxes are separated by turned posts in front and paneled partitions, every other post rising above the roof lines in a banneret standard. The backs of the boxes are finished in panels and blinds. They are reached by double, broad stairs from the corner belvidere, landing upon the promenade platforms on the crown of the room, but protected by railings. The Philadelphia Times May 1, 1887 [see also TSL 5/4/1887 p. 10] |
| Source | The Philadelphia Times |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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