THE BASEBALL TEAM.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 463, 16 April 1890, Page 3

THE BASEBALL TEAM.

LETTER FROM MR A. G. SPALDING. Mb A. G. Spalding, who visited Auckland with the American baseball team, writes to a friend in Auckland, under date February Bth, as follows : . “T left New York for Chicago this morning on the Pennsylvania Limited, which runs between New York and Chicago, a distance of over nine hundred miles, making the run in twenty-four hours, and passing through the Allegheny Mountains. The train is under cover from one end to the other, and a person passes through the entire length of the train without being exposed to the air. There is a dining car, its tables beautifully ornamented with flowers, excellent meals furnished, fresh cooked on the train, a fine library, bath rooms for both sexes, ladies’ maids for the ladies and man servants for the men, a smoking car, an observation car, which is really a large sitting room with plate glass windows, reports of the stock markets are telegraphed to the train at different points weather bulletins are put on, but the latest addition is the stenographer, to whom I have dictated this letter. All of these conveniences are free to the patrons of the road. One innovation lately added is that of a competent stenographer who so willingly jots down any thoughts one chances to express to distant friends, writes them out with the type-writer and despatches your letters to any given address. “lam glad to hear through letters received from New Zealand friends that there is a fair chance of baseball becoming popular in New Zealand. This is doubtless the result of our recent trip. If so, I will look forward with pleasure some day of welcoming a New Zealand baseball team to America. I remember with keenest pleasure the delightful time you gave us during our short stay in Auckland, and I only regret that I could not have seen more of your country. I am looking forward as one of the greatest pleasures stored up for the future, to another visit to New Zealand, and I shall certainly arrange to spend more time there. ”