The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-09
MARK TWAIN SPEAKS
At the Baseball Banquet--Cham-
cey Depew Follows.
OUTLAWS TERRORIZE PEOPLE.
A Band of Desperadoes Make Life Burden
The People are About to
Get Mad.

NRw YORK, April S-The baseball men
of this city rendered a testimonial banquet
tonight at Delmonicos, to the baseball
tourists who have just returned from trip
around the world. They had warm wei
come from the 80 guests assembled. The
dining hall was profusely decorated. a. G.
Mills, x-president of the league, presided
WHEN THE GUESTS WE'RE SEATED.
J. H. Twitchen offered prayer. The an
nouncement that nine innings Of dishes
were ready for the feast was made by
Mr.. Mills with the familiar baseball
word ''play" Among the notables at
table were Mayor Chaplin, of Brooklyn;
Mayor Cleveland, Of Jersey city; Hon.
Chauncey NJ. Depew, Daniel Dougherty,
Judge Henry L. Rowland, ErastIS Winins
and Consul G. w. Griffin, of Melbourne,
Australia. When the cigars had been
lighted Chairman Mills said the gathering
had been called for the purpose of doing
honor to one branch of manly sports. and
that was base ball. He spoke of the sue
cessful woodworking trip of the boys.
Letters Of regret were read from the gov
errors of New York. New jersey and Con
necticut, as well as from Mayor Grant The
speakers of the evening were then called
my Among them were Daniel DOugherty,
Mayor Chaplin, Of Brooklyn; MayOrFCleve-
land, of Jersey city; A @. Spaulding, of
Chicago; A. G. Arson, of Chicago; John
M. Ward, of New DIRK; Chauncey NJ.
Depew and Mark Twain.
TWAIN SPOKE OF THE PEACEFUL
beautiful indolent Sanwich Islands. when
a good man dies, he goes to sleep in one
heaven but to awake in another. "Aud
these boys have played baseball there" he
exclaimed baseball which is the very
symbol and outward visible expression of
drive and push and rush and struggle, Of the
raging, tearing, booming Of the nineteenth
century II is like iuterrupting funeral
with Il circus. No alien he said, lin
all the world has any deep, strong,
charm for me but that one, and these
world wanderers who sit before US here
have lately looked on these things with
the eye of the flesh, not the unsatisfying
vision of the spirit. I envy them that;
yes,,. and l would envy them some
whaS of the glories they have
achieved in their illustrious march
about the mighty circumference of the
earth, if it were fair; but no. it was an
earned run Qaughter). They have car
ried the American name to the uttermost
parts of the earth, and carried it with
glory every time. drink long life to the
boys who plOwed new equator around the
globe,
STEALING BASES OK THEIR BELLIES.
Chauncey Depew, ameng other things,
said: Il have been preparing a speech for
the centennial. but it is insignificant in i'm
portance to what ! shall say tonight at
this event, which eclipses everything
George Washington was a great
and good man, but he never saw
a baseball game. Madison wrote
the constitution of the United States
and jefferson gave democracy its birth, but
there is no indication that they were ever
raised by the enthusiasm of home run.
When / was in England last summer Mr. 1
Gladstone said to me what is the differ
ence between the newspapers in America
and those in this country! / replied that
the newspapers in England devote ten col
umns to reporting parliamentary proceed
iDES and half column to cricket match
wA!e in America the paper gives
congressional proceedings half a column
and baseball games ten columns. Athletic
sports,are the main stay of civilization. From
Chas. Dickens to Max O'Rell the Americant
people has been the butt riCicule but
our teams were sent abroad 10 show what
Americans really are, and that harmony Of
mind and body is not to be neglected by q
PEOPLE