New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-14
HOW POOR PEOPLE BATTLE.

TIE TIME-wHERE THE STREET BOY DE-
FIEs THE LAW
A person who takes pleasure in seeing peo-
pie enjoy themselves cannot fail 10 be pleased with the
sight of the interior OF any of the swimming baths in
this city when they filed with bathers they gen
orally every day at this of the year Probably
place in the city shows people having such a good
time while benefiting their health and acquiring pro-
hcency in art which may be needed any day
themselves some one else from drowning.
Having procured PERMISSION, person may enter the
swimming baths and watch the batLers The free baths
will generally be found the most interesting, being
fullest, and showing the widest range bathers. On
women's day one VIII see struggling procession of
and girls making haste the baths 6ve-year-
old girls Alternating with gray haired They
enter quietly than the boys and men, in
side the younger ones are apt to far outscream their
brothers They enter the cleanooking dressipgrooms
around the bath, and in few minutes emerge clad in
their bathing suits which they have brought with them
They make comical sight they enter the water in
many differently cut and colOrcd garments, and
not help wishing they had bought them all at the
place had discarded them altogether. The and
boys required suits Impede their lotions.
Some very poor women and girls stay away from the
baths because OF the OF suit, tring it
at least the women keepers say
CHARACTER OF TIE BATHERs.
Most of the visiting the baths OF the work
ing classes and it is proof OF the prosperous condition of
aborers in this country that the bathers generally
the appearance of having enough TO eat. The pre-
sent much finer physques than the women. The bath
ing dresses do not prevent from judging of the
velopment of the latter though they do in
crease the ugly looks of the in-fayored ones.
Here and there may be well-formed,
and wellpreserved woman who has escaped the
blight of hard work sorrow, poverty, tempered hus
Natuny tne nne forms belong to the younger women
looks beyond early womanhood. Occasionally n matron
VIII rival them IN perfection Oh shape and freshness OF
But they are al in the water white gleam-
ing, white feet spashing aud bright both OLD
young, sparkling with enjoyment How they do mix up
ana eaanSe gaces, IKE a lot OF cells, in this human
or three hundred faces change places quickly IL
uons absolutely prevent their SINKING padding along
sercney, bolt upright, third water looking as n
they had gone to bowl The little girls are nav
ing glorious Time IN the SHALLOW tank under side
the platform II is among these little things that there
Is the greatest number OF peaked faces and enacated
n IN ,,, mere Is hne swimming being done
eye on tall straight lmbed, strong GIRL stand
Like fash she took header" deftly turning 30 s not
to strike The bottom, which is only below the
parent wa,er ana sac eeres on the other side having
1t more neatly She swims the distance again. TINS
TIME on her back, her hands maEing slow. graceful
sweeps from above her head 10 her sides Many others
are doing the same ieats, swimming hamd-oyerhald
hoatins, playing - leap frog or swimming straight
Miss Bennett the keeper of the Gouverneur-st bath
proud OF their accomplishments that they visif
Other baths in the city simply 10 exhibit their skill one
The TRIBUNE juihped ROOT of the BATH into the
Tnen tney swan DaeN ward aud forward crass
the backs one ioaing While The OTHER rs
her by locking her toes around her Miss Bennetts
" 3sthetlc ana - duck ~ les OF swimming very
cutter" she showed her methods of teaching both wo
men and little girls. she certainly apt pupils or was
skin.
Many working girls and women take bath at O'Clock
in The morning. but the great This class is IN the
evening, VIXEN the 10 filed with bobbng heads
ana the an with feminine cries and
ally girl tries Ia the OatH some white gar
ment the regulation SUIT. the keepers yoice
bathing suit.
mat VIII hrN.rdo suits are kept to hire - such as
the Thirty cnth-st bath, TBis wather is shsgnanf
NEXT montn ie SAID I tue a Ieepe St An and Sew ooh
w" Won n is probably sttll ignorant OF the fact
The keepers generally adhere 10 the the bal
has used good Judgment in selecting ho aids A good
many complaints are made, bat many found 10 be
without foundation and are obviously uttered by chronic
GROWERS or persons who think because bath Is free
they can DO as they please IN it, as long as they
WISH ana generally set tue keepers at defiance Instead
irons OF their particular bath are OF better titan
those VINO attend the Others Not nucn dinerenee
classes bathe at different h0nrs Apparently better
ment; or, in other words will attend The free
| pathS While her husband attends the pay baths.
Til BATTERY BATH.
The Battery bath Ia eadvantage of a pleasant and
convenient situation, and the keepers Miss Fernando
ana Miss Harvey say that many weltc-do women come
from Brooklyn and Jersey City, well AS by the ele
Na'ea railroads from uptown to bahe there some even
hal "A
dozen little children was one day there with black
servant girl and quantity of towels snd wrap. Tho
tle Grls. from three to i've years old were almost
smothcred in bathing suits, while the the same
| age pranced around in nude innocence. Katie tho
swimmer, nlshi backeyed girl, and pupil OF Mise
bennets, assists the keepers az Battery and gives
swimming lessons. Many OF the swimmers AT CONVEX.
ncur-St. are Germans and Hebrews, though Miss Ren
nets popularity teacher draws many wel-toio ncr
sons ifOhl all over the city. well from Broolrn
The same natonalities predominant neshborhooo
o the ll;thst. and Nmotecnthst baths on The TsSt
| III
tha several hundred workinggirls the bat al
most every evening of the womeRs days Mrs Wol,e o.,
the Iwenty yenth-si bath. said her patrons were
mostly irish ana Americans OF the middle sSlo
gives free swimming lessons Fridays. The West CO.
baths are atronzed largely by IRISH people The women
anu girls WHO lISq'eht the pay baths, would be
| pcoGed, show finer physique an average ma, -
,|orhed women M the free baths though hoth
SNOW cNonles ul be'u1l ana ugineSs Tnc interiors ot
the pay baths do not resent much different appear
crowded usually and have moro complete anno1T
| mcnts. "fP"ihC
description there probahl, lew Ine W. I .ess
not seen them, and the sight party of bathcrs
fronts The baths ON the mems days are alnost
fun % bathers from The lean, LOOKING Irh az
ana the ndesctlDabie tramp to decent looking
ana mechanics OF przehghtng proportions Nam, ii,"
forms can be seen An artist could many mod 4
much more graceful than those frcoupntlS ,rav
seen IN the rooms OF the Art Students icagnS or' m
"au Keen Iha STno" swmnng diving and
the most lively of scenes Here il that me ~ @
his ingen uity get an ezra swim nv aI BOY
remaining sight iii "A new batch - divIhg and
else, by changing clothes with confederate b. e oi
when hfs had dry that he ma, Ne hopes
the keeper ami get in again The keepers saw
are washed Qua every evening. ~ VIZ ""eh'
cared-for and cleaner bodies OF mercban1 me petler
anu men OF means aud leisure. TlNir forn
are frequently more symmetrical hpt av FORM
teror in muscular development TO the wor,i, are IN
Here are more conrenicnces for dressing ana %
Very tine swimming be seen in the nav hatn
time sight OF the interior OF Ias bath M ths ~ an
beautiful ''AihS AM