The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-24
a FOUNTAIN OF LIFE.
Additions in 1t Make You Feel Like
New Man.
From he Washington Pos.


BooNToN, n. j., July 2L-Experts in
search Of the elixir Of life should come to
Boonton- Perhaps the inhabitants Of this
quiet little Jersey town, along the banks OF
the raging Rockaway river aud the placid
Morris canal, may be mistaken, but they
really feel that they have a life renewer i"
the shape Of a spring. 1t is a combination
Of spring ami well and it is right in the
middle Of the river, where the waters rust
thr ugh the prettiest K nj of ravine. It
is an Id pool, clear as = crystal and per-
petually cool.
The pool belongs to the famous Copper
Lord estate, the estate of the fam ly
whence came Daniel Lord and the big firm
of Lord lawyers in New York Brown
Brothers, tue celebrated banker>, also be-
long 10 the same family. TIE spring il
question, so far as its bracing and health
restoring properties are concerned. was dis
covered by Benjami Nico. Nicoll is a
brother OF Delaney NicO.i, VINO cuts such a
figure IN law and politics in New York
OCCASIONALLY. Beuja min was the captain of
Tue Injection freshmal crew that won the
race at Saratoga in 1874, the only Princeton
ere" tn ever won a race. He III !rried
one Of the Miss Lords and in that way
came out 70 BoOntOn to look after toe iron
mills and other intere Is belonging to the
estate, and has summer residence near
the river.
The pool attracted Nlcoll's attention as a
hrsC rate place for a bath. He tried it one
day and found it wonderfully invigorating
80 he built spriug-bJard out over the
edge, and from 1t he and his friends dive
i WI INTO the cool depths. Last summer
was q first that the water was tried, b
only this year has it come into constant use.
DIR. Nlcoll was delghUe vita the bath
from the start and the pleasing fea es
su prlsed him one by one. In the first
place ne found that while the river rushed
and swirled around tie bathing spot, and
OCCASIONAL made waves roll over the sur
rae, down beneath a SpriGg bubbled up
and sent sparkling nd effervescent XII ID of
wa er nearly to the surface The water is
so clear that the bottom OF the pool, some
fifteen feet from the top, can be seen per-
fectly.
The place where TIE spring gurgles out of
the rocky bottom and sends It's bubbles,
like the bubbles that 90 upward in a glass
OF champagne, toward the surface, can be
plainly perceived. The next tuing noticed
" as the bu IVA effect of bath in the pool
upon the entire system. He OF only came
nut Of the bah cool and clean, but fel.
usually refreshed He felt, as he ex-
pressed it, as though he had been in a CHAM
OeAvAA-
ing feeling that most people feel after drink
/ & several glasses Of particularly lively
champagne. A plunge in the pool was better
than any medicine. 1t mended all physical
Is and revived tine tagging energies
Nicoll told some Of MS fiend,, and they
have batned repeatedly in the waite 5
They are all enthusiastic, and so are some
of his townsp sople, who have taken quiet
plunges. w. Dwight Wiman, the eldest
,on Of Erastus Wiman, Robert Gilmour.
The asbestos dealer, aud James 2. Perkins,
the man VINO converts mill cinder Into the
paint with which Pullna parlDr cars are
painted, all confirm what Nicoll saws: They
al declare that this Boonton pool is mod
ern Bethe da. While they do not know
that diseases would be cured by a LAYING in
It's waters, hey know That every bath re-
news life and makes man feel many years
yOun or when ne came out than when he
welt in.
What causes these revigorating propertie;
can only be surmiSed Medical eXamina-
ton will un ioubtedly be made of re long,
and then some good reason will doubtless be
advanced. Af,el re naming in the pool
half an nour, you come olt with glow of
salLh and feeling of strength and CON
tentment tina only me now and then in
lifetime. You somehow feel sure that if
you could take that plunge every day, you
youth would be renewed perpetually, a d
you would he a living example of Rider
Haggard's "She.n