Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-30
FURNISH BATHS.

South of the bOiler-room will be one of the
best features of the club-home-a completely
appointed series of Turkish bathrooms Here
the architect has INDUCED in Oriental decora-
tive art so carefully that comfort has not been
made subservient to effect. nor vet has the rich
harmonious whole been spoiled by any incOn-
gruous-appearing aid to cleanliness. The wait
ing-room. which Is the vestibule to the bath
proper, will be furnished with luxurious divans
and lounges. while the floor will be poem of
rugs. The first. second and third ''hot-rooms'
and the shampoo-room are to be large and
| thoroughly well-arranged. and when the mas
sage operator has concluded his work the
bather may roll of his slab, trot through
short passageway. and take plunge in a SWIM
ming-pOol, the like of which cannot be found
in the city.
Returning from the plunge, entrance is
easy to the bather's PARADISE prettily de-
signed circular apartment, through the jew
eied glass of whose domed roof will CLEAN the
fiery horseshoeS of number of incandescent
lights. Here the languid and thoroughly
cleansed man may rest himself, and for a rea-
sOnablc period may read. drink coffee. or be
lulled to sleep by the gentle splashing of the
rosewater il falls in the marble basin of the
beautiful fountain which will adOrn the center
of the apartment. while the odOr of its spray
gratites the ''scenter" of all within smelling
distance.
SWIMMING POOL
the principal attraction in the building. will be
the swimming pool-a magnificent sheet OF
roofed-in and properly-warmed water. 20 feet
wide 80 feet long. and with graduated depth
of from to feet Its even temperature will
be 20 degrees. and fresh water will be cOntinu-
ously pumped III while the stale liquid is forced
out. To keep the water as clean as possible the
rules VIII require each bather. previous to en-
terlng the pool to wash himself at one of the
l5,~ln l,a..l,
ends of the pool Once week the bath will
be emptled of its contents and the huge tub
will be cleaned. On the south side of the pool
and running parallel with its entire length will
be a prettlly-arched colonnade with pavement
of tiles. This will be separated from the bath
only by brass rail. and here the bathers will
promenade between dips" 1t will also be
used by those who desire to reach the
sprlng-bosrd. which will be at the deep end of
the pool. At night the great bath will be bril-
llantiy lighted by clusters OF electric lights
which will encircle the pillars of the colonnade
During the summer evenings the scene in this
apartment will be one which art itself might
fail to truthfully depict. Twenty or thirty of
the most muscular young men i'll the city-the
best types OF American NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
the combined necessity and luxury of as much
bath as they want; swimming, diving, turning
somersaults, and performing any aquatic prank
that may suggest itself Now the whole crowd
with one exception, is still anu the exception
Is giving an exhibition of some new kind of
daring or skill; then the entire troop chases
Itself out of the pool at the shallow end races
down the cOlonnade, and one after another. as
last as the sprlng-bOard can throw them they
plunge INTO the liquid depth, which is as bright
ana clear as the reflected electric lights can
ever make Potomac water. The club does not
propose, however, to monopoliZe the pool
The wives and children of members and others
III thelr fanllles are, on certain days and under
certain conditions. to be admitted The swim
, h,.l
az al times and under his tuition the young
ldea as well as Its more matrOnly proppnitors
Will be taught the natural art and the easily
soluble mysteries of how to do for Themselves
what animals can do without aid or instruction
Ihe dresslng-rooms for the pool are on the
moor above and are reached by a rear stairway
THE MAIN FLOOR.
~ the head OF the great stairway on the
second or main floor, will be hall-l4 nv %
feet-hnished in quartered oak. and leading ont
OF this VIII be two reception rooms One of
these, Tor club purposes, occupies the entire
front Of the building with the exception of the
space taken up by the stair-hall the other a
smaller one, is for visitors Behind this the arch
itect has placed the drawing-room a fine anart.
ment 20 feet wide and 33 feet long, and in its
rear Is the library and readng-roo almost "a
large. In all these rooms will be open fire
places but the one in the library will be more
than ordinarily capacious. Huge logs will
crackle on Its antique andirons and standing
with his back to the cheerful blaze Can attitude
which the author of Don't SAYS is impolite' !
the clubman may gaze through the arches OF
half-opened portieres down vista of ~ feet
INTO the stalr-hall. plentiful supply of day.
light will illumine these rooms from the lone
windows on the west side of the building. win,
dows which open out on a covered veranda.
feet wide AMI 70 feet long. Seated ON this
lady visitors and club guests can witness the
games in the tennis-court which will occunv
the space west of the building. Later in the
evening when the ladies have gone home the
yeranda will be pleasant place for members to
sit and smoke and tell marvellous stories of
athletic achievement-past, present and to
come.