Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-07-20
THE SWIMMING RaTHs
1ne stock Subscription Entered Upon-
Common Error Corrsctaa

Common Error Corrected.
| The Committee on Stock Subscr;nt;ons
to the proposed warm ard cold swim.
ming baths met Friday. 1t resolved 10
| place the shares at IS each, and the csp;tsl
stock at $4,000.
The committee was unsnimouslv of n.
opinion that the investment of SIS
as proposed, will yield a good inter.
est return, and that if only as small
part as one per cent of the popula-
ton patronize the baths the paving end
| will be secured. 1t wss resolved to accept
| subscriptions also for admission tickets as
guaranty Of patronage, at the rate of FIVE
TO the dollar.
The committee yesterday entered upon
canvass for stock Subscriptions. The sub.
scriptions booked by voluntary offer at the
meeting Thursday exceeded $1,000, while
more than 81 900 additional was considered
guaranteed by citizens VINO sent word of
thelr desire to participate.
Yesterday the committee canyassed be
tween $50 and II noon and succeeded
fairiy well. They found no one who did
not lndorse the scheme and believe that
the baths will be great blessing. and but
lew who doubted IL as a paying institution
to the investors.
1t was explained to all that the subscrip-
tions We're taken with the understanding
that the shareholders shall meet and de.
eide upon the whole question of location.
or whether the baths shall be built at all.
Ihe committee met some who ex.
Claimed; "Ab! We had a swimming bath
once here on h street and it failed. You
can't get up another" Or this complaint
would be flung into their faces: "Yes, it's |
a good thing. but it was tried once on
Tenth and X streets and failed." Or in |
this form: Just look and see what became !
OF the other swimming baths up on X |
street, and so on thecomplaints ran, to the |
disgust OF the committee.
Flnaily the committee began to reply: |
. 1t is not true, exactly. The baths re- |
lerred TO were not association baths: they |
were the scheme OF one man, a stranger, /
whose name no one now remembers, He |
sold out, and finally the bath was aban-
ioned. 1t was a small tank only fifteen
eet wide aud fifty feet long. There was
out one tank and no position set apart for
aoles. AT last disrepatable characters
were admitted and that killed it. But sup.
pose 1t We're true that it failed for want of |
never was proper swim
ming bath, and if it failed ten wears ago is
hat reason for never again proceeding |
Is that the right spirit TO show in CITY |
?"
Before long, however, the committee |
net L. +. Aiken, to whom the complaints |
we're recited.
Il can settle that" said Mr.. Aiken. THE
path was too small, and at first badly run
md with no proper accommodations, and
without cleanliness. but the man made
money. bought him out to make money,
md cleaned up the place. While l ran it
/ paid finely. Some days the receipts were
Is high as $50, and always up to satisfac.
ory figure. could not accommodate the
people, the demand was so great. made
money in the place. / know good baths of
proper size, airy, light, clean and we'll
conducted, can be made to pay per cent.
Der month-Pl say 20 per cent. per
'nnum, anyhow. l went into other
matters after awhile and sold out the bath,
md after that disreputable characters were
and citizens then forbade their
antilles to attend, who were before the
,est patrons of the bath. That killed it
md that only. 1t will kill any public
hing of that order. With an association
md corporation behind a proper set of
paths there can be no such trouble"
The committee goes out again Tuesday.
i is disposed to send out letters to people
Who ought to take stock, and hopes for re-
ponse on postal cards, and thus save much /
ime and labor and earlier secure the
oaths-indeed the hope is to get them
ouiit for use this fall.
The subscriptions to the stock to date
ire: