Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-11
0! NAUGHTY WOMEN!
CITIES OF NEW YOtIS AND CHI
CAGO ARE IN THE TuRoEs.
Wear Tight bathing Suits That DO
Not suit Some, Who Persist In
Going to See Them.

Chicago, Aug. 1.-THE Lincoln park
commissioners recently opened a beach
for free bathing. Yesterday was one OF
the days set aside for women. The
commissioners notified the women that
they must wear skirts
Ten women, all respectable, but Of
the new variety, Insisted IN going In
the water In mems clothes. a thousand
spectators were on the beach when the
first one trlpped out. a tall, thin wO-
man OF uncertain age threw up her
hands and cricd what In the world
has that woman got on?'
ITS slip" answered another wo-
man. The garment was II combination
In cheese cloth OF old-fashioncd chcmse
and boomers. IT was transparent and
chung to her like postage stamp. She
was sent back to the dressing rooms.
Two women In tight. blue. sltiriless
serge suits got In the water as far aa
their waists, when they were ordered
out, aud told to put on skirts
Another woman succeed In getting
into the surf In n Mother Hubbard
night gown She was jumping up and
down at the ropes when the eyes Of the
attendant wandered that way THAT
woman ought to be called In emphnt.
lcnlly declared man with a minlstr-
rial air, The attendant thought 40
too, and she, too, was directed to the
dressing rooms,
New York. Aug. lO.-Thure h. n bitter
feeling Of unimoslty existing between
jams kccrgard, OF seventy fourth street
aud the Shore rOud, Brooklyn, and the
Bennett family of swimmers who con-
duct nutnt0rlum near by, Eecrgnrd
IL now under arrest, charged with
threatening l2-yenr-old Kate Bennett
and some interesting evidence ls likely
TO be ndduced at the trial, which is set
for tomorrow
Some OF the Witnesses for the hem
notts are well known young society
people. Among these IN Mrs. Cook
daughter OF the late Judge Massey
She Is the prettlcAt young woman pupil
at the school, aud IN said TO have been
present when the alleged threat was
made.
keergard claims he hnH been ANNOYED
constantly by the Benefits
one of the witnesses for Kocrgnrd ls
Thomas bennington, boat builder.
VINO occupies strip of land near tho
Those buthers." said bennington to
World reporter yesterday. ARE the
cause Of an this trouble They went
around keerEard's beach ana when he
objected Bennett stuck up high fence,
which does not In any way add to the
beauty OF the place. The women bath
ers, though, are the worst, How?
Wen, they come down here In all sorta
Of costumes and cut up on the beach.
There 10 one hnc looking young wo-
man who wears black tights and walks
from her house down here In them
three times week. Yes, tights like
those worn In the ballet why shouldn't
q person object I asked Detective Tny-
lor OF tho Fort Hamilton sutton " ho
could stop II, but he cannot"
Bennett denies that the woman In
question wears tights of the kind de-
scrlhed by bennington. lie says his
pupils do not annoy anybody.
The trouble between the pnrtlea has
been going on since last November,
when the bennetts brought an action
In the supreme court To compel Inc
owner OF kccrBard'a house to remove
half or the awning, which was found
to be ON their property. They got ia
vorahle decision. and the house was
cut In two afterwards.