The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-25
AND PROGRESS
Civilizations Onward March
Shown by Statistics.
NOVELTIES IN BATHING
For One Bathtub hat Was Made Fifty
Years Ago Thousands Are Made
Now-Bathtubs All over the
East Side.
From the New York sun.

From the New York sun.
A plumbers account books furnlsh
the best statistics by which to reckon
the onward march of civilization. For
reasons easily understood by any one
who pays plumbers bills the account
books are not open to the public, ana
so political economists resort TO the
testimony of schools and charitable or
CARNATIONS; but if one could know the
exact ratio at which bathtubs multiply
in New York, one could tell the pace at
which the city is approaching cleanh-
ness and consequent goodness.
The plumbers are very encouraglhg
when one ak with them
about bathtubs. If a man IS
downhearted and discouraged ABOUT
society. and inclined to think
thai Descent of Man
is a "Iooking-glass" theory, and must
be read backward, with the ape as the
Ultimate outcome of the species, let
him go to a thrifty and intellgent
plumber and hear about the universal
CRYING demand for bathtubs. III VIII
awaken hope i'm his breast and encour-
age him to believe that, after ALL the
human race may turn out well.
i cit as - my " AaN'@a
the bathtub was a hot-house flower,
hourishing only i'm uptown regions. NOW
IL blossoms out in Essex and SUFFOLK
streets. and flats without a bath won
go on Rivington street. The appear"
ancc of the population in the sifeels
don't bear out his botanical statement,
hut the word of a successful plumDer
hacks il up, and every one knows how
reliable that is. The same plumber IN
sists that copper, or even Seel-clau
tubs. are not popular in the tenement
districts: and that the new houses all
have porceIain-lined tubs. That state
ment was hard to believe until he eX-
pIained that a defective pOrc~elaln-llned
tub is worth less in the market than a
good steel-clad tub: but it makes a bet
ter show and wears well enough, so the
contractors take the defective STOCK on
the hands of the wholesale dealer ana
put the tubs into the new
and flats.
The old copper tub has been relegated
RI limbo. 1t required enclosed plumb
ings and a wooden box to keep II IN
shane, and, consequently, was hopeless
ly insanitary. With the days OF open
plumbing came i'm the steel-clad lup'
which keeps its shape and Is the least
expensive of the good tubs. Even IL Is
condemned by sanitary enthusiasts pc
cause the wooden rim harbors germs
dilb AiiHNNA' 49,
kept clean.
If one wants sanitary elegance of the
most scrupulous sort n is Wiling 10
pay for it. a solid porcelain tub is the
thing to buy. OF course there are eN-
beings who dabble about IN
tubs of solid marble and onyX-llned
pools: but men who can afford that are
freaks, and needn't be considered serl-
ously, save by the plumbers. A soId
porcelain tub costs something more
than a bagatelle: but il doesn't saNoi
Of Arabian nights and Ouidas novels
as the marble and onyx do. lhen' 700
If one Is willing to take a porcelain tut
with a slight flaw, which doesn't in any
, way affect its usefulness, one can ge'
T, IL at half or two-thirds ofthe real price
and 10 to one the flaw Will not De no
ticed by any one. The same thlns Il
-, true of the p~orcelaiu-lined iron tubs
which are more used in good houses
than any other kline If tub. Ihe rates
. Improvement i'm both these tubs consist
~ a hot water pipe running around th'
r top If the tub inside the porcelain RIM
. which is perforated. The hot waite
y sprays out through the perforatlon
and streams down the sides OF the tuu
warming the porcelain quickly ana AIS
warming the water in the tuo evenly
When the full force of the water
turned on the spray reaches across u
o tub and gives a gentle shower bath l
the haiher.
Apropos of shower baths, all e'aoor
" a.s bath rooms are fitted with a nickt
shower bath inclosei in ruoper cur
l tains. The water comes from above an
from all the pipes At the sIdcs, anu
s is a thing very different from the Ga
fashioned shower fixture above ne 81
= binary tubs. I~nluc&ily, when mes
showers first became popula' ther
were innumeTahle accidents, caused %
the sudden turning on uf scaling va
ter. II do away with that danger IN
showers now ave Graduated sloPi
and It = impossible 20 turl the hot Wa
ter On first. The cold water comes mrs
and gradually warns. rs ne step
turned, until the desi"nd temperature
reached.
For use I'm sick rooms and
a house, rolling tubs of paper fiber nav
been invented. They are clean ana uCI
able. n weigh 1nI: - or 10 pcunI'
SO that they can easily be rolled {
casters.
Bath tubs. in general, are much MOI
shallnW than they ISL 10 be; pG- II
necessity II econ fu.iz.ng r.am IN sn'd
apartments has led To the extensive u
Of the deep tub. only three or tour Ie'
in length. The same cause Is respohs
bic for many inventions. which are M
cousins 20 the bulIet beds ana u
wardrobe couch and all the other sId'
saving decisions and snares that are
part Of modern fiat life. When the pdl
room is so small that there would De !
room In nRNa aha1F IN - II there We