New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-20
CHANCES FOR EXERCISE.
PLENTY OF GYMNAsIUMS AND ATHLETIC
FIELDS ON THE WEST SIDE.

In these days, when Americans, as nation,
are devoting more attention to physical devei-
opment than they ever did before IL Is We'll
when choosing a home, 10 find spot where the
opportunities for heathful exercise are pent-
full On the West Side it can be said without
exaggeration these opportunities ere so thickiy
scattered about that they amount TO positive
temptation, even TO a lazy man. to join the
ranks OF those who believing in the old maxim
"A sound mind In a sound body. seek 10 regu-
late their health by exercise instead Of by drugs.
For those who love the wheel, the Boulevard,
now renamed Broadway presents its smoothly
asphalted surface. Eghth-ave. does the same
The surface Of Riverside Drive. too. can hardly
be surpassed. Numerous asphalted streets con-
meet these great thoroughfares with one an
other. and on any fine day thousands of wheel
men and women may be skimming to and
fro. up and down, upon the great grdron of
asphalt which Is bounded by Fifty-seventh-st.
and Harlem, Central Park and the Hudson
River
This part of the city has unusually big
share OF athletic clubs and gymnasiums. One
of the largest and best equipped Of these s In
the West Side Branch OF the Young Mems
Christian Association, Fifty-seventh-st, be-
tween Eighth and Columbus ayes. Seven hun
dred athletes use IT, and pay only $40 year
for all its privileges. These include gym
nasium covering 700 feet of floor space, and
supplied with a duplicate set OF all the most
modern apparatus; one indoor handba court
and two outdoor, an indoor running track Of
twenty laps to the mile and an outdoor running
track of ten laps. besides a straightaway 100
yards course; 1.200 lockers. fourteen shower
baths five tub baths marble swimming tank
80 by 10 feet and from three 10 six feet deep:
al
directors Dr. L. r. Welzmiller and his assist
ant. w. II. McCastline, who have afternoon and
evening classes In wrestling and other sports.
Other privileges which the members enjoy
here are the use OF the old Manhattan Field,
which adjoins the clubhouse for all forms
OF track athletics bicycle racing, broad and high
jumping and tennis This field will be lighted by
electricity at night this summer. boat house
at Baretto Point on the Harlem Is another lux
ury provided for West Side Y. NJ. c. A. athletes.
Another energetic amateur association, whose
members go in especially for boxing and carry
of plenty OF prizes and Championship, Is the
New West Side Athletic Club, at No. 329 West
Fifty-fourth-st
Its clubhouse is not much to look at. but its
outdoor running track is a fine one. The dues
here are only SO year and for this member
gets besides the use Of the nine-lap track,
handball courts, shot-putting and jumping
ground. showerbaths and all the punching with
boxing gloves that heart could desire.
A more sedate club than the one last men
toned is the Bloomingdale branch of the New
York Turn Verein. also in West Fifty fourth-st
II is about forty years old and has $50 active
members, who enjoy its big gymnasium, It's
baths. library. reading-room, and the services
of their Instructor, Fritz Krimmel, to the full.
Children of the members get one hours IN.
struction here daily in gymnastics. wives ana
daughters Of members also have their separate
classes at this popular institution.
DR.. Watson l.. Savages Physical development
Institute. Nos sos and 80 West Fifty ninth-st.,
is another well-known resort for the athletically
inclined Three days q week are given here TO
mems classes and three 10 women's. This is the
Headquarters of a female basketball team which
wins many matches. Boxing, wrestling, and
fencing are some OF the arts taught here.
These are only few of the many advantages
afforded in this part OF the city TO persons who
like physical exercise, but enough has been said
to prove that the tastes and purses OF all such
have been provided for on the West Side