The evening times., 1899-08-01

Bathing Beach, today submitted his annual
report to the District Commissioners for
the fiscal year ended June 80, as follows:
THE bathing season averages 100 days,
located between May Is and September Is
of each year, SO that such a report would
cover the last half of the last bathing
season and the first half of this bathing
season. There is no difficulty in making
the financial report, because the accounts
at the District office are balanced to that
date, and the connecting statement can 10
readily furnished. but no report OF the do
ings of one-half Of the bathing season Of
OF SO. connected as one year, would be
almost impossible to make clear and in
telligible- l have, therefore, made the
financial report for the fiscal year of SO.
THE appropriation for 9S was $1,000.
The sum OF 81, ,S05.1 IS left unexpsnded of the
"a, 900 appropriated for the inner basin, was
again appropriated and was used on the
present beach. The receipts Of the beach
for the year OF '9S, amounted to s74S.35,
making an available total of $S.55s.54 for
that year. The sum expended in that fiscal
year was SS,O1uof, fcdSfu6 9olo uHCApcuu-
ed. After the committees report Of last
fall the firsb expenditure that came under
my knowledge was about $40 for RATS and
two men as guards to prevent loss OF life
at or near the Bathing Beach during per-
! iod of unsafe condition of the ice. They
warned hundreds of persons against places,
and took out one cOiored boy who went
through the ice. To prepare for the season
of '99, the floats were beached and blocked
..f hfrin
timbers as heretofore, the amount of tim
Der required was bought and sawed into
blocks at little more than the usual cost
of rental These blocks have been fire.
auently used since then and they belong 20
the beach for future use. Your COMMITTEES
having decided TO dispense with the float
ing pool baskets the baskets have been torn
to pieces and the lumber used for making
and repairing fences, sheds, walks etc.
The destruction by winters ice and
storms has been about as usual. One OF
the baskets was embedded In the bottom,
in about fifteen feet Of water, causing con-
siderable hard labor and some risk or lie
in the cold water, for its removal The
wharf was broken in two, and the main
body~was badly twisted. The Office houses
were repeatedly brokenInto by thieves, but
there had been little of commercial value
| left In them and no material loss was sus-
tanned A float suggested by the com
mittee has been made of eighteen barrels
which serves as place OF amusement 10
good swimmers and divers.
The board walks being made OF old
scrap lumber. are daily broken and require
continual repair. Improvements have been
made which render ths ladies' dressing
houses more convenient and entirely ex-
elusive. Racks have been made for free
keeping cf about 200 bicycles. and shed
| for checking bicycles at cents time,
| has been made, by the tenant and he pays
| 81 a month fer the use of it.
THE refreshment stand Is rented at $50
| a month, against SIT a month rent for last
season. The current daily expenses are:
| For clerk, 81; three life guards, $3.50, and
one at a one ticket boy, 80 cents and
| three key boys S1.56; laundress. 10 cents,
| making So 25 day, to which must be add
| ed the Superintendent's salary of $500 a
| year. A large percentage of the old room
| doors had become SO loose and dilapidated
| that the houses could not be used, and
| during the process of putting ON new locks
| the doors are being repaired as much as is
practicable.
| The new system inaugurated with the
| change of locks, having been tried for one
! busy Sunday, with three quarters OF the
| new locks on, promises great advantages
! and general satisfaction. The system may
! be described in brief as follows Every
| not be master key made to them. The
| kew has; brass tag with a number on it.
| KEYS are hung ON boards in the key room,
| one board to one row of rooms. Each bath
| er makes out his entry card as heretofore.
| Key clerk hands out key, marks the num-
\ Der on card and leaves card on that key
nail Bather Hnlocks his room, dresses for
| the water returns key 10 clerk who hangs
| it ON its nail over bather's card. Bather
| tho w1fpr tells his ullmbpr-
| and if the clerk has any doubt, his name
| also That being on the card the bather
| receives the key again and unlocks his
| door. On his way out everyone must pass
| the key window and deliver his key Then
| it returns to the nail and his card is filed
| away. The financial clerk does nothing
| but receive money for suits, ETC., and take
care of valuables, marking with blue pen
| ell in big figures on applicants slip the
amount of money paid That tells key
clerk what to ask the bather to return on
| his way out.
| IF a hatter stays in long time his
| card becomes conspicuous on the board
and the police officer may call him out by
name 1t is thought that this system will
| enable the present force TO render salts
! factory service to FIVE times as many
| bathers as have ever patronfzed the Beach
| in one day. There will be no checks lost
| in the water, no money stolen from single
rooms and no shiverers bowling for Key
Boy.
1.-THE number of actual bathers in '9S,
was IS, 49, but in the fiscal year from July
| l. 1898, to July l. 1899, the number was
74,542. This shows how misleading gen.
| eral report of the doings of any season
would be il made for the fiscal year rather
| than for the bathing season of each year,
| therefore unless differently requested by
| Won I will make my general report and