The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1903-07-01
FREE PUBLIC BATHS A GO
The Commercial Club Adopts the Re-
port of the Committee for the
Site on the East Side.
Enough Money Subscribed to Com
rnence the Construction of
the System at Once.

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tainty, enough money having beer
subscribed, in addition to the sub
scriptions secured by Mrs. A. R
A. Laudon, TO pay for the lumber
and for the construction of the
building, while the lumber com
panies have made an offer tt
furnish the lumber for cost. It is
expected that one of the firms will
make liberal donation in addition
to cutting prices on the lumber.
Mrs. Laudon secured subscrip.
tions amounting to 1920. On Fri
day afternoon last a special com
mittee appointed from the Com
mercial club went out among the
young men who indulge in swim
ming for sport and recreation, and
materially increased the amount
enough to warrant the committee
in saying that the house was a
certainty and that work would
commence at once.
This committee consists of G. E.
Mckay, Fred. L. Warner, c.. f.
Apitz, W. H. Wallace and D. H.
Duryea, and they already have men
employed to commence the work.
1t is hoped that the frame work
will be SO far completed as to per-
nit the use of a portion of the
building for next Saturday. The
plans are along the line submitted
by Joseph Corbett late last fall,
providing for one dressing room
for small boys and apartments for
men at one end of the building. AT
the other end will be the apart
ments for ladies'. In the center
will be room for the superintend-
ent, where bathing suits can be
hired and cared for, and where
light refreshments can be secured.
When the bath house became a
certainty it was suggested by sew
eral that it would be better to place
it on the west side of the river,
where the water was more shallow
over larger space of territory,
and where, if wanted, very deep
water could also be had, and where
a roller toboggan slide could be put
in to great advantage. The cost OF
crawling the shallow portion, how
ever, was too big an item, and then
the baths would be too far from the
city, and the committee decided tc
recommend the site where $3.50 has
already been expended, at the foot
OF Second street, the cement plat
form and curling, the gravel bed
all having been constructed last
year. The committee so reported
at the meeting of the Commercial
club Friday evening, and the re.
port OF the committee was adopted
and work ordered commenced al
once.
So far as known Redwood Falls
will be the second city in the state
to provide free public bath sys
tenn, st. Paul having such system
now, where from 1000 to 10000
people are seen each day. Arrange
ments will be made to rent suits
and to furnish refreshments. The
house and pool will be thoroughly
policed, and every precaution take1
to see that the proper decorum i.
observed all the time. Profanity
will be absolutely prohibited, under
penalty of being prohibited from
using the system.
The Commercial club also tool
up the matter of having the COLI
storage house re-opened, Messrs
H. G. Schmahl, S. G. Peterson, H
M. Aune, F. w. Philbrick and Emf
Knenzli being appointed com
mlttee to confer with Julius H
Melges regarding the putting in Q
a new cooling system, and reopen
ing the building.