The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-26


polo fields Tor years their private gy M
nasi,,rns are Sless exploited. but In many
d mutt Millionaire i establishment these g,
days ttle private gymn asi Urn is O sfeatur
as carefully proyt ded 4 Tor as an O the
Others. II ID 8compnrati " Y e. ~ " hins,
however. The flrat cost Of rec g
complete gynnaslu1n IL some thing i!o
even a c, Ell con Sid lthout stne3
private gymnasium, no syever. 70 sloe attn
tietio the rich ma /, must iningle wi thu O
more Or less common crowd as ~ llllam
Waldorf ~ Astor and Hermann Oerichs
used 10 at sthe New York AZ hletic \ CUB
SO that the private gyn1la slu1n has GO 1f
to stay. sss II s5 8s n ss. Nd. B.
George Gouldts gymnasium, y INC uaNS ~
In his famous Casino at LAX woo. = ol1n5
Jacob 1Astor 8. by no means 80 fcomplte, te.1
Il n a h IN s. up I g hudson cstate, 'ern-
sciifte Sen tor CT ark sis mos s,y I'M!
ming Bal IL, but tho prtncp Us the sam
Ono Of the most costly and complete t,ri-%
Evate gynnasiums5 In the count Il. main X
tained # by tho va rious att tamil les IN
Z Brooklyn. Nj !, " 5S 81 4 III
n Considering their great wealth and ro t-
tent influence In many great b ll ' css
enterprise the SPratts no hidden from;
the ken Of the general public to q re-
,inarkablc degree NJ They arc big factors
Az Sta ndnrd OH, their oldings II in the
Long Island Railroad, which tile Eenn-s
sylvanla purposes to exploit TO the tune
81 millions. Il are heavy, n and Y heir COM
bined veal Il, must a be I such as Il to place
the Pratt fortune among the two Dozen
greatest IN the whole country. MN
~ Charles Pratt, the found err of the 20 m
|rily. was a big man in oil while yet John,
%. ockafelle Ter was Wond erin IS + @'het her
ne could make good Wit his gigantic
trust or not. 81 When the Standard was
formed III was Pratt and not the Rookie
fellers who had the Will hand, / and 1; he
might ~ have kept N 1T had f ne ~ been SO
minded. The Pratt Institute, trade stt
school and d more, founded In II BrGoklynn
nearly twenty years ago, has served la az
a odel for most of tho Mstitu to as o. q
fcluding5 the Carnegie Institute IN Pitts
f, r. and tho Drexel Institute in Phila-3
delphia.. II s5s \. ~ ss
the institute and near the = ratt; resi-
dences. "a II is a tWo-s story red brtcxs build
!lng, and. Including the appar tus. must
have cost fully 40 900. It's largest room is
about 75x5o feet In dime nsions It contains
about every facility for ph ysical exercise,
~ be found IN any college, d thletic club
or " prof essi onal5 gymnasium except q
running track and al swimming tank and
there are seven / orr eight small Ter rooms
for tenrAs courts ,5 ETC., besides ia kitch
and din!n groom. III 5a iss;
In that building you ma W bow, shoot
play pool or Billiards, box7-in q room re-
served for6 boxing and punching bag e X
ercise-swing on the trapeze. pull weight
and 70 through the entire list of stunts!
that arc supposed to be physically bene-i
Sficial-that Is /. II you are 81 2 raft sor g;
friend OF a Prat IL under the supervfisiion3
OF a paid expert In IS innastc exercises,
tina same as il the gymnasium were 4 g
public one or belonged to some, inst ttu.
ton or, athletic club. + is used by al
The, pratt families. Of which taere arc
three or four. Y and I am told 4 that each
family has the freedom OF the building
on certain days only,
Fox Hunting for Physical ] De vel
opnent.
1T has been stradi ton among the Brit
ish Tor generations that no OF Their sport or
exercise whatever would Il go SO y far to
implant physical courage in the human,
breast as cross country dtng-f q LOWING
the hounds on llorsebac k VI FL;
& In this the dashing cavaliers OF i55 the
Southern States have ways oincid1ed.