Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-20
GYMNASIUM OPENS
SEPTEMBER FIRST
nne Structure Completed and
installation Of Apparatus
Nearly Accomplished.
INSTITUTION is UNExcELLEO
vodern In Every Sense and Equipped
oompleteIy--Ready for Receiving
Applications for Membership.

m Sent. / the Deseret gymnasium,
.,s 1900. 900 structure at the corner of
College avenue and Temple street, will
~ ready to receive applications for
,,.nbership and to begin active In
.,,pctjon. There are many gymnasiums
a, the United states. some OF which are
larger than the Deseret, but nowhere
.an one be found more complete In
a., equipment and more accessible In
iocation. for neither pains nor means
have been spared to make the Deseret
gymnasium not only the finest in the
.,a,e but one of the best in the en-
tire west.
when the Church OF Jesus Christ OF
,a,ter-day saints de,dded to build a
.vmnssium for the use OF students of
ne L, ID. S. university and. In fact,
,nr anyone in the city of reputable char
.o,sr an architect and an engineer
,ere sent on a tour of inspection
,hroughout the east The gymnasium
A. b,lilt is the embodiment of all that
,hey considered worth while. A visit
Is convincing.
I'm the basement of the building Is
boNiinK alley, containing six alleys,
company on hard wood floors. This
amusement will be the only one not free
~ members. as a charge for Its use by
The hour will be made. A barber shop.
laundry and drying room, two team
rooms for visiting teams, a private
locker provided with a shower, and two
altering tanks in which the water to
be used for the swimming pool viii be
purified, are among the other features
n the neatly arranged basement.
on the main floor are the rooms OF
The physical director. w. e. Day Of
DAYTON, Ohio, a man long experienced
In v NJ c. A. work, and also the
nriyate rooms OF d. S. Hinckley,t the gen
oral secretary. The main locker room
On this floor contains 800 steel lockers,
some Of which are 72 inches high, and
"a private dressing rooms. In an
other part Is a handball court IN
room SOx40 feet with hard wood moor.
Adjoining IL Is private exercising
,oom OF the same size with parapher-
MALTA OF every description suitable for
Individual exercise. on another part
Of this floor are is showers, beautifully
finished In white marble.
FINE SWIMMING POOL.
The swimming pool room on the Main
floor is one Of the attractions OF the
gymnasium; the water Is Sox6O feet In
extent and from 41s feet to sl1 Feet
deep; and the pool itself Is htted with
ali OF the swimming accessories, such
ss sprinx boards, swimming harnesses
with swivels attached TO cables for the
use OF beginners; and, In fact, every
feature known to such places OF recre-
stion and amusement.
Adjoining the swimming pool Is
hair drying room for the use or ladles
who will have the use OF the pool In
the mornings. This room is fitted with
electric fans and II quite novel.
The gymnasium proper embodying
The upper half OF the three-story build
ng. consists of one mammoth room "a
BY il6 feet all OF hard wood. Along
the sides are dumb bells and appliances
Of every description; above the floor is
visitors balcony and above this Is
3 running track, IAN laps to the mile
The floor Is so largo that four basket
ball teams can play at one tme' ana
II Is so arranged that Anal contests can
be held using the entire floor with
baskets 100 feet apart.
A novelty In the gymnasium Is the
Introduction OF two Swedish booms.
huge racks on which exercises OF
graceful nature may be practised. Other
rooms, such as the emergency room,
lead of from the main gymnasium.
COMPLETE GYMNAsTIC EQUIP
MENT.
Some idea OF the excellence OF the
Equipment purchase for this gymna-
SUM may be gathered from the follow
Ing list Of appliances which are now
ready for use; Twenty-Five chest
weights, 2 horizontal bars; adjustable
vaulting bars: climbing ropes;
climbing poles; standard horses;
standard bucks; springboards; pair
Of jumping standards: 10 travelling
rings I pair of flying rings: l giant
stride; % stall bars: booms: lis pairs
Of dumb bells; lis pairs OF Indian
clubs 100 wands; medicine balls; bas-
Ret balls; hand balls; wrestling mat;
pulley weights; 3 pipe stalls: 1 neck
machine: high and low leg pulley;
single giant pulley; / hydraulic rowing
machine 1 abdominal strap and cieat;