Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-19

The association has adopted what is
known as the Kansas City system, one
that has been adopted quite generally
in all modern association buildings. 1t
makes stealing next to impossible, If
the system is properly supervised be-
sides reducing to a minimum the num-
Der of lockers.
Members have the use Of a locker
only while they are in their gymnasium
clothes and not all the time for keep
ing their gymnasium clothes in. A
member wanting to use locker APP
| plies at the supervisors office in the
corridor. where he is given g. box in
which his GYM clothes are kept there
and locker key. He takes his box
| into the locker room. unlocks the
| the locker the key matches, puts his
street clothes in the locker, then locks
| the locker and returns the key to the
supervisor.
System Saves Many Lockers.
When he wants to don his street
clothes again, he gets the locker key,
puts on his clothes. puts his gym
toys in his box and takes the box, anC
locker key to the supervisor The
locker is then ready for any one else
who may want one. In effect the sys-
tenn Is this; instead Of providing each
member with permanent locker in
which to keep his clothes, the Assoc
citation provides a box for the gym
| clothes to be kept in q special de-
partment under lock and key. The
supervisor is expected to air the gym
clothes and dry them before the owner
calls for them again.
Men Have Large Apartments.
Under the center of the. first floor
ara the terrace of the building is tbe
mems game room, large 1T" shaped
apartment. 1t is provided with billiard
and pocket billiard tables. checkers
| chess and other games The furniture
is plain and substantial.
Then following each other in the or
der named. beginning at the north, are
the other rooms and quarters for the
| men. all of them separated entirely
| from the game room. The first on the
north Is locker room with seventy
five full-length steel lockers. Directly
connected with it and between 1t and
the gymnasium and swimming pool are
a set of seven shower baths and toilets
Reddish gray marble wainscots the
| showers, underfoot is white tile. From
the bath, entrance admits at once tc
the swimming pool. corridor along
side the baths leads to steps up into
the gymnasium.
Boys Apartments Similar.
The boys apartments of the base
ment are similar to the mems. The
boys have large game room, equipped
with game tables, farther north on the
east side Of the basement. Just south
! OF it is a locker room with 100 half
length steel lockers. Connected with
the locker room is shower bath and
toilet similar in every way to the
mems. From the bath entrance to the
swimming pool and gymnasium is
gained thru corridors like the men use
The only way to pass from the mems
side to the boys side or vice versa, Is
back thru the gymnasium. There are
no connecting doorways In the base
ment.
Swimming Pool Luxurious.
Luxurious Is about the word to de.
scribe the swimming pool, that Is right
| under the gymnasium. Its water
ranges in depth from to 10 feet.
1t is lined with small white tile
trimmed in green. Lengthwise OF the
bottom run broad green stripes Of tile
| ending in stars near the end Of the
pool. These are guides for divers, lest
they bump their heads against the
pools sides. The stars at the end OF
| the stripes warn divers that they are
near the ends Of the pool.
Yard marks Of green tile indicate
the distances along the side Of the
pool, whose margin is formed by g
terra Gotta coping and gutter. which
!, performs the double service Of being q
hand hold for swimmers, and a drair
along which the splashed water finds
!, its way back into the pool. A huge
spring board Is provided. The ample
height OF the ceiling. the numerous
windows and systems OF ventilation
. promise much for sanitation here.
Just inside the room In which IL the