Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-07-30
SWIMMING POOL
IS sure -CARClLL.
PLAYGROUND Head SAYS
! Favorable Sentiment
Is Unanimous


noters of the municipal playground
.niDming pool held yesterday appar-
.rtv will result in the early construc-
t sn,' Of this much-desired addition to.
s Avn a,n,oricus' pleasure facilities. The
srst Of these meetings was. held at
Il II o'clock, and this was followed by
community get-together, presided
aver nv J. .Ralston Cargill, which be-
Uon 7.36 o'clock in the evening.
n - Features of the evening meeting
n rore the community singing, led by
Trs James W. Harris, Jr., and
L yeading by Miss Helen Keister, which
was much enjoyed.
n The principal theme discussed at
n both meetings was the construction of
swimming and wading pools on the,
playground property, and a sentiment
Y unanimously favorable to these pro-.
\ ects was manifest. A number. of
4 men and ladies present made brief
talks, endorsing the proposed pools,
and resolutions were introduced at
both meetings, the object being to
oct actual construction work under
way as quickly as possible.
Mr.. Cargill, who recently accepted
the Craftsmanship of the playground
directorate, and who has succeeded
in injecting much new life into the
playground association since becom-
irg the head of activities there, was
enthusiastic today over the prospect
of getting a swimming and wading
pool on the playground property,
expressing his enthusiasm in the fol-
lowing interview granted The Times
Recorder:
Americas will have swimming
pool. Just how quickly the project
can be put over remains to be seen.
That the pool is wanted by practical
" every one there is no question; it
is simply matter of getting togeth-
er on some plan of financing that
will distribute the burden as evenly
as possible.
Money is temporarily tight; times
are temporarily hard but conditions
are going to improve and there is
no reason to suppose for one minute
that Americas cannot finance this
swimming pool right now. use the
word finance advisedly; one man will
put up the necessary money to buy
the materials, i. e., cement, sand and
gravel, if protected by time paper
that gives assurance that the outlay
will be repaid within 4 reasonable |
w. /
~If a group of the public spirited
men and women of Americas will |
get together and put up the neces-
sary personal guarantees for their
prOpOrtiOnate part of the total
amount needed, the pool can be built
nat once and in time for use before
@his summer is over and the pro-
ceeds derived from charges for
swimming tickets, advertising and
soft drink concessions, etc. will be- |
gin to retire and pay off the in
debtedness assumed.
THE city engineer, Mr.. Tiedeman,
has made an estimate of the cost of |
a pool forty feet wide, one hundred
feet long, four feet deep at one end
and eight feet deep at the other, the |
total of which for materials, i. e.,
cement, sand and gravel is $1,000;
cost of building dressing rooms $500;
cost of well and pump $500. The
total cost, exclusive of labor for ex-
cavating the pool and pouring the
concrete, is 100000. This will give
pool that will hold one hundred
and eighty thousand gallons of water
which with our own we'll and pump
can be renewed every day at cost
Tor pumping estimated by the engi-
neer not to exceed fifty dollars per
month. This low cost would be pos
slble, | am told by Mr.. Tiedeman,
by reason of the fact that very lit
tie power would be required to pump
the water to the swimming pool level,
assuming that in sinking the well
flow could be secured that would
BRING the water to within ten or
twenty feet of the surface of the
ground.
Fortunately, in considering this
swimming pool we are not dealing
with an unknown problem, for it is
easy to find out what other cities
are doing, what their pools cost,
what sort of revenue they produce
and whether they are considered
worth while. Our neighboring city,
Oordele, has a swimming pool OPP
Grated under private auspices land
Tor personal profit which has made
a wonderful record for success and
II has become widely known as a
splendid community asset for that
enterprisinp LITTLE civ