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women. Pools are not operated on Sunday. No fees are charged. Cost 

 items are: general construction, including bathhouse, $37,574; plumbing, 

 $4,183; electrical work, $1,090; total cost, $42,847. 



The following is a statement concerning the construction and cost of 

 the Fort Worth pools. Eighty per cent of this loox I5o-foot pool is wad- 

 able and 95 per cent is swimmable. It provides seven five-foot lanes with 

 at least three and one-half feet of water, which makes possible the con- 

 ducting of large official swimming meets. Three springboards, four, six 

 and ten feet high, are set on a steel platform on the sidewalk, and two are 

 anchored on steel platforms in the water. The top of these platforms 

 extends one foot above water level. Two rigid boards are set over four 

 and one-half feet of water for the use of beginners. Three slides are installed, 

 one of them for children. 



The pool is provided with a scum gutter and handrail, and chlorin- 

 ators are used for purifying the water. It enters the pool through fountains 

 which are placed over colored lights. Sand beaches with concrete bottoms 

 two feet deep have drains every ten feet, permitting the sand to be washed 

 and chlorinated. The entire pool area is fenced. 



The bathhouse provides about 600 lockers, with dressing booths for 

 women. A separate section for boys with lockers, showers and toilets has 

 been wisely provided. On the whole the layout of the building is satis- 

 factory, although in the men's section it would be advisable to move the 

 showers into a separate compartment near the door leading to the pool so 

 bathers would be obliged to pass through it on their way to the pool. It 



PLATE No. 162. SWIMMING POOL IN MARINE PARK, FORT WORTH, TEXAS 



Although the facilities are differently arranged, this pool is similar in many respects to the Sycamore Park 

 Pool in the same city. (See Plate 163.) 



