PUBLIC BATH. Ill 



an hour. For the baths, it varies from two to twenty-five cents, 

 certain hours being appointed for those who choose, by paying a 

 larger sum, to avoid a crowd. There are also commutations by 

 the year, at lower rates : boys, for instance, have a yearly ticket 

 for about a dollar. During the first year it has something more 

 than paid expenses. The number of bathers the last week (in 

 May) was over one thousand. I give these statistics, as this 

 establishment is rather smaller than most of the kind, and they 

 may serve the projectors of a similar one in some of our smaller 

 cities. 



