OUTDOOR SWIMMING POOLS 



than barns are one-priced. The modest landholder 

 of one horse and half an acre can have his pool by 

 damming up his brook. With the dam constructed of 

 field stones mortared together, a six to ten-foot brook 

 of medium depth may provide a practical and con- 

 venient pool for about fifty dollars. The man of con- 

 siderable but not six-figured fortune will have his 

 cement pool of spacious dimensions and attractive 

 accessories, at a price of two thousand dollars. The 

 owners of great estates will continue to have their 

 superb marble-lined ponds at ten thousand dollars 

 and upward. 



William Walter Smith, who has become famous 

 throughout the country as "the concrete man" be- 

 cause of his extensive experiments, and the splendid 

 results he has achieved in promoting every sort of 

 building with this adaptable material has given, in 

 * ' Suburban Life, ' ' directions for building two moder- 

 ate-priced swimming pools. Fifteen by fifty feet is 

 the size given as filling the requirements of the 

 average home garden. The price of about two 

 hundred and seventy-five dollars covered the entire 

 cost of one pool, built largely by home labor and of 

 inexpensive materials. For a pool of about the same 

 dimensions, where the cost of labor and material is 

 greater, the whole expense will figure up to about 

 four hundred and fifty or seventy-five dollars. Mr. 



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