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SWIMMING POOL, HOBOKEN PARK. HOBOKEN, N. J. 
Docks, safety lines, floats, diving 
platforms, etc 628.18 
Beach lights 537.09 
Hardware 1,500.00 
Total $81,980.88 
The building accommodates 1,252 people. 
That this bath house and beach fills a 
long felt want was demonstrated by the 
instant popularity with which it was re- 
ceived by the people of the whole city and 
of all classes. No charge is made for the 
use of the building and only a nominal 
charge for the renting of suits, towels and 
other furnishings. It is hoped that the in- 
come from such rentals will make the op- 
eration of the baths nearly self-sustain- 
ing. The total recorded attendance was 
116,085. The highest attendance for one 
day, August 25, was 4,347. Hundreds of 
people, however, came in automobiles, and 
on foot from nearby houses, in their bath- 
ing suits, and went on the beach without 
being recorded. 
The swimming pool and bath house at 
Hoboken Park, Hoboken, N. J., is under 
the management of the Hudson County 
Park Commission. It was designed and 
construction was supervised by Charles N. 
Lowrie, landscape architect, 101 Park ave- 
nue, New York City. 
The bath house is of Italian architecture, 
built of terra cotta tile with stucco finish. 
It consists of one floor and basement. The 
basement contains furnaces for heating the 
building and providing hot water for 
showers. Here also is the artesian well, 
600 feet deep, providing water at the rate 
of 80 gallons per minute for the entire 
park. The pumping equipment consists of 
a deep well pump operated by an electric 
motor, and a compression tank with a 
capacity of 2,400 gallons. 
The main floor is divided into three 
rooms. On the southeast corner is the 
locker room with lockers, showers and 
lavatory for those using the athletic fields. 
This opens into the shower room on the 
northeast corner, with showers and lava- 
tory for use of bathers. The entire west 
half of the building is devoted to a dress- 
ing room for bathers. These two rooms 
open on each, and each room also opens 
directly on the platform of the swimming 
pool, which is on the north side of the 
bath house. 
This outdoor swimming pool is 70 feet 
long and 30 feet - wide. It is surrounded 
by a concrete walk three feet wide on 
three sides and eight feet wide on side 
adjoining bath house. It is surrounded by 
a fence of terra cotta blocks with a stucco 
finish seven feet high on the inside and 
nine feet high on the outside, the swim- 
ming pool being two feet higher than the 
surface of the ground. The pool is five 
and a half feet deep at one end and three 
