Pool Construction

WILL TURN WATER INTO POOL FRIDAY – Five Clear Days to Warm Big Tank Before Opening Regatta and Midway on June 5^th.

            With sanding of the big 125 by 250 foot floor completed and laying of sun riffles at the end of the feed sluice receiving the finishing touches, City Superintendent Philpot announced yesterday intention of turning water into the swimming pool tomorrow.  That plan ensures warming up of the water for five clear days prior to the opening regatta on Thursday, June 5^th.

            Construction of the pool is a workmanlike and substantial job.  Three concrete walls, backed by banked clay defines the pool limits on the north, east and south, and on the west, paralleling Lumsden Avenue, banked earth, surmounted by a concrete sidewalk, forms the western wall.  Between the western wall and the western margin of the pool proper, a wooden partition has been built to hold back a strip of sandy beach or play spot on a level with the surface of the sidewalk.  When funds are available the sidewalk will be continued on all four sides of the pool.

            On the southern end is a bathing place for little tots.  That area is protected by a fence and is in no place more than eighteen inches deep, and well floored with fine sand as is all other parts of the big tank.  About 1,000 cubic yards of sand have been laid on the pool floor and western embankment, Mr. Philpot said.

            The Gyros, who furnished the funds for pool construction and under whose auspices the regatta and midway will be held, are unanimous in stating that the pool has been built at an extremely low cost.  Including the sidewalk on the western side which may be regarded as an extra for the time being, the pool when opened will have cost $4,800.

            For the present summer at least the pool will be fed by a ditch from Joseph’s creek, surplus water being diverted around the eastern side between the wall and dressing lockers.