y.

Re.ee, PTS.

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8'''J..ss l t.3f(~.oo
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I J 0.00
/I If 110 "" 2'17
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Of
 Wayne Natatorium Association.

Statement, April 10, 1897.

Receipts since May 26, 1895, are as follows:-

Capital Stock $73000'

Mortgage Loan 3000.'
Swimmdng, season 1895 1650.
u • 1896 1150. 2800 .•
'
Skating, season 1895~96 595
u u 1896-97,Cash, 360. 955.
Tickets as follows 646 at 10'0 64.60
66 " 20qs. 13.20 $14p55.
77.80

Expenses as follows:-

Land $2$93.
Interest on mortgage 270.'
Building 3380.
Lumber, sand, coal &c. 420.
Johnson Co. 3620.
Clothes, furniture&e. 800.
Salary paid Canizares 82B.
.' Three champion~tmeets, dinners, fares &c. 390.
Electrical wiring 380.
Electric light 122.
Laundry 200.
Printing 152.
Pump, engine, pipe 170.
Music 75.
Plumbing 60.
Charter, insurance &c. 66.
Taxes and water rent 38.-
Ice 31.
Canoe 30.
Postage 20.
Cash on hand, jobbing, provisions, and
other sundri es $14;055.
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,ge:port o'f Receipts. for
"
.'.

15th Annual ohampionshif of L L U. U. S.'

held at Wayna~Saturday Angust 22nd1896.'

Ca~h reoeived ......................... $51. 00

77 Blue: ticke~s, 10rt: ........................
, , ,

7.70
18 Red' ", at 2 art:, ..................... 5.60

3. wpite: tickets, at 25rt:. ...................

. .. ~. . '. .....

7. halves: do at lS! .................. 1.16

64.21

Estimated number of visitors •

.• ~•. ~'. ;.•1..•;. ' •• - ..;
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.
Paring oash adul's. and minors. ...................
,

Cou:pons.reds. and blues, ........................

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~ffiQial and press .•.••.•.•.•.•.• 0 ••••••• 0.00 •••• 0 •••••••••••••• ":' 58.'
. " Rolders-'of season tickets, say' 0 ••.•••••••••• 0 o ••.••• 0 •• •• 15

. \.
 Report of Receipts for

4th Annual Championship races held at Wayne,

Saturday, June 27, 1896.

Cash recei'\ed $68.65

S3 blue tickets at lOt $8.30

.•
!
34 red " 'GO:/; 0.80
5 Belle'me " " 33~t 1. 36
4 halr'€s " 20,J; .80
11 wh,?les " 40$ 4.40
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21.98

Total $90.61

--Visitors.
- -- --~

Paying cash adults 160

n ..
, minors ""
Gr.:-

Cou pons 137

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Jfficial cards v ,~

B;stimating one lady 'Nitn

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each card, .J t) •.
106
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Holders of season tickets,&c,say ,-,,~
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450
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NEWYOBK.
BosroN. ".
COFFIN, ALTEMl!JS & Co.,
BAL'tDlOBB.
Dry Goods Commission Merchants,
No. 220 CHESTNUT STREET,
PIuu.AdtWuz (I/J LdIw, ttl

lixk Box, 1562.

Philadelphia, June 8.1895.

8UBJBO!: 1ISlne Natitorll.11l."

--!-il11em Wo..~~
&:. Co~, 22nd Spr;t.ngGarden, Phila.

~
"~e
My Dear Ur.Wood:--
.
I have gone carefUlly over the est1mate, and as our

••• differ eanemat. t .•ill give lOUbrienr.

. 81Jnplyfor the ••ke

., tuture OClllpart.D. rtrI views:

RBaBIPTS:
100 Se•• on !lokets,tlO.OO. tlooo.oo 1!
200 Adm1ss1on!lCketa.$5.00. 1000.00
&00 Slogle Admi•• • •...•40 • 200.00
5.000 !loket •• Skating Rink.10, 500.00
Receipta trQn other .(Uroea,
- 100.00
••
paoo.OO
• EXPENSES:

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Taxes,
Inwrance,
$15.00
6.00
•
Water-rent, 40.00
Light, 100.00
A~tend.ant8. 600.00
Repaira and.Uainta1nano•• 400.00
Laund.l71ng !owel., 150.00
Oo~. 100.00
Inter~8' Qn Oapital. ~600.00
3011.00

-"89.00
l
Ba8ing the investment upon $10,000. the figures given
· would. er.Oy a profit between 12 and 13~. the item -Receipts fran
/ NEWYOBK.
BosToN.
\..IU~'~'1N,
fiLl l'b;lVl U b & 00~,
BALTDlOBB.

DrY Goods Commission Merchants,

No. 220 CHESTNUT STREET,
PhIu, Atltiru, tI1JLIUw, 1#

lJJck&x~ '562.
Phztadelph£a,
-2-

other Souroes- t think should be larger, and also the 200 adrnis-

sion ticket. used tor adults and children I think is small. The

_____ charge I have _~ade for coal is probably excessive, ani I 1.0 riot

know methar you intend heating the main part with steam or not.

-Rep,ir. & Maintainance., I think $400 seems to me to be a safe

side to figure it on.

I have al so put in an e.t imate on the ska t ing rink at

10 cents athissiOl1, giving the number of people as 5,000. If we

had a very..,ravorable Winter. this result weald be ver"/ small.

The nwnber of teet of space which can be used for this purpose is

<pite large and will attrac& a great many people.

I think the estimate I have given is a very conservative

one. ani tt.e more I look into the subject the more I am convinced
••
that it.can be made a gOod paying investment.

Dictated.
 June eth.1895.

I".

I' Is difficult to give such an estimate as you

~k.;f,o.r ill JOurlet.t.er of the 5.th inst. Very few of the f actol's en-

t'el'ing11lto t.he computation can be kniYln with any degree of certain .•.,
'i~,~ ",,:'~"~','f~:/;"':,
" '" .-'. '
l.,;,:~}'~'~~n:~~v.~~ce.and.in the abeence of actua~ experienoe one person's
. guess at the results is about as good as another t s. I have, as you
.
kn~••.great fait-hin the financial suocess of theenterprise,but I

"...J'.,lt>P,tl ,is"h;i~~.• ue an estimate of the results which might prove

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therefore :prefer to have you carefully consider
,.', ,", '-_,.:<If''~,:,,", . _ .' _'~

.. ",';g~:a..~aljse the statement given hereunder and make such alterations

.-_f,:t{~/'.f'~
_
",'S.Jll yenrJudgllent are required to make it a thoroughly safe and
• -,~ ,.' • f

conservative exhibit to present to prospective subscribers to the

a~~~i.,?f
. ".'<~_.~.~'-'-.-, -
the lape
.•.
Natatorium Association •
:~",._
..".',." f"have shown the figures to Vr.Bailey and he con-

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JlJ es~l~~te
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..•.-,"~_ ~._ '<.'~~;.:":r-,~'"
of the expenses
,','
excessive and is confident they

":~lJl:.t~~,~,'h~ .~~~. prove muc.lhless in acjual experienoe. On the other

Jl»d~"he'\h1nks I may be 8 little too sanguine as to the number of
.; .~.
",.~m.in. ticket,s sold. so the net result he would reach prob 8bly would
. >--~~:-::k:~~' , It' ' _ . 'i

'.;~),."t.~."t.erialt].Jdiffer ,from mine.

~:J{'./f::~~:~:~:-':.: ~.
,":(, .. ,- , You will notice that in the expenses Ibave included
~:.
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at ~upon t'he entire capi tal,of $10000, though we do not ex-
~~_'t./
~£~~ - - -~;.:i
p,eet \0 'issne more than $'1,500 in which event a proportionall.y larger
afdrH.ll'l'l*n An the cenu,,/ollv

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f,':):t'eceipts&Expenses of Natatorium Assn •

.Reoeipts.

<!~o Season tiokets 8 $10. $1000.

~O,~5.0,AdIliss1on' tiokets a 5,. 25.0.

10e.....
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•
.•. • ., 5,. '5,00.,

~Oq7S1ugle • • • .40 fOO. $155.0.

'Expenses.
15;.
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/'~,<~14~~41l~t? 5,
< ••.• ~.i5;1:.'-:ib~¥..":'"","
.',' '''I;';~:;Rellf 40.
100.

!UendantB ,600.
,
Bepa1~8& M~l11tainance 800

~••• dryl~ 'lowels 15'p.

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'J,Ii'\eres\oa\CapHal 600. \. $1 '108.

., ,";t~.". ",~JlillUIl. anticipated profit over •. 1\0';,

;;;:tI,~k:,.;l~~r~~!.;~.'~l?QJl
allUre oapital
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"':;L. :.::::.~.:'::.'::_:';_','::~'\';: r.-}.~:,i

faa bathing suits~iDstructiontand skating accounts~are

••
!I~ inoluded in the foregoiDg statement. As it is impossible even
6 ,

~o &pproxim~te the results.

!~bexpected that Vlost of the patrons ot the Natato-
,~t1J~.will ~rf#.'~to supply their own bathing suits .•but a ,supply will
. ".(.~\::f.r '._~'l' '::

~-'4., .•",",,~,~~)m!.t~~P~,~t.9,h;..reat ayah rllotesas will pay tor their care and
~IlUC~.!,a,,1ieldsome proU t.
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,,-:'!' ./i':~;1:.'
 ',;w~~.tf.,~i.:: .';' .
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To ,.aooom,pda!epersoIl•s. liesfrin",instruction, a teacher will
, ~ .
.j'~obably"be engaged 'at a 'rate of so much pel' P~pil, so that the
as-
sool'a.t1oncan incur no loss u~o:n this part of the business; and tlJe

-
direotors may consider it good policy not to obtain a profit from

itysP that allow a rate as possible m~y be fixed for instruction

to eMourage the more general ~ce of the art of swizr,n:i,IJg.
Uncertainty as to the extent and duration of freezing
i.

. .
weather makes it impossible even to guess at the result to be de-

~ rived from the use of the pool in ~inter time,but the statemsut of
i
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.• • ~0:
I'

expenses already given include.r think, everything required for tbe

winter sepsoD except the fu~l required for fire in the waiting room
'*~
I

and the labor for removing snow from the ice and sprinkling the sur-
face to keep it smootb. For the skating maintained on the North Wayne
reset~oir last winter,it was found tha~ th~ ridiculously low rate of

3:i.. oents per week was about sufficient to pay these expenses and pro-

vrae '~neipensive musio,so that at a fair admissiol'Gprice of say 10 ets.

for ohildren and 80 cents for adults,s. considerable revenue should be

! had during the winter when the weather permits,and when skating is not
I practic~ble,the expenses incidental to that feature do Dot have to be

r incurred.

I ~ r have endeav.ored to take a very conservative view of the

/' whole subject and, as you will see, have not inc] uded in the profits any-
I
f
I' '
thing f~om those sources which have an element of uncertainty.
• I

J 'Will you be so good as to favor me with your criticism of the

rt-"-" .
figures r have set down and give me your own impression of the subject.
t* Very truly yours,
I
Mr.F.H.Treat ~

Wayne

Penna.
 Wayne. June 21~t,la95~

...

As I may not be at t~e meeting this evening,I send you this

~emoranduJ1l at subjects fol' .yaul' consideration,

').slt
I sen~ to Wayne today by P,R.R.paekage deliver y, t.~dS. or

'llt lIater1&1 approved last evening by Jar••Johnson And Ilr.Bailey.

~.::; .•... _~',';

•• F

,.,. ~'
iessl's Ubler & English were on Wedne~1ay di~e~~ed to send

the st l;.-

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LU!!1
,
PRESERVERS.

Of these th-ree were orJlc~ed today,which '/liththe :3a11J?lc I lett

order authol'ized. Price

at the C1U,b~~ouse lastnight,will eomplete the

BIlol)h. TheJ 1'1111go by height service.fi)

W;l.th.the1tindassistance.ot )(r.W.LScott,I have procured .the 8

smal~ kegs needed for the water line. The ~ost will be about ~1.e~ch ana
thoy will go to.Wayne ~lther this afternoon or touor~o~ mor~lng by freight.

13ARRELS.

Jar.Bailey 3ill report about these,he was to procure the~ fro~

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Kr.Bailey was to send to th~ Wayne station tor the towels

eod T..,d.y leot.

~ !l!X~lI~S UD UTH ROBES.

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,~ Kr.'l'reat will procure prices tor these which will" donbt-

(~~l." b••• ,' .av••,.g'." ,••• 'b., •• bl.' ,••'d •• ,••t,d by tb, "t,11

~,;"~ de.~trs. Co

• I went to Wanamakers and Spauldings on this business an4

!
leol'l1ed t ~et:

At Wanamakers.

~.~..",. Tigh1iSJ,bave only one grade,a. very excellent quality ot worsted .• in

ti:~~>' 'l>~aQk.blue aJd nUte,prioe, one dOlla.l" pel' paiJ." less 10% on our order,

(c,' "they 81'8pro!ably well wortb the oostb,ut are perhaps too expensive for
I "

our purpose.
Bath robes-a very good quality (cotton) colors -.I"arra:n~ed absolutely

fast,price three dollars less 10%.

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~nother kind quite good enou~h tor our requi~ements,price $2.50 net,
'\

110 diseoun't. These eost $2.50 in large quant:Lties anCl. they are no.uclosillg

them out. I
j •
. At SpauldingS.

'l!ights.-A very teir quality .0f .. Jer.s.ey 01" stQekj.lle~ ,light c.olol's,f/l.ll-

A lQwer' grade but ,too thin ~nd tl1msey,I think,at 25 cts.!,ler pail.'

less 20j disc~unt.

Bath robes.-The:lc they hav'.) in considerable variety,at $8.,3. ,5. ,2.50

all subject to disoount ot 20%. The $2.50 kind wOUld,Ibelieve;ans.~r our

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,
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T)e bath robes shown at both p~aoes bore the Star I Cresent

tag ~nd ¥r.Trea\ Qou~d probably buy them ~heaper direct from the fac-

was Mr.Neff and at Spauld-

',.,P.' '~~";'g;1f!~i:il:I\'~if,:'ir""i'\;~~~fm~~e'~<e't''h''''~'!fif''''''
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•••.• JII,8 •.••. IIO•.: •• I.O.;.X.; ••• ,.S.;.CJWQlllM. ".. .1,,461. I. .•• * . i 111114•.• n.41 J .,,' • ....,""--------'-"
and two or th~ee dozen pairs of tightc;the latter in a3sorted cizes,tiut

~he robes could be all one sipe.

As requested by Kr.Johnson I ordered of Vess.Ubler & English 1

,
$i.\2 Will go forward when lite preservers ara sen ~ •

F'Lf._-.'. ._-.-.
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BOAT.

14r.BaqH

for your c~nsideration.

has prices upon boa~ sand

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c c::.iloe 3 :11ie h
1 .•• h0 :dll sub-

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ho~izontal
P~ica

nVI'I'!TIONS •
,
a~m of
quoted

pipe.
by Mess.Word

Quoted
& Xendig

as cost price.Can
$2.50 for

get them as
p3r
eo
r.ead. and

low as $10
dozen,

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~:(.nO\'f be
• The

ordered
date

•. The
tor

tora
the

was
openinl

agreed.
h~ving

upon last
been fixed,the

~adnasdey
cc.rds

eV8nin~.
should.

:t'<
) ENV!LOPES.

f "',,,,
,~~~,""j",< "~"¥!Iit'e" 'ovg"hi/l< •.•.•. ~ •••• ought -!lOt. later t,ha.n t omorJ;'0\'1 or 1Lo.Jld.a.y
a.s

J' t ••••••• " •• , ••••• th •• all addl'essed. Mr.B~iley was to get

~~. & card the size of those to be used tor invitations for llr.Ji'allClu,wl1o

agreed to buy envelopas to matoh.

~

PRESS HOTIClIS.

~".i..,.
..
I have

the ;Ledger,FreS3,Inquirer,Record,Tlmes,Worth
~ent & letter like the copy attached

American,Telegraph,&
to the editors

Bulletin.
of

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 3{.~$11:~~~~~; '.~L~':: ~'j:~:',::~t~:.".
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>ti\'0~\.J'~B.llowell'$
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suggest 1ol1~Iha~e'ltl"j,tten to Ill'
.J?h1l1el'

be gl~d.~o supply him with Invitations to be given such ot

tha1~ ~embel's as m1ght eare to attend the opening.

I",

I1SraUCTIOI,
0~~~~~:'"",i"<1l";';"";Jf';-""';' ,"
" ..•• ' , ! append he'l'eto the p'l'oposal of Prot,RolI'oyd wiLh ~~:;peet

t~ terms of 1l1st~uet10n, ! believe thera ~ill be no ditficulty in amend_

1ngit,so as to provide fol' a ~ course for tive dolla-r.s ($5.) in ,,:c-

,ordanae with Ur.Johnson's suggestion,' But before concludin~ an arrangement

with Holl'oy~,I should like the full boel'd to pass upon the proposition.

EHT~g1'AnllEIf'l' OF PAn'l'ICIPAllTS] The National Swimming Associatioc

IN OpeNI~3 EXRIBITI~rr. ~ill probably send OUG 20 to 25 3~: i!n_

JerS to e&rry out the proil'am now in cou~sc of arrangement. We shall have

But wheth,er tot the Club House,the Bellevue,or upo •• our own

property,ar'angements should be made to feed ~be visitors BDd ~~oposals

•
should be had !~om Lienhar1t and others t~ 3upply the supper and furnish

'P.AFT.

As a matter of information I r,port tbe !a~t communicated to

me this morning,tbat the buoyancy ot the raft on tbe Devon Pool is secured

b' some tln,water tight comrartBe~ts

I
contained inside the raft.
 " (,". Repo~t's trom:_
,t.

Xr.rreat on Vessrs Rose,leoker1y,St~wart.

Xr.Johnson on " Godfrey & MoFadden

~::~~_ "', ," .Nr.Bailey " "~~~,Helm. & Yost.

:;f;'~~'r<:~;::<
..•. '" ,~..' 1ll'".11'al1on" '"Doran &, / .,'
~!"""'~"''''--<~;: ;;::~7~~r;:;'~
•.•. .~~ '.
, SIGNS.

fhe sign boaL'ds' ordered of Bati;!l:lan

11ere to be ready and dc-

at Pool by this evening. The necessary permission should be had

Co.and Pennn.R.R~Co.to ereot one on property of each corpo~a-

tlon and the posts for all ought then to be set and the signs attached.

?tAOA'RDS •

.~~.,'~,t.i,,;.~y;'{\~(";'J~~.t.;Q.~~h.res
pl',m1sed tQ del1ver these at Country Club last
;'."~~',,'~'. ,<>: :"""~'Jii1r:i 1,~ll.:'~~~~~:~tr'tJ* t~~?tm~~.~~;;~;;f}~-'-;' :_, .,~~. ~_
'night. &l'l'a~iements should be ma4e to have them posted in the R.R.Stations,

Be1levue,Lou~i12,TIynburne and Bryn Uaw~ Hotels alRo Paoli Inn. The ryevoD

Inn,I presume,.ould not care to po~t one. ~e should also sand one to the

,Wayne CountL'y Club,~erion Cricket Club,D.aduor Hunt,Club Hous> of Phila.

B1cycle Club at Afdmorc,and to the r9pL'e~3ntative wheel clubs of !hila.

The latter I will, undertake if desi~ed.

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~
LI~E PRES~~V~~S. ~.S.

,t\qV'1i3ed~hat
• '" .•. - " . ~ ""?'. 4 "
the price,.. ($2.50) -"." <
q,uoted to me for the lite p"'eSerVeL's S'hOtlll

last night was wrong and that it should' have been $4. each. ~!e:Js:?sUhler

& ~n;lish are to ascertain and L'sport the kia1 ot preS8L'Ver that can b~

supplied at the lo~er price.

PP.s. 11~~~
Have -Jus~ been advised that ~

preservers like the sample but filled '\'1ithchip cork can be had foL' $2.50

'l'hesample is made of solid cork an-' will cost $4. Which shall I order'
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 40UJ'Bday, August '1:7,1992 The Philadelphia Inquirer M-S

"We weren't the country-club set,"

said one longtime resident.
"Wherever there was a mudhole,
that's whl}J'ewe swam and enjoyed it. "

Gulph Creek, was dammed at the

bend of what today is Willow Avenue
in Wayne. [n 1895,it cost $25 a share
to belong. In the files at the Radnor
Historical Society is a certificate is-
sued to John W. Morrison, 425 Chest.
nut Lane, Wayne, for eight shares on
July 5, 1895.
The folder also has a yellowed
handbill announcing the fourth an.
nual National Swimming Competi.
tion at the natatorium, held at 3:30
p.m. on Saturday, June 27, 1896.
Around 1902or 1903, the natatori.
urn closed due to a drought. Jeanne
.LaRouche, director of Berwyn's Sur.
rey Services for Seniors and a local
history writer who lives near the
once-famous pool, said the women's Wayne _
h~thhn •••.•.•.••..•
~••• ~ _. . .••
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Billed as "the largest inland, open-air pool in the world," the Wayne Natatorium, built
in the 18905, was
the earliest swim club in the area, The pool was more than 500 feet long and averaged 80 feet in width.

Gulph Creek, was dammed at the

bend of what today is Willow Avenue
in Wayne. In 1895, it cost $25 a share MONTGOMERY
to belong. In the files at the Radnor COUNTY
Historical Society is a certificate is-
sued to John W. Morrison, 425 Chest. • MartI~n'sD='(\\ /////\,
nut Lane, Wayne, for eight shares on Colonial Village / / 1':. \
July 5, 1895. .•••••
", ~Q '\ ....
'\
The folder also has a yellowed \ ,' \

handblll announcing the fourth an. '/// q, /// ~

nual National Swimming Competi. ~(jO'0~.
tion at the natatorium, held at 3:30 _ ~ // ~I>S"~A
p.m. on Saturday, June 27, 1896. q. ~.oy..'?" ~~~//O~\J' ~;Ij>v
Around 1902 or 1903, the natatori. _ <l' O'0V (j0 / (j'l
um closed due to a drought. Jeanne ~ ,J?'?~'?< ':t-~s-<"~~//Fenimore ~
.LaRouche, director of Berwyn's Sur. 0- ~ G // Lake•
rey services for seniors and a local
history writer who lives near the ~~///

once-famous pool, said the women's 30 '". COJ\t€; • / Wayne Wayne •

bathhouse, now a residence, still
stands across the street from Wayn-
eco Enterprises.
Gulph Creek, which meanders
through much of north Wayne, was
an Important water source for sev.
eral other swimming areas.
Fenimore Lake In St. Davids, called
Edgewood Lake In 1895, was owned
by francis Fenimore in the late
18OOs,said Jim Ripson of Wayne,
great-grandson of Francis Fenimore.
The family used the lake for swim.
ming and fishing.
His long-ago relative planned to.
use the lake as the centerpiece for a
summer housing development he
wanted to build, but the deal fell
through, Ripson said.
"It was going to be a country-club
type thing. I believe the bank took It
over and completed the develo~
ment," he said, The lake is now
owned by Radnor Township.
Around 1910,Fenimore sold nearly
28 acres of land to Charles Walton -
the site where Eastern College Is
today. Three lakes were planned for
the estate, according to a history of
the college, Great House, written by
John BaIrd.
The pond, fed by springs, had been
used to supply water to steam en.
gines on the railroad. It was later
enlarged for swimming and bor.
dered by fieldstone walls. The small.
est body of water would be a lily
pond and the largest pond, fed by
Gulph Creek, would become a boat.
~ / / s"o
,~/ ~ ~
Area o{ Big Oats, uUte
,pats; Cubbic •
MILES ,,
o 1/2
,,
ing and ice skating area with a log
cabin on the eastern shore.
The cabin' was used for entertain.
Ing and as a changing area for the
bathers. According to published ac.
counts, the Girl Scouts, organized in
1917, learned to swim at the Walton
estate.
Carol Creutzburg, an artist and lo-
cal history writer, recalls swimming
at Walton's a couple of times. "Bob
Walton was In our class at Radnor
High School," she said.
"We really all went swimming at
Martin's and Colonial (Village!,"
Creutzburg said, explaining her par.
ents belonged to both places at dlf.
ferent times.
"Martin's was more fun. It was
more for kids, and most of Wayne
went there," she said of swimming in
the 19308."Colonial was much more
elegant, and it was more for adults,
more formal."
Colonial Vlllage, on the corner of
Croton and Radnor Roads, has been
partially filled in and is now the
Springbrook townhouse develo~
ment. Nearby, on Croton Road, Is
Natatorium
~D LANCA =-- -
STEA AVE.
Martin's Dam Swim Club, which was
organized in 1924.
Creutzburg, whose father, Harry,
was born in 1895, recalled the time
her father and his friends ventured
out to a farmer's pond on Darby
Creek near Brooke Road.
"IMter swimming naked! they
painted themselves with all kinds of
designs In mud. ". As they were
gleefully enjoying all that, they no-
ticed that all their clothes were
gone," Creutzburg said. "They saw
the vanishing back of the farmer
with all their clothes."
They drew straws as to which boy
would retrieve the clothes. ''The
farmer kept (the boyl waiting outside
with a lecture that he didn't want his
wife and daughter seeing naked boys
in their front yard," she said, Then
he threw the clothes, which landed
in all kinds of disorder.
"Meanwhile, the boys waited, with
visions of riding through Wayne in
their birthday suits," she said. "As it
was, all of them had to creepy-crawl
up and get those clothes, sort out
which belonged to which. They rode
At Cathcart Lake, which used to
have waterfalls, Jim Falcone Jr"
here exploring the shallows, spent time cooling off in his youth.
off chastened."
Falcone recalled similar episodes
with a farmer they called Hitler. "He
would really take our clothes
(away!," he said. "He had an old Mod-
el A and would go through the fields.
"When we saw him coming, we'd
run like hell, wade across the creek,
and run into the woods with our
clothes over our heads. , .. He always
used to raid us," Falcone said.
When he was older, Falcone was
often invited as a guest to swim at
Colonial Village. One day he decided
to join, presenting a check to the
clerk. In strong language, the clerk
told him Italians were not allowed to
belong and gave him back his check.
''That's why it was necessary for us
to go down into a muddy swimming
hole," he said. In the mid.19SOs,Fal.
cone's son, Jim Jr., joined Colonial
ViIlage when the rules were relaxed,
but his father never would. ''They
turned me down once, and they lost
me," the elder Falcone said.
In the mid-I940s, when the family
lived on Upper Gulph Road in Straf.
ford. Jim Jr. and his father found
new swimming holes.
"My father used to walk me (to the
swimming holes! back when I was
young," Jim Jr. said of Lea and Cath.
cart Lakes, near Devon Preparatory
School. "They were two lakes on the
same creek."
Lea's Lake Is gone, buried under a
housing development, but part of
Cathcart Lake is stiIl there, Jim Jr.
said.
"We did more than swim there,"
the son said. "We ice-skated [on Lea's
Lake!. We used to sled on it. We used
to make rafts, launch them and
watch them sink."
In a melancholy voice, sounding
almost like a kid again, the younger
Falcone, added, "We caught frogs
and salamanders."
Catching critters in swimming
holes Is a boyhood memory for his
father as well.
"We'd catch snakes and snapping
turtles," he said. "We'd find nests of
duck eggs," he said. "We didn't have
television. We knew how to amuse
ourselves. (The swimming holel was
a hell of a way to cool orr."
 / . .
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TilE :\.\T.-\TOI</l'.\!

Thl're IS anuthe!
institutiun ill \\'ayne which
conducl's tu both social and
athletic pleasure. This is
the f;IInous Xatatoriunl,
~
which is be1ie\'ed to be the
finbt artificial s\\'ilIllIlin" ..,.
.::
~t.,jl~> pool in the United ~tatl's.
!l-'
~'1': Fin: hundred and fifty feet
lung and une hUIIClred fed
\ oJ .::i"
.•.. '""'" ~ \\'ide. with a sheh'ing sandy
'l~.
bottum and a \'arying dl'J>th
/J~ frum
t\l"<)to eight feet. this
large expanse of water is
the Summer rendez\'uus of young and old, The puol is quite unco\'ered.
and there is a ladies' building, and one for gentlemen, with accomlIlodations
for many bathers and the nsual dressing-rooms, lockers, showers, etc,
In \\'inter the pool becomes a skating club of the most pleasant
description, and is in Use whenever the ice is safe and sufficiently strong.

J Many
gi\'en
pretty evening fetes and masquerade
here by the enthusiastic \\'ayneites,
carnintls ha\'e already
whos\: opportunities
I>el.'n
to skate
render it most em'ied by the less enterprising towns,

THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES

Asidl.' frum thl.' nlriuus sucieties there are t\\'1) pnrely sucial club"
In \\'aYIIl' ,

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'JnRetrospect
~ ce--tcL-t-Q "
, o-V"'ld Back in "1895 a group of Wayne
men, interested" in outdoor sports of
b ~fo r" e.. all kinds, conceived the idea a swim-
ming pool for Wayne would be just
about the proper thing. The town
had at that time an up-to-date country"
club, which provided facilities for
cricket, baseball, football, etc., with
bowling, pool and billiards in the club-
house. But the only places to go for
those who enjoyed swimming were
Edwards' Dam (now the Mill Dam
Club), Martin's Dam and Fenimore's
Dam (now the Walton Dam). These
dams had plenty of good pure water,
but there were no bathhouses or other
conveniences.
So-in May, 1895, a charter was ap-
pli!!d for by the Wayne Natatorium
"".::'lociation." The incorporators were:
t"'"'Jident, John P. Wood; vice-presi-
denh Richards H. Johnson; secretary,
Christopher Fallon, Esq.; treasurer,
Julius A. Bailey; "T. Stewart Wood,
Herman Wendell and Frederick H.
Treat. A charter was granted on
June 10, 1895, by Acting Judge Wil-
liam B. Waddell.
A muddy pond known as Kelley's
Lake, located between what is now
Willow avenue and Aberdeen avenue,
and Maple avenue" and Radnor road,
was purchased and the R. H. Johnson
Company was awarded the contract
for excavating and constructing a pool
about 500 feet long with an average
width of "about 100 feet. It ranged in
depth from about eight inches to eight
feet. The water supply was from
the creek which runs from Leaming's
Woods through North Wayne.
A fine clubhouse was built,.the first
floor being used as a ladies' dressing
room and the second floor as living
quarters for the manager (who hap-
pened to be this writer). A men's
dressing room was built midway of
the pool. Boardwalks were built and
a high wooden fence surrounded the
property.
Though incomplete at the time, the
pool formally was opened in July of
1895. A large crowd of amateur
sWimmers representing the Philaqel-
phia Swimming Association, the New
York Athletic Club, the UIiiversitY.;9f
Pennsylvania and other orga~zati@,s:
;:~ present a~~ a gala .tIme, Jr,
swimming" instructor'" was .~-
gaged. He was Ch!lrles Holroyd,f!l-
Yorkshireman with an accent so thiCk
one could cut it. He afterwards was
..,.
succeeded by" George Kistler, a CO;r-
nishman, who also had some accent.
George at that time was champion
mile swimmer of the world. He sub-
sequently was swimming instructor~t
Houston Hall, of the" University of
Pennsylvania for many years and
coached several Red and Blue cha~-
pionship teams.
Under the excellent training of
these two men many of the youngsters
and oldsters of the Main Line were
taught to swim. Among the number
the writer recalls the Woods-Ruth,
Edith, Agnes, Penman, Bob, Jimmy
and Tommy; Jim, Marcus and Law-
rence Heilner, Anna, Jane and Heleh
Johnson; the Gallagher boys-Gus,
Clarence and Tony; in those days Gu,s
weighed 330 pounds, but was as active
as any of the lighter weights; the Hal-
lowells-Nancy, Rita, Guy and Cress
-and Mrs. Hallowell and Mrs. John
P. Wood, who were two of the best
women swimmers of that time;
George and Adolph Gosling, Sam Gar-
rigues, Waldo M. Claflin, James P.
Paul, Jr., and his family, Walter
Yeatts, Harvey Hale, Wallace Smith,
Arthur Cheyney, the Pinkertons, the
Weckerlys, Chris. Fallon (who came
down early in the morning and took
a dip as late as the middle of Oc-
tober), the Treats-Mary, Herb and
Fred. The list could go on and on.
In the winter the pool was used for
skating and many a carnival was held
under the bright lights with which
the inclosure was illuminated.
For several years the Natatorium
was a big success; then came
troublous times. The bicycling craze
came to its height; former patrons
of the pool would take "bike" trips
over the week-end and attendance
dwindled. Then there came a short-
age of water. There had been a gen-
eral drought during 1899, if memory"
serves. The Wayne Water Works
Company, then a local concern, sought
to augment its supply and sank a
number of artesian wells, which dried
up several large springs along the
creek which fed the pool. After
struggling along for several years the
property was sold and on its site
were built" the houses on the south
side of Willow avenue.
And that .was the end of an insti-
tution which today would be a bles-
sing in our community.
 ----._._--
aIled' and announced that in ,evii" ,','i :that Wayne was one of ' the first 10-;'

' ,-
,f emergency' all ,young men' were ,., calities to have an outdoor swimming
lxpectedto turn out ,and act ~s vol- \; pool: We rented rights to Kelly's
tiler ;fi'remim: " ,',', .,,;;:' \',,' Dam, which' was a body of water
I
Wa ne.St. Davids Folk Lore"'~, I Sure 'enough;' 'it was riot long be- 'down in a hollow near the railroad:
y ,
BY GEORGE W. SCHULTZ ' tr
, , "\-'\ !tore my brother and I were awak-
ed one night by "FritZ" 'Hallowell
The Lancaster pike has been a g:eat inging ,a dinner bell. Tumbling out
tracks.' A 'dressing room was built,
on piles and there were diving bOards,!
a slide and other equipment. It was',
' artery of travel and commerce since ri the dark we followed some run. I
well patronized and contests open'to t
,pre-Revolutionl;lry days. Until the !nhl~forms to John P. Wood's stable, utsiders were su,pervised by our f
completion of the Erie Canal in 1826, ~herewe were ordered to "man the' swimming coach, Kistler. At the
Philadelphia had been 'the commer- ',pumper," We had never seen the' opening day races, Osgood Sayen up-
,cial and financial center of the United .msChinenor had any drills. It was a held the prestige of Wayne by win.
States, as well as having the Il\rgest '600:6!lllon.',hogsheadof water on two ning the GO-yard novice race against
: population. The railroad' paraHeling, w'~~ellland a hand pump. attached. a large field a,mid cheers., 'J:'heAUll'
' the pike was started as a State Pub., S~e, grabbed the ropes tied to ~he tralian craw1stroke'was a new sprint
liC Works project around 182a and tollrue of the "engine" and others idea at that time. In winter, skating

I was opened for operation. in '1884. pumed. It ran all right down h~l,bu~,
The State Works were a failure, and thl,tire being, located by glare m the
after costing about $40,000,000 it s!l\r'as up on a steep hill on Chao
on, the pool 'was enjoyable by the
light of lanterns hung about, 'and a
stove for heat in the dressing room.
was sold to the Pennsylvania Rail- 'lUlUnix road, St. Davids, it was a Next the bicycle craze of the late
I'road Company for seven million in s!renuous effort to get the apparatus 90's arrived and we renteq a plast-

r 1846.
Lon8'pric>r~At,-A_charac~r
:to the scene, egged on by raucous
Yells'ot the fire chief (if any) •.,
named Oliver' Evans, living in PbJ1a. "The house appeared to be ,vacant
ered stone house on the pike north
of the postolfice. The leading spirits
were Robel't A.Martin, Philadelphia '
I
I delphia, 1778, had an article in Poul. in the late filII and the blaze 'was, of
son's Advertiser suggesting steam as course, s.timulated by the amateur' fire'
'a motive power for land' carriages. fighters' breaking the cellar windows
lampblack manufacturer, Francis
Fenimore, ex-burgess of B,ristol, Pa.,
Julius Bailey, secretary to Charle-
: He proposed a steam ,wagon for with axes. A brave hoseman climbed magne Tower, the financier and Lake
"freight hauling, explaining that his the' porcli and the pumpers worked Superior ore 'developer, "Goostav"
;vehicle could haul 100 barrels of fiour hart! on tlie lever. The only effect Bergner and "Der Goos" 'Gallagher,
from Philadelphia to Columbia in, was a garden hose stream squirted Tony Peterson, "Demon" Schultz and
two days. 'rhe same "ork at that 'ill-to, a second story broken window" others.' Karl, 'the German steward,
time required twenty.flve horses arid and the house burned to, the ground '", provided excellent meals and had
five wagons to make the trip in three (phew) I charge of the ice box, which latter
<, days at a cost of $8304. The Turn- : Next year we were called out aga4J, was oli;ected, to, by' sonw of the local
'pike Company refused to enter into itl the night to operate on a fireo~ c1turclt ministers, although there was
a contract with, him, fearing damage middle Walnut avenue. ' Some o,f the no bar.
,to its roadbed. Lancaster pike was ~oung"".rushed around battering r An interesting event was the at-
:still a toll road when the St. Davids fu doors and with smoke rolling out,
Golf Club' rented Martha Br,own's ~shed 'upstairs and threw out, of
I'
tempt one night to 'show the members,
how terrapin, Maryland style, should'
farm and a little toll, house and ~e yindows mirrors, pictures, ~Itchers,:' be prepared and ,served. Bob Martin
bar across the road were close by., !jowls,.pots and any loose article, all '!_ was of fine physique and had a'
Early F,l're Fighters , ' :; qt, WhiCh,w,ere smashed on the'lawn.~",
As South and North Wayne began 9harley Gleason and Tony P~terson < MePh,l'sto,'
phelia,n ,or bUC, C,aneer coun-
tenance: with ':black moustache a~d
to increase in population' by the mi. EFerged f~om the f~ont door triumph. ',~, piercing eyes, and ~ great .t!ow of Wit.
, ration ,of citY dwellers' to the sub-' ~ntly bearing .two plano legs theY ~ad ,':';'Dr, Kner~, llf Philadelphia, ,and, the
g b b t fift " 'n the chopped off Instead of unscrewing. '0;;. At'rican explorer, ,PauI D. ";Chadlu,
ur s a ou, y y.e~rsl ago, .I t 'JI~;1088 was total. Probably the fire '<", assisted M~!'tiri I>; the s&Lwingpr,,"pa-(
absence of any tnUnlClpa governmen"" ,' t-"-''t\' J' :'.'-~~'f'-'- --:w ••- f';
~both sides of the village or~anize(i, nUl ran~e compames or proper ,yow. ,', rations With mue.,' 'srtulllllllt, I'
'!,he
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ProtectIve . ,
ASSOCIatIOns suppor ted by 'ers "th'felt It more economical to dispense
d t ngth so the ".'.' wines champagne','th"salad " and
. Ice
'dues from ropertyowners. The ob- ,.WI,, our courage an s re , ,,~': cream, aa' well as ", t~rraplD were
.
.Ject was 'A PcoIIect as has and i'arbag'e!':
lIN . , ,"'l"'""';,
fire' department ceased and deslated. 1"" 11 ." ~ enjoyable • Tony Pettfson '. was de-Ih
'pay for street lights/ repairs,tQ toot'T'" The Walkers " ceived by the honeysuck•• ~me on ~ el
'walks, &c. Also to combat conflagra- ,S9me restless Merrivale Club mem- 1 :,end of t~e po~ch, and ~hlle lean~ngl
tions. ': b'I-s acquired the habit on Sunday I :' against I~, disappeared from view
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When my parents settled on Walnut t¥ornings of assembling and going 'c.. with no, damage except' to a /lower ,
a venue, North Wayne, a committee' of on easy rambles cross country to~ "r, bed five feet below. Other, membe~s

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( '!f.s King of Prussia. It was m~stly I ~,~d~clared that they, .cou!d ride their,
wo~s and tl;lrDlS then. The jllker,s ';:'blcycles home stralghlll~ than by
were whoever chose to come along, ',:< walking. A popular topical song of
among them David Knickerbacker L:, that era was worde(;\:, ': ' .
,- Bo~d, the architect, Billy Brown, son "I. love the cows an~ chickens,
of the proprietor of the Wayne Times, :,', r like to raise the dl1kens,
Charles' Gleason, Lee Harrison, Billy 'fhis is the life '" ",
Everly, Billy' Schultz, myself and _, ---'-' _
others. We were styled by suspicious
: natives "The Walkers," Observing i
3 in the back country a 'stone spring
l 1 house in a secluded dell, if nobody
-iva~in sight we nught enter and re- I '
fresh ourselves with a dipper of rich i'
''I cream off a crock in the cold spring ~ i
water.
One time, crossing a meadow where ~
a herd ,of kine were peacefully graz- £
ing in the spring sunshine, we lolled t'
around under a big tree for rest and ~
chatter. I playfully fiip'ped an oc- 8
casional 'pebble toward a large red t;'
1 anitpal, which began to show signs of
~ irritation, snorting and kicking up h

,e ;~~~~~:;e:u~t~:~~~~ ~e:~e, ~t:;~::~ t(

,- and: tollj the fellows I would wait for sl
them down at the road, adding in a tt
:e raised voice "Do as you please" but I A.
~ KNOW BULLS'" They scattered ,like at
, a bunch of quail and I got over the' is'
,e fence head first with the bull's horns a \
,'- nearly grazing my heels. re"
,f Swimming and Bicycle Clubs
Npt many present resident~ ~now ed,