BATHS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4643, 21 November 1883, Page 2

BATHS.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sib, —You have been good enough on two or three occasions lately to call at* tention to the necessity of public baths for this place; your arguments, all of which I thoroughly agree with, but do not agree as to the site you advocate, viz., Bright Smile Flat. The objections against such a site are—first, the expense of ex* cavating pond with channel at same depth for cleaning out occasionally, and next the : liability of the bottom-dropping out ; pf > the pond at any time. Allow me to sag*/ gest a site that I consider would be admirably suited for the purpose, viz.—at' the end of Cochrane street, iv the narrow end of the intake. Here there are already three sides of the bath formed, and only requires one side—between footpath and railway bank, parallel to too present;..pn> with the floodgate in—to complete jt;. Here the Queen of Beautyj. water could be turned in, or it could bo filled by the tides; so we would have the luxury of bathing in either salt or fresh water, or a mixture of both. The expense would be much less here, and I have no doubt if concessions were made as to site, a few gentlemen could be found here who would carry the thing out.—l am, &c, R. N. Smith.