Word: courting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suspended from them, and is twenty laps to the mile. The small rooms on this floor have ceilings level with the bottom of the running track, the space above being used to form belvideres or loggias, which are open to the outer air on the street, and on the court through colonnades. Each measures twenty by twenty-eight feet, and they are intended to be used as out-door rooms or piazzas, in warm weather. The floors of these piazzas are on a level with the running track. There will be a gallery for the use of spectators...
...basement in front is taken up by the swimming bath on the right and a hall and lavatory on the left. The swimming bath, eighteen by fifty feet, is lined with enamelled brick. It has a lavatory extending out under the sidewalk. Under the right hand court is the base-ball cage, which is well lighted by windows and skylights. The left hand side is occupied by four bowling alleys in the rear. On the right is a private stairway for the use of men in exercising dress...
...building itself is T shaped, the head of the T forming the front on the street. The leg of the T runs back to the rear of the building line, leaving on each side an open space or court twenty feet wide. This shape, giving as it does...
...unflagging. A jury of twelve was sworn in without a challenge, although their ignorance was appalling, but two having read Hood's poem, and nobody, Bulwer's novel of "Eugene Aram." The afternoon, from three to five was consumed in the presentation of the evidence of the case. The court reassembled at 6.30 and listened to the arguments of both counsels. At 7.25 Justice Beal delivered his charge, which was lucid and admirable, and in five minutes the jury brought in a verdict of "not guilty...
...prosecution: Alex. Winkler. For the defense: Eugene Aram (Julian W. Mack), in his own behalf. Clerk of the Court, John J. McKelvey...