Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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While a communication in reference to the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. tank appearing in your paper recently, is so utterly without foundation as to hardly need refutation, since erroneous opinions of swimming conditions might result, I take the liberty to reply. My impression gained from reading this article is that the writer beseeches us to engage quarters at the Infirmary before bathing in this "too filthy" "breeding-place of disease." Then, lest our undergarments become carriers of disease, he begs us refrain from washing our "light clothing" in this "laundry-tub." Can this mean other than that Mr. Woodbridge...
...truthfully believe precaution is taken to prevent swimmers from entering the tank without a thorough cleansing in the showers. Furthermore a notice is posted in a conspicuous place to the above effect, and several members of the swimming team attest remembering it. Nor do these gentlemen recollect seeing the "water so milky the bottom could not be seen...
...only garments permitted in the tank are abreviated swimming suits, furnished and cleaned by the Y. M. C. A. itself...
...have always believed the drainage and purification system to be extremely well attended to; that a large quantity of fresh water was pumped into the tank each day; and that a proper amount of chemicals was regularly placed in the tank to destroy, possible germs. I verified this through the Y. M. C. A. and learned, furthermore, that they had, as an experiment, attempted to flood the tank, but failed to pump water fast enough to overcome the displacement of the drainage tubes, which, incidentally, were neither broken nor in the habit of becoming stopped up. R. A. WHITING...
...purification system is present in name more than in fact. The troughs at the side that are made to drain off the sur- face water as it splashes up into them are broken in one place, so that the water that flows into them at that end of the tank flows back into the pool again, bringing with it the phlegm that has been spit into the trough by the swimmers. On one occasion I noticed that all the troughs were filled to overflowing, and asked the attendant how it happened that the drains were allowed to become stopped...