BATHS.

Evening Star, Issue 11675, 6 February 1902, Page 7

BATHS.

TO TUB BDITOR. Sir,<—l quite agree with the remarks qt your correspandant "A.D.P." in last night's issue, as far as they apply to Lake Logan and the proposed baths at Duke street. It is to be hoped his suggestion of putting baths at Black .Jack Point will not cause our City Fathers to add another white elephant to their already overcrowded zoo. In calm weather and at bigb tide the water at Black Jack Point is elw certainly, but if "A.D.P." will take a dip at low tide, after a sou'wester h&s churned the "sandy bottom" into an evil-smelling liquid of the consistency of pea soup, he will also have to number himself amongst the "great unwashed." When the retaining wall now in progress is' finished matters will be worse. It will conduct the Leith, which from Dundas street is practically an open drain, right down to the proposed baths. The Lake Logan Improvement Committee wijl also find their labors in vain, as the only water they will get is polluted Leith water, which will be backed up with every tide. If the City is to have salt water baths the only solution is to bring in ocean water from St. Clair or Lawyer Head. Jt could be lifted into a small reservoir on the hill by means of windmill pumps, and would be available for street-watering purposes as well as for baths at cither end of the City. Ido not know the origin of the name Black Jack Point, but after the Leith has deposited a few more years sewage in that locality a more appropriate name may be Typhoid or Yellow Jack Point.—l am, etc.. Aqua Ptjju. February 4.