ARTIFICIAL SUNLIGHT

Evening Star, Issue 19143, 9 January 1926, Page 17

ARTIFICIAL SUNLIGHT

AN AMBITIOUS BATH SCHEME UN BERLIN. Tlio city fathers of Berlin have a project on hand which is destined to rival, and even outdo, the baths of ancient Maine. It is nothing loss than an artificial Riviera, a sunny strand, with artificial sunlight created by ul-tra-violet rays, which will accommodate -:>,UOO persons. These will have had an opportunity of bathing first in a main moth swimming bath, whose floor will bo lighted by electricity to minimise the risk of accidents (states the Berlin correspondent of flic London ‘Observer’). The wafer and steam-heating for this bath will come from a factory close by which manufactures synthetic ice. It was to iho desire of this factory to utilise its waste products that the idea is due, but the City of Berlin tall have two-thirds of the shares in Ihe undertaking, which it is calculated will cost five million gold marks. The cost of a bath and as long a time ns one cares to spend in the sunshine will work out at not more than thirty pfennigs (fourpenre). Early mornings will be reserved for schools. When it is seen that the plans include a vast snn bath on the roof of the swimming bath, Hip claim that this project will ho ono of the finest things modem hygiene has neeomnlisher] docs not appear exaggerated. The ice far l tory contemplates also an artificial skating rink for the winter months.