CHEAP SCHOOLS FOR SWIMMING.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVIII, Issue VI, 6 February 1897, Page 147

CHEAP SCHOOLS FOR SWIMMING.

Schools for teaching boys and girls to swim are to be established in various portions of the United States says the New York Herald. Competent instructors will be employed, and the pupilswill be divided into classes, just as in the public schools. The first experiment is to takeplacein New York. It will be in charge of Frederick C. Wilson and John W. Miller. Mr Wilson is New York’s bestknown amateur life-saver, having saved thirty-two lives within a few years. The proposed school, while public in every sense of the word, will be surrounded by every safeguard. There will be two rooms, one for girls and the other for boys. Each will be presided over by a competent instructor, and one or more attendants will always be in the pool while a lesson is being given. While the identity of the philanthropists back of the plan—for it is a. philanthropic scheme—is kept carefully concealed for the present, enough is known to make it certain that the project will be carried out within a reasonable time. This statement is vouched for by Mr Wilson, who is one of the instructors at the New York school.