Identifier: overrangetogolde00wood (find matches)
Title: Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Wood, Stanley
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Guidebooks Pacific States -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Chicago : R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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dpressed brick, wainscoted with Texas pine and colored enamels. Thereare forty-four large bath rooms, in two departments, for the respectivesexes. Each bath room has two compartments. One is lined with enameland set with a porcelain tub, having bronze appliances for readily supply-ing hot, warm or cold, mineral water; and hot, warnV or cold, fresh water,also showers of warm or cold water. Any desired temperature, from 450 upto 1200 Fahrenheit can be supplied. The other compartment is furnishedas a dressing room, and provided with a settee for reclining after the bath.These compartments have high ceilings and are well lighted from elevatedwindows by day, and by incandescent electric lamps at night. Light re-freshments are served in each room by attendants summoned by electricbells. Massage treatment is administered in a room for that purpose.Besides the bath rooms, the building contains handsome sitting and smok-ing rooms with open fires, physicians room, billiard room, coffee kitchen,
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52 OVER THE RANGE. linen rooms, hair dressing rooms, laundry, etc. All rooms are kept suppliedwith fresh air at an equable temperature throughout the year. Everyaccessory for the luxurious and health-giving bath is provided in the build-ing. The baths are supplied from the main spring, which yields a constantflow of 2,500,000 gallons per day of highly mineralized hot water, at atemperature of 124.20 Fahrenheit. This water is a remarkable remedialagent, aiding or effecting cures of scrofula, rheumatism, gout, lead poison-ing, diabetes, Brights disease, and all skin and blood diseases. The newbath house stands on the margin of the Mammoth Swimming Pool. The Bathing Pool. This is remarkable for its size and the com-pleteness of its conveniences. It is nearly six hundred feet in length, byone hundred and ten feet in width at the widest part. Its depth graduallyincreases from three and one-half feet at one end to six feet at the other.The walls are of red sandstone, and the bottom is paved

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