A description of the pool of the Colony Club is hardly within the
province of this chapter, but so many amazing Americans are building
themselves great houses incorporating theaters and Roman baths, so many
women are building club houses, so many others are building palatial
houses that are known as girls' schools, perhaps the swimming-pool will
soon be a part of all large houses. This pool occupies the greater part
of the basement floor of the Club house, the rest of the floor being
given over to little rooms where one may have a shampoo or massage or a
dancing lesson or what not before or after one's swim. The pool is
twenty-two by sixty feet, sunken below the level of the marble floor.
The depth is graded from four feet to deep water, so that good and bad
swimmers may enjoy it. The marble margin of floor surrounding the pool
is bordered with marble benches, placed between the white columns. The
walls of the great room are paneled with mirrors, so that there are
endless reflections of columned corridors and pools and shimmering
lights. The ceiling is covered with a light trellis hung with vines,
from which hang great greenish-white bunches of grapes holding electric
lights. One gets the impression of myriads of white columns, and of
lights and shadows infinitely far-reaching. Surely the old Romans knew
no pleasanter place than this city-enclosed pool.
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