Original Document

There is another institution in Wayne which conduces to both social and athletic pleasure.  This is the famous Natatorium which is believed to be the finest artificial swimming pool in the United States. Five hundred and fifty feet long and one hundred feet wide, with a shelving sandy bottom and a varying depth from two to eight feet, this large expanse of water is the Summer rendezvous of young and old.  The pool is quite uncovered, and there is a ladies’ building, and one for gentlemen, with accommodations for many bathers and the usual dressing-rooms, lockers, showers, etc.

In Winter the pool becomes a skating club of the most pleasant description, and is in use whenever the ice is safe and sufficiently strong.  Many pretty evening fetes and masquerade carnivals have already been given here by the enthusiastic Wayneites, whose opportunities to skate render it most envied by the less enterprising towns.

Credit: “Wayne," Wayne, PA: Wendell and Treat, Publishers, 1899.