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February 21, 1930 WILMETTE LIFE Ruins of Roman Emperor's Baths New Trier Splaahers ' · s·tght tn . Q}d Trier . lnv-.de Waukegan Pool New T~ier High school swimmers I nteresttng , ·will travel to Waukegan this Saturday Vis·tor to Remains of Ancient Stru t r May. Sti"H See V~st Hall 1 · c U e Uaed for Wann Baths and Gtant Reservotrs Into Whtch . Warm Water Flowed· Continuously ---·_ Edito1·'.'1 Note: Through, the inst?·umentrtlity of i~upt. Frederick E. Cle1·k of New T1·ie1· High school who traveled through Em·ope rt year ago and, among other fJlaces, visitefl Old Trier on tlie Mosel, Germany, we have been fortunate l1!c.'ltabUs11i·t[J a contact with C. Merbeck, a young Ge1·man director of the Stadisches v c1·keh1·s mtd P1·esseamt at Trier, a bmnch of the Mi.d-Europea11 Travel l,w·eau., by virtue of which we expect to. rccei1 ·e m tteh valuable as well as interest:.. i11g infO?·raation concerning the historic 1·egion from 'which New Trie1· takes tts ?uttne. Appended is the third of a series uf desc1·ipt1ve article. s · about Old Trier. YOU ha~e .' ~ hesrd and read to. take part in an interscholastic swimmmg meet sponsored by Waukegan High schqol. Every school in the Suburban league, as well as Maine Township High school of Des Plaines and the Kenosha, Wis. H-igh school, has been invited to send representatives. New Trier is expected to make a strong bid for honors. The Gray and Green junior swimming team is champion of the Suburban league, while .the senior team finished in third place. Edgar B. Jackson is the New Trier swimming coach. Claims and Counter Cloima NOW A.sk Vs . hear VIC'tOR . RADIO in your h~lne LEAVES FOR WEST Raleigh Blake, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Blake of 1712 Highland avenue, Wilmette, left last week for Los Angeles. He will remain there a few weeks before visiting some old Spanish missions and other points of interest in California. Later a trip throu~h old Mexico is included in hi~ itinerary. This is part of young Mr. Blake's educational plans before entering the University of California in the fall. Open Ee1ening1 . · ' ' t J-IIS week in our journeys through Old Trier we come upon ·t he ruins of the Roman emperor's bath:;, a most interesting sight for one who is making his first visit to the famous old city. Until recently, the emperor's baths were wrongly believed to have been the emperor's palace. They are still an important ruin, and contain most of the remains of a hall that was used for warm baths, a h~ll so large that the "Porta Nigra" could easily be put inside it. (The "Porta Nigra was described in the first of the series of articl~s on Old Trier.) Hot, Running Water Formerly the floor of this hall was much higher and was subterraneoush· heated. In the two apses one can see the arched openings of the heating canals, which were bounded by subterraneous ways running beneath the rooms. The floors of the three apses were covered with giant reservoirs . into which warm water flowed con~ tinually. One can imagine the size of this hall wh~n he looks up and sees the great windows, of which there are two rows, and the space for the roof. In the middle of this hall is a little mound room, which served the bathers as a refreshment room. Then comes the largest of the ha11s the rectangular room of the cold'bath: In the foundations of this bath one can still see the giant half round reservoirs. The athletic grounds with the walls which bound them stretch from the neighboring villa ~nd barrac~s as far as the W eberbach street. !t ts here this really imperial buildmg ends. Built in Third Century The building was founde < l at about the. cl~se of the third century or the begmnmg of the fourth. During the Roman period the baths were transformed to another unknown use. Other large baths are the Barbara baths which are quite as bL~ and were b~ilt during the second century. The btg yards throug!1 which the subterraneous ways pass and the broken floor ?f the ~reat swimming bath are ve~y . mterestmg. · In this magnificent butld.mg, the antique marble copy of the Amazon of Phidias, said to be the bes! marble monument in existence, wluch was found in the north of the Alps, used to stand. T North. Shore Talking Machine Co. 712 CHURCH STREET·. ~VANSTON 74~ Ruins of Roman Baths Univ. 4523 El.ld STREET. WINNETKA Winnetka 3414 Camera Portraiture of a distinguished type »for discriminating folk who recogn1ze the deft touch of qualitY that bespeaks the personal expression of the master artist I New Trier Students Hold Pound Dance on Saturday Callner's Collegians, one of the Cope Harvey orchestras, will play for an allsc~ool dance at New Trier High school tht~ S~turday night, February 22. The Tn-Shtp club is sponsoring the affair. and Jack Ludwig is chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements. The dance _is to be a "pound" party, and couples wtlt be admitted for one dollar plus one cent for each pound that the girl weighs over one hundred pounds. ~CARLOSi PHOTOS Ml RALAGO BLDG.: 1647 Sheridan Road at the Lake, between ·Wilmette and Kenilworth c Telephone Wilmette 650 »