Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1894 — A Big “Gym.” [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Big “Gym.”

There is a strong movement on foot in New York among a number of prominent physicians to establish a gymnasium on such a large scale that it can be used by 5,000 people at the same time. The plan is to purchase one or two city blocks,two if ]>ossible, and put up an immense building, to be devoted exclusively to physical culture. It is proposed first to get the indorsement of the Board of Health, then secure an appropriation through the Legislature. For head instructor the proper man is thought to be Sandow, In New York 70,000 people die annually of consumption. Physicians think this rate can bo lowered if coming generations will take proper exercise. The possible chest development is seen in Sandow, who can expand from fourteen to sixteen inches.

NEW PUBLIC LIBRARY BUILDING, INDIANAPOLIS.