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Suntile

J. M. SLATER Sy | HARRISON 6266
Slater Tile And Mantel Company

2514-16 Summit Street
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI

June 14, 1943

Mr. Forrest C. Allen
Director of Physical Education
Varsity Basketball Coach
- University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

Dear Mr. Allen:

We realize we have been very neglectful in writing
you relative to the swimming pool; but owing to the
condition we found this pool to be in, we tried to
get some information before writing you which might
enable you to get some idea of what might have to

be done to make this a pool of first class condition.

In the first place, the tile in the pool is in such
bad condition it would be useless to try to repair
it. You spoke about installing twelve or thirteen
hundred pes., and we feel sure when that twelve or
thirteen pes. is installed, there would be no place
to stop. The pool is very antique, and the scum
gutter is useless where it is located. Besides,

the leak in the pool is probably in the cement back-
ing behind the tile; as, of course, you readily under-
stand that if the tile has hot the proper backing
(what I mean by that is a water-proof reinforced
concrete) you would still have the leak if new tile

were installed.

We also noted when checking this pool that the pipes
were all rusting and certainly were very unsanitary
and unsightly, so we feel sure you want those changed.
In other words, we feel it would be much better to
spend the money it would cost to repair this pool,
which then would probably not be satisfactory, on the
installation of a new pool entirely; and that is the
reason of our delay in writing.