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Bathers Beware

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  • Title: Bathers Beware
  • Date: 12 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.01261
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 12 July 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Tara Ballard Stephanie Blalock Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Bathers Beware." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.01261.xml (TEI)
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BATHERS BEWARE.—

On Sunday afternoon a number of men and boys went to the beach at Gowanus to bathe. They came from New York in boats, and in the cars, and the handful of police in the 8th Ward was kept busy to keep them in order. Though repeatedly warned, some will undertake to bathe right in front of houses along the shore, in violation of the city ordinances and public decency. Two of them were arrested yesterday by Capt. McClane to make example of. Their names are John Grady and Patrick Downs, who were taken before Justice Blachley and fined $5.

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