Millard County Chronicle | 1932-01-07 | Page 4 | Free Baths for Clergy in Old Brooklyn City

free bafia for clergy in old brooklyn city bath tubs were mighty scarce in broown in the fates aft es and so the genial and popular aldard gray was nas looked on as a public benefactor vl vi en he established bathing f fac ac litie do doan N n near the fulton ferry writes alfunce G U mcloughlin in the brooklyn eigle when the nipping air of fall sept over brooklyn Broo hlyn making rn er in ing unattractive mr gray gry would hire a tug and have his huge float nabath tub towed to its winter berth on tl ti e edge of govanus bay it would be tied until the following season it was at this season that sir mr G ay became a combined bus ness man and philanthropist for he gave all his at to running his human lauri dry which was in a build ng he hid bid b id erected not far from the old franu n house on lower fulton street mr gray made it a rule never to charge clergymen for mating making use of his tubs and dozens of men of the cloth flocked to gray s place on sat arday mornings emerging rosy red to their fingertips and ready to do the tile final revising of rousing sunday sermons which undoubtedly got an ex tra dash of pep from the vigor engen dered by the cleansing process at grays gray a