Identifier: streetrailwayrev13amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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d. No intoxicating liquors are sold orpermitted on the grounds. The total number of park attaches onthe pay roll during the summer season, including police, zoo attend- Mar. 20, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 143 ants, sweepers, and other employes, aniounls to about forty persons.The attractions include a rare and costly collection of animals, anopen air theatre with rustic stage, electric fountain, excellent res-taurant. Chalet or Palace of Electricity, swings, merry-go-rounds,boating, etc. The entire park property with the zoo and otherattractions represents a large investment, on which the receipts from pany encourages pedestrians, bicyclers and carriage riders to visitthe park as this all means increased receipts from the various con-cessions within the grounds. An idea of the number of bicyclerswho visit the park can be obtained from one of the accompanyingviews taken from a photograph showing the wheels checked on apleasant afternonn. On this occasion 1.050 wheels were checked in
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RESTAURANT AND CAR HOUSE AT NORIMHECA PARK ENTRANCE. the park itself pay a good return aside from the increase in farecollected on the cars during the park season. The park is about ten miles from Boston, and a thorough serviceis given over the Boston & Suburban lines from Norumbega intothe Boston subway. A charge of 10 cents is made for admission tothe park to all who do not obtain park tickets on the cars. Frompoints where fare on the electric lines is 10 cents for a single ride around trip coupon ticket is sold for 25 cents, one of the coupons ad-mitting the bearer to the park, thus making the charge of admission a single day. A charge of 5 cents is nuule for checking wheels. Theordinary duplicate strap check is used and never since the parkopened has a wheel been lost while in the companys care, and thetotal claims for damage to wheels amount to just $1. The Womens Cottage is a somewhat new feature. Tliis build-ing is exclusively for women, no man being allowed to enter undera

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