Identifier: electricrailway331909newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Inland Empire Park System—Baseball Day at Recreation Park, Spokane on the hill to the south. The beautiful falls of the Spo-kane River and the gorge below the city afford ideal oppor-tunities for park development. The park board has re-cently asked the city for $1,000,000 for carrying out theproposed work, the plans for which have been, furnishedby Olmstead Brothers, the well-known landscape architectsof Boston. It is proposed to build 9 miles of boulevards surprising that the lake traffic each year is gaining veryrapidly. Liberty Lake is the citys nearest resort and affords the •finest bathing beaches in the Spokane country. The Inlandmanagement has just laid out a 35-acre park, built a $10,000pavilion, a 500-ft. floating pier, bath houses and variousdevices for bathers. The park when completed will also February 27, 1909.) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 365
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Inland Empire Park System—Shaded Lawns of Manito Park, Spokane, a City Playground of 95 Acres, Reached Only by Trolley

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