Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (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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«• apparatus i.emg operatedby an elect: I 10 1 p There is an open air theater in the valley, and 700 persons maywitness the pctfoi inances from I rranged in ■ »emi-circle on the hillsides fronting the stage, which latter is 40 by 15 ft deep and equipped with all the essentials for quite an elaborate comic opera production. With the one restrictionthat the entertainments shall be of a kind which could not offendthe most fastidious, the management of the theater is now entirelyin the hands of the lessee who is meeting with a fair degree ofsuccess despite the fickleness of taste which is characteristic of acosmopolitan attendance. Public opinion has been unanimous inendorsing the managements efforts to make the other attractionspleasing. A crowd of 10,000 people i- not an unusual one at theWatch lower, although a (0-cent fare is charged from Rock I-landThe bathing facilities, bowling alley, dance hall, etc.. are wellpatronized, and the afternoon and evening concerts by an excellent
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rOH \N at uah 11 TOWER, DAVENPORT, l.\. ire fully appreciated Often there are special amusemenl features such a- balloon >, moving picture hows, and the Id 1. Everything on the grounds is free and th ipanj ha evei ■ i 1 ieli 11 and hitching fat ilitii 1 ii tho 1 w ho 1 . at 1 to enjoj Hi. plea 1 1 the park withoul 1 (he bicycle ridei has, however, 1 debarred from lh more popular, the whi el tool 1 ii id. 1.1I.1. 1 ■ , 11 id, ro id At the en I rat > -I p. 1 1 .1 torage tank with 1 1 apai n n.i - <,,«, gallons, lupplied bj electrii pumping apparatu . and from thii 1 Eurni hed .hi abundance of watei foi various ires to all pan- of the ground an 1 mi -it in mi nut 1 intt 1 \ ala to ami from the i ■■■ 11. nid in addil 0 the regulai sei ■ ii e many pe 11 ■ Inr• A bj e ■■■ hi ion partii , I luring the wintei mi ml hi.o run to the park on a one bom schedule to accomodi ti tho e wl an t 1 n;oy

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