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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h place. .-Mready the company has booked a nunilierof large picnics and excursions from outside towns. Monarch Iz.kis in reality a summer resort, for its beautiful scenery and delightfi:!location have led a number of persons from the two cities to buildcottages on the grounds and reside (here during the heated term. the railway company, every street railway that has a park shouldown its merry-go-round, for it is a source of great revenue, as, forilial matter, is the miniature railway. In handling the crowd to and from the park the railway com-pany experiences very little difficulty, because the work is donewith system. A nicely finished depot. 30 x 150 ft., is equipped withturnstiles, where all fares are collected as people pass out from thepark. Passengers are unloaded at one place and taken on at an-mlier. .•\ check room is provided for all who desire the ci>nveniinceand a charge of 5 cents is made for checking. The police regulation of the park i^ of the best, each guard being
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VIEW IN MONARCH PARK, OIL CITY, PA. The park covers 60 acres, half of which is open and is cared furby an expert landscape gardener. The most striking feature of the park is the number of mineralsprings, seven in all, each sending forth a different mineral water.The most remarkable of these springs is that known as the Boilingwater; this spring comes up through black ijuicksand and is 20 ft.in circumference. A distance of only 500 ft. from this spring is an-other boiling out of while quicksand, with a 6-in. stream. Thewaters from different springs meet and make a beautiful brookwinding its way through the park. Well-kept (lower beds and elec-tric fountains adorn the grounds and rustic seats, hammocks andswings with abundance of shade add to the pleasure of all visitors. A great deal of money has been expended upon the park. .\large theater is fitted with modern furniture and scenes, and per-formances, chiefly vaudeville, are given every evening. .\ largedouble-deck restaurant, 59x90 f

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