Identifier: streetrailwayrev09amer (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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rale special exhibitions found tbeni expensiveexperiments. Vaudeville performances, to which a small chargeis made, are by all odds the best paying entertainments at the thea-ters. Band concerts, generally given by a local brass band, with aliberal share of imrely popular airs on the programs, also draw alarge p.ilii>n;igr. Ilir laic war fiMiiislied ni.iiiy ideas for marine and JAMF..STOWN, N. Y. Jamestown is ailmirably situated for summer attractions, being atthe outlet of Cliautauc;ua Lake, and it is but natural that the James-town Street Railway Company should have one of the finest parksin New York. Celeron park includes a zoological garden with bearpits and a monkey house, a gravity railway, bowling alleys, a Moor-ish palace, shooting galleries, a miniature railway with 12 coaches, awater toboggan the end of which is shown in fjne of the views, thePhoenix wheel which was modeled after the Ferris wheel and ex-bibiliil at the Alia ita Kxposition, and a cycle boat which affords a
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CELERON PAKK-JAMESTOWN STREET RAILWAY, JAMESTOWN. N. Y. pyrciteclinic displays wliicli drew enormous crowds to many parks,and these will doubtless be even more popular this coming summer.One novelty of this year will be golf links which may be a drawingcard in some localities which have the golf craze. A number ofcompanies find that zoological gardens on a small scale are popularand deservingly so. The summer resorts arc generally being improved for this comingseason and many new ones laid out at great expense. A large num-ber of street railways having fine parks are publishing pamphletsand booklets handsomely illustrated w-ith half tone views in theparks and along the routes. These are distributed throughout thecity and adjoining territory. They are placed in racks or handedout in the railroad stations and hotels so that the attention ofstrangers in the city will be called to this means of recreation; alsomailed to clubs, orders, societies. Sunday schools and other churchorganization

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