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Identifier: electricrailway421913newy (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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(Vol. XLII, No. 5. ROSE CARNIVAL IN PORTLAND, ORE. During the week of June 9 the seventh annual Rose Car-nival was held in Portland, Ore. One of the largest fea-tures of the festival was the electric parade, held on June10 and June 14. Each year the decorated electric cars ofthe Portland Railway, Light & Power Company have beenmade more and more elaborate, and the last parade isclaimed to have been the most elaborate and gorgeous everpresented. The parade was headed by the officials of the waterfall, which, revolving, would make the tinsel looklike water coming over the falls. The first float was the Kings Float, representing theKing of the Carnival. The second was the Title Float,which bore the words: Flowers and Gems of Oregon,and each float following represented a flower and a gem.Besides the ones reproduced, there were floats representingsuch combinations as Chrysanthemum and Amethyst,Cats-eye and Geranium, Agate and Poppy, Lotus andPearl, The Tiger Lily, Emerald and Wistaria,
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Portland Rose Carnival—Trolley Floats Representing Flowers and Gems of Oregon and Rose and Onyx Rose Carnival in several decorated automobiles, followedby a large band, and between each of the floats were bands,marching. The floats were built on single trucks, on which a per-fectly flat body had been built. Part of the floor was low-ered in the front end almost even with the track, and thislowered portion contained the controller and a place forthe motorman. The cars were single-ended and equippedwith two old motors each—-W.P-30S and GE-8oos. Onthese platforms the floats were built, composed of papier-mache, tinsel, plaster of paris and paper shapes. Thesedesigns were built onto the floats and artistically painted,and colored lights and bulbs of different shapes were usedto carry out the designs. The lights varied from 700 to Pansy and Diamond/ and many other equally beautifulgroups. The motorman on all floats was concealed in the figurein the front of the car, which had small ope

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  • bookcentury:1900
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