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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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sy as pos-sible for your patrons to spend money. Where there areseveral attractions it is more important to have certainones close to the restaurant than others. Thus theband stand and theater should be near the restaurant,while the toboggan slide and the more active amuse-ments of that character, if necessary, could be furtheraway. Lack of knowledge of what has been done elsewhereoften leads to expensive originality, so that a considerationof what others have accomplished in this field is of consid-erable value. The manager can thereby avoid unneces-sary outlay, and when too late, of realizing the fact that heis all wrong and obliged to tear down and rebuild. Charles Lamb, in his celebrated essay on Roast Pig,tells of how a Chinese subject was left to take care of alitter of pigs, and through negligence, the house caughtfire and the pigs were roasted. Fearful that his mastermight punish him, he tried to save the bodies from theruins. In so doing, he burnt his fingers and when placing
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ENTRANCE TO WASHINGTON PARK As the park season is very limited, it is often a questionwhether amusement resorts of this kind can be made self-sustaining. The fact that street railway companies havefound that parks, at the terminus of their roads, greatlystimulate traffic, is the cause of their rapid increase, and itis only a question of time when every street railway willhave a park or amusement resort at the terminus of theirroads. The cardinal principle of park development is to utilizeas much as possible the natural attractions which existin the area selected for the park. The next important mat-ter is the construction and arrangement of the variousbuildings with a view of getting the greatest amount of in-come with the least possible investment. In order to dothis the area should be treated commercially; that is,the buildings should be so arranged in relation to eachother that the crowds can be handled to the best advan-tage and at the smallest expense. This means thatthe main poi

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