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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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ny subsidiary purposes. The power house, car houses,cars and waiting rooms are all heated by electricity; themerry-go-rounds, hotel elevator, elevator for the tobog-gan slide, etc., are run by electric motors, and special at-tention is paid to decorative illumination in the parkgrounds at night. The following are the rates of farecharged: Regular tickets, three for 25c;white tickets (good between Aylmer andDeschenes, Tetreau and Hull, from 6:30A. M. to 7:30 A. M., and between 5:00 P.M. and 6:30 P. M.), eight for 25c; redtickets, good between the stations men-tioned on Sunday only, eight for 25c;commutation tickets, giving sixty ridesper month, $5 for the first month, $4.60 for large increase in this business tookplace during the second season, rend-ering necessary the placing in serviceof the second and larger locomotive. 600 lbs. flour 88,200 bushels of grain1,500 live stock ....17,020,000 ft. of lumber2,000 cords of fire-woodManufactured goods . . 60 tons.18,000 500 25.350 3,000 408
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Total 47.318 tons. An important feature in connection with the handlingof freight is the low cost of locomotive repairs as com-pared with a steam locomotive. An additional and im-portant saving is the greatly reduced cost for cleanersand attendants in the car-house. PARK SYSTEM AND OTHER ATTRACTIONS. A special feature in connection with this road and oneto which its money earning powers are largelv owing, isthe extent to which attention has been paid to develop-ing special attractions. The principal of these is the exten-sive Queens Park at Aylmer, overlooking Lake Des-chenes, a beautiful sheet of water 27 miles in length by3 miles in width, which is in reality a widening out of theOttawa River. The Queens Park has a total area of 200acres, is beautifully wooded and along the lake shore hasan excellent sand beach which affords first-class bathingfacilities. In the park itself the company has erected acasino and refreshment booths, merry-go-rounds, bathinghouses, a- water toboggan, etc

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