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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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an assembly roomwith platform and stage. The partitions between the assemblyroom and reading room are vertical sliding doors, so that therooms can be thrown together for large assemblies. The duesof the association are 50 cents a month, which is deducted fromthe pay of the men each month. The constitution provides thatif the fund is not sufficient to meet the obligations the boardof trustees shall have the right to assess each member not toexceed an additional 50 cents a month. Disability by reasonof accident or sickness insures the member an income of $1.00per day for a period not to exceed ninety days. The death of amember provides an insurance of $150. The management ofthe association is vested in a chairman and six members. Thechairman is always an officer of the Schenectady Railway Com-pany, who appoints three members of the board of trustees,the other three being elected by a majority vote of the men.PLEASURE TRAFFIC The company has purchased a large tract of land at the east T
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OFFICES AND ASSOCIATION ROOMS, Sirr.t J!„il„ FISHER STREET CAR HOUSES end of Ballston Lake on the new branch, and is planning avery elaborate summer park. There will be a large casino,dance hall, pavilion, toboggan slide, merry-go-round, baseballpark, trotting track and numerous other up-to-date features. The company now operates Brandywine Park, Schenectady,which is let out to picnics. It contains a pavilion, refresh-ment stands and other buildings. A very remunerative departure is the outing feature, adver-tised as Twilight Trolley Tours. Special cars leave the citystation each evening and run for 12 miles and return over oneof the interurban divisions. The cars are decorated with col-ered incandescent lights, and have a shield, star or crescent onthe front dash. These ornaments are wired with a single 322 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXII. No. 9. terminal, and the cars are used in regular service during theday. A charge of 25 cents is made for the ride, and the loadis limited

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