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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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ESTER CONSOLIDATED STREET railway CO, The Worcester Consolidated Street Railwaj Co. owns and oper-ates Lincoln Park, which is located on the shore of Bake Quin-sigamond, a distance of about two and a half miles from the cen-ter of the city of Worcester, Mass, The principal attractions arc-operated by the company, the smaller ones being leased. They in-clude a rustic theater, seating about 2,200 people. Vaudeville isthe principal form of entertainment provided, although recently afew operas and musical comedies have been introduced, as it isfound that the public demands a variety. There is also a dancehall 50x150 ft., which is a favorite attraction, and on pleasantevenings it is not unusual to see over a thousand people in andabout the hall. A skating rink and bowling alley, both of the latest and most approved type, have been found to pay a g 1 percentage on the money invested. The park is managed by .1. W. Lester.who is also treasurer of the Worcester Consolidated Street Rail-way Co.
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NEW BRILL (AltS FOR THE RRONX. is a continuation of Broadway. Xew York. These line- are conneeted with cross lines from the Sound In the Hudson, so that thewhole section twenty miles beyond the Harlem River is well coveredand new divisions are constantly being added. Bronx Park, withits ime zoological and botanical gardens, and Van Cortland Park.with its public golf links and large skating rink, are reached by thelines and many persons use the cars for pleasure rides as from manypoints the palisades .if the Hudson may he seen as well as the beau-tiful islands and headland- of the Sound. The form and dimensions of the bottom framing and upperstructure of the cars is what the builders consider to be the stand-ard for the length of 28 ft oxer the body, with the excepti f The White City. The cities of Chicago, 111: Cleveland. ().; Worcester. Mass.; Xew Haven, Conn., and Portland, Ore., have each an amusement park known as The White City. These parks were all constructed and equipped by th

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