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Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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y, circle swing, cafe, Bump the Humps. eic. The baud concerts given by the Scarboro Beachband, under the direction I Conductor Richard Raven, werethe means of attracting a great many people to the park duringthe last season. An instance of the attractive nature of thewater aspects of the park is the fact that there are 2Hi bathhouses on the grounds used by swimmers and bathers. In addition to providing amusement for many thousands,the lake also provides the park with fire protection. The water is ; iped through a special 12-inch intake pipe by two centrifugal pumps of 1,000 gallons and r,00 gallons capacityper minute, respectively. The pumps are driven by sepa-rate electric motors. To supplement this service and to pro-vide for emergency two 6-inch mains from the city waterservice are also connected with the park. Scarboro Beach is a complete community within itself.It has its own government, its own army hi the shape of auniformed police force, its own nav.\ represented by a fleet of
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Scarboro Beach Park, Toronto—Electric Tower and Chutes. small boats which patrols the lake in the interest of thebathers, its own hospital, fire department and its population ofemployes. This community, in spite of the unparalleled badweather of its first season, attracted more than 500,000 peoplewithin its gates between June 1 and September 2S, last year,and at the close of the summer it was a formidable rival tothe Industrial Exhibition, Torontos great annual fair. A party of officers and directors of the PhiladelphiaRapid Transit Company, city officials and others made aninspection trip through the new Market street subway inPhiladelphia on March 12. At a banquet in the evening.James P. McXichol of the Millard Construction Company,which has the contract for the subway, announced that itwould be ready for operation by September 1. The Erie Railroad has abandoned passenger train servicebetween Buffalo and Niagara Falls. X. Y.. on account, it isreported, of electric railway competit

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