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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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desires. Thus it was that inselecting and arranging the various devices and attractions forDreamland he was able to choose from the vast number of proposedschemes and plans those which would most likely prove alluringto the patrons. The same is true of the White City, at SavinRock Park, New Haven, which recently closed its first season witha record which attracted wide attention. It is said that the White City in Chicago, which Mr. Boyce andhis associates are now constructing, will have some absolutely novelattractions and features as well as the most profitable devices whichare now in use. Mr. Boyces chief associate in this enterprise isJoseph Beifield, owner of the Sherman House in Chicago. Workon the grounds was.commenced last week and it is planned to openthe resort by June 1 next. A feature of the park will be What is de-signed to be the largest electric tower in the United States. It willbe 410 ft. in height and will be studded with no fewer than 100,000 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL.
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A NIGHT VIEW OF DREAMLAND, CONEY ISLAND, SHOWING THE GREAT TOWER, LAGOON,BRIDGE AND SHOW BUILDINGS, WITH PART OF THE -CHUTES IN THE FOREGROUND October 8, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. electric lights. The longest chutes thus far constructed in thiscountry will be established. A big spectacular feature will be a re-production on a large scale of the great Chicago fire. The streetsof Venice will be a representation on large basis of the most beau-tiful and historic features of the famous old Italian seat of art andromance. In this attraction Mr. Boyce plans even to surpass hischarming Canals of Venice at Dreamland. In addition to thesethere will be scenic railways, toboggans, old mills, slides, etc. Chilcoot Pass, or Bump the Bumps, which was beyond all ques-tion the comedy feature of Dreamland and the White City, NewHaven, will be given a place of prominence in the Chicago show.Bump the Bumps was the principal novelty of the season. It at-tracted by many thousands more spectators than

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