File:The street railway review (1891) (14571921088).jpg

Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (find matches)
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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
mbers that hotels could hardly be built fast enough to accommodate them. The boats of the Graham & Morton Transportation Co.come twice each day to Holland, with excursionists, who usuallytake the local Holland road for Macatawa Park. The new manage-ment has arranged for cars to meet the boats at the wharf. Thelake trip is short from Chicago and quite attractive in many ways.The interurban railway company does not expect large profits fromthis transient population but depends upon Grand Rapids patron-age, that city heretofore having had no electric line running to near-by summer resorts. The Holland, Saugatuck & Douglas line passesthrough a rich fruit belt and terminates in Saugatuck, which hasfor the most part a summer population, with but few winter resi-dents. The Saugatuck and Douglas resorts have not been frequentedas much as Macatawa, but as their beauty becomes better knownpatronage will increase each year. The summer business on the interurban line, it is expected, will
Text Appearing After Image:
VIEW OF LINK SHOWING CROSSING sn.N ANI> SHELTER. was wisely chosen. The Grand Rapids, Holland & Lake MichiganRapid Railway was the first interurban line to be admitted to tin-city. From Grand Rapid*, the eastern terminus, the road passesthrough the tow 1 -idvillc, Jen: on, Hartley, Jami long-Settled villages are thriftyand their merchants pi •itry. an old and thickly settled ruralmunity. peopled by indu itch and Germans and to cultivation of acreages and fro I bt •! Rapids and the lake. There arc s> I towns and trading distant from •ks, which arc tributary Iwhich is practically the western ti this new doubli ban road, has tri nts. ..in Railw Saugatuck, lake Shore Railway I I for lumrD yeari 1Macatawa, 0 •M- ormous. Thi Pere Marquette Railroad run e: trains during the summer to Ottawa Beach, Ii Pari which is the terminal oi the electric road, and carries a luge numbcr of) trains of 16 cars frequently being loaded to the platforms. The advantages that will accrue to th

Note About Images