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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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ght ^^tied.l?(aUvv^lF^eVicw^ 759 hundred persons can be seated in the auditorium, butowing to the demand for seats, the capacity is to beenlarged fifty per cent, to accomodate next seasonscrowd. The seats are subject to an admission of tencents, while ample free standing room is provided for350. The attractions are clean, morally, and amusing,otherwise. At the further end of the lake are situated picnicgrounds, which are private on picnic days, but at all othertimes open to the public, in common, with the rest of the admittance is free to all, whether the patrons of the carservice or not. As the resort is conducted on a strictlytemperance basis, the best of order is easily enforced,and first class people are liberal in their patronage of theprivileges. The park and the buildings are brilliantly lighted byelectricity in the evenings from the companys powerhouse, five miles distant. The fare to the park is in the form of a round tripcoupon ticket, good from any point on the line, in the
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THE LOWELL AND SlBURBAN PLEASURE RESORT. park. People are transported to these grounds andreturned by a steamer, with carrying capacity for 150. The company owns two steamers, the one referred toand a smaller boat, carrying 30. The steamer rides arereduced to the lowest paying price and are always liber-ally patronized, nay, jammed, at five cents a round trip.Sixty row boats, also owned by the company, standawaiting the pleasure of the aquatically inclined, at somuch an hour. The summer program consists of every variety of con-certs, fireworks, regattas, and dances, to which the city of Lowell, to the resort and return. They are soldat 20 cents. The longest possible ride on the system, istwenty miles which, is not often taken advantage of. The increase in passenger traffic, for the past fewyears, has been enormous. In 1886, the gross receipts were In 1893, the gross receipts were -The intermediate years show as follows: Receipts, 1887 . - - - Receipts, 1889 - - - - Receipts, 1891 ....

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