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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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ttain beauty and utility. Styles and ideas of all periodshave been used by the designer to produce gorgeous and dazzlingefTects in architecture, sculpture and painting. The architecturalp.itleins are of all style . from the Corinthian, P,yzanline, Monrisli, structure, 150 ft. long over all, of Ionic architecture. A great cres-cent curves over the main entrance in honor of Luna. Four loftyEgyptian towers complete the majestic picture. This building iselaborately decorated in white and gold, and more than 10,000 elec-tric lights are used for illumination. To the right of the main entrance is the Japanese exposition. Thebuildings in this section arc pure Japanese in architecture, a nativedesigner having assisted in planning them. The delicate tints andnovel color decorations of Japanese artists are used in troth exteriorand interior decorations. A group of Japanese girls will presideover the tea garden in the exposition. The casino is the largest building in the group; it is of the Moor-
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REVEKSE SIDE OF MAIN ENTRANCE. .lapane.se Seilion im tlu- t.pft. Hc.sia\nant Building. Temple of Fortune. Candy Roolh, Ele<lrie Th.atfr and Sornelr.rium. Japanese, .Arabic and (lolbic 1.1 the French and Il.alian Renaissance. The buildings are laid out on the border line of a mall and ovaliniildle ground, with an artificial lagoon, concert band plaza andbroad promenade ways. Balconies and boxes are ingeniouslystudded in the building, fronts to afford comfortable places of ob-servation. The eastern portion of the park tract is a wooded knoll whichbides a deep ravine of great scenic beauty.. Beyond the ravine is agently sloping v.alley. which is a part of the picnic grounds. Thepicnic park will be beautified by landscape gardeners with flowers ish type and 75 x 300 ft. It contains a great ballroom bordered bysuites of parlors and retiring rooms, and is essentially a womansbuilding, with day nursery, baby cab livery and a corps of maids.The scenic river has a novel front, an old Dutch

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