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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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tober, igoo, page 578. The at-tractions include vaudeville entertainments, a German village, smallIVrris wheel, electric fotmlain, bowling alley, shooting gallery, loopllie loop, etc. The manager of the park is Mr. Samuel Benjamin. cottages are always occn;iie>l, 11 licing :llnlll^t imiwisMliic ti run nncafter the first of May. .■\cro5s the river from Cedar River Park is Sans Soiici, owned bythe Waterloo & Cedar Falls Kapid Transit Co., where has been builta snmnier hotel which will accomnuMlatc 130 guests. The companyhas 15 acres in this park, and the hotel season is from June ist to.September 1st. .\ great many transient guests arc accommodateilhere, and the Chautauqua .\sseinbly, across the river, has found it agreat convenience for their entertainments to stop close to the Chau-lau(;ua auditorium. Near the hotel has been erected a band stand,and a shelter with seating capacity for 1,200 people. Two band con-certs a week are given during the summer season; also moving pic-
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SANS SOlCl HiiTl,1, -\N1> l.\KK. \V.\TERLO(l. lA. Take a DelightfulSteamboat Ride! LtiJii* lh« U.v>, di.tt jod confution tnr « ihot tim* and ■njoy A rest on lh« boat whil« you vlavv lh« boAutiful »c*n«ry of C*dar Rivar. WATERLOO, lA. The Waterloo & Cedar Falls Rapid Transit Co., of Waterloo, Ta.,has on its line two pleasure resorts, Cedar River Park and SansSouci which arc on opposite sides of the Cedar River, and situated two miles from Water-loo and four miles fromCedar Falls. Cedar River Park isowned by a stock com-pany, and containsabout 200 acres of landon which are built some150 summer homes;there is also at CedarRiver Park an auditori-um with a seating capa-city of 2,500 people.This is used every sea-son for two weeks bythe Chautauqua Assem-bly, and during the restof the time is in greatdemand for the use oflarge conventions andchurch entertainments.The Germans of North-eastern Iowa hold anannual German campmeeting at this parkwhich draws about 1,200people, a

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