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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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of Forest Park, which is situated on the extreme western limits ofthe city of St. Louis about five miles from the commercial centerof the city. The grounds occupied are in the shape of a parallelo-gram. Eight of the large exhibit palaces are placed on a compara-tively level plain in the northeast section of the parallelogram, and crescent and terminating at either end in dome-shaped pagodas.The Colonnade of States is appropriately dedicated to the 14 statesthat have been formed from the Louisiana Purchase Territory, andthe entire group of structures, including Festival Hall, the Colonnadeand the two Pagodas, is embellished with friezes and statuary. In
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these eight buildings, with the lagoons and broad avenues between,constitute what has been termed the main picture of the exposi-tion. This section of the grounds is roughly fan-shaped, with theavenues and lagoons converging toward a crescent-shaped hillat the handle. With proper manipulation this mound or range gave front of Festival Hall is the central cascade, which first makes aclear fall of 20 ft. to the level of the terrace and then spreads outinto a stream 45 ft. wide, which gradually widens as it leaps downthe long slope of ledges or steps until it gains a total breadth of150 ft. before the final plunge into the Grand Basin. 344 SrREFT RAILWAY RRVIF.W. (Veil XIV. No. b. On cither side of the main cascade are smaller cascades, whichhave their origin in fountains near each paROda, and which alsoplunge down the side of tlie crescent hill in a series of graduallywidening steps or ledges until they reach the grand basin below.The elTect as a whole is Rnnlly

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