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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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current being Apr. jo, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 233 supplied from Birmingham and l>y means of a transformer con-verted into the proper voltage. Myriads of incandescent globesgleam among the trees and about the buiklings and the spectacle atnight is strikingly beautiful. The ensuing summer promises to be one of the most successfulsince its opening. Mr. Joke Wells, the well-known theatrical man-ager, and several other local capitalists have organized a stockcompany with a capital stock of $40,000, $20,000 of which will work is well under way, and May isth, the date set for the opening, will see these ideas consummated. The proposed car servictwill be a special feature; through trains of three cars to the train,air equipped throughout, will make the run in from IS to 20 min-utes and the largest crowds can be handled expeditiously. Musicalcomedy will probably be the hill at the theater and with all theother inducements held out to the pleasure seekers great businessis anticipated.
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.A.QUATIC THE.VTER, E.\ST LAKE. be expended for improvements and for the purpose of providingamusements. Work has already commenced and the shoot-the-chutes, which was never a popular attraction, has been torn down.A toboggan slide will be erected in its place. A roller coasterwill be installed, the present restaurant will be remodeled andoperated on a more genteel plan, a roof is to be placed over thetheater, new bath houses and a large boat house will be built,additional boats added to the present quota, a bowling alley put in,and every other kind of park attraction available will be securedto lend to the grounds a Coney Island appearance The presentterminal facilities will be changed altogether, some confusion hav-ing been experienced in loading and unloading heretofore. Theplan which has been adopted is to enclose the loop where the Each Sunday morning Ihroughoul the year what is known asthe Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. Weekly is issued.This is a little folder 2/. inc

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