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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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rst, as to the location, study the situation well, and see if tliereis any one particular line that it is desirable to build up. for thefrequent service to the park in summer time and the crowds ofpeople carried will surely build up a permanent resident population be necessary for people to cross them in going from one part of thepark to another (a loop is desirable), and should if possible befenced; a loading and unloading platform with a shed for shelterin case of storm is desirable. The buildings will vary with the size of the park and the popu-lation to be served. Next after the terminal shelter there should 564 stri:I:t railway review (Vol. XV, No. 9. be a club house or restaurant. This will range from a fully equippedclub house with a restaurant where regular meals are served, abowling alley, billiard room, public comfort room, etc., to an openpavilion where light lunch, candy, fruit, cigars, etc., are to be had.Other buildings will include a casino or open pavilion where dances
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OPEN AIK THEATER, TU.VBI.ING Il.\ .\I r.\KK, BRIHGETON, N. J. can be held under proper restrictions and, according to the size ofthe park, one or more small pavilions where soft drinks, soda water,ice-cream, etc., can be sold. There should be an ample supply ofbuildings for public comfort. If picnics are to be catered to, apavilion with tables and benches for lunch should be located inthe picnic grove. There should be a generous supply of benchesand lawn swings scattered all over the park. There should be 3band stand for free band concerts and the benches should be dis-tributed with the idea of seating people so tliey can see as well ashear the band. In some parks, notably Willow Grove, near Phila-delphia, where the free concerts have been made a feature, benchesare provided for the seating of large audiences, and a large part ofthe park is wholly given over to this feature. This, of course, canbe done only in a large park. A cottage should be built for the gardener or superitnendent

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