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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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ed with positive instructions to eject dis- opening of the first season has liecn, that wherever promiscuonsmanagement has prevailed, the second years business has fallenofT greatly and the third year the better class of patron.agc hasl>een entirely lost. Therefore it seems extremely probable that inthe future corporation management will prevail and more expen-sive and more complete resorts will be built. Many failures in places of this kind have resulted through theinability of those concerned to select the most profitable amuse-ment devices. In this connection there are three principles thatshould invariably 1* observed. Fir.st, the element of speed; sec-ond, the degree of safety, and third, the earning capacity .as com-pared to the cost of construction and operation. The element ofnovelty, as is generally liclieved, is of very little consequence. TheMerry-go-Round is one of the best examples of this fact. It hasbeen in existence for .io years and its earning capacity is as great
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.\RTIFU1.\L I..\KK M THE U llllE tlTV LSEU Fi K .SIU.DT THE CIIVTES .\XF OTliU. IK .\TTR.\CTIoNS orderly and disreputable persons of both sc.xcs. This resulted inobtaining almost instantly a reputation in decided contrast to mostsummer amusemcut parks, and in drawing a class of patronagewhich had never before been possible in that neighborhood. Thisfeature of the summer amusement business is one that needs morecareful consideration than perhaps any other. In amusement parks wiiho\it an enclosure, in which individualowners build devices of one description or another, the clement ofunfairness is apt to enter iiUo their business transactions. A ma-jority of the men who enter into the snnnncr anuiscmcnt businessin a small way. and move from one park to another, or from onefair or carnival to another, as the case may be. arc too oftenunscrupulous in their dealings. They do not hesitate to shortchange their patrons, or to oper.ile games of chance in a mannerwhich is disgusting to the public

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