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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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ylocat^d is a large combination stage and hand stand, whereentertainments are given and bands are heard in daily con-certs. Surrounding the stage is a natural amphitheatercasilv acconmiodating 3.000 people. Tiiere is a baseballdiamond, lacrosse and football field, as well as a tenniscourt and a large dancing pavilion with a promenade walkhidden in natural shrubbery. The park is less than half an cussed in the pits of the car house where tiie motors areassembled and repaired. The class at times numbers 50 stu-dents. Through Mr. Coxs efforts the fare between theterminals of the road was reduced to 15 cents; he also estab-lished a telephone system along the line, introduced electriclighting at every street crossing on the road, and convertedthe original 4-car schedule into tiie jireseiil one in which12 cars are operated. The officers of the Easton. Palmer & Bethlehem StreetRailway Co. are: J. S. Rodenhough. president; A. D.Chidsev. treasurer; J. R. P.ull, S. II. Hackett, W. A. Stern,
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1—Car House and Shops.4—Entrance to Oakland Park. EASid.N. f,M,.\IKK A: BETHLEHEM STREET RAILWAY. 2—Dancing Pavilion. Oakland Park.5—Power Hf)use. Butztown. 3—Bridg-e near Easton. hours ride from the heart of Easton and Bethlehem withtheir 60,000 population. The park was laid out in just five weeks by landscapegardeners from Boston under the direction of Supt. CharlesH. Cox and according to his own ideas, and he also rushedthe construction of the road through quickly, having startedthe work in July, and opened it for traffic on November 6th. Among other innovations that have been introduced bySuperintendent Cox. which have made the road popularwith both the public and the employes, was the opening ofa motormans school at the car house. Here the motormenin the companys employ as well as advanced students fromboth Lafayette College and Lehigh University take a pre-scribed course of lectures on electricity, with Mr. Cox asthe instructor. Matters pertaining to car motors are dis

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