The street railway review (1891) (14758082214)

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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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here are dancing floors and a merry-go-round, and in factopportunity for all kinds of amusements in season. Minstrel andvaudeville entertainments are given in the theater and pyrotechnicdisplays alway.s draw large crowds. The company solicits and getsmany school picnics and conventions. Gen. Mgr. C. G. Conversstates that the results last year were good, for the park is operatedto stimulate travel, but care is exercised to keep expenses down to areasonable figure. HARRISBURG, PA. There was recently a conference at Harrisburg, Pa., attended bymanagers of electric railway companies of Altoona, Allentown,Reading, Williamsport, Lancaster, York and Carlisle for the pur-pose of forming a circuit to arrange with theatrical managers for thepark entertainments. By this means lower rates can be secured,each attraction will stay one week at each park and a better class ofentertainments can be secured. The Bay City (Mich.) council has requested the street railwaycompanies to employ only residents.
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.WiiN i;i.Ai,H IAKK-LOK.MN & CLEVELAND RAIHN A i 1.1 AiR. IS, 1899.) STREET HAILWAY REVIEW. 235 SOUTHERN TERMINAL STATION. BOSTON. TIic Soutluin Terminal Station in Boston, which was opened totraffic January I, 1899. is the hirgest terminal passenger station everbuilt and it is of interest to electric railway men because of the ar-rangements made by the steam railroads for competing with elec-tric street railways by adopting electricity as the motive power onsuburban lines. A union station for handling the traffic of the Bos-ton & Albany, the New England, the Boston & Providence, and theNew York, New Haven & Hartford Railroads, was strongly advo-cated by Mayor Josiah Quiucy at the commencement of his f^rstterm in 1896, When he liroaclud the plan to the oflicials of the rail-roads interested they readily acquiesced and on June 9. 896, a billchartering the Boston Terminal Company, and providing tor theerection of a union station, was approved by the governor. Thefour rai