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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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wned by street railway com-panies are becoming more numerous each year,but in carrying out the policy advocated by theReview, few roads have had a more favorable naturallocation to convert into a resort than the Davenport &Rock Island Railway. Long before a street railroad hadever been thought of, the people from the three cities ofDavenport, Moline and Rock Island were in the habit of recently built at the highest point on the bluff. The firstfloor is fitted up for purposes of rest and refreshmentThe second floor is a dancing hall. The lower left handview is taken from the Rock River, showing the Inn atthe top of the bluff and the toboggan slide at the left.This toboggan slide is a double track railroad, runningfrom the top of the bluff to the water. The boats ortoboggans are amphibious, running equally well on landor water. They roll down the track at a hair lifting gaitand are shot about half waj across the river. The cap-tain, who was but a second before conductor, then steers
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WAITING ROOM.TOBOGGAN SLIDE. THE INN.THE I-AVILION. visiting the high bluff on the Rock River, south of RockIsland, known as Black Hawks Watch Tower. Thatit was the favorite camping ground of this famous Sacchief is not to he wondered at. The view which isafforded of the country for miles around, and especiallythat of the beautiful Rock River, is well worth a trip ofmany miles. The visiting public is not wholly dependenton scener) for its enjoyment, however, for a consideratestreet railway company has fitted up a park of twentyacres with numerous attractions. The upper right handcorner of our engraving is a view of Black Hawk Inn. his craft back to shore, and it is hauled up the grade byan old Sprague street car motor, attached through a fric-tion clutch to a cable drum in a cabin at the top of theslide. This is said to be the only slide of the kind in thecountry, and has proved to be quite an attraction.Smaller paxilions, band stands, side shows, etc., are scat-tered around the park.

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