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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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sorder proseonled. As an aiil lo this, the t;rounds should be welllighted. A close supervision should be had over all the concessions tosec that nothing is done to ofifend the patrons of the park and thatall the buildings arc kept clean and neat and that nothing is storedin them which might cause fire or otherwise endanger the build-ings or the park patrons. The public likes to get something for nothing, so give some freeshows, of which the best is good band music, especially on Sunday;a tight-rope act, a balloon ascension, or diving horses or elk, iffree, will draw good crowds, provided they are not offered sofrequently as to cease to be novelties. business to keep the park busy during the day; and you will un-doubtedly fuid that the park will pay. The accompanying illustrations show several of the more im-portant buildings in a number of parks operated by the AmericanKailways Co. and will (irove interesting anrl suggestive of whatmay be >lonc elsewhere ttnilcr similar conditions.
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CASINO, LAKEMONT PARK, ALTOONA, PA. Make Childrens Day a feature. Choose some day not too latein the season and make all the .amusements free to the children dur-ing certain hours of the day, or give each child going to the parkon the cars a certain number of tickets good during that day at thevarious .amusements. As to the Sunday question, respect the religious sentiment of thecommunity, and if the best clement of the city will not patronizethe park when the amusements are open on Sund.ay, close theamusement features. Keep the park sweet and clean, physically and morally; keep yourattractions fresh and bright; advertise and work up the excursion The New Tariff of the Municipal Street Kail.«ay in ColoKne, (ierinany.* The adjusting of the rates of fare on street railw.iys or shortdistance railways always arouses the greatest inleresi in railwaycircles, especially in cases where new methods arc being appliedsuch as are based upon the experience collected during more or lessprotracted a

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