. The Street railway journal . tourist city, and the streetrailway system plays an important part in the entertainment ofvisitors. The tramway company owns no place of amusement,but through its excellent service assists materially in the sup-port of three or four private parks. The most popular of theseis Elitchs Gardens, where high-class stock companies play ina well-appointed theater during the summer months. Beforethe close of each play the superintendents office is informedof the approximate attendance, and enough cars are banked ona loop beyond the gardens to handle the crowds at the end
. The Street railway journal . tourist city, and the streetrailway system plays an important part in the entertainment ofvisitors. The tramway company owns no place of amusement,but through its excellent service assists materially in the sup-port of three or four private parks. The most popular of theseis Elitchs Gardens, where high-class stock companies play ina well-appointed theater during the summer months. Beforethe close of each play the superintendents office is informedof the approximate attendance, and enough cars are banked ona loop beyond the gardens to handle the crowds at the end ofthe performance. Similar arrangements are made for handling large crowds ina short space of time at the baseball grounds, the Driving Parkand City Park. As many as forty-two cars have been used intransporting the crowd at the close of a baseball game, whileprovision was made for banking eighty cars at the City Parkduring the Christian Endeavor convention in July. At CityPark during the summer months band concerts and moving.
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