. The Street railway journal . f stone with aroof of Colonial pattern. There will be a basement for ban-quets and a stage 23 ft. wide. The auditorium will seat 400people and will be finished in hard oak. PREPARING A STREET RAILWAY PARK FOR ALL KINDSOF WEATHER BY E. P. HULSE. Summertime is harvest time for the electric railway aswell as for the waffle-handed stirrer of the soil. This isever true—unless the railway also owns extensive icehouses on the shore of a spring lake or the agriculturistsidesteps the forward march of natures seasons and nar-rows his broad acres under the firmament of a gl
. The Street railway journal . f stone with aroof of Colonial pattern. There will be a basement for ban-quets and a stage 23 ft. wide. The auditorium will seat 400people and will be finished in hard oak. PREPARING A STREET RAILWAY PARK FOR ALL KINDSOF WEATHER BY E. P. HULSE. Summertime is harvest time for the electric railway aswell as for the waffle-handed stirrer of the soil. This isever true—unless the railway also owns extensive icehouses on the shore of a spring lake or the agriculturistsidesteps the forward march of natures seasons and nar-rows his broad acres under the firmament of a glass roofedhothouse. But to the usual garnerer of the publics nickelswith a resort or two on its lines the warm months give thebest chance for fat figures in the receipts column, and along succession of clear days hot enough to run em all outand make em ride, is as fervently hoped for as a long,soft rain is by the brother of the hoe and the 40-horse-power steam gang plow. Optimism—the same moss-rose tinted fluorescence that. THE PINES, ONE OF THE SACANDAGA PARK HOTELS. borders the auroral aspirations of a June girl graduate—unmathematical optimism, takes hold of the managerialhead of the usual street railway on the approach of sum-mer, and in making up his estimate of probable receipts inthe months ahead for the cold eye of the directory boardhe simply hopes the hundred days will be fair is the only shield he presents against the weatherforecast, despite the average of past seasons which his ac-counting force provides and which shows a large percent-age of the short hundred days of harvest to have beencloudy. He can do nothing to control the weather, and whilethe farmer may take an occasional rain-making shot into theether and shake out something to suit, the terrestrial con-troller of lightning commercially applied has to accept whatcomes. Unless—new thought—he borrows an idea from theprogressive nature worker with his roofed farm, and alsoplaces himself bey
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