. The Street railway journal . CAR ENTRANCE TO RIVERTON PARK, SHOWING THEPRESUMPSCOT RIVER BOAT HOUSE THE ARTISTIC CAR ENTRANCE TO RIVERTON CASINO IN THE BACKGROUND average of the preceding few years. For this reason thetrack and rolling -stock are in such prime condition thatthe company has not been obliged to make the heavycharges against the earnings for maintenance which it didduring the 1906 year. The saving thus realized has beenutilized in meeting larger fixed charges and overcoming anincreased operating ratio due to extremely adverse weather. Portland Railroad Company, is a co
. The Street railway journal . CAR ENTRANCE TO RIVERTON PARK, SHOWING THEPRESUMPSCOT RIVER BOAT HOUSE THE ARTISTIC CAR ENTRANCE TO RIVERTON CASINO IN THE BACKGROUND average of the preceding few years. For this reason thetrack and rolling -stock are in such prime condition thatthe company has not been obliged to make the heavycharges against the earnings for maintenance which it didduring the 1906 year. The saving thus realized has beenutilized in meeting larger fixed charges and overcoming anincreased operating ratio due to extremely adverse weather. Portland Railroad Company, is a conspicuous example of aperennial pleasure ground. It covers some 40 acres alongthe Presumpscot River in the Deering district about 6miles from the business center of Portland, and thereforeis readily accessible. The natural configuration of thelandscape has been so artistically modified that the parkmay well claim it to be the prettiest in New England—and 504 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXX. No. 14. for that matter, in the
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