. Electric railway journal . Canobie Lake Park—Center of Park, Showing ElectricFountain Lowell. The distances from the park of the principalcities on the system are: Haverhill, miles; Law-rence, miles; Lowell, 14 miles; Nashua, miles,and Newburyport, 28 miles. The special car rate is$5 per car round trip in a fare zone, seventy pas-sengers being allowed in summer and fifty in the win-ter. All the companys fares are not based upon a 5-cent unit. March 14, 1914.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 577 ATTRACTIONS On account of the diversity of attractions, it is diffi-cult to accord popular
. Electric railway journal . Canobie Lake Park—Center of Park, Showing ElectricFountain Lowell. The distances from the park of the principalcities on the system are: Haverhill, miles; Law-rence, miles; Lowell, 14 miles; Nashua, miles,and Newburyport, 28 miles. The special car rate is$5 per car round trip in a fare zone, seventy pas-sengers being allowed in summer and fifty in the win-ter. All the companys fares are not based upon a 5-cent unit. March 14, 1914.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 577 ATTRACTIONS On account of the diversity of attractions, it is diffi-cult to accord popular preference to individual features,but the dance hall is the best patronized. The theaterseats about 2000 persons, many benches being former years 10-cent and 20-cent seats were year the entertainment consisted of moving pic-tures only, 5-cent and 10-cent seats being sold. These. Canobie Lake Park—Lake Front, with Ice-Cream PavilionBuilt Over Lake were a failure, the popular preference being for theusual vaudeville entertainment of former seasons. Thelack of success of the movies was probably due inpart to the necessary use of canvas curtains at the sidesof the theater to produce the requisite darkness, thisarrangement rendering the auditorium uncomfortablywarm on many days. The theater has a roof over thestage and the central seats. The roller coaster ispatronized at 10 cents per person and is 565 ft. long,with two tracks, giving a total ride of about half a milein two revolutions. The dancing hall floor is 44 ft. by105 ft. and will accommodate about 250 couples. The larger restaurant on the grounds seats about 700and the smaller one, which is used as a lunch counter,souvenir store, etc., seats about a dozen. Thirty boatsand twenty canoes are maintained in livery on the lake,and the latter has an area of about 6 sq. miles. Thegasoline launches at the park h
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