. The street railway review . TESTING THE CIRCUIT. city of Buffalo. The grounds include 350 acres, 133 acres of whichare improved park lands and lakes. The site is one mile bn?by one-half mile wide. Elaborate preparations are being made,both at the grounds and in the city of Bufifalo, for handling an 1caring for the crowds, which it is expected will exceed the attend-ance at the Chicago Worlds Fair. The International TractionCo. has two routes running to the grounds and is building largeterminal loading and unloading stations, with ample facilities forhaving several hundred cars ready to dispa
. The street railway review . TESTING THE CIRCUIT. city of Buffalo. The grounds include 350 acres, 133 acres of whichare improved park lands and lakes. The site is one mile bn?by one-half mile wide. Elaborate preparations are being made,both at the grounds and in the city of Bufifalo, for handling an 1caring for the crowds, which it is expected will exceed the attend-ance at the Chicago Worlds Fair. The International TractionCo. has two routes running to the grounds and is building largeterminal loading and unloading stations, with ample facilities forhaving several hundred cars ready to dispatch at one time duringthe rush hours. Of particular interest to street railway operating and supplymen will be the exhibits pertaining to electricity and electricalappliances, shown in the Electricity Building: and the transpor-. TRANSPORTATION .AND ELECTRICITY BUILDINGS. tation exhibits in the Machinery and Transportation former group, known in the official catalog as Division X,will include machinery and apparatus for generating and usin^electricity for all purposes; and the latter, Division XI, includesspecial elevated, surface, and underground railway systems The area covered by the Electricity Building is 75,000 sq. structure being 500 ft. long from east to west, and 150 ftwide. Owing to the architectural features wh;c:i have been incor-porated in order to make it conform with the general architec-tural setting, the space available for exhibit purposes is muchless, approximately 25,000 sq. ft. The Machinery and Transportation Building is one of thelargest and handsomest of the large group. Its dimensions are500x350 ft. The illumination of the buildings and grounds will be accom-plished by means of incandescent lighting, and the possibility of
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