. The Street railway journal . th. PARKS AND LAKE RESORTS The park properties of the company are as follows: Kay-deross Park, on the shores of Saratoga Lake, comprises about50 acres of land, well laid out, on a high tableland or bluffoverlooking the lake, which stretches away for miles in eitherdirection, thus affording beautiful views and excellent boatingfacilities. The grounds are attractive, and there are, besides asubstantial dwelling-house and office, a large casino, a mostexcellent and unusually attractive summer theater, a number ofbooths for refreshments, a boat-house and other buildi
. The Street railway journal . th. PARKS AND LAKE RESORTS The park properties of the company are as follows: Kay-deross Park, on the shores of Saratoga Lake, comprises about50 acres of land, well laid out, on a high tableland or bluffoverlooking the lake, which stretches away for miles in eitherdirection, thus affording beautiful views and excellent boatingfacilities. The grounds are attractive, and there are, besides asubstantial dwelling-house and office, a large casino, a mostexcellent and unusually attractive summer theater, a number ofbooths for refreshments, a boat-house and other buildings. Ondawa Park is located at Big Falls, on the Greenwichbranch, and consists of about 27 acresof woodland, well laidout, on the shores of the Battenkill River, which at this pointforces its way through a narrow defile in the rocks, which riseperpendicularly on either side to a height of more than 100 spot is very picturesque. The cliffs on both sides of thestream are covered with trees and ferns, the river rushes down. IN KAYDEROSS PARK, NEAR SARATOGA service is about 1200 hp, while the maximum load is aboutdouble that. The large water-power plant could be dependedupon to take care of the average load, while the smaller waterplants would be arranged to take care of the peaks. The smallerwater plants would serve as a duplicate, while the steam equip-ment would form a second reserve. With the Mechanicsvilleplant offering still another source of supply, it will be seen thatthere will be practically no possibility of any portion of thesystem being tied up. LINE AND TRACKOwing to the fact that much of the system is very old, por-tions of the track and overhead are not up-to-date, but on therecently constructed section, between Saratoga and Fort Ed-ward, an 80-lb. rail has been used. This is laid on good stand-ard ties, and figure 8 copper bonds under fish-plates are trolley wire is double 000 figure 8, with side-arm bracketpole construction. The greater portion of
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