. The Street railway journal . y the extra fee in order to be free from dis-turbance. The entertainment offered is variety, a four-weekexperiment with light operas having convinced the manage-ment that its clientele did not care for the latter style of enter-tainment. The introduction of the reserved seats netted over$6,000 in one season, and only one extra employee, a ticketseller, was required. A very poinilar feature of this park is the dance hall, whichdid such good business last year that it has been found neces-sary to enlarge it to 175 ft. x 50 ft. The structure is furnishedwith removal
. The Street railway journal . y the extra fee in order to be free from dis-turbance. The entertainment offered is variety, a four-weekexperiment with light operas having convinced the manage-ment that its clientele did not care for the latter style of enter-tainment. The introduction of the reserved seats netted over$6,000 in one season, and only one extra employee, a ticketseller, was required. A very poinilar feature of this park is the dance hall, whichdid such good business last year that it has been found neces-sary to enlarge it to 175 ft. x 50 ft. The structure is furnishedwith removalile sides to make it available for both cool andwarm weather. At the sides of the dance hall there are also anumber of chairs and tables for serving refreshments. Thecharges for admission to this hall are 15 cents for gentlemenand 10 cents for ladies. Among some of the old but ever-popular standbys to be foundhere are bowling alleys, pool tables and a splendid $15,000carousel. Picsides these there arc a number of modern amuse-. UNE OF THE JAPANESE BUILDINGS UNDER CONSTRUCTION nients like the figure-eight roller coaster, old mill, laughing-gallery, penny arcade, etc. An amusing but inexpensive nov-elty originated by the management calls for the employmentof a tank of water, a hammock and a jolly negro. The ham-mock is hung in such a way that when a baseball is thrownwith sufficient force against a certain disc the hammock fasten-ings are loosened and the negro falls into the water, much tothe amusement of the onlookers. For this season the parkmanagement is installing quite a number of more elaborate at-tractions, such as the circle swing; a working model of the June 3, 1905.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 995 famous Strasburg clock; a miniature railway, which will passthrough a short tunnel and transport visitors from show toshow about the grounds; a gypsy camp ; a Mexican village, anda Japanese village, which should prove a good drawing cardin view of the publics great interest in a
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