. Woodsdale Island park .. . days outing. The Island has two large springs, one, fromwhich bubbles up ice-cold water, and the other a chaly-beate spring of strength and efficacy. Supplementingthese natural advantages, the C. H. & D. have expendedsome twenty thousand dollars in improvements and at-tractions, leaving nothing undone that human ingenuitycould suggest for the amusement of the patrons of theIsland. The grounds are well sodded, and equal thelawns of the finest city residences. Among the buildings erected are noted, the bestdancing platform in the State, a complete restaurant,lemonade
. Woodsdale Island park .. . days outing. The Island has two large springs, one, fromwhich bubbles up ice-cold water, and the other a chaly-beate spring of strength and efficacy. Supplementingthese natural advantages, the C. H. & D. have expendedsome twenty thousand dollars in improvements and at-tractions, leaving nothing undone that human ingenuitycould suggest for the amusement of the patrons of theIsland. The grounds are well sodded, and equal thelawns of the finest city residences. Among the buildings erected are noted, the bestdancing platform in the State, a complete restaurant,lemonade and ice cream pavilions, band stands, boat andbathing-houses and enough covered buildings to provideample shelter for five thousand people, in case of The restaurant includes, in addition to the regulardining-room, a lunch-counter, where reasonable priceswill prevail, under the management of Ohmer & Noonan,whose reputation for high class catering is second tonone. They have added to their laurels by the mannerin which they have conducted the dining-car servicebetween Cincinnati and Chicago, and the same highstandard will prevail at Woodsdale Island Park. The grounds are provided with base-ball parks, tenniscourts, croquet grounds, quoit grounds, pony and foot-race tracks, merry-go-rounds, bowling alley, swings, puz-zling labyrinth, flying dutchman, shooting galleries, andnumerous other sports and games. Among the new at-tractions for this year is the river toboggan slide, an *„^!*vP
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