. The Street railway journal . ade from Boston to Detroit andother Western cities proved a revelation to his hearers. Morethan 200 views were thrown upon the screen by the stereopticonduring the lecture. As a finale were shown portraits of HenryM. Whitney, General Bancroft, president of the Boston Ele-vated Railway, and P. F. Sullivan, general manager of theMassachusetts Electric Companies, all of whom have beenlargely responsible for the development of street railways inMassachusetts. 480 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. 10. AMUSEMENTS FOR PARK RESORTS The growth of pleasure traffic thr
. The Street railway journal . ade from Boston to Detroit andother Western cities proved a revelation to his hearers. Morethan 200 views were thrown upon the screen by the stereopticonduring the lecture. As a finale were shown portraits of HenryM. Whitney, General Bancroft, president of the Boston Ele-vated Railway, and P. F. Sullivan, general manager of theMassachusetts Electric Companies, all of whom have beenlargely responsible for the development of street railways inMassachusetts. 480 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. 10. AMUSEMENTS FOR PARK RESORTS The growth of pleasure traffic through the stimulatingmedium of cheap electric railway transportation has causedthe introduction side by side with this development of a widevariety of amusement devices for various types of parks. Ithas been the custom of the Street Railway Journal for anumber of years past to publish in one issue descriptions ofsome of the latest of these forms of amusement, as well assome of those which have proved most popular in past SIR HIRAM MAXIM CAPTIVE FLYING MACHINE cently another White City, a 13-acre pleasure ground, to beopened to the people of Chicago on June 1. One of the prin-cipal features of this vast entertainment ground will be theelectric tower 300 ft. high, which appears in the accompanyingview. Of course, pleasure grounds designed to cater to millionsof visitors offer many forms of entertainment too expensivefor small cities, but this very consideration proves the wisdomof having work of this kind carried out by a specialist. SIR HIRAM MAXIM CAPTIVE FLYING MACHINEThe American public, ever seeking for novelties, shouldfind the captive flying machine recently invented by SirHiram Maxin a very interesting device. The first of thesemachines was erected at Earls Court, London, in May,1904. It attracted wide attention, not only by reason ofits inventors fame, but also because of its novel character asan amusement enterprise. So pronounced was its success thatanother was
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