. The Street railway journal . ot of the rail. The jointswere cast-welded by the Falk Company. The line ownsfourteen cars, of which about ten are in use regularly. Six Kansas Citys greatest summer-night attraction and vaude-ville-entertainment resort. The theater, 140 ft. x 110 ft.,with latticed walls, through which the breezes can blow,has a seating capacity for 3000 people, and a stage com-pletely equipped with all desirable appliances for the vaude-ville entertainments which are given with frequent changeof bill, the theater being what is known in that part of thecountry as an Orpheum Circu
. The Street railway journal . ot of the rail. The jointswere cast-welded by the Falk Company. The line ownsfourteen cars, of which about ten are in use regularly. Six Kansas Citys greatest summer-night attraction and vaude-ville-entertainment resort. The theater, 140 ft. x 110 ft.,with latticed walls, through which the breezes can blow,has a seating capacity for 3000 people, and a stage com-pletely equipped with all desirable appliances for the vaude-ville entertainments which are given with frequent changeof bill, the theater being what is known in that part of thecountry as an Orpheum Circuit. Undoubtedly the greatestattraction of the park is the electrical spectacular fountain,built by C. A. Dunlap, of Providence, R. I., and equippedwith the unique features of Dunlap fountains. These fea-tures are tableaus, dances, living pictures, etc., surroundedby a wall of jets of water. The characters taking part in thedances or other scenes are brought up from the base of the 924 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVI. No. A GENERAL VIEW OF THE PARK fountain to the field of view by means of an elevator witha glass platform, through which they may be illuminatedby projectors from below. The jets forming the wall ofspray about this little stage are all inclined outward, so thatno water need strike the dancers. With the many possiblechanges of the figures produced by the jets and of thecolors thrown into the water from below, as well as fromprojectors located in an operating cabin outside of the littlepond around the fountain, the spectacle is an unusuallybeautiful one. The evenings display of this fountain isended by sending up a fireworks frame on the elevator, theexploding fireworks being surrounded by a wall of illu-minated spray. The park has the other usual features of re-sorts of this class, including a cinematograph, a band stand, bowling alleys, a billiard hall, etc. The whole is brilliantlylighted by current from the neighboring power plant of theline, 500 volts bei
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