. The Street railway journal . pleasure ground, and is orna-mented by a rustic fountain, shade trees, palms, yuccas andother tropical plants, together with a labyrinth formedby the intertwining branches of an evergreen shrub. Thereare numerous small houses and rustic seats provided allabout for the accommodation of pleasure seekers, and onone side is a shell road, making a very smooth carriageway. Music is provided on all pleasant evenings, andthere is boating and the usual attractions of a summerresort. The loca-tion is reachedfrom the depotand carriage roadby two draw-bridges whichspan the c
. The Street railway journal . pleasure ground, and is orna-mented by a rustic fountain, shade trees, palms, yuccas andother tropical plants, together with a labyrinth formedby the intertwining branches of an evergreen shrub. Thereare numerous small houses and rustic seats provided allabout for the accommodation of pleasure seekers, and onone side is a shell road, making a very smooth carriageway. Music is provided on all pleasant evenings, andthere is boating and the usual attractions of a summerresort. The loca-tion is reachedfrom the depotand carriage roadby two draw-bridges whichspan the canaland basin. Thetemperature i ssaid to be about10 degs. lower atthe lake than inthe city. OldSpanish Fort, an-other popular re-sort on the lake,is located a fewmiles east of WestEnd, and is reach-ed by steam lineand carriageroad. The dum-my cars, whichnow communicatewith West End,will soon beoperated by elec-trically propelled A- H F°RD, Cars. SECRETARY NEW ORLEANS CITY & LAKE AND Several of the crescent city April, 1894.] THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 249 lines extend to Aubudon Park, and one passes acrossit and beyond. This park was the site of the NewOrleans Exposition held in 1884-5. This tract hasbeen donated to the city as a public park. The onlyremaining building of the Exposition is Horticultural Hallin which are still preserved the palms, plants, trees andshrubs which composed the exhibit in this grounds are unimproved except there is a fine graveldriveway. Near the river are avenues of fine old live oaktrees covered with Spanish moss, whose overhangingbranches form a perfect arch and now and then thereis an isolated tree whose leaves cover a circular spacenearly 300 ft. in diameter. On the back part of the tractare forty acres devoted to an experimental sugar planta-tion, where young men go to study the art of growingand making sugar. The buildings are equipped with thelatest and most approved machinery for refining sugarand preparing it for
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