. The Street railway journal . THE OVERHEAD CROSSING OF A STEAM RAILROAD, UPON THEINTERURBAN LINE AS IT ENTERS LANSING pouches of mail to the various rural free-delivery carriers, whomeet the car carrying mail, at specified road crossings, up theline. While there would appear to be little opportunity for the de-velopment of park attractions upon the interurban line for in-crease of traffic, yet two resorts have proven available whichwill prove of value in creating traffic. Merle Beach, which isone of them, is a pleasant resort upon a lake located about amile to the west of the line, some dista
. The Street railway journal . THE OVERHEAD CROSSING OF A STEAM RAILROAD, UPON THEINTERURBAN LINE AS IT ENTERS LANSING pouches of mail to the various rural free-delivery carriers, whomeet the car carrying mail, at specified road crossings, up theline. While there would appear to be little opportunity for the de-velopment of park attractions upon the interurban line for in-crease of traffic, yet two resorts have proven available whichwill prove of value in creating traffic. Merle Beach, which isone of them, is a pleasant resort upon a lake located about amile to the west of the line, some distance north of stops are made at the road crossing nearest to this. THE HOTEL IN THE PARK OWNED BY THE COMPANYAND REACHED BY ONE OF ITS LINES point, and a bus from the hotel at this resort meets all passingcars for passengers; in this way a considerable amount of traf-fic has grown up, owing to various attractions of this a winter attraction has been developed at Alvard Lake,which is a small lake passed by the line still further north ofDeWitt. The railway company has established an open skatingrink upon this lake, which will be continued throughout thewinter if weather permits. The lake is lighted by lamps sup-plied from the railway feeders, and a casino has been installed 348 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. 3fcXV. No. 8. for the accommodation of patrons. An excellent business hasresulted from this venture. • The larger park above mentioned, known as Waverly Park, isthe development of a park property which was purchased by the
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