. The Street railway journal . ectrical equipment on theRockaway division of the Long Island Railroad, between Aque-duct and Hammells, over the Jamaica Bay, on Thursday the third rails for Atlantic Avenue and the Rockaway divi-sions have been laid except about a mile on Atlantic Avenue,between Aitken Avenue and the Brooklyn line, and it is ex-pected to put the system in operation by June 15 on the linesabove named. 994 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. 22. ELECTRIC PARK, NEWARK, N, J, The past three or four years have witnessed a remarkabledevelopment of the Midway type of park i
. The Street railway journal . ectrical equipment on theRockaway division of the Long Island Railroad, between Aque-duct and Hammells, over the Jamaica Bay, on Thursday the third rails for Atlantic Avenue and the Rockaway divi-sions have been laid except about a mile on Atlantic Avenue,between Aitken Avenue and the Brooklyn line, and it is ex-pected to put the system in operation by June 15 on the linesabove named. 994 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. 22. ELECTRIC PARK, NEWARK, N, J, The past three or four years have witnessed a remarkabledevelopment of the Midway type of park in and near a num-ber of American cities where natural attractions are scarce,and where the majority of the public prefers pleasures notoffered by Nature. In parks of this character it is customaryto charge a small entrance fee, which covers admission to thegrounds and to some of the attractions operated by the parkmanagement, while a separate charge is made for each of theshows run bv concessionaires. The layout of the various. THE ILLUMINATED ENTRANCE TO ELECTRIC PARK anmsenient structures and the lighting arrangement also comeunder the park management, as well as the selection of the at-tractions that are likely to prove most popular with the localpeople. Too nmch stress cannot be laid upon the last point, forthere is sometimes a tendency on the part of park managers tofollow the dictates of their own tastes, or to install exhibitionsmerely because they have proven profitaljle in another park that seeks the patronage of the working class is not likelyto succeed by the presentation of light operas, and if the com-pany desires to cater to a more refined class, boisterous varietywill prove a failure. Past issues of this paper have contained descriptions of ruralparks, and it will undoubtedly be of interest to present par-ticulars of a recent pleasure ground which is successfully serv-ing a cosmopolitan population, besides being an important fac-tor in the earnings of
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