. The street railway review . bout $42,000 each summer for music alone. Under the bead of free attractions also must come appeals to children. Last year the most -successful of thesewas an apparatus known as the Down and Out, consisting of alarge cylinder containing a spiral slide made of polished bamboo,from which there was scarcely any friction and no slivers. Itwas a laughter-provoking device and one which invariably made acrowd good-natured, in whicli condition a crowd is always readyto spend money. This season the Cliilkoot Pass produces the sameeffect, except that those w
. The street railway review . bout $42,000 each summer for music alone. Under the bead of free attractions also must come appeals to children. Last year the most -successful of thesewas an apparatus known as the Down and Out, consisting of alarge cylinder containing a spiral slide made of polished bamboo,from which there was scarcely any friction and no slivers. Itwas a laughter-provoking device and one which invariably made acrowd good-natured, in whicli condition a crowd is always readyto spend money. This season the Cliilkoot Pass produces the sameeffect, except that those who slide may be seen by the crowd,which was not possible with the spiral slide, except at the pointwhere they slide out upon the pad through an opening at the bot-tom. The Cliilkoot Pass has an incline of about 50 degrees. Itis made of maple, set with the grain running towards the bottomto prevent slivers; it is 30 ft. wide and 50 ft. in length, .^t irregulariiUei-Nals along llic surface of the slide polished maple lunups arc. Till-; r.\ss at the white city. set. riie small bumps are .] ft. and llic laiKe ones (1 ft. in iliamclerat the base. They resemble slices out from the surface of a pol-ished maple ball about 10 ft. in diaiiuiir. Ihey serve to. changethe direction of those who slide and li. k^ llieni a series of quickhumps which lands them at the hotlom on a pad in a more or lessreckless and esiiled cniulilinn. Tlie Cliilkoot Pass, as built at TheVVliile City, has ij lnnnps, whicli cost .$460 to build. The balanceof the incline anil the frame work cost approximately ,$400 a careful selcclion of the amiisemeiit devices mentioned, andwill] a pr(jportioiiate population to draw from, amusement resortsof this character make a tremendous profit upon investmeul. Tluieare very few complete resorts now in the country, and lliiir ic-ceipls have shown a profit of from 80 to 100 per cent per annumon the investment. (Jn the other hand, those resorts which consisto
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