. The Street railway journal . ike roller skating,which at the presentis rapidly returning to favor, appear in the past to havefollowed waves of popular favor. In other cases it is onlythe latest and newest which will draw the crowds. A thor-ough discussion of park resorts would not be complete with-out an account of the new apparatus and devices which themanufacturers who cater to this class of trade are preparingto present this year to electric railway companies. Severalof these forms of amusement are entirely novel, others areimprovements of well-known and well-tried devices. Insome cases,
. The Street railway journal . ike roller skating,which at the presentis rapidly returning to favor, appear in the past to havefollowed waves of popular favor. In other cases it is onlythe latest and newest which will draw the crowds. A thor-ough discussion of park resorts would not be complete with-out an account of the new apparatus and devices which themanufacturers who cater to this class of trade are preparingto present this year to electric railway companies. Severalof these forms of amusement are entirely novel, others areimprovements of well-known and well-tried devices. Insome cases, as in the circle swing, which is only two or threeyears old, the popularity of the idea has led to the con-struction of a variety of forms differing in various is impossible to enumerate all of the attractions whichwill be presented at the various street railway parks duringthe year 1907, but an attempt has been made in the followingpages to gather together some of those which have alreadybeen announced to the IX(.. AJJ;-S|]ll )()\\1lR AERIAL AMUSEMENTSMany novel attractions have been devised from time totime with the end in view of affording sensation by whirlingpeople through space at a greater or less distance from theearth, and have proved eminently successful as amusementfeatures, mainly, no doubt, because of the peculiar fascina-tion which attaches to the subject of aerial navigation. Infact, some of these devices have been designed with thevery idea in mind of affording the sensation of flying. Onesuch device is the revolving airship tower, made by theRevolving Airship Tower Company, of Chicago, III. It isbuilt of steel, 15 ft. or more in height, mounted on arevolving platform about 150 ft. in circumference, operatingfour imitation airships. Each ship is raised and loweredby means of four steel cables, three-quarters of an inchthick, each cable having a breaking strain of 20,000 the ships are raised and lowered the tower slowly re-volves,
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