. The Street railway journal . but notcostly, which serves as a ren-dezvous for the boats in thesummer and as a retreat inthe winter. Here a lunchroom is maintained where at all seemly hours sandwiches,cakes, tea, coffee and milk may be obtained. It is from this building that the boat livery is conductedin simimer. On hire are row boats, canoes and row boats and canoes of course are exceedingly popu-lar withthe young men and women, who patronize themliberally, especially on Saturdays and in the evenings. 314 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXL No. 9. For them a charge is made of 40 c
. The Street railway journal . but notcostly, which serves as a ren-dezvous for the boats in thesummer and as a retreat inthe winter. Here a lunchroom is maintained where at all seemly hours sandwiches,cakes, tea, coffee and milk may be obtained. It is from this building that the boat livery is conductedin simimer. On hire are row boats, canoes and row boats and canoes of course are exceedingly popu-lar withthe young men and women, who patronize themliberally, especially on Saturdays and in the evenings. 314 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXL No. 9. For them a charge is made of 40 cents an hour. The com-petition for rowing honors is keen and races are one is held it is a limited edition of the collegeevent on the Thames, the spectators in proportion probablyoutnumbering those who attend the big event. The fishingis excellent and naturally a large number of boats are hiredby fishermen. For them special boats are set aside, as FOREST PARK ON THE LINE OF THE SCHENECTADY^ ^ RAILWAY COMPANY. SK.\1]X<; AT ROCKWOOD PARK fishing from a boat soon makes it undesirable for rentingto pleasure parties. Accommodations for the skaters are provided at thebuilding which in summer serves as the boat house. Hereskates may be hired, and, as before - stated, lunch may bebought. The skating is at times enlivened by competitionsand by figure skating. Both of these classes of eventsbring to the park no end of spectators. The slides are runfrom the bank and terminate on the lake. There always isa goodly crowd watching the coasting. Until 1907 the resort depended solely upon the boatingand skating, but last year it was decided to take advantageof the crowds attracted to the lake and a carrousel, Ferriswheel and shoot the chutes were installed. The shoot thechutes is probably the only one in the world that uses thenatural hill at the side of the lake for its elevation. Aflight of eight stairs is used at the top of the hill to bringthe patrons of this sport to t
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