. The street railway review . I ^\_fr/lnchor Bolt -* SECTION OF RETAINING WALL. taurant, and a three-story hotel, tlie latter building now being inprocess of erection. All the buildings of the park will be lightedwith electricity, and the appointments of the hotel will be equalin every respect with those of summer resorts of the first hotel and restaurant privileges have been leased to experi-enced parties, who will provide a service equal to that of the besthotels in the large cities. Good bathing facilities along the parkfront will be secured by the use of concrete jetties, t
. The street railway review . I ^\_fr/lnchor Bolt -* SECTION OF RETAINING WALL. taurant, and a three-story hotel, tlie latter building now being inprocess of erection. All the buildings of the park will be lightedwith electricity, and the appointments of the hotel will be equalin every respect with those of summer resorts of the first hotel and restaurant privileges have been leased to experi-enced parties, who will provide a service equal to that of the besthotels in the large cities. Good bathing facilities along the parkfront will be secured by the use of concrete jetties, the bed of thelake at this point being of rock. The jetties are made use ofto cause a sand bed to be formed along the park front. Otherimprovements at Olcott embrace the rebuilding of the presentpiers for about a quarter of a mile along the shores of EighteenMile Creek, just within the government piers. It is expected that a very considerable amount of freight, as. PLAN OF TERMINAL AT OLCOTT. coal and pulp wood, will be handled at this point, afid alreadypreparations have been made to run a line of steamers from Inronto to Olcott to connect with the electric cars to Buffalo. Iower for the line from Lockport to Olcott is furnislicd parllyfrom the converter station at Lockport, the current for whichcomes from Niagara Falls, and partly from a power house (l oi>. Ihe line of the road, about a mile and a half from its The overhead work is supported on poles 8,S ft. apart,intermediate suspension I)eing used lor the No. 0000 figure S trol-ley wire. Four miles of the Lockport & Olcott road were constructedentirely for freight purposes, and form the connection by whichthe Buffalo & Lockport Ry. reaches the lower town or mill dis-trict of Lockport. Lockport is built upon what is known as theNiagara escarpment, a well defined and sharp declivity runninggenerally parallel to the southern shore of Lake Ontario, and fromfou
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