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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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1 r. i I m _^^; ^F>A J W>4 ! WHERE THE FUN BEGINS AT WENONA PEACH PARK, BAY CITY, MICH. 74 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW (Vol. XVI, No. 2. repair, it lias been self-supporting for a number of years. All of theed business secured on the line through the ownership andoperation of the park has hern at no cost for park maintenance. Heretofore negroes have been permitted to go to Oxford LakePark and a gallery has been provided for them at the theater. Butin the Smith the combination of white and colored patronage does high order, but 40 acres have been further improved and the parkcompares favorably with anything of its kind in the country. Illustrations are herewith presented of the large figure-eighttoboggan, which was installed by the Philadelphia Toboggan Co.,and of the band stand, which is in the shape of a large sound shell,situated within an enclosure seating 1,500 people. The park also in-
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FIGUBE-E1GHT TOBOGGAN, VINEWOOD lAHK, IOPEKA, KAN. not work at all well and the company has decided to build an ex-tension to its line through Hobson City, to a site for a park to beused exclusively by negroes, and known as Hobson City Park. Alarge pavilion will be built on these grounds at once, to be used fordancing purposes, roller skating and amusements of different kinds.The baseball ground will be laid out and free swings, tables, etc.,provided. This park will be controlled by a stock company capi-talized at a nominal amount, the stockholders in which are prominentpeople in Anniston, whose intention is to in turn sell this stock tothe negroes themselves, that they may acquire the ownership of thestock paying for it on the installment plan. Topeka Railway Co. I he lopjka Railway Co. owns an amusement resort which 1-known as Vinewood Park and is located at the terminus of the com-

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