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Photographer: Library of Congress
Caption: Excursion Season For 1908
Additional Description: Steamer River Queen to Washington Park.

Steamer Jane Moseley to Norfolk, Baltimore, and Landings down the Potomac River.

Books now open for charters on the River Queen and Jane Moseley.

Secure your dates at once, before they are all taken.

Washington Park

This beautiful park has a collection of attractions never before offered to the Washington public. It is located about ten miles from Washington on the Potomac River. The Scenic Railway, with its electric power plant for 7,000 lights — a Figure 8. The Carousel, double-decker, with music attachments. A 5- and 10-Cent Theatre. A Penny Arcadium, Moving Pictures, Shooting Gallery. A Dairy Lunch Depot and Buffet- Dancing Pavilion. Pool and Billiard Hall, and forty acres of Shady Woods and Dells.

The River Queen makes daily trips to Washington Park at 10 a.m., 12 m., and 2, 4, 6, and 8 p.m. For particulars address Lewis Jefferson, General Manager, Seventh and N Streets Wharf. The Washington Bee, June 13, 1908.
Submitted: October 29, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p401760
File Size: 0.607 Megabytes

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