Clipping:The Staten Island Amusement Company
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| Date | Wednesday, February 3, 1886 |
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| Text | Apart from his connection with the Metropolitans as the secretary of the club, Mr. Williams is a very busy man just now. He is also the general manager of , which is a very big concern, duly incorporated under the laws of the State, and has a paid up capital of a quarter of a million dollars. The president of the company is Mr. Erastus Wiman, while Mr. Robert Garrett, of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and Sir Roderick Cameron, a wealthy Englishman, are the vice presidents. It is the intention of this company to play base ball in the afternoon and give grand open-air concerts on the same grounds in the evening. Besides the orchestra, which I hear will probably be Cappa's famous Seventh Regiment Band, there will be some startling electrical exhibitions. The principal one of these is an illuminated fountain. Huge columns of water will be thrown over a hundred feet in the air and illuminated from a sort of crystal cavern. … Mr. Wiman makes no concealment of the matter, which is to increase the traffic for the Staten Island Rapid Transit Company. If these amusements bring half a million people to the Island during the hot season they will bring in one million fares, or $100,000, and that will be a nice little sum of money. Mr. Wiman is only learning a lesson from Coney Island. The railroads made that sandy beach an attraction, just to induce the people of New York and Brooklyn to go there and pay the railroads for carrying them, and there is no reason why Staten Island may not be made as great, if not a greater attraction. The convenience of the ferry to the elevated railroad system, and the delightful sail down the bay, should make this route a favorite one. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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