The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1906-03-09
WONDERLAND.
The New Aladdin City, Now Rising in All
Its Glory At Revere Beach, Will Open To
The Public May 80 Memorial Day.

; The Public May 80 (Memorlal Day.
Amusement is the key to hap
piness, laughter the fountain of
eternal youth. With this key
the projectors of Wonderland,
the new million dollar pleasure
park, which Boston and Massa-
chusetts capitalists are building
at Revere Beach, are preparing
the pathway to perennial youth.
On the Both of May next Memo
rial Day. Wonderland will be
dedicated to mirth. BY that
time the entire tract of % acres
will be covered with a grouping
of temples of delight, every one
an exposition of the spirit of lev
ity, each an. artistic architectural
revelation, and all together pos
itively beautiful oriental aggre-
cation. In the construction of
this AIaddin-like city, Wonder
land, nearly a million dollars is
to be expended. One-half of that
sum will be represented in the
land and buildings alone, the 9th
er half paying for the thousand
and one attractions contained
therein. 1t is to be a Dream
City materialized, with not one
desirable feature omitted, and
with not a single Objectionable
feature permitted.
The situation fulfills every re
Guirement of a summer amuse-
ment resort. 1t is an ocean re
servatiOn, easily accessible, with
transportation facilities unequal
ed. Revere Beach is about mid
way between Lynn and Boston,
on the lines of the Revere Beach
& Lynn Railroad, the Boston &
Maine Railroad and the Boston
& Northern Electric Railway. A
five cent fare is all that is re-
quired to reach it by the dwellers
in Boston and the majority of
the two million people of Great
err Boston, while, according to
the latest census, it has pOpu-
lation of we'll nigh four millions
to draw from within a radius of
40 to so miles.
Three months ago the site on
which at present the tall, unfin-
ished but already quaint and GU
riOus minarets, spires and tow
ers of Wonderland appear high
above the clustering roofs of the
beach houses, was naught but
marsh and meadow land, scene
of bucolic rest and pastoral sim
plicity. With the putting up of
the high fence surrounding the
20 acres of ground began the
transformation. Since then the
new amusement Mecca has grown
like magic. 1t represents al
ready, for construction work
alone, an expenditure of over
100000
Before proceeding to a descrip-
ton of Wonderland, 1t would be
well perhaps to note who are its
projectors, officers and stock
holders. The company is a Mas
sachusetts corporation, with cap
! ital stock of 100000. 1t has
for officers: Mr.. Harold Parker
of the State Highway Commits
sion, as president; Mr.. Floyd G.
Thompson of New York City,
who for several years past has
been prominently identified with
some of the big amusement enter
prises at Coney Island, for vice
president and general manager;
Mr.. John j. Higgins of Boston,
for treasurer; Mr.. Horace s.
Meese, for secretary, and, for di-
rectors, all the above, together
with Messers. ROdolphe L. Agas
siz, treasurer of the Calumet &
Hecla Mining Company; Thomas
d. Barroll of the Governors
staff; John T. Burnett, secretary
of the Boston Elevated Railroad
Company; Benjamin P. Cheney,
Eben Hutchinson, Jr., Quincy A.
Shaw, Jr., and Eugene V. r.
Thayer.
The list of stockholders EN-
braces such well-known represen-
tative Massachusetts business
men as Col. William A. CASTOR,
Hon. William ID. SOhier, Hon.
Butler Ames, Mr.. Bayard Thayer,
Mr.. Bryce Allen, Mr.. Robert
Winsor, Mr.. T. c. Hollander, Mr..
James VI. Goldman, Jr., Mr.. Fred
eric Aver, Mr.. John II. StOrer,
Mr.. A. S. Bigelow, Mr. Leonard
d. Ali, Col. Charles Plaff, Mr..
II. H. Carter, Mr.. Summit L.
Hecht, Mr. j. NJ. Prendergast,
Mr.. C. S. Sergeant, Mr.. Fred B.
Carpenter, Mr.. HoratiO Davis,
Mr.. G. F. Lyman, Mr.. Harry E.
Converse, Mr.. E. H. Eldridge, Mr..
Lester Leland, Mr.. Harry Bur
nett, Mr.. James McNOrtOn, Mr..
Frank w. Remick, Mr.. Max Agis-
siz, Mr.. Arthur E. Childs, Mr.. c.
L. Burrill, Mr.. Elmer e. Locke,
Mr.. Charles L. Perrin, Mr.. Ar
thur Adams, Mr.. John E. Thay-
er, Mr.. G. Fl. DOty, Mr.. Stillman
F. Kelley and Mr.. George L.
Hunter.