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James F. Coyne who is here from Troy, N. Y., looking after coal inter ests, remarked to a friend at the Kanawha hotel last night that he had never seen a city the size of Charles ton with an amusement park of the class of Luna, that was not a busy municipality. “I find that where business is recog nized as good at all times there are those who will invest liberally in es tablishing a park or some other kind of amusement place, for they know where people are engaged in profitable undertakings, they will always find time and have the inclination to patronize it. “Your park here excels those of the majority of cities I have visited,”’ said the visitor, “and I find that Luna represents an investment of $100,000. I know the people here ought to ap preciate it for its worm and take it that they do, for the crowds there last night indicated that Luna is their favorite resting place these hot nights. There surely was a decided difference between the temperature there and that in the city proper. I enjoyed two hours at Luna and was especially well pleased with the theatre. The attrac tions offered are of the kind that help to make parks and other summer resorts successful in the east, and take it that they are drawing paying crowds here. [I know something of the expense attendant on presenting such high class vaudeville as is offered there and know that to keep it up costs a surprisingly large sum.” Mr. Coyne was favorably impressed with the skating rink where last night several hundred persons enjoyed the hours away from the heat and dust of the city. “Everything down there is up to date,” said he, “and if any one can beat the arrangements there he will have to cheat a little.”
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Charleston Mail
Charleston, West Virginia, US
Thu, Jun 25, 1914
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