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JDirectlij in front of th€ new Jubilee Park,
facing the STate Reservdhon,
Acknowledqedl the finesl" siTuafed hofel at IliOLCi'ara.
'HE CLIFTON has the exclusive advantage of being the only hotel
from all apartments and every verandah of which there is a ful
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and unobstructed view of the Falls. This is a fact of Importance
to all visitors. The view is grand in its extent and beauty, embracing,
as it does, the islands, rapids and surrounding country for miles.
THE CLIFTON HOUSE is celebrated for its quiet elegance and
many features of comfort and convenience. The apartments, en suite
or single, are exceptionally attractive in appointments, and the culslnt,
service, and attendance superior In all respects.
Address,
(^eo.TTf.
Colburn.
NIAGARA FALLS,
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rTTHE ADVERTISEMENT offering this hotel for sale,
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of settling up the
affairs
half a century, and
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How
TO See
Niagara,
"
Come
And
For
with me,
I'll
I
your guide and mentor be,
the points of vantage know,
The mazes of the woodland glades,
And many a secret Mother Nature keeps
Only for those whose love for her ne'er sleeps."
NIAGARA FALLS FROM THE CANADA bIDE AT FALLS VIEW.
How
N THIS
TO See Niagara.
centennial year of the great
American Republic the highways
Europe are crowded by American travelers who would
while
the flesh
in
rather than
fain
see
take their chances after death.
of
Paris
More
than any other people, they are a nation of travelers, and, with the
prevailing
high order of education and
better general
it
is
intelligence,
knowledge than any other of
suspected that
if
the
customs
officers
their
have probably a
own
at Liverpool,
country.
Yet
Southampton,
Bremen, and Havre were to interrogate each as he stepped from the
jangway upon foreign
"'*'
>
who had never
seen
Colorado, the fairy
isle
soil
a
surprisingly
large
number would be found
the Golden Gate, the Yellowstone Park, the Caflon of the
of
Mackinac, or that crowning glory of their native land,
the Falls of Niagara.
Is
it
that ease of access diminishes curiosity?
Distance and danger have always possessed
mysterious attractions to the Anglo-Saxon race, that has never hesitated to brave hardship
and
peril in
exploring
unknown
regions, while often neglecting scenes of beauty and grandeur
nearer home.
Certain
chief objective point,
that
is
it
and
it
From
the great cataract.
the
foreign
traveler
to
America has always Niagara
foreign books of travel that
is in
when
the time
we
New
from
of
that
York,
prince
fall
the Jesuit F"ather Hennepin
Mecca
of
all
a million inhabitants, has
converge a greater number of
therefore,
point.
"How
In
to
see
rail
Niagara,"
this great western
there
ical
is
become
student
who
have been no
lines
of
our population, that
country
forcibly struck
than enter any other American
ail
roads lead to Chicago,
there
is
with
its
city.
In pointing out,
as,
twenty centuries ago,
directly to Niagara.
The
by the circumstance that the waters
great east and west trunk-line of railway, from which
its
starting
ail
but one road to be considered, for
should have found their outlet over the great precipice directly by and
the great cataract en route.
Chicago,
we may properly make "The Garden City" our
remarked the curious fact that large rivers always ran
less
the
practically the center of the Republic, to which
Rome. But from Chicago eastward
but one whose double lines of steel lead
roads led to
of
lovers of Nature.
So rapid has been the westward movement
more than
the
the luxurious ease of a palace car and in the society
in
Depew, an annual procession, from every quarter
raconteurs, Mr.
globe, have sought this
gazed with aston-
first
many weeks through
day when the French Bartholdi delegation was carried there
but eleven hours,
in
of
his
find the best descriptions of
ished eyes upon the stupendous wonder, after a toilsome journey of
wilderness, to that lovely
for
by
of
sapient geographlarge
the
towns would
Great
Lakes
below the track of a
passengers might see the wonders of
ON THE WAY TO NIAGARA, THE MICHIGAN CENTRAL VESTIBULED
LIMITED.
Therefore, from
its
depot
summer heat, we take one
"The Niagara Falls Route."
where the lake breezes temper the
Central,
the finely-appointed express trains of the Michigan
at the foot of
of
Of few
cities is
Lake
Street,
the railway aspect so agreeable as
that of
Chi-
combing waves the
On the other, stretches grassy parks with shady nooks and
waters of the gray-blue lake.
suburban villas embowered in such
bright parterres of flowers, rich tasteful residences and
then the prairie, rounding the Lake
luxuriance of foliage as no other great city knows,- and
belching black smoke from their tall chimneys
of Calumet with the furnaces of South Chicago
cago from this
in
For miles on the one side
line.
ripple
or roll or dash in
the distance.
From between
the sand dunes of Michigan City, and again at
New
Buffalo,
we catch
pictur-
rich and populous region of Southesque glimpses of Lake Michigan and then strike into the
To the observant traveler
to Detroit.
ern Michigan to cross the base of the great peninsula
lakes and cool, clear
charming ride by day-light. The rolling country, with its silvery
lands, varied by occasional forests, by
streams, its fields of waving grain and luxuriant pasture
forms an attractive panorama through
neat villages and prosperous-looking well-built cities,
this is a
and even with the most careless traveler divides
Nearly all this region is famous for its yield of wheat and
herds of
in its pastures graze flocks of sheep and
produces
the clear plate-glass of the car-windows,
interest with
the
fine
the latest novel.
quality of
graded cattle and
flour that
it
;
blooded horses with pedigrees of royal
are alive with a great variety of manufacturing industries.
length
;
and
its
towns and
villages
MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD STATION AT KALAMAZOO.
Nor
will the-
ture, taste
in
fail
and refinement
both private and
Those that
is
eye
not
to
remark the evidences of material prosperity and of educated
in
the numerous examples of the best forms of modern
public buildings.
strike
the traveler most forcibly, however, are the
new
railroad stations.
only because their necessary proximity to the railroad track forces
notice, but because of their manifest
and convenient arrangement
The
architecture.
turret, the
severely
are in style
solid,
plain
for the
gray
beauty and appropriateness,
brick tower and
and material, are
all
This
them upon public
admirable construction,
their
purposes of their use that make them models of railroad
lime-stone of
Kalamazoo, and the
brick-work of
cul-
architecture
rustic
Ann
Arbor, with
its
Renaissance
towers and
broad eaves of Battle Creek, the stone-trimmed
boulder
rock-work
of Grass Lake, diverse as
thoroughly harmonious, and suggest the
venience and even the cosy prettiness to be found
in
they
comfort, the con-
the internal arrangement, furnishing and
decorations.
Detroit
is
not only a city of active enterprise and business prosperity, but a city with a
dramatic and picturesque history of two centuries, illustrated by the marble statues of her
earlier heroes on the facades of her City Hall and the fine granite and bronze monument
opposite to
those
Central, into which
of
a
come
later generation.
also other
trains
and whose massive yet graceful tower
of the city, the
train
is
run
Entering the magnificent depot of the
and
through cars from
at the foot of Jefferson
down on board
of
a powerful
all
Michigan
quarters of the compass,
Avenue
is
one of the features
steel transfer boat
and quickly
lON AT BATTLE CRtt^,
the
across
ferried
summer
broad
or
river
The
strait.
at least, a delightful incident of the
steamer a beautiful view
is
passage over the majestic stream,
brief
journey.
From
obtained of the miles of busy water-front of the
broad bosom of the stream covered with craft of every description.
wooded park
Belle Isle,
of
and below are the ramparts
is,
in
the hurricane deck of the great
of old
Far above
Fort
and
city,
the
the lovely
is
Wayne and
of
the towers
and domes of the immense Exposition buildings.
Reaching the Canada shore the
through Her Majesty's Dominion.
train
is
soon under way again and makes
fast
time indeed
Passing St. Thomas, the railroad centre of lower Ontario,
canal, we soon reach the Niagara River, and a moment later,
FALLS ViEW," the great cataract bursts suddenly upon our expectstops and every passenger hastens to the verge of the embankment, a
and Welland on the famous ship
announce
as the trainmen
ant vision.
hundred
derful
The
train
above the
feet
"
river, to
scene of beauty and
enjoy for every second of the allotted
grandeur before him.
Horse-shoe Falls, and the eye takes
the American
Falls,
in
The
point of
minutes, the won-
five
view
directly
is
the entire extent of the Horse-shoe or Canadian and
with the wood-crowned Goat
Island
between, the
raging, white-capped
rapids and the lesser islands above, and the boiling cauldron below, with the
spray rising
above the
from the abyss and dissolving in the sky above.
Beyond
is
column
of
snowy
the American shore
on which the larger buildings of the town of Niagara Falls may be discerned back of the
trees
river.
of
Prospect
From no
Park, while
other point
is
far
up to the
right
stretches the
so comprehensive a view obtainable,
broad expanse of lake-like
and
it
is
well that the trav-
MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD STATION AT ANN ARBOR.
should
eler
see
first,
Niagara here, as he
gains thereby the
best
idea
of
topography.
its
Leaving Falls View, the train passes over a deep-cut road through which one catches a lovely
glimpse, as of a framed picture, of the
ment
later the station of
the river
angriest
From
is
of
bit
water
in
which
the
of the
A
Falls, Ontario, is reached.
crossed on the famous Cantilever
the bridge,
world, one
Niagara
snowy gothic tracery
world," and
Bridge,
American
down
above
fifty feet
a great triumph of engineering
Falls, the
and a mo-
;
mile and a half farther
two hundred and
undoubtedly one of the strongest and
is
has a fine view of the
Falls
safest
" the
and daring.
skill
structures
the
in
Rapids, and the rocky walls between which the
surging waters flow, while below are seen the Suspension Bridge and the Whirlpool Rapids.
From Suspension Bridge
station at the eastern end of the Cantilever Bridge to Niagara Falls,
N. Y., the train often runs so near the edge that one
may
look
down upon
the
madly turbulent
waters far below and get fleeting glimpses of the bridge he has just crossed, the Falls, and the
foaming rock-walled amphitheatre into which they pour.
most of
the
hotels,
At the
latter
station
the town,
is
museum, the shops, the photographers, and here most
the
travelers
stop.
Trollope thought that
seen.
"
it
Let the visitor see
mattered very
it
all,"
he
little,
said,
"and
or not at
business, let
him proceed
We
to enjoyment.
I
from what point the Falls was
first
learn the whereabouts of every point, so as to
understand his own position and that of the waters
sight-seeing."
all,
;
and then, having done that
doubt whether
it
in
the
way
be not the best to do this with
of
all
agree with the English traveler and novelist in this view, provided the tourist
"•'-^n
THE CITY HALL AND THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT, DETROIT.
,
But there
has ample time at his disposal.
more than
It
is,
is
nothing the American traveler usually begrudges
time, and nothing in which he desires so
therefore,
fair
much
to economize.
to suppose that the traveler has,
by reading and study
acquainted himself with the general, and to some extent with the
and
of Niagara Falls
Canada
side, will be of material assistance
Nor does
take
Whether he has
vicinity.
up
his
it
matter so
much
He
quarters.
they dislike walking;
by
said,
I
upon which
in
side of the river the visitor shall
would locate on the American
they are generally accustomed to the frequent use of their
own
There
legs."
side,
because
side, seeing that
is
this advice, although the conditions have been materially altered or modified since
The
map,
or not, his observation from Falls View, on the
would send Americans to the Canadian
but English people
of the
geography and topography
fixing the salient points securely in his mind.
as in Trollope's time
" I
local,
much
it
force
was given.
construction of the suspension foot and carriage bridge across the chasm from Prospect Park,
on the American, to a point near the Clifton House, on the Canada
from one to the other.
Still,
side,
has
made
it
easy to pass
there are considerable distances to be traversed, and, although
Americans of both sexes are much better pedestrians than they were a generation ago, the
will find carriages
necessary to reach the more distant points.
the Falls the visitor should trust to his
The matter
visitor
of
location, therefore,
from the East
will naturally
own powers
But
in the
visitor
immediate vicinity of
of locomotion.
becomes largely a question
of
convenience, and
the
stop in the town on the American side, making his choice
between the great International, which has become a famous meeting place
for
conventions of
MICHIGAN CENTRAL DEPOT AND THE RIVER FRONT, DETROIT
all
kinds
;
the Cataract House, by the
Rapids,
still,
as of
old, a favorite
resort
the
;
Kalten-
bach, quiet, of foreign aspect and unrivalled cuisine, or the Prospect House, English and
removed from the Canada
tocratic,
laid out.
much
possible, will
as
Niagara
it
equally convenient
position on the edge of
one side and the Horse-shoe Fall
Fall on
Horse-shoe
museum
building
in
the
the
street
cliff
in full view.
Fall,
when
desirous of
if
leave
to
and go down the steep paved
commanding
be the old stone
as one
find
Falls, Ontario,
stands in a
side near the
But he who comes from the West,
Park was
to
the
Queen Victoria
utilizing
Michigan
the
his
Central
time as
train
at
House, which
Clifton
directly in front
aris-
the American
of
In fact, no other building, unless
the park, affords any such superb
it
and beautiful views
obtains from the windows and the broad verandas of the Clifton House.
THE CANADA
Arrived, then, at the Clifton House,
for
him.
A
breakfast
or
for
good opera or
Niagara, than
a
us suggest that the time will not be wasted
near the corner of one of these broad, old-fashioned verandas
visitor seats himself
hour
let
SIDE.
pair
of
should apply as well to
dinner, as
the case
be
may
found
be,
quite
useful
shoes.
all
will
garments.
Keep, by
all
until
the
the
and leisurely scans the scenes before
stout, serviceable, comfortable
field-glass
if
— scarcely
less
so, in
fact,
at
And, indeed, these adjectives
means, your
fine
clothes
for
the hotel
ACROSS THE
RIVER,
THE
SLIP AT
WINDSOR AND THE TRANSFER STEAMER.
you need have
parlors or dining-rooms, but wear such apparel in your drives and rambles that
no apprehension
Your meal
of
from sun, dust, or spray.
out
over, start
engage your carriage
when you come
results
ill
to settle.
a standard subject for
And
here
let
clear
— and
and
hackman
good pedestrian,
may
arise
Niagara Falls has become
humorist, with the mother-in-law, the plumber,
worn about
as threadbare.
The
fact
brother — probably
persistent, or extortionate than his city
more clamorous,
of
are a
no difference
distinct, that
us say that the
and alleged
the joker
the ice-man, and the hotel clerk
Unless you
upon your explorations.
and make your bargain
that
is
he
is
His rates
less so.
who
are limited by ordinances that are rigorously enforced by the authorities, and the visitor
That
cannot trust himself to make a bargain with him should not travel without a guardian.
the traveler
may know what
the rates and fees are,
But you do not want your carriage
Table Rock,
until
for
may
seize you.
walk, on through the gates and into the
directly opposite
Island,
and again
stant variation
or south-east
in
you
cliff
walk you
the American
at
the views, but
find
will
we
you have reached the Horse-shoe
at
all
yourself
So
Queen
not
beyond
and stop
leisurely
at a
Victoria Niagara Falls Park across the road.
fail
to stop
Point
a
few moments at Ramblers'
opposite the northern
the very end of the Horse-shoe
are beautiful and
in
I'^alls
your driver to await you there and
instruct
Inspiration
Fall;
Table Rock,
will
give them on the following page.
you come to that point you want to proceed
dozen places as the desire
Following the
until
no
a mist or
grand.
rain of
If
Falls.
the wind
Rest,
end of Goat
There
is
a con-
be from the east
spray as you approach
the Horse-
FALLS VIEW ON THE CANADA
SIDE.
ADMISSION KEES, RAXES AND TOLLS.
Cave
of
Inclined
the
Winds (with guide and dress)
Railway (Prospect Park),
Behind Horseshoe Falls, with guide and dress, Canada
Museum (American Side)
Whirlpool Rapids (either side)
$i.oo
lo
side,
50
50
Whirlpool (either side)
Crossing New Suspension Bridge, 25 cents. Extra, for two-horse carriage
Crossing Railway Suspension Bridge (over and return), 10 cents. Extra, for two-horse carriage,
Ride in van around Goat Island
Ride in van around the entire State Reservation, with privilege of stopping off at any or every point of interest, and
continuing the ride in following vans,
" Maid of the Mist," from foot of Inclined Railway to Horseshoe Falls, landing on Canada side and return,
Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge Street Railway Company, from Soldiers' Monument, Niagara Falls, to
Suspension Bridge, fare 5 cents.
Dufferin Islands, pedestrian, 10 cents carriage with occupants,
Round trip to the Whirlpool Rapids, Canada side, via Old Suspension Bridge and Horse-car line,
Round trip to Whirlpool Rapids, American side, via cars
Round trip to Whirlpool, American side, via horse-car and transfer carriages
.
.
;
.
RATES OF FARE ALLOWED BY LAW IN THE VILLACE OF NIAGARA FALLS,
For
the
Use and Hire of Carriai^cs
7c/iere
no express eontraet
For carrying one passenger and ordinary baggage from one place to another
Each additional passenger and ordinary baggage,
For carrying one passenger and ordinary baggage from any point in this
.
50
50
25
.
.25
10
25
.
.50
50
-55
45
55
N. Y.
is rfiadt' therefor.
in the village
$0.50
25
village to
any point
in the village of
Suspension Bridge
i.oo
additional passenger and ordinary baggage
50
additional piece of baggage, other than ordinary baggage,
12
Children under three years of age, free. Over three years and under fourteen years, half price.
Ordinary baggage is defined to be one trunk and one bag, hat or bandbox, or other small parcel.
For carrying one or more passengers, in the same carriage, from any point in this village to any point within five
miles of the limits of the village, at the rate of $1.50 for each hour occupied, except that in every instance where such
carriage shall be drawn by a single horse the fare therefor shall be at the rate of $1.00 for each hour occupied.
Each
Each
,
shoe
Fall,
ance.
If
but with the precautions we have suggested you
the
visit
be made
in
the afternoon, as indeed
or less at your back, lighting up spray and
ing
prismatic rainbows
would recommend that
House be taken
upon them.
this route
In
falling
fact,
shoe
Fall.
the river-side and
The charge
one not to be omitted.
Nowhere
sky.
else,
is
but
more
be made
visit
the
in
the morning,
Falls
the
to
we
Clifton
Table Rock House, you descend the hy-
at the
the watery veil of the end of the Horse-
including attendance, and
the experience a unique
Standing just outside, the flood seems to pour down out of the very
probably, does one gain such an idea of the heighth of the Cataract, for
the view from above tends to dwarf the
senses.
annoy-
Table Rock.
pass behind
fifty cents,
trifling
should, you will have the sun
be reversed and the walk from
Procuring a water-proof suit and a guide
but a
water with sparkling brilliancy and paint-
should your
after dismissing the carriage at
draulic elevator to
it
will find this
Nowhere
fall.
else
is
the
fall
Passing within the cavern that the waters have excavated
more powerful to the
from the
soft
strata of
crumbling shale beneath the hard ledge of lime-stone over which the Cataract pours, we see
that
it
probably extends behind the entire
the path, preventing further entrance.
fall,
but at
presence of the stalwart and experienced guide, there
less
in
far as
the
presence of raging winds and waters.
anyone, speaks of the buffeting of the
blows with the
fist,
last
a thin column of water
With any reasonable amount
and Trollope's description
is
really
equally graphic.
falls
discretion,
no danger, but one
Professor Tyndall,
air as indescribable,
is
of
who
the effect
across
and the
feels
power-
has penetrated as
being
like actual
THE AMERICAN FALL FROM THE CANADA
SIDE.
Returning to the realms of daylight and the upper
one finds the leisurely drive from
air,
Table Rock through the upper portion of the Queen Victoria Park a very delightful one,
following the shore of the river along the raging, tumbling Rapids which descend fifty-five
Cedar Island, which wages a constant
feet in three-quarters of a mile.
tive flood,
islands that
little
be
traversed,
is
have been renamed
for a beautiful
left
and near the upper end
in
of the Park,
we come
honor of Lord DufTerin.
strife
with the destruc-
to a group of
charming
Here the carriage should
view of the Rapids from the Cascades Platform, and a ramble through
Just above the Dufferin
woodland mazes and by the rippling waters of the islands.
Islands, on the main land, is the famous Burning Spring, whose waters emit sulphuratedhydrogen gas burning with a brilliant flame when ignited. One may spend whole days within
the
the limits of the park without exhausting
A
fine
is
above
its
top
of
obtained from
the
enjoyment.
the
bluff's,
beyond the
Dufi'erin
termed
the immediate vicinage of the Fails, and
marks,
beauties or
Prospect Drive, from which you overlook the whole sweep of the river from
To those who would see something more than
Island to the gorge below the Falls.
Islands,
Navy
commanding view
its
particularly the
more distinguished
historical land-
be interesting to continue the drive to the battlefields of Chippewa, three miles
Lundy's Lane, but a mile and a half west of the Falls. The return drive should be
it
will
made by way
of
the
bluff
by the Roman Catholic convent and monastery overlooking
View, the magnificent and extensive view from which, with the sun
by no means be omitted.
in
Falls
the western sky, should
THE HORSESHOE FALL FROM NEAR INSPIRATION POINT.
The
under the
is
by the
d'lff
cents
twenty-five
views obtained
river,
be crossed to the American side by means of the ferry from the landing,
may
river
in
Clifton House, or
each and twenty-five cents
make
crossing
this
The bridge
toll
a two-horse carriage, and the
fine
down
the
by the Suspension Bridge near
means
of
extra for
transit
very desirable.
however, which most of the way follows the edge of the
cliff,
by.
The
two miles
drive
to the Suspen-
sion Bridge, is a very agreeable one, passing Wesley Park and affording interesting views from
different points of the Falls, the river gorge, and the Cantilever and Suspension bridges, but
the ride up the American side along a dusty street
THE AMERICAN
The union depot
Niagara
Railroads at
of
Park.
Into
it
SIDE.
the Michigan Central and the
Falls,
two or three blocks from
not so pleasant.
is
N. Y.,
all
is
located
New
Central
& Hudson
on the corner of Falls and Second
the principal hotels and but five
come through palace cars from Chicago,
former, and from
New York
St. Louis,
River
streets,
but
minutes' walk from Prospect
Toledo and Detroit over the
York, Boston, Albany, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo over the
latter,
as well as from Portland, the White Mountains, Norwood and Clayton over the Rome, WaterMiller's carriages, omnibuses and
town & Ogdensburgh Railroad in the summer season.
transfer
wagons
are in
attendance upon the arrival of
all
trains,
and have fixed and stated
THE CANTILEVER BRIDGE OF THE MICHIGAN CENTRAL,
—
of whom HovvelLs wrote in Their WedThe hackmen are also there,
ding Journey, "I do not know how much of their content was due to the fact that they
(Basil and Isabel) had suffered no sort of wrong there, from those who are apt to prey upon
prices for
all
travelers,
yet their actual
services.
experience was great reasonableness and
The visitor will also
neat park phaetons which make the circuit
the
sum agreed upon."
points of
various
the
issue
twenty-five cents will
interest
cannot too strongly reiterate that he
possible in the
The
These
How
immediate vicinity of the
central point,
Falls,
ten
of
ticket
cents,
or
enabling him
upon payment
of
to stop over at the
so should trust to his
You cannot
Falls.
own
legs as
much
as
get close to Nature unless your
is
Iris
and that from which you are to begin your intimate acquaintance with
Walk out on the State Reservation by the river
or Goat Island.
they plunge and rush and foam,
resistless
here!
fare
the State Reservation,
be found very convenient as cheap, yet we
will
who can do
bank opposite the Hotel Kaltenbach
the
a
for
contentment with
on the earth.
feet are
Niagara
find at the entrances to
passenger a coupon
en route.
facile
power
of
the
As you walk on down
waters.
and see the
American
like frightened steeds!
How
futile
would
be
Rapids hurrying to the
all
human
strength
the stream, past the Cataract House, the descent
is
and
to the islands, and, pausing after entering
upon
it,
Here we come
lean upon the upper
effort
greater,
the waters rush more swiftly, throwing high in air jets and masses of spray that glitter
bright sunlight like drops of molten silver or of crystal.
fall.
Here you begin to appreciate
in
and
the
to the bridge leading
railing
and look the
THE RAPIDS ABOVE THE AMERICAN FALL AND BRIDGE, SISTER
ISLANDS,
down-rushing torrent
the
in
full
come down from the depths
green verging into emerald
in its
as
we look
down
we
feel its
It
us, until
It
is
of the great lakes
wildly magnificent
to
face.
beautiful, this
— silvery white where
deeper masses, dark and
far
up the long
and watch
incline
shattered into foam, pale
its
it
the American from the Horse-shoe Fall.
When
of the river to
first
frost
away more or
where of
from
encroached upon, and
western
its
present area
its
is
dash wildly, impetuously,
side,
is
occupied,
Goat
it
when the
island
which separates
Island,
was supposed to be nearly
and floods of a hundred years have worn
a hundred acres in extent, but the ice and
less
It
motion, and fear for the bridge upon which we stand.
was private property, and then over a narrow arm
late
sixty-two acres.
years even the driveway has been
The
greater portion
is
covered by
maples and elms, and smooth-trunked beeches bearing the scars of vandalism, whose
wounds the kindly touch
Nature has healed.
of
These
cool, quiet forest aisles
the twitter and song of birds, the scampering of frisky squirrels and
cataract
deeper shadows.
time to pass on, to cross Bath Island, where stood the paper mill,
is
fine old
cold in
has
that
pure, cold flood
clear,
— are
carpeted by a wonderfully varied
flora,
the
—
silent
but for
music of the great
and one can readily imagine himself
far
from the busy haunts of man.
From
the end of the
bridge by which
Sister Islands on the western side,
circuit of the island near its
we come upon the
and two others
outer edge.
deeper mysteries of the great cataract.
Be not
island
diverge to the right
in
too great
Turn, therefore, to the
a
road
and
crosses to the
left
to
make
the
haste to seek the greater and
left
and soon descend a steep
path to a
spring
clear, cold
under the
The waters have washed away
ing glimpses of which
we have mounted the
reach the head of
we catch now and then
the island, where the
as a lake, with
far
Grand Island
in
first
Sister Island,
as
we
shoal water
and vines.
away
paths along the edge until
follow the
We
rapids.
gently ripples over the gravel as
Far above stretches the
it.
river,
yet
in the cool
beyond which
strong enough in reality.
constant storm-struggles
and worn by
finest
ice
is
shade of the
forest,
The
trees
upon them
are
we come
to a bridge
for countless ages.
From
away
is
what
is
called
the outer one
Spouting Rock
— not
in
appear-
gnarled and twisted as
is
;
if
by
the rocks are bare,
we
gained,
views of the Rapids, reaching away over to the Canada shore.
but a short distance
no
the second and the third, with swift rushing
the vines and undergrowth are wild and tangled
;
and flood
soon
if
broad and
streams and beautiful cascades between, spanned by bridges, light and graceful enough
ance,
if
the distance.
from the head of Goat Island,
leading to the
trees
by the insatiable rapids, charm-
open ground near the head of the
bluff again into the
thought of wild waywardness had come to
Not
of
the loose earth, leaving the long roots curiously clinging, as
the bare rocks to keep from being carried
in terror, to
smooth
mid a tangled wilderness
bluff,
think,
At what seems
that there
is
the
to be
any rock there,
but the effect of the down-rush of the waters at that point, with probable collision of crosscurrents, dashes the water
has induced the popular
every
visit,
on high, perhaps twenty
title.
The charm and
feet or
more,
in
a grand sheaf of spray that
fascination of these
little
islands
increase with
and when the mind has been overburdened by the power, immensity and grandeur
of the Falls themselves, or
of the Whirlpool
soothe the
spirit
by the sense
Rapids produces, you
by
of awful, remorseless violence that long contemplation
delight to repair to these wave-washed rocks and
will
the rushing and
their cool shadows,
the sparkle of the rapids, and the
distant music of the great cataract.
" But," to use Trollope's language,
"we
will
go
at
once on to the glory and the thunder, and
Recrossing the bridges to Goat Island
the majesty, and the wrath of the upper hell of waters."
we
follow the road leading along near the edge of the bluff over-looking the Rapids until
end or corner of the
to the
Horse-shoe
Fall.
This
is
island,
where a long
flight of stairs
sometimes called the Canadian
Fall,
national boundary line follows the middle of the principal
the Canadian side the cataract continues
from being direct or
in
the
river
which
against the flood,
shoe
is
"
all
—
itself in
is
reached
in,
and
in,
by a wooden
and
in,
bridge,
one
till
is
but incorrectly, since the inter-
current.
one unabated
After stretching for some
straight.
little
we come
goes down to the edge of the
line.
"
From hence
But the
way from
the line
of
the
led to think that the
line
across to
is
very far
the shore to a point
ledge
bends inwards
depth of that horse-
immeasurable, and that he can scarcely trace out the center of the abyss.
Go down
to the end of
the outer world
is
lost to
that
you.
waters are absolutely around you.
to the full
wooden
There
If
enjoyment of scenery you
nothing else; and the sound
is
bridge, seat
is
yourself on the
and there
no grander spot about Niagara than
you have that power
will see
rail,
of eye-control
nothing but the water.
which
You
is
sit
this.
till
The
so necessary
will certainly
melodious, and soft withal, though loud as thunder.
You
hear
will
not see the whole depth of the
hell
of
rivers
That converging rush of waters may
fall.
what the eye can
for
It
see.
is
glorious
to
watch them
fall
down
their
in
first
into a
curve
They come green as a bank of emeralds but with a fitful, flying color, as
though conscious that in one moment more they would be dashed into spray and rise into
snow. The vapor rises high into the air, and is gathered there, visible
air, pale as driven
over the rocks.
;
always as a permanent white cloud over the cataract
the lower hollow of that horse-shoe
own
like a
drive along the
stairs
cliff,
again from
corner of the island
or on a platform
with the green
it
itself
snow.
the
mind
That which
is
at first
at a loss to find
fills
was only
an epithet
come
at
Island
you follow the path or
from which you look down two hundred feet into the boiling and foam-
chasm
Canada
to the
to another stairway descending to
front the Suspension
Luna
shore, and at
Island.
the northeast
Standing
at the top,
Luna
Falls,
Park and the village of Niagara Falls to the
right.
an angle of this stairway, you
background of Prospect
foot-bridge
spans
overlook the American and
the chasm
like
a
web
of
gossamer, and
stretches the narrow gorge to the Cantilever Bridge in the distance.
The American
by
of
Terrapin Rocks to Goat
ing waters below the Falls and across the
Directly in
till
but the bulk of the spray which
use."
Climbing the
beyond
tumult
becomes gigantic and sublime,
great and beautiful,
for its
is
;
Fall,
shorn of
one of the greatest
in
its
magnitude to some extent
the world and possesses
after seeing the other,
peculiar beauties of
its
own.
is
still
Being
a few feet higher than the Horse-shoe, the depth and quantity of water that passes over
it is
THE WHIRLPOOL RAPIDS FROM THE AMERICAN SIDE
not so great, and the deep emerald hues of the former are lacking here.
however,
ture
is
its
is
very edge.
year by year approaching the horse-shoe curvature, and
gothic tracery of purest white as
It
is
it
from this point, too, when
its
Its irregular outline,
most conspicuous
fea-
seems to be broken into spray almost from the
you have the sun behind you, that you
see,
from below,
always one, often two, sometimes three rainbows at once, on the spray
but painted with a clearness and a vivid strength, of color that you have probably never seen
that rises
elsewhere.
the
fall
as
Vou
it
will
not
to go
fail
plunges into mid
Island
and stand almost on the brink of
air.
Reascending the stairway you
to Biddle's Staircase.
down on Luna
will perceive
Arraying yourself
the foot of Goat Island, whence you
near by a
in oilskins
may
little
house, which forms the entrance
you descend
pass behind the
Luna
this staircase to the rocks at
Fall into
the
famous Cave
Winds, and out upon plank walks that have been constructed on the rocks in front of
the American Falls. You will be drenched and half blinded by the spray, but the experience
will amply repay you for the necessary exertion and discomfort.
of the
by the bridge over which you came, you follow the river
bank by the rapids, through Prospect Park, now admirably laid out and magnificently shaded
by fine old forest trees, to Prospect Point, at the eastern extremity of the American Fall.
Returning to the main
land
and other points along the low stone parapet on the edge of the cliff, you get
splendid views, not only of the fall at your feet, but beyond the rocky front of Goat Island,
It is a panorama so extensive and grand
of the magnificent sweep of the great Horse-shoe.
From
here
\nim
<»
FOOT OF AMERICAN
FALL,
^
*JmiL'[
a.r%.'».-^:
IN
WINIER GARB.
ICE MOUNTAIN,
AND THE HORSESHOE.
in its
ties
proportions that you want time
and
In a
effects that
little
make up
house near by
in
the park you will gain entrance to an
ated by water-power, and perfectly safe.
descent
brings you
to
bottom
the
take in the innumerable
in wliich to
of
You
the
you wish.
if
inclined railway, oper-
seat yourself in the car and a
cliff,
in
a
building which
weather and the spray, and which also contains dressing rooms,
self in oilskins
and beau-
details
stupendous whole.
the
Should the wind be
in the
in
smooth and rapid
protects you from the
which you may clothe yourdirection, however,
right
you may
climb the rocks at the foot of the American Fall without discomfort, and, looking up, see the
great white flood pouring
down
as
if
from the very heavens.
Just below the foot of the inclined railway
yourself
on her hurricane deck, shrouded
you, and do not
mind the gusts
with cool spray.
Slowly the staunch
front of the
American
Fall
in
little
the wharf
of
will
Maid of the
now be quite
the
the oilskins that will
wind that
of
is
it
again.
You
furiously under
flies
is
feel
its
familiar to
boat stems the boiling current, passing along the
and Goat Island
beautiful in
Seat
blow from every direction and cover you
until,
through the whirling clouds of spray, you
look up, far up, to the great emerald sheet that pours over the Horse-shoe.
moment, grand and
Mist.
You
see
it
for a
mysterious environment, when the curtain of spray hides
the boat struggling with the foaming waters and trembling as they boil up
and around
down stream with
her.
Then, as
if
seeking only
the swift current, a landing
is
to
made on
escape,
she wheels
about and
the Canada side, and the river
recrossed, with the slender threads of the Suspension Foot-bridge far above.
AMtRlCAN FALLS
IN
WINIER, FROM CANADA
SIDE.
About two
ful
miles and a half below the Falls are the Whirlpool Rapids, scarcely less wonder-
than the Falls themselves.
though the means
river
is
are seen to the best advantage from the
American
on the Canada side are more convenient and agreeable.
of access
so contracted that
They
it
is,
as
were, on edge,
it
depth being greater than
its
Here the
its
and with such great velocity do the waters pour down the contracted channel that their
tion
is
to the
some
thirty feet higher in
Danube
but a peaceful
Still
at
middle
the
the Iron Gates, but
than at their
says that
in
width,
eleva-
Bigot compares the scene
sides.
comparison with Niagara the Danube
is
rivulet.
farther below
before flowing out of
be visited by the
is
its
the Whirlpool
rocky
New York
defile
itself,
where the
river
makes
a sharp angle to the right
at the
mouth
Central train
of
the
These points should
between Queenston and Lewiston.
to
Lewiston, or the Michigan Central train on
Niagara Division to Queenston and Niagara-on-the-Lake, a delightful
Lake Ontario
side,
resort
is
made with
a great mistake to hurry
and hasten
river,
where connection
its
on the shore of
fine
steamers for
Toronto.
In conclusion, let us say that
mile of the river from Buffalo
ness.
See
that your
many
all
you
to
can, therefore,
it
is
Fort
Niagara
and see much of
full
it
of beauty, grandeur
as
often
may become thoroughly in accord
manifestations. And so will you carry away
eye and mind
varied
is
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you
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