The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-08-10
The Watering Places.

NIAGARA FALLS, August 6, 1913.
am here where can hear the roar and feel the
Earring of the awful cataract During the day have,
in company with Senator Beekman, of Undertook,
and some friends from Buffalo, visited Goat Island on
the American shore, and Table Rock, on the Canada
da shore; have been above and under the Falls and
from all these points had good view of this ter
rble caprice of naturethis pitch and plunge one
the noblest rivers in the world Poets priests
and philosophers have described these Falls in thou
sand ways, and the whole world knows that they
one the most sublime and astounding evidences Of
the might and mystery Of the Supreme Being that the
eye of man has behed; all future attempts to
describe them will therefore be inadequate, for it is
impossible, from any description Of them, to form
accurate idea of their immensely of the sensations
you experience on looking at them with your own
eyes, Nature here deies man; nature here is wild
and so untameabe that man can only remain pas
sive and astonished spectator of her delirum man
cannot interfere here to improve nature to fatten
on her carcass the soil is too rocky the assures and
chasms are too deep. and the volume of water is too
great to beheaded up stream or to be diverted from
its course.
tive and beautiful as Niagara; and the aggregate
number of strangers who here in year Is six
times great the number who visit Saratoga
any other watering place.
The Cataract House at Niagara, very fine building,
is crowed jammed up to the caves, with adorable
who have graduated at some OF the eastern semi
nares and who after going through a course Of hum
bug in the classics, have here to initiate Baton,
and turn naturats. These dear little creatures make
it rule to get up very early in the morning. for the
purpose Of gathering minerals all along the shore and
of bookings the Falls and Of rambling in the groves
so as to coax an appetite for their breakfast All!
what pretty little philosophers The society at Ma
CARA is in fact very fashionable and exclusive have
eonectured that nearly all the really fashionable peo
pie who understand the rationet Of affairs accus
TONED to come to Niagara and stay here during the
hot months. don't know how 1t is but they tell me
they never have any warm weather here and that the
mercury never gets above seventy degrees About
hundred people dine at the Cataract House, every
day, nd the other hotels all full. calculate that
there about one thousand strangers here during
the season some of them go off during the nterreg.
num- but their places instantly supplied by other
strangers: The proprietor of this hotel told me to-
night that he had not vacant in his house 1t
is filed up with the most fashionable and elegant
company from the principal southern cities and from
Canada the northern people, except those who live
in New York. generally stay at home.
The trip from Niagara to Lewiston, down Lake On
taro to the st Lawrence, and thence down that no.
BILE river to Quebec is of the most agreeable in the
world The scenery in the vicinity Of these lakes and
rivers is Wild and abrupt and astounding and 1t Is
calculated to impress the heart with mingled emotions
of awe, and wonder, and delight. The breeze from
these inland seas is bracing, and healhful, and ami
mating an invalid with the govt. rheumatism, finds
that his disease disappears during Of these trips
and 1t has been ascertained that passing down the
ST. Lawrence, in Of the river steamers, canni-
| become as mild as lambs Every emotion that ever
animated the human heart is swallowed up in this pa
ramount passion which takes possession of you on
locking at nature in undress-precisely as she was
created by the Master Artist.
Several times every day, small steamer, of about
e size of of the Fulton ferry boats starts from
point about two miles below the Falls. and then runs
directly mp to them. She is called the Maid OF the
Mist and she runs up so close to the cataract that
her decks completely washed by the mist spray
which fills the air, and which Is thrown up by the
force OF the falling torrent From the deck Of this lit
Falls you can perhaps get no better position; though
the viewfrom Table Rock should not be omitted. As