The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-05-20
The Greatest Scheme Of the Are.

This evening your correspondent in
spected articles of agreement, which had
Just arrived by mail, and were drawn up
between the Prospect Park Association,
of Niagara Falls, Niagara County. N.
| Y, of the first part, and Leonard Henkle,
inventor, of Rochester, N. Y, of the
second part, STIMULATING that for a con-
sideration of 81, 900, 900, the party of the
first part agreed to execute to the party
of the second part, a deed to Prospect
Park, its nine acres of land and three
acres outside, in the village of Niagara
Falls. That this important contract
might be thoroughly understood, your
correspondent interviewed Colonel Hen
kle, the local inventor, this evening.
II have about consummated, said
he, :'the biggest electric-light project
ever dreamed of. When New York
paper few days since quoted gentle
man as SAYING he believed all New York
would yet be lighted and heated by cleo
tricity brought through cables from the
power that generated it, at the greatest
cataract in the world, it only limited at
half what L, through alarge company of
capitalists, propose to accomplish in that
very direction. This million-dollar con-
tract l hold in my hand is only the be-
ginning of the great things that this
prospect will yet develop. l have can
vassed among leading capitalists of New
York, Boston, and other large cities,
and found them ready to agree, after
taking mere hints of the nature of@ny
new electric-light inventions, that just as
onn,, 7 could caoY1ro y.;orht n fifla f0
the water-power of Niagara or any
thing co-equal, they stood ready to COM
bine and push the inventions to prac-
teal test if it took $30,0O0,060 to do it.
81 would be foolish to describe to you
in any way the exact nature of these in
ventions until my project IS more prac-
tically perfected, as hope to see it in
very few weeks, certainly before autumn.
But will say this, that this land con-
tract contemplates the execution of a
deed in fee simple controlling the water
power of the entire American falls at
Niagara, some 100000 horse water
power altogether. When l first APP
preached one of the prominent officials
connecting with an existing Electric
Light Company and preached the SUBJ
ject to him, he pooh poohed and said:
%, you poor fool, you never can get pos
session of Niagara or the right to its
gigantic water power. Why, the Gov
eminent itself has been trying to buy the
American side for public park, but
couldn't do it. We admit your scheme
might work if you could only get suffi-
cient power to work it, but Niagara ism t
to be so easily had H EfI:
THAT electrician" continued Henkle,
''has already turned out to be a false
prophet. You see, here hold title in
controvertible. The purchase of Pros
pect Park for $1,000,000 would almost
pay even if Niagara could not be util-
lied with it. In 1871 the receipts of the
Park Association were over $4,000.
Last year they amounted to upward of
$4,000. You see we want that park,
and | start for New York Just before
midnight to see the promising capitalists
there tomorrow and next day.
THE capital stock of the company
when organized will be about $20,000.-
900. Enormous buildings and ponderance
machinery will be constructed on the
brink of the American falls, and to these
buildings there will be an immense race
way coming from the rapids, short
distance above the falls. We can have
water sufficient for 100000 horse
power there upon the money conditions
named, and the further condition that
the water be returned to the river with
in given distance. '+
81 decline to describe one process of
generating electricity by this unlimited
hydraulic force, but can simply say we
will conduct that electricity through
properly insulated cases underground to
sixty-tive prominent American cities and
towns between Boston and Chicago. Just
as good and forcible an electric current
can be conducted 500 miles by my pro-
cess as can be utilized within an area of
one mile. We also contemplate domes-
tic light attachments to the main cables,
and will just as surely be able to trans
init limited electric power for operating
machinery and for heating purposes ulti-
mately.
There will be about 10000 miles of
cables altogether, with corresponding
machinery for inductral purposes. This
contract, looking toward the perfection
of my project, was, as you see, executed
recently at the falls. Do you wonder
said it was big schemeP Do you see
the agreement as to how the 81, 900, 900
consideration is to be paid? The United
States Government three per cents have
been pledged to forward this undertake
ing. That's why they are named in the
consideration" .l,'..4.u.t I...u.
Colonel Henkle at this point left to get
ready for the New York train, and babe
the correspondent hasty Good night.
He is highly-skilled mechanic, has pat
ented several very valuable inventions,
and has been working with the electric
light almost as long as Edison. RocheS-
ter (N ~ Special TO Cincinnati En-
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