The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-07-24
FREE NIAGARA.
Ceremonies at the Opening of the Tuterna-
tional Park-A Great Concourse of Citf-
zens-Music, Speeches and Parades--A
Woman Swept Over the Falls.

Ceremonies at the Opening of the Tuterna-
tional Parl-A Great Concourse of Citf-
zens-Husic, Speeches and Parades--A
Woman Swept Over the Falls.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, July 16.-The
formal transfer of the lands chosen for
the State Park took place yesterday after
noon. The morning opened without a
cloud and continued clear till noon, when
a slight shower laid the dust and cooled
the air, but did not distarb the exercises.
A salute of one hundred guns was fired,
the military marched, and the towns
people and many thousand visitors paraded
and then wendell their, way to the park.
There were no Canadian troops present,
owing to the unsettled question of admit
ting foreign armed soldiers across the
border.
Flags, bunting and banners were to be
seen in all directions as far as the eye could
reach on both sides of the river, the stars
and stripes mingling with the union jack.
Private residences made an elaborate dis
play. The great crowd fringed the Cana
dian precipice from the bridge to the
Horseshoe fall. They moved in procession
across the bridge, and in Prospect Park
they formed living parapet along
the precipitous river side. All points of
view on Goat Island were taken up early,
and the spectators lounged and stood about
on the Three Sister islands, having come in
by rail and by wagon from the American
and Canadian sides. The suspension bridge
and the railroad suspension bridge were
opened free to the public. When Governor
Hill and staff appeared upon the speakers
platform there were fully twenty-five thou
sand people present
At the appointed time Bishop Cox COM
menced the proceedings with prayer in the
large pavilion at Prospect Park. EX-Lieu-
tenant Governor DorSheimer then read a
communication from the Governor General
of Canada regretting his inability to be
present. owing to the fact that the session
of the Dominion Parliament is just on the
eve of coming to close. A letter of regret
from President Cleveland was also read.
Mr.. Dorsheimer, President of the Park
Commission, then made presentation adj
dress, Governor Hill accepting the reserya-
ton on behalf OF the State Of New York.
James c. Carter was the orator of the
day, and delivered an address in which he
referred to the many impressive features
of the great natural wonder, of which
Father Hennepin, one of the first white
men to view its awful sublimity,
said: 1.-THE universe does not afford
its parallel" Addresses were also de-
livered by Hon. Erastus Brooks, Lieu
tenant Governor Robinson, of Canada, and
Attorney General Mowatt. After the sing
ing Of the hymn america" and the dox-
ology, the exercises were closed with the
benedction by Bishop Cox.
In the afternoon there was a parade and
review of troops, and in the evening a
grand display of fireworks, witnessed by a
gathering of people estimated to number
fifty thousand
The people of Niagara Falls generally
are highly pleased at the triumph of the
free Niagara movement. The manufact-
urers and landed proprietors have been paid
fair price for their property and are salts
fed. The hotel-Eeepers look forward to
another era of prosperity. Even the hack
men think ut will belp business"
The State Park at Niagara includes:
First, an irregular Strip along the Ameri-
can shore from the upper end of the viii
lage-about opposite the first rapids-tO
the Upper Suspension Bridge embrac-
ing all of Prospect Park and the APP
proaches to the islands; second, the Goat
Island group, Bath Island NOW to be re-
deemed from the meanness of a paper-milI
sitel, Goat Island, the Three Sisters Islands,
Luna Island, etc. LII is a beautiful area,
and the removal of tolls will save the tour
ist something; but no man can visit Niagara
without finding that there still remain to
pay all the tolls he cares for.
SWEPT OVER THE FALLS.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, July ia
woman was swept over the falls last even
ing. She was in company with gentle
man and lady friend, and the three rashly
walked out upon the bridge crossing the
fiume which conducts water to the Bath
Island paper-mill. Just beyond the
small fiume bridge is another foot
bridge extending to rocks in the channel.
From this bridge the workmen break ice
that accumulates and threatens the flume.
All three managed to get to the outer
bridge, when one Of the women grew dizzy
and tumbled into the rapids. The gem
tleman managed to save the other wom-
an and get ashore. The crowd saw
the drowning woman disappear just as the
current bore her past Luna Island. She
was sucked to the bottom. for her body was
not visible as it was carried over the brink.
All that could be ascertained of her iden-
tity was that she was a resident of Well
land, Can, and was visiting friends in
Utica street, Buffalo.