Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-13
NEW NIAGARA FALLS.
WHAT THE FAMOUS PLACE WILE BIZ
WHEY 1T rs EREE TO THE PUBLTC.
Tho Solemn Opinion OF n Native Hackman.
Strange stories About the Taiis--Notes and
sights-A Guide Not supcrstitious,
Hut PuzzIed Very Much.
Ningnra rnlls corn. N. Y. Sum.

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Niagara Falls Corr N. Y. sun. +
"Yes, the jig is up after the 15tb," said q I
solemn looking man as he collected fifty !
cents all around and prepared TO shoot the !
party down into the interior of the falls
"After that all this property goes 10 the state,
and good many people will be thrown out
of employment; but they'll want new po-
lice force, SO the old hands will get job. |
When all these places are thrown open," he
continued, " it'll take two or three hundred
specials busy to keep tho people from tumb-
ling overheard, and accidents will just dou-
BILE up AS 1t is now, everything Is protected
by hity-ecft taril, 50 the cranks and folks |
that are dead broke can't jump over.
What's tho use of the states a-buying up
the park any way 2" asked tho man. "Peo-
pie won't think half so much of the Falls.
when they can see Ii free. Fact and no mis-
| take. The people have been educated up to
| paying, and they expect i'll was going to
| say they will have it. Just take case i'm |
| hand. Here's the stairs at Prospect Park
| that leads down to the fall 1t takes you to
as big a show as there is, but it's free--don't
cost a cent. Along comes party the other
| day, stops there, and hands out a two-dolar
note for four--fifty cents all around-and
| walks in
""Tbis is free said the man there.
"'Good enough said the tourist 'If it's |
free, it amt worth a-seeing'. We won't go |
| in
"You couldn't hire him to go but il he'd |
been allowed TO pay his way as he wanted to-
he'd a gone In and enjoyed it, AS II was, he
| missed one of the best shows in the village.
"The other day." continued the syinpa-
thizer with the people, 81 was standing at
the gate when party passed in and paid fifty
cents all around, and when they caine out
they planked down the same amount taking
it just as natural. without kick, but the
gateman wasn't a hog and said so. oh, said
the old gentleman, ! understood you had to
\ | much
that's what they did on the Canada side
. "'This is America said the gateman, 'and
2 | we don't allow such goins-on here
, "Then the old gent up aud pays him a dol
lar for setting him right Honesty's the best
policy.
l "People amt going TO save SO much, after
o | all. Suppose every blessed thing was free on
= = both sides of the river. 1t would only be
q matter of eight or ten dollars, and what dye
( suppose these bridcgrooms and English tour
: lists care tor money! They're of just to get
= rid of their surplus capital, and If they don't
is leave that ten dollars here some one else will
| get IL Then, again, the hackmen will rise
. in their rates as soon as things open up. I've
It heard il said that they stand in with the diff
ferent places, and when it comes to the end of
. the week they get certain per cent of the
. money taken in from the people they bring.
Is Now if that snug little income is going to be
M | cut OIL, why, they're got to make it up in
some other way, which will be TO double VI
ai on the prices. It's easy enough, If you only
re know how"
~, | - es, we see some queer sights Defc
said an oil-skinned guide, into whose hands
ly | we now passed for the trip around the foot o
te | the fall. " | amt superstitious, and dom
v believe In ghosts or any such critters, bu
'" I'm blessed il / can reason out what I've
IS seen on any other footing You know,
at | s'poso how many folks has gone over th'
fall and been ground and mashed to piece
OF right at out feet. I've been here good man.
N years, and there's been good many bOdie
.o slid down that green slide Just over my hea,
g" within reach, and of course l never knew il
ey But dye know I've heard the queeres
,Iv sounds here you ever heard and ~ | wa
- sayin', il believed in such things | shoul
uu reckon was haunted. Means, walls, am
a screams of all sorts and kinds I've heard
di- Sometimes it will commence with lou
wall, then rise above the roarin of the win
ed until it bursts into regular roar, and Is los
on in the crash of the falls. Then there's eur
.od Gus sights seen here at night Sometime
''u you'd swear there was forms moyin' abou
lat / came down one night with party, and on
of OF the ladies called out and said, 'Who ha
400 | gone ahead 2
wv go No one,' said /.
or "' Are you sure said she.
of ave counted heads and was all there, "
VI she stuck to it that some one went in frs
We and that shows that 1t amt my Imagination
"Yes it's possible that some one migl
-, playa trick on me, but il amt plausible
0n- think they'd keep it up for a year and m
find it out As said, 1t can probably be o.
planned, only I'd like to know what It is
The curious sounds under the fall are Ov
/, ing to various causes-one, the peculi;
'hi tremOrs or vibrations sometimes culmina
lin, | in "A strangely ghost-like sound then II
ba | falling of water through certain cracks ofte
| produces musical notes, or sounds that striI
OtS strangely upon the ear, and are augment6
the by the wind, often rising into Vcritab
,o,, | shrek that would startie the man of q
''o' ' greatest nerve The ghOstly appearances a
lth | produced by a variety of causes also, curio;
,on effects of light through the falling water an
- upon tho blowing mist Then at night
Vas luminous mist may be seen that the excite
ief. imagination can comfort into weird and IA
has tastic shapes.
The phenomenon on the falls that strik
ave the occasional visitor with the greatest j
de- terests is the gradual wearing away of Il
al | stony wall over which the millions of tons
'h' water hourly pitches. The gigantic ledg
as at the foot of tho American falls over whi,
old the trail bridge to the Cave of Winds is bu
| tell AN impressive story of q slow but NIGH
hol crumbling. The fall of the Table Rock W
lch | a notable example of this disntogration W
,ots | messed by man, while tho huge crags tn
80 fill the centre OF the river further down al
Is make the rapids are other and older exampl
that have been worn off when the tal
were half a mile or more further down Il
ro,l | river.
The people who claim to have been on
Vi near Table Rock when it fell are quite nur
erous A friend and relative of the writ
stood upon it the day before it fell, an
re- curiously enough, remarked upon the lar
h6T | crack that the next day widened suddenl
as ! almost causing catastrophe, the tea m III
was standing upon it barely reaching fir
land as the giant thundered into the ably
below.