Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-05-24
Nye AT NIAGARA
He Braves n Storm and Interviews Po-

i up by tipping tho suspension foot bridge at
Niagara into the river below The falls have
been visited in summer and In winter, in the
broad glare Of day and the soft and mellow
moonlight, but very few people have gone
there during blizzard.
The day broke moist and measly at Buffalo,
but at noon the gray and choppy clouds scat
tered a little and a patch Of sky could now
and then be discovered. Eating a hasty meal,
our party, arrayed in alpenstocks and con-
scious rcctitude, began the ascent from
Buffalo by 4 circuitous route We reached
Niagara Falls station. whence we proceeded
| by drosky to our chalet. Here we alighted
The chalet is kept by a native American, and
after our long journey from Buffalo 1t WIS
| good TO once more hear the music of our own
language Hastily eating light lunch, we
put on our topcoats, and in charge of John
Darn wo proceeded by diligence towards the
| falls vim the American side.
Tho storm now burst upon us In all Its
| fury, and the rain descended In the widest
profusion, saturating tho falls and rendering
| them well nigh impassablc Our muleteer
covered himself with his pontoon, wrapped
his tarpaulin around his ears, and whilo our
slender diligence swnyed In the blast he
drove us across TO Goat Island The thunder
of the immense volume Of water was now
swallowed up by tho mighty roar Of the
bursting tempest, and then, as it died away
like the wall Of perishing soul, ono would
again hear tho sulen thunder Of the great
American dam site.
We now began the descent on tho side OF
Goat Island looking towards the Great Horse
Fall. The rain fell In torrents, and as our
| umbrellas had been turned wrong side out by
| the blast, We were soon wet to the skin. There
we stood In the presence Of the greatest spec
| taele America can produce, perhaps, outside
| of congress. Like an egotistical author Mia
CARA for centuries hns been pouring over its
own works. II Is really, however, beyond
criticism. went there thinking that If the
Falls really deserved scathing, would scath
them through tho press and injure their bust
ness, but | must say that, like Mr. Booth,
they deserve their great success, and do not
blame them for respecting themselves and
having their pictures taken every little while
and getting their names in the papers. They
deserve ali the glory they have got, and far
be u from me 10 put a straw IN the way Oh
the progress Oh Niagara rams
| we next went down 10 the Whirlpooi, ana
on the way detachment of John Darms es-
corted us with an air of suspicion. Our
drosky driver evidently watched us every
moment IKE a cat AT the whirlpool we
ahghted again, beng narrowly watched py
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the driver and John Darn from Cohoes.
| Here as we reached tho brink OF the Gilt
the blizzard struck US anidship, ana the
great Niagara which has assisted SO many
temperance lecturers IN soaring to death tho
moderate drinkor seemed to become silent in
the presence OF Old MI blizzard, IRON the
wild and nnkempt west Just then my high
silk hat, which wear In ascending the Alps
and doing the tourist net generally, went up
into large blue hole IN the SKY, ana while
was watching It the square red remark,
Keep or the grass, with an iron rod on ono
side, swatted mo across the organ oil aiimen-
tlvenoss
The storm was now ut Its height Tho roof
or the hotel gently hfted win the breeze, ana
through the last railing ram we could see n
| surprised gentleman III MS room just emerg'
ing through the neck band OF bright new
shirt. with look OF horror ana wonder he
tried to pull down the ROOF again and conceal
himself, but no could not do SO.
The storm now tooR OH It's coat and
shrieked, while the Whiripoo' was iashed 10
It's greatest FURY, and at the Whirlpool bazar
genuine Indian moccasins' made In Connecti-
cut, went down 10 o. par made move
ment towards tho DRINK OF the precipice, IN
tending 10 peer down over u INTO the boiling
waters wheh 'eit inc grasp OF gehunrme
on my shoulder ana was Jerked back with
an oath which would nave sworn IN a whole
procnct OF hon-resiuehts at presidehtiai
election.
Monsieur TOOL heemseifl" said the John
Darn In pure BUFFALO French, with a slight
patois OF tho hue dc MAIN street. lheh
grinding his teeth he managed to make me
understand that had stated IN buffalo that
Il was gong over the TAILS ana through the
Whirlpool" nut that nemesis was on my
trail IL Is very disagreeabio TO Fave your
trail stepped on by nemesis ana so OK
planned that meant to be fgurative, and so,
when the 'ohh Darn had opened my over
coat ana found that was not dressed In
tights with double loaded bridge jumping
shoes, no allowed mo 10 pass III was nero at
ts. has hat Il