The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-25
and as we were all given compli-
mentary tickets, we fastened to get

luncn anu bOuRnt our seats 10
witness this master on the stage.
The delighted audience was kept in
a continual laugh from beginning to
the end. 1t was eleven o'clock and
we soon sought our place for slum-
bers. When came to my room, /
found my room mate. J. Irwin Steele,
Jr., Editor of the Shamokin Daily
Uerdid, fast asleep while four cleo
trio lights were burning in the room.
On Thursday morning at $3.50, the
y. Y. Central had n special train
waiting for Niagara Falls We ar
rived there at 1890 and took up our
abode at the international Hotel,
the largest at the Falls, its capacity
being able to accommodate 600 per-
sons. In a few minutes number
of trolley cars were stationed in
front of the hotel. They carried us
to the Power House. 1t rarely oc-
ours that any person is admitted to
the Power House. This courtesy,
however, was extended to our party.
For thousands of years the water
passing over Niagara Falls has been
wasted. Now an effort is made to
use il to advantage. The power
house has already three large dyna-
mos. Each dynamo has 5000 horse
power. There are to be ten dyna-
mos each with 5000 horse power
making full $4,000 horse power.
This, it is believed, can be transmit
ted to surrounding towns. Yes, one
man claims that by this means the
boats can be run from Buffalo to
Albany on the Erie Canal. Nikola
Tesla has declared that Niagara
Falls could send 100, 900 horse power
by wire westward to Chicago and
eastward to New York and it may
be the privilege of the present gen.
Grafton to see this prophecy fulfill
ed. Niagara's centuries of idle
splashing must now be atoned for
by useful service. In this letter we
can only allude to this matter; we
will endeavor to explain it more full
ly in later issue. Having eaten
our dinners our surrey awaited us.
Our party consisted of +. V. b.
Laird of Greensburg, Mr.. Leslie of
Chicago, Mr.. Steele of Shamokin
and the writer. Mr.. Laird resem-
bled Bill Nye so much that we had no
trouble to persuade people to the
belief that he was the great Ashe-
vile humorist. We visited in regu-
lar order Luna Island, Goat Island,
Bath Island, Three Sister Islands
and viewed the rapids and the falls
from various points thence to the
Great Whirlnool and the whirlpool
f.s..ds. Crossing tho Suspension
Bridge we reached Niagara Falls,
Ontario. We stopped at the Post
Office, bought a few postal cards
and sent them to our friends. Pas
sing up along the Canadian side of
the river we reached Queen Victoria
Park. Here we each deposited 80
cents and secured rubber suit and
descended in an elevator to the foot
of Horse Shoe Falls and in full
sight of the American Falls. Here
alone, at the foot of the world-fam-
ed, stupendous cataract can you
begin to realize the great volume
and force of the water as it dashes
itself into foam at your feet. Stand
ing for few moments, with that
awful roar penetrating your whole
being, and the angry gust causing
you to cling to the handrail, you be-
gin to feel infinitely small and pow
erless in comparison with this great
work of Nature. No tongue can eX-
plain its vividness, no pen can de-
scribe its sublimity.
NIAGARA RIVER AND THE FALLS.
The Niagara River is n short
stream, the Falls stupendous cat
aract flowing from Lake Erie
mort h ward to Lake Ontario.
The name, Niagara, in the Indian
tongue means thunder of waters. y
Issuing from Lake Erie it is of q
mile broad, but as it flows on, it be,
comes several miles wide, making
room for a number of islands, the
largest of which, Grand Island, is j.
miles long and from 2 to 7 broad.
At the foot of Grand Island, II mile
above the Falls are produced the
swift currents known as the Rapids
in which the river is perpetually
white with foam.
At the Falls % miles from Lake
Erie, the river has n breadth of 1850
feet but its center is occupied by
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