Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-12-12
that we will AVE an enormous crowd here
CayuEa Island.

Cayusa Island.
Put will that little island be large
enough for the different features which
you have arranged for?" I asked.
Il think So" said Mr.. Hill. Two hundred
see if You try to; walk over a 200 acre farm.
We have. in addition. an option of go acres
on the mainland adjoining the island. We
can take this for an overflow if We need it.
As it is. our buildings will cover about fifty
acres. The island is beautifully shaped
for an exposition ground. 1t has two
groves on it. and there is an avenue about
200 feet wide running through the island
between these groves. 1t will be along this
avenue that many of our buildings will be
located. We have laid out also a half mile
track. and We will have space south of the
exposition buildings for a vast arena, in
which will be held pubic gatherings. great
hibits, of the different kinds of motors.
We shall probably have a horselesS We
hicle race. There will be bicycle races and
other features. including horse races. The
island is admirably adapted for landscape
gardening effects, and with the additional
features which we can introduce by means
OF our wonderful electrical powers l think
we shall be able to show some very curious
things"
h niagara Falls Is Doing.
I asked Mr.. Hill as to the Niagara falls
power and whether it was really used in
Buffalo. He said:
Yes, indeed. The street cars on which
You rode coming from the depot were
moved by the water of the Niagara falls.
There is a force equal to that of 10000
horses all pulling at once which Is now
sent through the wires here at Buffalo.
Some of the biggest elevators of this city
are now run by that power, and big fac
tories are going up about the falls to take
advantage of it. They are now building
dynamos at the falls as fast as they can
and putting them in operation. The great
turbine wheels are kept going night and
Grated: Nikola Tesla. you know. says that
this Niagara power will make Buffalo the
greatest city in the world. You expect to
very short time. The understanding was
that we We're to have 800 horse power for
this purpose by the middle of November.
and there is no doubt that it will come
horse power. which it gets from Niagara.
and another uses 600. Among the new
the Niagara Falls Power Company. This
will soon be completed, and when it is done
1t will produce 10000 horse power. You
cannot conceive the possibilities of Niagara
falls: The power is only limited by the
number of tunnels and wheels you can put
in 1t. 1t amounts to millions upon millions
of horse power. The Canadians are also
putting in works on their side. and an enor-
nous manufacturing industry will nave
soon grown up on both sides of the Niagara
frontier"
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works at Niagara falls?"
Many of the factories make chemicals, in
connection with which electricity is used.
They are making acetyIene gas in great
quantities, and also aluminium and car
borundum. There is a company making
chloride OF potash and a number of other
electro-chemical works. There are some
paper mills and factories of different kinds.
Already, it is said. they can generate one-
NTH as much power as is used in the whole
state of New York, and. it is claimed. there
are more factories making chemicals in
the city of Niagara Falls than in any other
city of the world"
FRANK G. CARPENTER.