The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-03-12
REASONS
WHY old
Niagara Falls Whom
Nothing Else Does.
The PAN-AMERICAN
Buffalo Has Failed to Grasp
the Pan by the Handie--
Musings by n. w.
Smith.


Smith.
Special to News-D Democrat.
Buffalo, N. Y, March 9.-Well, It's no
wonder Niagara Falls. don't blame
1t. There's nothing else for It to do
under the circumstances. It's the only
thing around Niagara that does fall.
The prices of the hack rides, curios,
etc., are as permanent and high as the
everlasting hills. And the famous ice
bridge, well nigh appalling in its beau
tiful grandeur, undtsturbed by the tre-
mendous emerald sheets of water pour
ed at It's base, repays one for the ex-
tortionate features of natures most i'm
pressive exhibition.
With a temperature of two above
zero and a strong wind dashing the icy
spray in ones face the edge OF Goat
island was not the most comfortable
location, despite the brilliantly clear
sunshine, and the fact that you could
reach out in any direction and pull off
hunk or rainbow for comforter"
la Long Reach natives. The trees in
the parks carried coat of icy mail
which made them look like fairy can
delabra in the dazzling light, and from
the crowd of kodak fiends one would
have been justified in thinking that the
hack drivers and the hash drivers were
not the only ones working the public
for a private SNAP" However, the
Niagara beer is good and costs but five
cents a glass even II did get soaked
rs cents for two alleged eggs and a
''heel tap" Of celluloid ham.
On the way down to the falls I was
waylaid by horde of highwaymen
with sleighs and one villain in particu-
lar insisted that our mutual welfare
depended on my contributing 50 to his
treasury and riding around Goat Is
land. / assured him that for 81
would 60 down and let the whole dad
hinged cataract run on my barred head
for three hours. He shook his head in
an injured way and said maybe
thought that too much. ] explained
that 1t wouldn't be too much for his
entire rig forever but that it was a
trif1e precepitous for me, whose living
was acquired by allopathic doses of hot
air scattered over a wide territory, for
a 20 minutes ride. Then a diabolical
scheme occurred to me. BY a little
finesse drew from him that his name
was Tim. why. Tim, my boy, you're
Just the man I was hunting for. You
drive right up to the international
and ask for Mrs. Rogers. She and the
girls want drive and the hotel clerk
told me to be sure and get Tim" The
kind hearted brigand promptly dropped
me and started up the street with his
sleigh at a rafting pace. Twenty
minutes later as l was standing near
the Canadian Falls Tim" drove by
with digniied, corpulent old lady
with two nearly grown young ladies',
and when he espied me the villain gave
me a sweeping salute with a cheerful
smile. Now, IL that was Mrs. Rogers
and the girls" who was my intended
joke "on," Tim-myself- or the old
lady? Anyway, escaped the sleigh
ride.
Buffalo also shows the marks of the
trail of the serpent. By the time the
Pan-American exposition is opened the
coin grabbers will be in good training
ren of 1893.
Buffalonians are evidently very de-
ficient in their conception of the prop
osition that confronts them in relation
ito the entertainments of the crowds
that are bound to overflow the city this
coming summer. And crowds they
will have, for the show is going to be
equal to anything, possibly excepting
the Worlds fair. ever held in America
The snow was too deep Sunday to dc
much travelling on the grounds but the
location is as nearly an ideal one as
could be desired. Yet no perceptible
effort is being made to provide the
necessary extra hotel accommodations
for the onslaught of visitors.
When citizen is asked what they are
going to do with the strangers he says
, that "a great many private houses are
: arranging to take care of half dozen
| persons each and there is large hote
, under way near the grounds, and then
| Niagara Falls will catch a large part
, of the crowd"
Niagara Falls hotels are usually full
all summer with their own regular
guests. II is very probable that Buf.
falo will know great deal more about
crowds in November than in February
II Chicago was taxed to its capacity
very frequently during the panic xmes
of 1893, what may the Bison's expect
in the way of crowds in these mopeyed
times of 1901? The hotels are already
putting extensions on to their rates
, however. Houses that charged 50 uI
are now taking from So up and Other
rated houses are falling in line in pro.
portion. One remodeled theatre Ia the
only one In the city proper that is al.
lowing for an increased business.
The exposition work is seriously re.
tarded by the weather. It has showed
just exactly 26 days up to the night OF
February 26, during the current month
and there is about three feet OF snow
on the level all over western New York
BY special arrangement, however, Mia
, CARA Falls will run full time during the
. exposition, regardless of the weather.
One of the uniuue firm names die