Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1905-03-16
A Center From Which Has
Radiated Unmeasured Good
Throughout The
Wide World.
THE ELECTRIC CENTER.
Conducted on the most Modern
and Scientific Principles.
One of the Points of Interest
on the Niagara Frontier.

In this age of wonderful discoveries
and equally wonderful applications of
those discoveries, the eyes of the world
are directed to the Niagara Frontier.
Here is the great center of operations
in electrical science. Here the first
attempt was made to apply to mans
use the knowledge of one of natures
properties and powers, a knowledge
that was wrested from nature by the
brilliant minds and the studiOus
thought of the worlds leading scien-
lists. The development of electric
power at Niagara Falls is now some
thing of an old story, and yet it is
story which is seemingly to have no
end.
1t is now perhaps fifteen years since
operations were first begun by cor
poration to develop on a large scale
electric power for commercial use st
Niagara Falls. The initial effort was
to produce $4,000 horsepower. By
the time that was successfully done it
was found necessary to double the ca
pacity of the first plant. This plant is
located on the American side of the
falls. On the Canadian side there are
now underway the erection of three
separate plants which will develop some
thing like $50, 900 horsepower. This
product is being used and will be used
in various ways. Great industries have
been established at the falls as the re-
suit of this wonderful power, industries
some of them-that were unknown
to man before it was possible to obtain
electric power in practically unlimited
quantities and at reasonable prices.
Furthermore, this power is now trans
mitted successfully long distances, and
the City of Buffalo uses it in many
ways. It runs its street cars, it lights
its streets, it runs thousands of its
manufacturing plants. The day is
coming when it will do more. Tesla,
who made possible the transmission OF
electric power under high voltage for
long distances, has made still further
discoveries in this line, and he now
promises that ere long he will be able
to send practically unlimited power
from Niagara to almost any part of the
world for whatever use is desired. He
is now talking about 81, 900, 600 plant
at Niagara for this purpose.
All these things have made the Mia
CARA Frontier the cynosure of the
worlds eyes, and Buffalo as the COM
mercial center of that Frontier is re
ceiving the attention due to it. Buffalo,
however, is known to the world for
other reasons. 1t is the second city in
size in the Empire State. 1t is among
the leading commercial cities of the
world. It is the eighth in point of
population in the United States. 1t is
here that the most modern steel MAX
ing plant in the world has been built.
1t is known far and wide as the city
which held the most beautiful exposi-
ton that was ever conceived by man.
1t is known throughout this country,
and in foreign lands as well, as the city
in which is located an institution that
is a household word throughout the
land and as the point of manufacture
of household remedies that have
brought health and strength to thou
sands upon thousands of sufferers.
This institution is the Invalids' Hotel
and these remedies are collectively
known as the Pierce medicines, and
specifically known as the Favorite
Prescription and the Golden Med
ical Discovery. 70 DIR. Ray V. Pierce is
the founder of this institution and the
discoverer of these remedies, and he is
entitled to rank as one of the world s
great benefactOrs. Associated with him