The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-04-21
TOLD OF BIG FALLS
Lecture On Old Niagara BY
Herbert R. Fuller.
Moving Pictures Add Interes'
to the Story.
Methodist Church Auditorium
Filled Last Eve.
Instructive Lesson and Pleas
ant Entertainment.
From Saturdays Daily.

Four hundred or more heard Herbert
r. Fuller of Worsecter, Mass, lecture
in the auditorium of the Centenary
Methodist church last evening on the
Niagara Falls, his remarks being illus
tTated with a long series of stereopti-
con views, a number of which were
moving pictures. Instructor Cox of the
normal school manipulated the machine
of light with his usual skill, giving the
audience a rare treat that drew forth
many an exclamation of surprise and
admiration The entertainment was
given under the auspices of the Ladies'
Aid society of the church, and the gate
receipts went to their excnequer. Mr..
Fullerton was there to advertise Mia
of that city and he did not require any
further reward than the appreciation
of his audience, which he certainly re-
ceived.
The falls were shown from above and
below, from the Canadian side and the
American side, from the "Cave of the
Winds, where the visitors walk direct
" under the mighty volume of thunder
inc water. from "The Maid of the Mist"
the little boat that boldly steams up so
near the foot of the fall, from the great
bridge and from every other place that
the tourist can visit. The moving pic
lures made it easy for the spectator to
imagine himself seated inside an cleo
trio street car, riding along the river
bank, and gazing out upon the turbulent
water and the other sights.
Perhaps the part of the entertainment
that the audience enjoyed more tnan
any other was that of the moving pic
lures of the ice bridge. The jamming to-
gether of the huge masses of ice below
in the falls in cold weather and the
continual freezing of the flying mist
from the falls always forms nuge
bridge of ice on which great numbers of
people delight to walk out. The moving
pictures, all photographed from real
life, showed the people stumbling along
over the rough ice, and great numbers
of young men and boys sliding down the
declivities, slipping, falling, stumbling
playing pranks upon each other, all
in wonderfully lifelike manner
1t is said by most people who nave
visited the falls both in summer and in
winter, that in the cold season the
beauty and grandeur of the scenery is
ming was given a splendid idea of the
bushes and all the vegetation near the
falls, as the mist continually freezes
upon all the objects that it touches.
The industrial features of the great
waterfall were dwelt upon at consider
able length The clever manner in
which an infnitesimal fraction of the
power of the descending water is utiliz-
ed, and the mighty force that is thus
brought into harness for the service of
man, by taking a portion of the water
from above the falls, and making it pay
toll by turning huge water wheels be-
fore it is permitted to reioin the
stream below the falls, were shown in
as most realistic and interesting man
ner, with words and pictures Mr.. Full
Ter said he believed that the time is
coming when the region about Buffalo
and Niagara will be the great manufac-
turing center of the world, for here is
the strength that can do the work
Power from the falls can be sent by
wire for miles and miles around, to run
street cars and light the streets, to
operate all kinds of machinery, and to
do anything and everything that cleo
tricity can be made to do.
Among the manufactures in this reg
ion is that of the Natural Food COM
pdHy. IHe speaker went lnUO Iull ue-
scription of the plant and property of
the makers of the shredded wheat bis
suit. In fact the whole lecture seemed
to develop into an advertisement for
that company, but the thing was done
SO agreeably and entertainingly that
the audience was entirely complacent
Probably the most interesting feature
of this part of the lecture was the
philanthropic way in which the COM
pany takes care of its employees, re-
sembling the National Cash Register
company in this respect. The whole
army of workers seems like great
happy family.
Mr.. Fuller lectures at Waseca on
Monday and at Owatonna on Tuesday.
Any who have not had occasion to see
moving stereopticon pictures can hardly
believe how lifelike the motions of the
objects in the picture really are. A