El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-07-29
Niagara Falls Is Awe-Inspiring
One Of Wonders Of the World Natural Beauty
and Deafenng Noise
NORMAN NJ WALKER
Niagara

-ATURE came near setting Niagara
N Fails down on the main street
1 Of hustling little New York
49, oitv The Grand canyon OF the
S,a,a-a5o is lost among the more or
-. lonesome pines Of northern Ari-
Yellowstone park is far distant
go, the beaten paths, and Mammoth
--,g hidden away in the noun
80 ~ ia Kentuck- Not so Niagara
IalHs u afS me Grand Trunk train on
Get -larican side OF the river. feel
~ --sv through a dark and gloomy
S - statfon and one is in Niagara
1elIi y Y the natural haunt Of the
-taii souvenirs and spring brides A
81 sil-i- No. with drop hanger whisKers
e-1Ssrds the street entrance OF that sta
lion like the three headed cheese hound
- Guards the rathskeller OF the IN
5-o-Id He shOves one OF his
~rj,+s5 cards at you. mumbling some
So 4bat listens like polite invita-
t5o-, 70 he shown the falls for 10 cents,
~ Cannuck money. The PROPOSE
=. . ~ S-,->5g Interesting. You nibble at
HE "a steboard bait and are about to
aIfovv the sinker and cork, when the
ssroDd mental wind comes and you
81 J,ir, how far It is and will one have
time TO view the 1aIls ana eaten the
two after two train TO Detroit
Sort Of BuneO Game
T. fs L miles to the gorge and It
nil take an even hour. Ten cents an
hour sounds a little like the marked
-, 0rice Johnny Russell asks for
the Old church in Juarez and you have
br1ch TO 20 hence at once. This mercury
Of the falls follows you to the
corner and whispers through his egg
stained mustache that dollar bill Will
do the trick Bunco arusI No mas
been shaken off and a friendly police
man chatting to a nurse girl on the
corner is appealed to as being an I'M
martial bureau OF information
THE falls2 Beat II across the res
arvati0n there and you are on the job.
Iovy farg Not far at all, about as far
as YOU can throw a bull by the tail
And he was right as any right guy
living. Across the car tracks, down
little cinder path and across a messy
bridge and nothing but hog ugnt
wire fence keeps you from walking into
the Niagara river, 100 yards from the
American falls, pouring water over a
zap in the face OF nature that looks
ike a kid with his milk teeth missing
Beauty Is Indeseribable-
Comparison. contrasts, descriptions
and superlatives tumr le over each other
10 your mind as you stand on the shelf
rock overlooking the American rams
and lap up the picture That uumDllnss
5illowing. shimmering mass OF liquid
looks like the snow from giant snow
Dlow, as IL beats itself to pieces IN the
fury OF its awful force. Again. from
Goat island. il resembles the wavy,
waterfall style Of hair dressing so
stylish about the time OF the crime OF
IS Another slant and the ripping.
snow white waters form a bridal veil
looped with a chaplet OF waving vii
lows which grow along the banks
Now IL is the soft tulle curtains which
the big department stores use when
they decorate their show windows
Again the waters glisten in the sun
light as they tumble far out over the
gorge like the crystal ice that forms
on the trees after a winter sleet-
Noise Is Overwhelming.
The Grand canyon is so quiet with
the eternal stiffness OF the ages that
bird flying over the chasm sounds
Ike the rustling OF fine silk Niagara
overcomes with its volume Of noise
The canyon IS the burned out ruin OF
a past epoch without life or motion
The falls are animate, alive, filled with
force which no man or
superman will ever succeed in con-
1uerinE The Nile green Niagara river
starts TO swirl. tumble over rocks and
frOth as Il approaches the American
falls with a foaminE haste as II Il
would gain momentum for its great
leap to the rapids below. In its excess
u energy the mighty river pounds
itself TO pieces on the grim rocks be-
low and a rainbow rests on the mists