Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-06

The newspaper story about some one
VINO did IT Is sort of national chest
| hut. And yet II some one were TO an
nounce his intention OF going over
niagara In barrel tomorrow, there
Wouid be large crowd on hand to see
MN DO IL, and every one who couldn't
be there would read about IL in the
papers the next day
II is the same way with everything
about the great falls. They have been
visited and exploited and written about
ever since the first white men laid
eyes upon II, Yet tho interest in them
never dims 1t is n fact simply at
tested by the registers OF Niagara
hotels that he who looks upon the falls
once nearly always comes back to look
again.
Speaking of going over the falls in
Il harrel. there is AN old ladv here
engaged in selling post cards to tourists
who did the trick successfully some
ioriy years ago. Her story deserves
to rank as one of the hardest hard
luck yarns in all the world
AT the time she made the famous
reap she was Il beautiful young woman
| VINO had come to Niagara to earn a
living She fell very much In love
! with a young man, who was as pcnu;-
Tess as herself They put their heads
! together 10 devise a method Of rct,in,,
enough money TO set up housekeeping
he young woman, fun of courage of
her devotion, proposed to 20 over the
rails In barrel while her lover was
20 collect admissions from tho people
who came to see the event She
lehped the falls and was towed ashore
uhhurt and triumphant. But alas for
loves young dream. Her nance had
lett Tor parts unknown with the gate
receipts.
Retrent for Newly WEEDS.
Most Of the lovers who come 10
Niagara, however, are haDpy newIv
married ones First-class honcymoons
Tor couples from the country are
Niagara most important ana rcmunc-
rattHc product or course the citizens
VIII tell you that they really make
| their money out Of a tremendous com
merciM development. But you have
only 10 observe the respectful! consid-
er"tioh with which the newly weds
are treated. to realize tina, Niarar,
KNOWS good thing when it sees 4,
NY pcopN Jump over Niagara Falls
~ question often threshcd out In
hotei loboies here 1t appears that
on? thFee have ever done so and come
course, obviously intended TO commit
SUICIDE while in other cases the rea
son Tor the desperate leap was not M
all clear. Psychologists claim thar
not only the cataract itself but the
foaming rapids below, in which 80
many have gone to their deaths. exer-
else an irresistible fascination over
some persons, that they lean In
spite Of themselves
Every precaution is now taken to
prevent such occurrences. In order to
end your troubles by the romantic
method of lcaping into the foaming
torrent nowadays. YOU must first
overcome large and healthy police
man and then climb n high iron rail-
ing.
Every one does exactly the same
things at Niagara. and that no doubt
! Is one or ITS charms n no
tourists who pour through the town
every summer. They do not have 10
mink where 10 go. or how. The tirst
thing, OF course, is 10 peer over the
railing at the great falls, to experience
Inc appropriate sensa tions and utter
the appropriate scream, gasp or sigh
OF delight. Every one. OF course is
deeply and properly impressed The
comments OF the feminine visitors
assay about 9S per cent staccato su-
perlatives. while the masculine com
mont. though more restrained Is no
less enthusiastic. Few are disappoint-
ed: for the Falls is truly bigger thing
IMAM the average mind can prcconceive.
After the glimpse of the Falls from
above. you Climb aboard the maid OF
| the Mist" the brides conceal their
| loreliness in long rubber coats with
/ immense hoods. and you experience the
! thrill Of going close enough to the
| Falls to have spray splashed all over
| you.
Finally. If you are a real American
| tourist from up the countryside kind
| that believes in doing the thing up
| right-you will drop into a little souvc-
mir store and have your photograph
taken to show Ma and the girls. with
Niagara Falls in the background. the
Falls. of course, being somewhat
| crudely painted on the backdrop.
! There are innumerable other fasci-
mating souvenir stores to tempt the
nickels and dimes and quarters out OF
| your pockets. That they do SO sue
cessfully is attested by the fact that
Niagara has grown from a town or
| 10000 to one OF $4,000 in the last
| twenty years. and that many Of it's
| hotel and storekeepers spend their
| winters in Florida.
| When business gets slack il is GUS
tomary in Niagara to plan an excur-
| sion froin some part Of the State AL
| though you would think that every
| one in New York had been to Niagara
| at least once. there are always thous-
| ands ready to take advantage of these
| opportunities The people OF Niagara
| can calculate with great accuracy just
| what an excursion will put in their
| pockets. except for one uncertain ele.
ment. and that is the weather. They
| know that the average excursion -day
tourist will spend exactly 81 in Nj
| agara. On an excursion from Central
| New York few weeks ago. they con-
fdently predicted that 5000 persons
| would come to the city, provided II
! did not rain. Betting on the weather
| all tho hotel and restaurant keepers
| engaged extra walters and prepared
| a dinner for the crowd. But they
| lost. 1t ra.ncG all day. and exactly
| twenty-five b e ragg lied strangers
| showed up at the feast. Needless to
| say, Niagara went In the hole on that
| excursion, hut she averages up pretty
| we'll
! Gencrtte Crent Electric Power.
The tourists, however. arc not