New Britain herald., 1924-08-20
STORY OF MAKING
 OF NIAGARA FALLS
Proposal 10 Reinforce Lille Of PrtCiplCe Causes Interest

Washington, D, C., Aug, 2e,-Mhen the fall Of huge piece Of rock re- gently threatened 10 turn the hensy' meaners' Horseshoe Falls Of Great Niagara into . mere spillwsn the peril 10 the Falls beauty brought forth the proposal to hire engineers to patch up North Americas out' standing natural wonder
 BY dropping a keystone out Of its Horseshoe arch, Aiasara was merely performing it's duty t0 the ages, For s0,ao0 years the Falls has been The geologic hour glass for much of North America, By reading the rse- ord Of the rocks that go through the neck of the gorge, as grains of sand slip through the hour glass, scientists stnnwateh the glacier sheets, which were the first blows to furrow the fer. tie midwest, In the sermons Of the | eataFaet's stones lie the chronology Of i.ake Algonquin. the predecessor of Lakes Superior. Michigan and Huron, and of Lake iraanois, the sprawling progenitor Of Lake ontario, Their dates are fixed almost as accurately as history books report William the conaueror's arrival in England In l06s.
 Falls D5.tT Per Cent Canadian Tho story that is told by Niagara (ab.i7 per cent canadianl is related in the following bulletin by the Ma tional Geographic society from It's headquarters in Washington, D. C.
 Niagara is the North American champion in one Of the greatest bat- ties nature ever umpired. Literally scores of challengers sought her crown. More than once Niagara fell almost ifelcss on her waterworn rocks. But finally the seekers for her crown gave up: tho last not many more centuries ago than the days of Tutankhamen.
 Niagara is said 10 take It's name from the Indian title nce-agg-arah, which appropriately means across the neck The Niagara river cuts across the neck of land separating Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Just east of Buffalo the river collects the entire natural discharge of the four upper Great Lakes. rushes it through a narrowing river for 16 miles, pushes 1t over sheer drop of PIP feet, churns it seven miles through a can- yon, and then carries it gently by seven miles of lowland to Lake On tario.
 The Birth of Niagara
 "Our Niagara was born when the glaciers melted back, exposing the ridge the water now tumbles down. Like the glaciers of the Rockies, these enormous sheets of ice moving down from Labrador poured out streams of water. These streams collected ages ago at the foot of the huge ice Iobes in depressions extending into Ohio. Indiana and Illinois. Accumulated water sometimes rose hundreds of feet higher than the present level of the Great Lakes and poured out into the Mississippi over the present site of Chicago and through outlets in Ohio and Indiana.
 Finally. as the ice melted north- ward, prehistoric Lake Tonawanda | formed on the edge of the plateau | over which Niagara pours. There were then five outlets from this lake-at | Holley, Medina, Gasport, Lockport | and Lewiston. The spillway at Lewis ton, Niagara, won out. Lockport | gorge now contains flight of steps | for the New York barge canal.
 Early Niagaras Numerous
 "About the time Niagara was be- ginning to triumph, the melting | glacier moved back to Lake Simcoe, | Ontario. The tickle waters of the up- per lakes lost little time in "nding the Trent Valley, a ragged series of lakes and rivers leading into Lake Ontario. Trent Valley gorges tell of many carly Niagaras. AS this time only 15 per cent Of the present flow went over Niagara, forming tIs nar- row lower gorSe. Nature came tc the tipping great block of land, ever so slightly, hut enough to shut off the Trent faucet frd make even more water go over Niagara than the spectator sees today. But the Ch:ca- go outlet, predecessor of the drain age canal now oero-e the Crited States supreme court. araint cut down the flow. The whir.p pool was made at this time.
 "Once again Niagara was fouted when the outlet shifted to North Bay, Ontario, sending the waters down the Ottawa over ihe portage which Cham plain was to take to discover Lake Huron. The upper narrow gorge was .hen carve nut again the huge rock saucer, which has the Great Lakes ,uddles in the bottom, tipped, lei'lng Niagara triumphant
 Niagara started to spill over the ank at Lewiston about 30,000 y,ars ,go. Tn S)l centuries it has sho 1.!ed ts way seven miles. At its present ate of excavation, more thal four eet annually, Niagara will dig ack he remaining Is miles to Lake Erie bout the year A. D. 21a24. Before his time, however. man may ta;'e a