Popular Science Monthly 



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capital and patents, have realized, 

 aerial scenic cableway now spans 

 Rapids from cliff to cliff. 



For sheer excitement and thrill 



An 

 the 



the 



It was the successful operation of the 

 San Sebastian cableway, for the past 

 six years, during which time it carried 

 as many as twenty-six thousand passen- 



trip by air over 

 the Whirlpool out- 

 does anything that 

 tourists have ever ex- 

 perienced. True, there is 

 the first stage of the cable- 

 way which climbs the Wetter- 

 horn in Switzerland; but it can 

 not compare in magnitude with 

 the Niagara project. Then there is the 

 tramway at San Sebastian, Spain, for the 

 transportation of tourists from a trolley 

 terminus to a casino overlooking the Bay 

 of Biscay — the only previous installation 

 of the system in use at Niagara Falls and 

 owned by the same company. But, the 

 span at San Sebastian is only nine hun- 

 dred and nineteen feet, while at Niagara 

 it is eighteen hundred feet. It maybe 

 safely said that Niagara now has the 

 longest and probably the safest scenic 

 cableway in the world. 



gers in a single season, which brought 

 Torres y Quevedo, the inventor of the 

 system, to Niagara Falls. No time was 

 lost in starting operations. Work was 

 begun July 12, 1915- The cables are 

 now erected, and cars are now runn- 

 ing upon them. 



Diplomacy and Engineering 



The Whirlpool is situated some three 

 miles below the Falls and is almost 

 entirely within Canadian territory. 

 Hence, the two anchorages or terminals 

 of the cableway, Colt's Point and 

 Thompson's Point, are both in Ontario. 

 Because the boundary line between 

 New York State and Ontario forms an 

 acute angle, which is intersected by the 

 cableway about sixty feet within the 

 apex, the promoters found themselves 

 in a diplomatic tangle. After securing 

 the sanction of the Province of Ontario 



