A memorial to our soldiers and sailors of this charactez 

 would attain world wide fame; and if, following this, the two 

 reservations along the Niagara river, American and Canadian, 

 can be united by a great memorial bridge, the grand project 

 would seem to be complete. 



The principal features of this plan, so far as develoj>ed by 

 the Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara are 

 shown in an act introduced in the legislature in 1921 and pre- 

 viously. This act provided for tlie financing of the project by 

 means of an annual charge or rental imposed on new water ]30wer 



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developed at Niagara Falls since 1918. The same objects could 

 be attained more rapidly by means of a bond issue, followed by 

 direct appropriations. 



The plaii in brief is to enlarge the State Reservation at 

 Niagara and to create and add to it a system of memorial river- 

 ways and reserves, extending along the Niagara river from 

 Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, and connecting Port Porter with 

 Fort Niagara, consisting of parks and public places reserved 

 because of their beauty and commanding position for the free 

 use of the public, connected by north and south memorial river- 

 ways and with suitable structures thereon, all of which shall 



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