ber of applications beyond these numbers. It is therefore pro- 

 posed to build an inn in a grove on the left bank of the river 

 half a mile in an air-line northeast of Glen Iris at the place 

 called Cole's Cliff. This point is about one-third of the distance 

 from the Middle Fall to the Lower Fall, on the rim_ of the deep 

 Portage gorge, and at such a bend in the river that it commands 

 beautiful prospects up-stream (southwestward) and down- 

 stream (eastward), the view expanding in a superb panorama to 

 the distant hills. This inn has now become a pressing necessity. 

 Unlike Niagara Falls Eeservation, Letchworth Park_ has no 

 hotels close by its borders. In land area,_ the park is about 

 eight times as large as the Niagara reservation, and the nearest 

 hotels outside its border are at Castile, three miles to the north- 

 ward, and Portageville, two miles to the southwestward by a 

 circuitous and inconvenient route, and these are small and in- 

 adequate. 



The plan for the inn includes as minor adjuncts a garage and 

 a swimming pool. The latter is to be made by damming a 

 neighboring brook after the manner of the artificial lakes in 

 the Palisades Park, thus supplying a healthful form of recrea- 

 tion not otherwise to be had safely within a radius of several 

 miles. 



The second improvement provides for two new entrances to 

 the park and an additional road within the park. The main 

 approach to the park is now by the road from Castile. There 

 is no entrance from the region lying east and south of the river, 

 and only an inconvenient and roundabout approach from the 

 west. The great automobile-using public demands better facili- 

 ties for getting into the park and for bridging the moat between 

 Livingston and Wyoming counties. Even with present ob- 

 stacles, the park is a favorite resort for tourists, and the pro- 

 vision of the new approaches will not only bring the benefit of 

 the park within the reach of a vastly increased number of mo- 

 torists, but will also immensely facilitate cross-country travel. 

 It is therefor proposed: 



(a) To construct an approach to the western end of the park 

 by means of a road branching off from the Portageville-Castile 

 highway* at the top of the Portageville hill, and running thence 

 in a generally northeasterly direction into the park, passing 

 under the northwesterly end of the Erie railroad bridge on the 

 left bank of the river, and thence crossing the gulley of I)e-ge- 

 wa-nus-Creek by means of a new bridge having its foundation 

 on solid rock. 



(b) To construct an approach from the southeastward by 

 means of a road leaving the Portage-Nunda-Rochester state 

 highway at Portage station of the Erie railroad, and running 

 thence a few hundred feet westward near the Erie railroad track, 



* The PortagevlUe-Castlle highway Is to be Improved by the State. 



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