Preservation of the Falls 



Queen Victoria Niagara Falls Park Commissioners. Annual 1885 

 reports, I 885 to date. Queen 



Much valuable material on the origin of the park, the policy and p ar ^ 

 activities of the commissioners, the development of the state's property, Comnuwonew 

 the diversion controversy and the power situation, supplemented by con- 

 tracts, legislative acts and special reports. 



Saving Niagara. (Critic, Mar. 7, 1885. 3 (new ser.) : 1 09.) 1885 



A brief history of the movement to save the Falls. 



WELCH, Thomas V. How Niagara was made free. The passage 188 5 

 of the Niagara reservation act in 1885. (Pub. Buf. hist. soc. 5 :325- Welch 

 329.) 



History of the movement for the reservation by one active in securing 

 the measure, and who was afterwards superintendent of the reservation. 

 The same article may be found in Publication II of the Niagara Frontier 

 Historical Society reprinted from the Buffalo Historical Society. 



1886 



BlGOT, CHARLES. De Paris au Niagara; Journal de voyage d'une 1886 

 delegation. Paris: A. Dupret, Editeur. 1887. Pp. 140-156. Bigot 



Notre visite a dure quatre longues heures qui ont passe aussi 

 vite qu'une seule. Quand j'essaye de resumer l'impression de 

 cette matinee, je ne trouve qu'un mot qui l'exprime bien: e'est 

 le mot terreur. Le Niagara n'est pas seulement grand, imposant, 

 magnifique: il est terrible, il est formidable, il est effroyable. 

 Plus on visite, plus on s'arrete, plus on regarde, plus le sentiment 

 de Teffroi va croissant. C'est une puissance de la nature 

 dechainee, aupres de laquelle l'homme n'est rien. 



Harrison, Jonathan Baxter. The movement for the redemption 1886 

 of Niagara. (New Princeton rev.. Mar., 1886. 1:233-245.) Harmon 



This article, as it were, supplements Mr. Robb's article. To quote: 

 " The movement to save Niagara is of peculiar interest, because it was 

 the first effort made in this country on so large a scale to use the machinery 

 of government for an object of this kind, that is, for a purpose belonging 

 so entirely to the realm of elevated sentiment and noble spiritual emotion." 



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