Niagara Falls 



1889 



New York 

 State 



Reservation 



1890 



Green 



The correspondents are Andrew H. Green, president of the commis- 

 sioners, John Bogart, State Engineer and Surveyor, and C. S. Gzouski, 

 chairman of commissioners, Q. V. N. F. Park. 



The papers may be found in Assembly document 22, February 6, 

 1889. 



1890 



GREEN, ANDREW H. Letters concerning the diversion of waters from 

 Niagara Falls. (Ann. rep'ts of the com'rs of the state reserv. at Niagara. 

 Albany: 1890. 6:57-60.) 



Assembly document 23, January 22, 1 890. 



The Hon. Andrew H. Green, who was president of the Board of Com- 

 missioners from 1888 to 1903, was particularly active in opposition to 

 diversion schemes. It was he who first suggested international action. 



Letters addressed to the Legislature; to Hon. Samuel Frederick Nixon, 

 chairman of the Assembly committee on internal affairs; Hon. George 

 B. Sloan, Senate. These letters voiced the opposition of the Commission 

 to the bill entitled "An act to authorize the Niagara Hydraulic Electric 

 Company to erect machinery under the Falls. . . ." 



1890 KROUPA, B. An artist's tour; gleanings and impressions in North and 



Kroupa Central America and the Sandwich Islands. Lond. : Ward and Downey. 



1890. Pp. 327-330. 



I had seen the Falls several times during my previous stay in 

 Canada. They are no doubt sublime, and the scenery around 

 is wild and grand, but the land in the vicinity of and including 

 the Falls, was then private property, and thrown open to the 

 public at such ridiculously high charges that the cost of seeing all 

 around and below the Falls was very expensive. I could hardly 

 divest my mind of the idea that I was not " doing " Niagara, 

 but that Niagara was " doing *' me. The latter conjecture was 

 ever present in my thoughts, for after I had been there for a 

 few minutes during my first visit, I began to lose money, and 

 after a couple of days I was almost beggared in trying to get 

 near the cataract. There were so many fees and gratuities to be 

 paid at the various " entrances " to the Falls, under the Falls, 

 to the caves, and over the bridges, that after all the worry and 

 expense one could have readily sympathized with the man who, 



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