Niagara Falls 



1914 Chap. VIII. Legal Questions Which Have Arisen in Connection 



Dow With the Diversion Controversy 147 



Chap. IX. The Men Who Have Made the Reservation 175 



Chap. X. The Canadian Park 183 



Chap. XI. Conclusion 197 



We quote the final chapter of the book, as giving a general idea of the 

 story and spirit of the reservation movement. 



After having read a story of achievement such as that which 

 has been detailed in the foregoing pages, at least two questions 

 inevitably come to mind. In the first place, one can hardly help 

 asking whether the effort put forth has, after all, been worth while. 

 In other words, we ask ourselves, has the work of the past justified 

 itself in the present? And this is no sooner answered than we 

 turn our faces the other way and ask what it is that'the future has 

 to offer. It is very natural, after having read what has been 

 accomplished, to ask what there is still to be done, and what 

 likelihood there is that it will be done. So a brief discussion of 

 these questions may be in order. 



It is more than a third of a century — nearly the length of an 

 average human life — since public sentiment began to call for the 

 reclamation of Niagara Falls from a condition which had become 

 a reproach to the State. In the preceding pages we have described 

 something of the strenuous campaign which was necessary to 

 secure legislation authorizing the preservation of the natural 

 scenery of Niagara for the benefit of the people, the long hard 

 tug of war to secure the appropriation for its purchase, the 

 perennial struggle to get adequate appropriations for the work of 

 rehabilitation and maintenance, the watchful care exercised to 

 prevent commercial intrusion, and the hard fought fight to preserve 

 the integrity of the Falls themselves. 



It is impossible to say how much money, time, and energy the 

 preservation of Niagara Falls has cost the nation these last thirty 

 years. Mere figures cannot measure the price. In the previous 



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