Niagara Falls 



1908 



1908 GlACOSA, GIUSEPPE. Impressioni d' America. Milano: Cogliati. 



Giacosa 190 g p p 130-157. 



A chapter with much of American railroad travel and of the journey 

 from New York and something of the author's impressions of Niagara 

 Falls. 



1911 



19U The spectator. (Outl., May 27, 1911. 98:147-152.) 



The adventures of a young woman who tried to see the Falls alone 

 but was unable to escape acquaintances made on the journey. The account 

 contains more about people than about the Falls. 



1913 



1 9 13 AlEC-Tweedie, Mrs. E. America as I saw it; or America revisited. 



Alec-Tweedie N y. : Macmillan. 1913. Pp. 347-356. 



Niagara Up-to-Date 



God's Work, Man's Slave. 

 Even Niagara is up-to-date 



The Philistine is doing his best to ruin one of God's greatest 

 works, but luckily he cannot succeed. 



He has written his name in letters of shame on seats in the 

 public parks on each side of Niagara's stupendous Falls; he has 

 scrawled his hideous hieroglyphics on rocks at every point of 

 view ; he has even put up advertisements hard by, exploiting pills 

 and powders and soaps and shams; he has erected large chim- 

 neys and hideous factories below the Falls; but, in spite of all, 

 he cannot spoil Niagara. He has tried hard, this up-to-date 

 advertiser, but he has failed as yet to ruin one of Nature's 

 triumphs. 



We crossed by boat from Toronto on the Canadian side to 

 Lewiston. It is only two and a half hours' steam over the nar- 

 rowest part of Lake Ontario; nevertheless quite a number of 

 people managed to be uncomfortably ill, and certainly we did pitch 

 a little, in spite of the barrels of sand kept for the purpose that 

 were rolled from side to side by boys to steady our ship. The 



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