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CITY OF NIAGARA FALL».
The City of Niagara Falls received its charter on March 17, 1892, and is a consolidation of
the former villages of Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge. Its present population 1s about
20,000, but a large increase will undoubtedly result from the power development now completed
and which is attracting world-wide attention.
NIAGARA’S IMMENSE POWER.
No feature at Niagara is attracting quite so much attention to-day as the big water power
and will aid in developing 100,000 horse power. It has its outlet below the suspension bridge
and is lined with brick throughout its entire length. The water that will furnish power and
flow through the great tunnel will be taken from the upper river over a mile back from the
brink of the falls. A canal 1,200 feet long is the connecting link between river and tunnel, and
the water will plunge down penstocks on to turbines, the greatest ever operated in the United
States. Already the manufacturers who desire to avail themselves of this wonderfully cheap
and accessable power are beginning to locate at the Falls, and the city that was at one time
simply a summer resort has started out to attain wonderful greatness as the largest manufac¬
turing city of America. The men at the head of this great project are Edward D. Adams,
Francis Lynde Stetson, Edward A. Wickes and William B. Rankine of New York.
HOTELS,
The hotel interests at Niagara Falls are very large, and no matter what a person’s likes
may be, they can be easily accommodated. The prices per day vary with the season. The
large and leading hotels of the city are: | |
THE CATARACT HOUSE.
PROSPECT HOUSE. HOTEL KALTENBACH.
THE INTERNATIONAL, THE IMPERIAL.
Besides these there are numerous others, many of which would please the most fastidious.
Among these may be mentioned Salt’s New Hotel, the Temperance House, the Columbia, the
Niagara House (Main Street), the Hotel Porter, Niagara Falls House, the Falls Hotel, Harvey
House, Central House, Hotel Mayle, Hotel Atlantique, Ziegler’s Hotel, Fuchs’ Hotel, Schwartz’s
Hotel, Monument House, Observation Tower Hotel, Windsor House, Colonnade, Cosmopoitan,
United States Hotel (Main Street), Western Hotel, New York Central House, Dolphin House,
Exchange Hotel, Union House, Lester House, Frontier House, Europeau Hotel,