Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

s? I | Make youi ^ those pretty ^ your selectic i=? & Furnil 111 ctl jj) fact, we hav< ^ and can plea & nicke sectior P on this space i ? II^ANC In our line I have it made Niagara Falls A Graphic Description of this Great Natural 'Wonder-Mayor Wylie's Address before the Library Association. The public meeitnir of the Library Association last Friday niidit was weli attended, quite a i . - * : 4 , t L ~ iiuiinjpr i iji iiiiiix uim iu iic.ii i n? | able addresses of Mayor li F Wylie ami L)r B ddridge, pas'or of the First Baptist chuich Mayor Wylie'ssubjeui was,ikS >ine Impressions of my Recent Trip to Niagara Falls and Canada''; and that of Dr. Boldridge, "What is a Book.'' The address ot tlie latter will appear in our next issue. The remarks of Mr Wylie, f as kindly reported lor The News by Mr. Prei-sley Robinson, were as follows: .Accompanied by my daughter I boarded the train at Lincaster on the 19th of June last en route for the International Sunday School Convention at Toronto, Canada. We took the Seaboard Air lane at Chester, where we were joined by others also hound for I lie convention. At Hamlet, N. C., we were joined by the parly from Columbia and other points in 8. C. J)r. Pelham, President of the South Carolina Sunday School Association, head ed the South Carolina delegation. The North Carolina party also joined us here and we all went together to Norfolk, Va., and rl : sitting and living new Rugs just re >n before they are ture! P'lU id see the handsoi 3 any and all kind ,se any kind of pot Lai Book Cases P i, for it will pay y< ,AjS*ER of Carpeting you . ~n i? x - ; mi icfciuy bu put i from there to Baltimore by boat. From Baltimore the North Caro Una party went by the Pennsylvania Railroad to Buffalo. New York. We took the Baltimore and Ohio and thence the Lehigh Valley Route lor Buifalo also. T??o T nlii<rl> 1 Iiv ijuin^ii v ctucj lV'/inu I I avcm os Rome of the most beautiful scenery in Pennsylvania. We stopped over at Buffalo| principally to see the greui Nia gara Falls. The most impressive sight I have ever seen is these great falls. I had visited Niagara Falls once at a time when my mind was plastic, and strange to .-ay I did not have the faintest I idea, ot what I saw then; tliOi reason was, I was but six months (/Id at the time, but I won't say how long that, has been. 1 have heard of the laiis on the Canadian side and on the American side and the Three Sister isles, and I had about the idea of it. that a lady told mo of the impression it made on her?a whole lot of water falling down?this is about the idea I had of it before I saw it. We got to Niagara in the after noon and went down the next morning. The first thing that ullriir'linl niu aUanliAn ? .u <l>o terrible roar of the waters com ing down. We went d o w n through Prospect Park to the brink of the rapids above the falls. Niagara Falls wore llftoen or twenty years ago noted only for their scenic wonder, but electric power has been developed there, and now Niagara is a city of commercial importance. The shredded wheat biscuit that is found on many of our breakfast tables is manufactured there. The entire process of I room look fresh i ceived They arc all gone. i&TOTOi ne new Chairs, Be s of Furniture, fr jketbook. Do you Gome in and ask t 3u to keep up witl Yours foi MERC, can select any pai iown for you. manufacturing the biscuit is done by machinery, the hand not touch ing it all, us it. goes through the various stages from wheat to biscuit. As before stated the first tiling that attracted my attention was the terrible roar, it was like a thousand mills. We went over to Green Island from Prospect Park. Fortunately I did not go below the tails in going over to Green Island, 1 went above. We crossed above what is called the American Falls, and to see the water plunging down is a wonder ful sight. To give some idea of the rapidity with which the water I ,...11 ^v..w.*M^ * Hill iKciiiit/ii mat IIIH water which goes over the falls comes through the four lakes? Superior, Michigan, Union and Krie. It enters the falls from Lake Krie, and is the only ave uue through which the water from all those lakes is conveyed to ih i Atlantic ocean. The fall of the water is about one foot to the mile for about six miles, and then for a mile before it reaches the ocean it is eighty feet to the mile. It is not the rocks that make the rapids, ii. is the narrow channel through w aich the water 11 >ws and the rapid descent. 1'lie water fairly revolves and rolls the whole time. On this trip we did not see the falls at all from helow but on ttie return trip we did, and that ih where it presents the fine view. O.ie r?~. ! - runtime i?3?iure i? fiku tiie river at Niagara runs about east and west, although the general course is from south to north. Strange to say after the water falls over the cataract, instead of continu ing the course as before, the channel of the river turns abruptly, at right angles to its former course, and fl>ws directly north SB4 md inviting by b\ > beauties, so com Furn id Room Suits, Ch: om the cheapest l know we sell the ;o see them. Kee] 1 our offerings* business, ttern you want a to Lake Ontario. We went from Green Island over to Goat Island, the main island that divides the river. Tne northern shore is the American side of the river.About nine-tenths of the water that roes over the falls is on the Cana dian side. The contour width of American falls is about 1060 ft, depth 167 The contour width of the Horseshoe or Canadian Falls is about 3000 ft, depth 158 ft. The American Falls have a greater elevation than the Canadian Falls for the reason, it seems, ihat the greater volume of water is on the Chinaman side, hence it iias worn the rocks more on that side than on the American side. On the return trip 1 saw it on the western side, and there you can see the whole fall at once, in front of you and on the left you see the American Falls. After the water leaps over into the gorge it turns to the right,angling a distance of seven miles and empties into Lake Ontario. A number of pleasure boats ply on the rivor. below the falls, ore of which is called the ' Maid r Ik. Miol " vu- - I ... .... iniou i c i.iiuiv ? irip up under the falls on this boat, after enveloping ourselves in a rubber coat and hat to keep from getting wet, and then went on around 1 the horse shoo falls. If it were not for those rubber suits one would get wet. It is not dangerous at all. The boat fairly rocked as it p issed through the foaniv waters. The great thing about the gorge is that the falls have been gradualy moving up the river for ages. It was once seven miles nearer Lake Ontario than now. Geologists have tried to compute the wear during a year, and estimate that it is from two to four feet a year, so that it =r? JGS I 0 ( s lying one of ie and make n = 1 iture! ^ i iffoniers?in | to the best, y Globe-Wer- g o your eyes 1 8 i CO. | ,nd we will f. ?--0 must have taken ages to have ?< reached from lake Ontario to its : present site. One curious thing receded is the geysers. You stand there and hear explosions. You see tbo?e npouts or water, those thiare constantly going up, sometimes higher and sometimes lower. As the waterfalls air is carried down by the water for a hundred or a hundred and fifty feet and air bubbles are formed winch unite under the water and as they come up to the surface they explode and the water is thrown high into the air and is perfectly while, its white appearance being caused by the air. The ilorse shoe falls is in the shape of a horse shoe, or rather it once was in thar shape. The nature of tlie erosion has caused the apex to become more V shaped. Nine tenths of the water going down on the Canadian side wears the rock more than on the American side. As the geysers hurst, water is dashed against the base of the cataract over which it falls, thereby eroding the soft shale underneath, undermining the rock above and ' this being softer than the rock above is eroded and then in the course of time the bedrock of th? river breaks oil and falls down ' below. This is the cause of tho falls gradually receding from their original position. t I had always somehow had the g idea that the Niagara Falls'was considered one of the seven wonders of the world, but I learned this summer that it is only one of the seven wonders of the United States, Ltiray Caverns and the Natural Bridge in Virginia and the Mammoth (Jave in Kentucky being among others of y( ' *