. The street railway review . tic work succeeded in enlisting the enthusiasticinterest of a number of leading men of New York, Buffalo andNiagara Falls, with the result that in June of the following yeara company was incorporated under the Business Corporation Actof New York, with a capital of $50,000. The intention was thaithis company would do the preliminary work necessary to enlista wider interest in the enterprise, after which the scope of thecompany would be extended. Among the officers of this corpora-tion were Roswell P. Flower, former governor of New York;Chauncey M. Depew; a number o
. The street railway review . tic work succeeded in enlisting the enthusiasticinterest of a number of leading men of New York, Buffalo andNiagara Falls, with the result that in June of the following yeara company was incorporated under the Business Corporation Actof New York, with a capital of $50,000. The intention was thaithis company would do the preliminary work necessary to enlista wider interest in the enterprise, after which the scope of thecompany would be extended. Among the officers of this corpora-tion were Roswell P. Flower, former governor of New York;Chauncey M. Depew; a number of steam railroad capitalists, andJohn M. Brinker, W. Caryl Ely, Herbert P. Bissell, George and other prominent street railway men of Buffalo andNiagara Falls. The company immediately set about outlining the plans necessaryfor launching the enterprise. Cayuga Island, a picturesque spotin the Niagara River, four miles above the falls, was selected asthe exposition site. Plans for the buildings, architectural feature.^,. Monumeat to Red IN THE CITY OF BUFFALO. State Square. Niagara River. Visitors to the Pan-American Exposition willhave an opportunity of visiting under the most advantageous con-ditions, the great American and Canadian cataracts, the islandsabove the falls, the gorge, and the bcautifttl State Reservation,and perchance after wearied of viewing the diversified handiworkof man displayed at the fair, it will be a pleasing and restfulchange to turn lor a time to the stupendous works of Nature. To the late James G. Blaine belongs the distinction of havingfirst broached the subject of drawing more closely the social an,1commercial tics uniting the Republic states of North and SouthAmerica by holding an All-America Exposition, wherein couldbe gathered representative exhibits of arts, manufactures andproducts of the soil and mines from the two continents of the NewWorld. The suggestion took definite shape at a banquet held inconjuncti
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