A Souvenir of Niagara Falls, showing Summer and Winter views of Niagara Falls and their . reached in the boiling caldron below. So precipitoui is the rocky bottom of the stream that the water reaches a speed oftwenty-seven miles an hour and coming in contact with the great bowlders below are dashed into foaming billows, leaping aloft from twenty to thirty feei abovethe level of the river, whose roar and noise of conflict is beyond description. Swift and tierce as these waters are. in 1861 the original little steamer Maid ofthe Mist was safely navigated from the foot of the falls
A Souvenir of Niagara Falls, showing Summer and Winter views of Niagara Falls and their . reached in the boiling caldron below. So precipitoui is the rocky bottom of the stream that the water reaches a speed oftwenty-seven miles an hour and coming in contact with the great bowlders below are dashed into foaming billows, leaping aloft from twenty to thirty feei abovethe level of the river, whose roar and noise of conflict is beyond description. Swift and tierce as these waters are. in 1861 the original little steamer Maid ofthe Mist was safely navigated from the foot of the falls to lake Ontario. C. A. Perry of Niagara Falls, built a life boat for the purpose of making a trip andsucceeded in going through safely. Two attempts have been made to swim the Rapids, one was successful; but the other. Captain Webb, an English crank, whohad swam the English Channel, lost his life July 24, 1863, in attempting to swim the Niagara Rapids. Several others have gone through successfully in barrelsand other contrivances built for the purpose. ^1 1 ^^^Bii. i!S^^tt:^W^£i^flH^^^.B^fl^h^k^^^. THE /SEW STEEL ARCH DRIDQE. The New Steel Arch Bridge built in i8g8 to take the place of the Ohi Suspeusiou I-<Mit Bi idge close (.i the Falls, extending from Prospect Park on theAmerican side to Victoria Park on the Canadian side, a distance of 126S feet from bank to bank, and 190 feet above the surface of the water. This is the longestsingle arch bridge in the world by 302 feet. The width is 49 feet. In the center is a double trolley track, at each side of the trolley an 8-foot drive way and (uuside of that an elevated walk 3 feet wide for pedestrians. Farther on can be seen the milling district. Not many years ago Niagara Falls and SuspensionBridge. were two separate villages, their combined population not exceeding 10,000; to-day they are one city with a population of about 30,000. The recentdevelopment of her great water power has given her an enviable reputation as a
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