. A state park plan for New York, with a proposal for the new park bond issue. Parks. A memorial to our soldiers and sailors of this charactez would attain world wide fame; and if, following this, the two reservations along the Niagara river, American and Canadian, can be united by a great memorial bridge, the grand project would seem to be complete. The principal features of this plan, so far as develoj>ed by the Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara are shown in an act introduced in the legislature in 1921 and pre- viously. This act provided for tlie financing of the project b
. A state park plan for New York, with a proposal for the new park bond issue. Parks. A memorial to our soldiers and sailors of this charactez would attain world wide fame; and if, following this, the two reservations along the Niagara river, American and Canadian, can be united by a great memorial bridge, the grand project would seem to be complete. The principal features of this plan, so far as develoj>ed by the Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara are shown in an act introduced in the legislature in 1921 and pre- viously. This act provided for tlie financing of the project by means of an annual charge or rental imposed on new water ]30wer. NIAGARA FALLS developed at Niagara Falls since 1918. The same objects could be attained more rapidly by means of a bond issue, followed by direct appropriations. The plaii in brief is to enlarge the State Reservation at Niagara and to create and add to it a system of memorial river- ways and reserves, extending along the Niagara river from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, and connecting Port Porter with Fort Niagara, consisting of parks and public places reserved because of their beauty and commanding position for the free use of the public, connected by north and south memorial river- ways and with suitable structures thereon, all of which shall 37. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York state association. Committee on state park plan. [New York, M. B. Brown printing & binding co. ]
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