. Review of reviews and world's work. se-power was asserted by thesigners of the gentlemen, Mr. McFarland, presi-dent of the AmericanCivic Association, and Whitman, presi-dent of the Merchants As-sociation of New York,have l)een leaders in crys-tallizing this public senti-ment into legislative deeds. But the falls are in no danger is a state-ment often printed, and often backed up by ridi-cule of the many errors in amateur engineeringfigures on the Niagara peril. The State Depart-ment, it is true, will not proceed with treatynegotiations until it gets the a
. Review of reviews and world's work. se-power was asserted by thesigners of the gentlemen, Mr. McFarland, presi-dent of the AmericanCivic Association, and Whitman, presi-dent of the Merchants As-sociation of New York,have l)een leaders in crys-tallizing this public senti-ment into legislative deeds. But the falls are in no danger is a state-ment often printed, and often backed up by ridi-cule of the many errors in amateur engineeringfigures on the Niagara peril. The State Depart-ment, it is true, will not proceed with treatynegotiations until it gets the authoritative mapand data now being worked up by an interna-tional waterways commission. Statistics exist,however, which are approved by disinterestedand well-informed hydraulic engineers. Therefollows an attempt to summarize these figures,and to present the parts played by Congress, bythe Dominion of Canada, by New York State, bythe engineering profession, and by the commonpeople in settling the fate of our most wonder-ful Canada to Uncle y.\M : Musi it come to this? Lets do the Herald (Boston). INTERNATIONAL AID FOR NIAGARA. 433 Real danger faces the American fall. Rightshave been granted to half-a-dozen power compa-nies to suck away from above the great cataractabout feet of water-flow per second,—nearly one-quarter of the whole volume of theriver (224,000 feet per second). This is enoughto reduce our fall permanently to such a ghost ofitself as is pictured on page 434,—an abnormalcondition produced by ice and by easterlywinds, which piled Lake Eries waters higher atits upper end and lowered the Niagara outlet. Although four of the six operating powercompanies are on the Canadian side, the Cana-dian, or Horseshoe, fall, because of its sev-eral times greater vol-ume, would not ebb ap-preciably until ours hadquite faded from sight. THE MISCHIEF DONE. Defense is being pre-pared by Niagaras nat-ural guardians. The NewYork State Legislaturehas
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