. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. St. Valentine's Day Token. Gilded Heart of Jaii:Hiese Frieze with Sweetheart Roses aud Lily of the Valley. You can't take half the water out of Niagara Falls without drying up the American falls. They are partly dry now," said the witness, with acerbity. "Well," replied Senator Thompson, in a similar tone, "Niagara Falls is Ex- hibit A in this inquiry and will always be on tap to prove or disprove your as- ; President McFardland said that, when he visited the Falls about five or s
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. St. Valentine's Day Token. Gilded Heart of Jaii:Hiese Frieze with Sweetheart Roses aud Lily of the Valley. You can't take half the water out of Niagara Falls without drying up the American falls. They are partly dry now," said the witness, with acerbity. "Well," replied Senator Thompson, in a similar tone, "Niagara Falls is Ex- hibit A in this inquiry and will always be on tap to prove or disprove your as- ; President McFardland said that, when he visited the Falls about five or six weeks ago, he had found the scen- ery less impressive than it had been on his earlier visits. He was asked to give an estimate in figures to define the shrinkage in the volume of water and the decline in scenic beauty. "You cannot put your love for your wife into ; said Mr. McFarland, archly. "I found the Bridal Veil con- siderably thinner than it had been on former visits. I found dry spots on the crest of the American falls. From 300 to 500 feet was so dry that you could have walked over it. Fifty-two thousand cubic feet per second are di- verted now-^almost 25 per cent of the total volume that once flowed over the ledges. You get an idea of the volume diverted when you stand on the Iron Bridge and watch, below, the exhaust from the power plants on either side. It would be an insult to your intelli- gence to suggest that all that water could be taken out without reducing the scenic beauty of ; The witness said that Canada had "four-flushed" the United States when the treaty was made and that the Province of Ontario was the chief bene- ficiary from what the witness insisted on calling "the wanton destruction of ; "You cannot have Niagara as a scenic spectacle and as a producer of power at the same time," Mr. McFar- land said. It was Assemblyman Simon P. Quick of Broome county who brought the dis- inte
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