. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, such a parking scheme, and its accomplishment would complete the boule-vard connection between Niagara Falls and Queenston. Aerial Tramway. The Niagara Spanish Aerocar Company sought permission to erect a shelterbuilding at the Thompsons Point terminal of the aerial tramway, and the right toconduct a general souvenir and restaurant business, but it was decided in the in-terests of the public to operate the concessions required by tourists as a departmentof the Park at an early date. In the meantime the Company was allowed to sellsouvenirs temporarily
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, such a parking scheme, and its accomplishment would complete the boule-vard connection between Niagara Falls and Queenston. Aerial Tramway. The Niagara Spanish Aerocar Company sought permission to erect a shelterbuilding at the Thompsons Point terminal of the aerial tramway, and the right toconduct a general souvenir and restaurant business, but it was decided in the in-terests of the public to operate the concessions required by tourists as a departmentof the Park at an early date. In the meantime the Company was allowed to sellsouvenirs temporarily in the terminals of the cableway. The roadway extension from the northerly limit of the City of NiagaraPalls to Colts Point, to provide better access to the tramway, was considered andplanned, but when the larger project of opening up connection to Queenston byco-operating with the Hydro-Electric Power Commission became a possibility,it was decided to make this part of the more extensive scheme, and, therefore,construction was not 1918 PARK COMMISSION. 13 lu the Thirtj-First Annual Report, mention was made of the difficultiesunder which the Aerocar Company had labored since the date of its agreementand the difficulties experienced in building the plant. It was also stated that theCompany had been relieved of rentals to the extent of seventeen Inindrcd andfifty ($1,750) dollars owing to the various delays which had occurred in makingthe cableway revenue producing. The Company made further representationduring 1917, submitting returns to show that the operation of the concession woxildnot only be unprofitable, but entirely impossible with the present scale of in the month of May, and during the negotiations, the representa-tive of the Spanish Company, Antonio Balzola, died quite suddenly, leaving thecorporation without representation in Canada to authoritatively proceed with thematter. It was proposed on behalf of the Company that the minimum rental,
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