Show FEAR FOR NIAGARA VOLUME OF WATER IMMENSE DIVERTED FROM FALLS commercial Enterprises are Making This Famous Show PlaceIts Heavy Drains Tremendous on Electrical power the Inducement Falls August 7Tho Niagara of water being diverted volume the historic Niagara Falls is from reaching such proportions that tho of the State are trying to pass people which will prevent tho poss bll laws wiping out of this Ity of a practical sublime natural spectacle Water sufficient to develop nearly hundred thousand horsepower five continuously entyfour hours per for Industrial purposes Is now day the belDK taken from the river above further developments reQuiring Tails and quiring more water are contemplated Probably the largest user of the electricity produced by the waters of tho mighty river is the concern which by the Jive or six thousand degree brings heat of tho electric furnace lime and coke Into unwilling union thereby producing what Is known as I Calcium Carbide Dry calcium carbide Is lifeless as so much broken rock but In contact with water It springs Into activity and begets abundantly the gas Acetylene The light resulting from the Ignition of acetylene Is the nearest approach to sunlight known These facts though of comparatively compara-tively recent discovery were soon seized by men with an eye to tho com merclal possibilities and today calcium cal-cium carbide Is being shipped everywhere every-where and used for dispelling darkness dark-ness in buildings of all descriptions from the ordinary barn of the farmer to the country villa of the wealthy as well as for lighting the streets of a lane number of towns Acetyleno can be easily and cheaply Installed and the manufacture and sale of acetylene generators has become a business of recognized standing hat assumed large proportions and Is steadily growing |