Show it I 1 NEARBY g I 1 AND by I 1 T T YONDER maxey the cabildo p no bu idling in nw or leans holds moie interest for the strange tha the that solid dignified structure of unquestioned ancient origin built of adobe and shell lime two stories high with a mansard roof the guide informs us that it was so named from the council sat liere un ler rule alien it was the government house or palace of and that it was put up in 17 5 A tablet that here in the formal transfer cf the of louisiana from spain to france also from frame to the united states took place that the marquis de 1 a fayette resided her in 1825 as a guest of the city also that later the main room on the second bloor was used by the supreme court cf louisiana in this same room it Is said was held the first protestant church service conducted in the state of louisiana the courtyard was used as a prison yard foi more than a century the remains of the old pillory may ae seen as well as the bullet holes in the walls executions having occurred heie as late as 1830 this historic building also played a prominent role in more recent days here a reception was given to dent mckenley in 1001 and the cen tennial celebration of the louisiana purchase was held in 1903 still well preserved this old build ing now houses the state museum a collection of intensely interesting rel acs ics of early days including the death mask of the gibat napoleon sunshine at night FOR generations of time that noted spot where a mighty river spreads its waters over the broad sharp edge of a ricly cliff and jumps off into space with a thundering roar only to be clothed in mist and caught up in a basin acu feet below has been one of the great sights of america the stupendous cataract of magara has its moods and until one has seen it as the sun announces a new day as the setting sun its waters with gold when its d waters glisten in the moons rays during high water when its flow Is prodigious and when the icy hand of winter has stiffened its liquid form into a fairyland of ice he has not really seen it in the broader sense nemai kable as the contributions ot natures benefactors have made it mans ingenuity has added another rare beauty to its charms one en beyond the conception of thoe afo have not yet beheld it termed sunshine at ight A battery of super powerful search lights trained from across the river on both the crest and tall resurrects their forms from their nightly dark and causes them to blaze forth in a veritable dream picture mor Is that all through the manipulation of numerous colored screens these trem blang waters can be transformed into a kaleidoscope of color unequaled elsewhere in this world a scene which once beheld cannot be completely for gotten wall street WALL street came by its name from the fact that along about 1052 as a protection against possible attack from hostile indians or colonists the adjoining dutch settlement the original new york constructed a or wall immediately to the north of the city near the present of this now world famous street As time went on houses appeared and a new street which naturally was named wll was ushered into exist ence this newcomer in street dom gradually became a high hat elal thoroughfare and remained so until along about the close of the revola flonary war buildings having to do with govern mental affairs also stood here among them hiie colonial city hall which remodeled became federal hall and bened as the first capalto building of the jolted states of america here it was thai george washington was inaugurated president dent alie presence of the government buildings acted as a magnet to the financial enst of the day and the ien erins in this area of the banks of alie gradually got under way finally in the lion here of the present day uarl und powerful group of which have ade it the great elnan rial anter cn ter of the atlon and one rf the ant aked about streets in all th world ts prominence and strange na it anny seem wall street hn fl Kra trinity at its head and i aler dinst nt its foot Is very narrow and only about one fourth of a mile in length 1928 western newspaper anlon |