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Show Farewell Niagara. Niagara falls is threalened with destruction if the legislature of Xew York permits an impudent corporation to divert, its waters into sluices for manufacturing purposes. Already the volume of water flowing over the falls is greatly reduced by Ihe amount, taken to furnish power 1o a number of mills on the American bank, while the beauty of Ihe trpposito shore is marred by a hideous, sprawling sprawl-ing sign advertising somebody's offensive breakfast break-fast food. Twenty or thirty years ago Niagara Falls was atllicled with a gang of hind pirates, hackmen. guides, etc.. as pertinacious and pecu-lative pecu-lative as so many Pet lou in beggars, but the state drove them out of business when it mad- a reservation reserva-tion of ihe place. Yet ihey were only minor thieve-: the. corporal ions today are wholesale robbers rob-bers who would scutlle the ship after plundering it. Fuless ihe governments of the Fulled States and Creat Britain take unite! action in the matter, the noblest wonder of the world will be irretrievably irretriev-ably sacrificed lo the short-sighted greed of money. Host on Pilot. ; . |