IMPROVING NATURE AT NIAGARA.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 78, 28 September 1907, Page 13

IMPROVING NATURE AT NIAGARA.

On the 14 th August, says the Westminster Gazette, for the first lime on so stupendous a scale, man joins forces with Nature to enhance the gr. an " deur of ' th-s Falls of Niagara, and fifty imm«nao electric searchlights located below tho falls, each capable 01 projecting its light 100 mile? 1 , vull light up the mighty cascades of j ronring water. Attached to each searchlight is a- new invention for creating exc^uieito scintillating colour effects, which will in turn light up every portion of the great falls, and when flashed in tho air the beams of coloured light are oxpoctsd to.be visible on the Canadian side of tho falls beyond Toronto. This sp«vtaclo is intended as compensation for tho partial spoliation of Niagara itself by tho utilisation of its mighty flow of water for power purpose.", and' tho searchlights themselves tire fed with energy previously abstracted from the river above ths. falls. American engineers havo calculated that before the power companies got to work 224,000 cubic fe-at of water passed over th© two fulls every second, and, making allowance for the difference of elevation of the sills of the American and Canadian Falls, it is estimated that should tho How be reduced to 180,000 cubic feet per second tho American falls will become "a weakly, thin, white apron of water, and Iho great cadence lose its glory." As tho Canadian companies operating at the falls ar£ authorised to extract a maximum of 32,000 cubic feet per second, ths two American companies about one-half that amount, the American falls doomed. In a rcc-ently-issued protest ngainst this commercialism the Stato Gsoligist of New York said : "Electric searchlights in all tho colours tot the rainbow dancing over the remaining waters i\tu never coinpomvitc us for our loss."

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