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Niagara Falls. NIAGARA FALLS Compliments of the Chamber of Commerce Niagara Falls, New York >7 C '"• b J U Qomplimcnbs oF hhc "s (j^bambGP oF QorptTiGrGc. FOR A COPY OF ... FOR A COPY OF . Cutter's Guide . Cutter's Guide . TO HOT SPRINGS To MT. CLEMENS, T»E of ARKANSAS, MICHIGAN, . SEND TO THE . SEND TO H. C. TOWNSEND, W. E. DAVIS, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE or CHAMBER OF COMMERCE or p. T. A., Mo. Fa. Ky., A.. Trnnk Ry., G. and <" G. P. and T. Grand Of that City. to Of that City. ST. LOUIS, MO. MONTREAl, P. Q. FOR A COPY OF ... FOR A COPY OF ... , . Cutter's Guide . Cutter's Guide TO THE . TVVINERT^I- inlELLS. TEXHS. CITY OI= iA^T^^CO, TEXMS. SEND TO . SEND TO W. A. TOMPSON, M. D., of that City. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE of that City. NIAGARA FALLS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Organized, December J 7th, J 895. Incorporated, May 26th, 1897. oi^i^iCE;r^s iH^OFi isqt. \Vm. S. HL'MBERT, Frhsidrnt, A. H. G. H AKDWICKE. 3d. Vice President, ASHER T. CUDABACK. 1st. Vice President, FRANK E. JOHNSON, Treasurer, E. H. STEWART, 2nd. Vice President, II. W. BEAKDSLEV, Skcret.^rv. BOARD OF TRUSTEES. JOHN J. .M.^rlNTlKE, KICM AKIi WILLI. \MSOX, lOHN M. HANCOCK, L.\WRENCE DA\ IS, JOHN C. LEVEL. TstDIlVIG CO^^MITP'TEMS^. General and Local Legis- Advertising and Publica- Public Improvements : Insurance and Local Assess- lation : tion : .\iu;i.'srus Thihai in;Ar, ments : W. Reed, . W. Tho.m.^.s \ Welch, Franklin |. MalKenna, James F. Murphy, E. Burleson, J.\me.s J. Mahonev, Ernest H. Wands, Wm. WaValter p. Horne, James Low, James W. Canavan, Adolf Rose, Geo. W. Knox. L. A.. Groat. W. Caryl Ely, 1. J. Forbes King, A. B. Wentwokth, M. Maloney. Edw. O. Babcock. Wm. J. RoBiDi). Convention and Entertain- Manufacturing : River and Harbor ; ment : Local and Mercantile Inter- .\ndrew I)u key, ests: J. C. Morc^an, W. H. Barnes, .\RTHUR SCHOELLKOI'F, H. A. Fram is, Wm. A. Br.ackenridge, William Rankine, W. A. Iameson. Max .\MBEk(,, B. S. R. Desbecker, Louis Silperherg, Wallace C.Johnson, Benj. J. Thurston. C. N. Owen, W.\lter Jonf.s, Edward T. Williams. John E. Devereaux. Joseph R. White. Railroads and Transpor- Dr. Wm. R. Campbell. Real Estate: tation : Statistics : Thomas G.askin, F. K. Paddcick, N. L. Benham, .'\rthur N. .^llen, N. J. Bowker, Rev. L. a. Mitchell, jAs. S. Sim.mons, los. K. Brooks, Dr. W. a. Scott, JOHN C. LAMMERTS, David Isaacs, H. C. Spencer, John C. Stricker. L L Van .Allen. W. J. S. COWDRICK. MEMBERS OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, Niagara Falls, N. Y. Allen, A. N. DOHERTV, C, lOS. Level, J. C. Phelps, Chester R. Amberg, Max Devine, Ios, p. LOH\ J as. Pierce, F, L Arison. W. H. DoBBiE, John Lennon, John AcHESON. Ed. G. Dill, C. \V. Lawrence, S, J, 1. E. Allen, F. J. Deitrick, L. .Arthur Lammerts, J. C. Rock, Lanigan, Dr. I. .A. Rankine. \V. B. Lamgan, R. W. Rose, .Adolf Butler, M. B. Ely, W. Caryl Lautz, F. C. M. Reed. \V. W. Belden. ¥. C. La.mont, \V, L. Rice, Ierome B. Bowker. X. J. robido. \v. j. V, Banks, J as. Flagler, Benj. Rickert, .Aug. Brackenridge, W. .\. Ferguson, W. S. McDoa\ell, Thos. Bell Telephone Co. Francis, H. A. McBean, H. \V. Barber .Asphalt Paving Co, McCULLOH, Walter Silberberg, L. S. Barnes, W. H. McG.\rigle. T, E. schoellkopf. .arthur borter, c. m. Gaskin, Thos. McDonald, J. F. S.^NDsTRUM, John Barclay, \V. H. Gassler, \V. F, Sr. McBride, H. T. Smythe, C. H. Blrleson, \V. E. MacIntire, h Spencer, S. B. Bennett, W. Gro.^t, L. .a. J. J. g. e, Mackenna, E. J. Salt, F. H, Benham, N. L. gouraud, Morgan, J. C. SiMMO.VS. l.\S. S. Brooks, Jos. K, Mackenn.\. F. J Stewart, E. H, Babcock, E. O, Mitchell, Rev. L. .A. Scott, Dr. W. A. bostwick, j. m. h.^stings, .a. c. Murphy, J. F. Spencer, H. C. Humbert, \V. S. Mahonev, Jas. J. Stricker, J. C. Howard, H. C. MORAN, W. A. Gary, Eugene Hough, Dr. \V. D. Moore, S. I. CoHN, Morris Handcock, |. M. campbell, d. w. Maloney, M Thibaude.au, .Aug. HORNE, \V. p. Mackenna. C. F. Taylor, R. A. Campbell, AV. R. .Alfred E. Hunt, noblett, j. e. Thurston, Benj. F. CUDAB.iCK, .A. T. HOBBS, Fr.ank C. Tench, W. E. Canavan. J. W. H.\rdwicke, .a. H. G. cowdrick, w. j. s. Owen, C. N. Curtis, F. E. Urban, Geo. Jr. Ohrt, Chas. Collins, D, C. Isaacs. David ). Oliver, F. A\ . A'an .Allen, I. I. Dickey. .Andrexv ].\MESON, \V. .A. Dudley, F, A. Porter, .A. H. Wands, E. H. Davis, Lawrence lONNSON, F. E. Pettebone. L. \V. Williams, E. T, Davis, Charles loNEs, Walter Paddock. F. K. White, Jas. R. \V. Deseecker, S. R. Johnson, C. Porter. \'. M. WiLLi.\>isoN, Richard Dennison, a. C. Porter. .A. J. Welch, Thos. A'. Davy, A. Phelps, C. R. Winters, H. O. Devereaux, John E, King, I. 1. F, Perkins. J. E. Walker, .A. J. Dickerson, H. J. Kaltenbach, .Andrew Pease, A. L. Wentworth, .a. B. Deitrick, S. K, Knox, G. \V, Pfohl, P. p. Worthington, D. B. » Treasurer t,-> The American Falls from the Canadian Shore. Niagara Kalls, Tl^e Grecitest Electric and Power City of tlie World. NIAGARA FALLS AS A MANUFACTURING AND RAILROAD CENTER. BB|^^33 H I L E Niagara Falls is especially wealthy in water erate their factories, but the raw material they use is laid down wKmSfl and electric power, which play such essential parts at their factory doors at the lowest freight rates, while the nVUHvj in the success of any industrial city, and while its product of their plants is placed on the markets of the world |r |MwPj scenic features are all that could lie desired to make at a low rate by the same e.xcellent freight facilities. The »S3fflfiJ living in its \'icinity pleasant, it enjoys marked dis- combination of cheap power and low freight rates is one that tinction for the unexcelled shipping facilities it affords. The gives the Niagara Falls manufacturer a peculiar advantage on great secret of Niagara's recent growth must not be at- the markets, for he finds a margin of profit where others fail. tributed to its power development and its scenic beauty alone, It requires but a cursory review of Niagara's rail and water for there are many places in the world where power is un- routes to con\ ince all that it possesses remarkable advantages developed and where the scenery is sublime, which are almost as a shipping point. For years Niagara Falls has been recog- if not cjuite unknown. The reason for this is found in the nized as a great excursion point, and the people of all sections fact that these places are so remote from civilization that of the country know how humanity pours into Free Niagara by they are untou<hed by railroads and steamboat lines, which the thousands, Ijut few of these people stop to think that afl add so much to the value of a place for manufacturing or the great trunk lines that run excursions to Niagara Falls also residence purposes. Located as is Niagara Falls, midway run long freight trains to and from the same point. It is very between the productive West and the consuming East, it offers doubtful if another city in the world, of the same size as Niag- distinct achantages as a receiving and a distributing point. ara Falls, has such extensixe rail connections. No less than Not only do manufacturers located at Niagara Falls find it pos- ten great railroad lines, running north, east, south and west, sible to secure cheap and unceasing power with which to op- make it a common center for receiving and exchanging passen- Horseshoe Fall and Islands, from Canada. Rers and freight. Where there is such a gathering of railroad be m.ule in this same field of improxement. Canal boats come interests, it is easy to conceive, and also to believe, that there is down the river from the Erie Canal at Tonawanda to the Falls eager competition for lousiness, resulting in the manufacturer to discharge and receive freight, thus affording a cheap and getting the best possible rates on Viis freight. If there is one desirable water connection for shipping purposes. The boats thing of which Niagara Falls is proud, it is of the railroads "of the Niagara Navigation Company run up the Niagara River which ha\e found it almost essential to their existence to gain to Lewiston, which is but a few miles below Niagara Falls, and entrance to the citv. All the trains of the New York Central freight can be shipped to all Canadian and Lake Ontario points & Hudson River Railroad, "America's Greatest Railroad," the by this route. One of the recent notable steps Niagara Falls West Shore, the Michigan Central, the Grand Trunk, the has taken is the appointment of a Board of Harbor Commis- Lehigh \'alley, the Erie, the Lake .Shore, the R. W. & O., the sioners to carry out plans for securing and improving the nec- Canadian Pacific, and those of the Wabash lines pass through essary land under water on the Niagara River aboxe the P'alls or very close to both of the great manufacturing districts of for the building of a large and safe harbor, which will offer the Niagara Falls, and their tracks offer freight connections to all safest and best facilities for all kind of craft.
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