BUFFALO'S WONDER OF WONDERS.
NOT all visitors to the Buffalo Exposition will appreciate the fact that its wonder of wonders is not within but without its gates—in the streets of Buffalo itself. Every time they board a trolley car in the Exposition city, they go riding with Niagara. The traction company has hitched its cars to the great cataract, fifteen miles away, and every nickel it collects is based on power extracted from those mighty waters. Likewise at night, when the Exposition and the city are made radiant with thousands of lamps, reflected in all the colors of the rainbow, Niagara is the lamplighter. The electric company turns on all its currents from the big power-house back of the vast torrent. Niagara is literally the power that runs Buffalo by day and rules it by night. And the wonder of wonders for Exposition visitors to think about is that there is energy still left untapped in those mighty falls equal to the latent power in 200,000 tons of coal per day. And the plans are already drawn by engineers for harnessing it. Niagara is a power-house of continental capacity.