Excerpt from In Assembly, March 12, 1906: Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara To the Honorable Legislature of the State of New York: The Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara, as required by law, submit their report for the year begun October 1, 1904, and ended September 30, 1905. A Million Visitors. In no normal year since the creation of the Reservation has popular appreciation of this great scenic preserve of the State of New York been so manifest as it has been during the twelve months just closed. Owing to the freedom of access to the Reservation and the lack of means for providing turnstiles and gate-men, even if desired, we have no means of making an actual count of the number of visitors, but careful estimates made by the Superintendent warrant us in stating that during the past year no less than 1,000,000 persons, from all parts of the world, visited Niagara. This is the largest number in any normal year in the history of the Reservation, having been exceeded only by the attendance of 3,000,000 during the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901. There can be no more eloquent testimony than these figures as to the place which the Falls of Niagara hold in the interest of the world, nor a more convincing justification of the wisdom of the Legislature of the State in creating and maintaining this free Reservation for the edification of the people. Notwithstanding the enormous responsibility of caring for the comfort and safety of so many persons, the year has passed without a single mishap or instance of serious disorder. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.