{"id":1789,"date":"2024-03-28T19:07:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T23:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2024-03-28T19:09:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T23:09:59","slug":"niagara-falls-refuge-to-new-yorkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/niagara-falls-refuge-to-new-yorkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls, Refuge to New Yorkers [published Mar. 18, 1883]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"316\" height=\"265\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ararat.png?resize=316%2C265&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1790\" style=\"width:90px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ararat.png?w=316&amp;ssl=1 316w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ararat.png?resize=300%2C252&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ararat Historical Marker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The recent talk about turnin\u2019 Niagara Falls into a mere mill power on the one hand, or keepin\u2019 it as a perpetual show place on the other, reminds me that a once prominent New Yorker got up a big scheme in connection with Niagara. I allude to Major Noah, the old-time editor and politician, who made things lively around town in his day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Major Noah was a Jew, and avowed&nbsp; his descent and was proud of it, and not only bragged that he was a Jew, but did all he could, as far as he was concerned, to blow the horn for the Jews generally and to take all the American Jews under his special care and protection\u2013a kind of New York American champion who would utterly have annihilated Judge Hilton had he lived in his time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, Noah conceived the idea that the American Indians were really the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, and so he took a huge likin\u2019 to the whole American continent. And then he conceived the idea that it was destined to be the home of his race, and that the United States in general and New York State in particular was destined to be their new Palestine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"247\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/noah_mordecai.png?resize=247%2C337&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1791\" style=\"width:229px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/noah_mordecai.png?w=247&amp;ssl=1 247w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/noah_mordecai.png?resize=220%2C300&amp;ssl=1 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mordecai Noah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Takin\u2019 a trip to Niagara one summer with some friends, Major Noah was much struck with the appearance and position of Grand Island, just above Navy Island. It commanded a magnificent view of the Falls, was far enough removed from \u2018em at the same time, and had soil that was capable of cultivation and was quite \u201croomy,\u201d comprisin\u2019 over 18,000 acres. Altogether, it struck Noah as just the place to make a head settlement for and commencement of his new Palestine. So he entered into negotiations for its purchase, and finally perfected his arrangements, puttin\u2019 up some of his own money, too, and he began to build a city. The designs for the layin\u2019 out of the city where grand, considerin\u2019 they were drawn up half a century ago, before street railroads had been perfected. All the streets were to cross each other at right angles, and in the centre there was to be a splendid temple\u2013a miniature second edition of the grand first Temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The city was to be surrounded by high walls for defense in case of need, and the police regulations were to be excellent. There were plenty of amusements to be provided, and as for fresh air there was plenty of that, and of fresh water, right in the vicinity of the Falls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At first Major Noah thought of callin\u2019 this city \u201cthe New Jerusalem.\u201d But that was too long. Finally he hit upon \u201cArarat,\u201d and he stuck to that. The city was named in the programmes or circulars, \u201cArarat, a city of refuge for the Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Well, the name was all right and the plans for the city were all right, and the title deeds for the island itself for all right, but the Jews \u2018emselves, the parties for whom all this was designed, were not \u201call right.\u201d They didn&#8217;t enthuse worth a dollar. They rather pooh-poohed the scheme than otherwise; rather laughed at Major Noah\u2019s enthusiasm, and threw cold water on it, though, dear knows, there was enough cold water all around the island already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The rich New York Jews didn&#8217;t put their hands into their pockets as Noah hoped they would. Grand Island didn&#8217;t seem a bit \u201cgrand\u201d to \u2018em, and they didn&#8217;t propose, as one of \u2018em expressed it, \u201cto build a Noah&#8217;s Ark for that Ararat.\u201d So the kind-hearted, enthusiastic and really well-meanin\u2019 Major Noah\u2019s scheme for the final settlement of his people fell through, although the island still remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A little bit of love romance connecting\u2019 with New York may be worth relatin\u2019 in this connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A young Englishman came over here, and for some time was quite a favorite in New York society. He was rich and handsome, of good family and intelligent. He went into good society in New York, and fell in love with a young lady who lived on White street, then quite a fashionable residence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It was understood for a while that the handsome young Englishman and the young lady in White street were engaged to be married. Then for some reason or other, or perhaps without any good reason, the engagement was broken off and the young lady married somebody else. The Englishman disappeared the day after the weddin\u2019, and it was thought had returned to England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But he had not. He wandered off from New York alone, and reachin\u2019 Niagara Falls was so impressed with its beauties, that he remained there the rest of his life. He first stayed at one of the boardin\u2019 houses near the Falls, goin\u2019 to the Falls every day and every night. Then he tried to hire a house on the \u201cThree Sisters Island,\u201d but couldn&#8217;t succeed in so doin\u2019. At last he came across an old house on Iris Island which suited his fancy, and he hired that, and in that old house he lived alone for over two years, with no companions but some old books and two dogs. Then a family hired a house near his, and tried to be sociable. As that was just the very thing he didn&#8217;t want, the Englishman moved off, and built himself a sort of a hut near Prospect Point. In Summer time, of course, he lived chiefly out of doors, wanderin\u2019 around with his dogs, but in Winter he would stay in his hut, sometimes for a week at a time. He built a big fireplace in his hut, and kept up a ragin\u2019 fire, and he would solace his long, lonely evenings by singin\u2019 and playin\u2019 on the violin. He was quite friendly with any man he would meet outside of this hut, would talk splendidly, and be very entertainin\u2019. But he never asked anybody inside his hut at all, and he never was known to speak to a woman\u2013always avoided the sex\u2013transacted all his dealin\u2019s with men only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/hermithut.png?resize=640%2C365&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1792\" style=\"width:748px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/hermithut.png?w=877&amp;ssl=1 877w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/hermithut.png?resize=300%2C171&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/hermithut.png?resize=768%2C438&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He grew to love Niagara Falls. The water seemed to have taken the place of the woman he had loved and lost, and the Falls had this great advantage over any possible woman\u2013they never went back on him; they never deceived him; they were always there, and were always just what they seemed, and nothin\u2019 else. So he kept company with the Falls all the time. He never seemed afraid of \u2018em.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There was at this time an extension of a bridge near the Falls, by a single beam of timber carried out ten feet or so over the abyss of waters, over which it hung, shakin\u2019, and only guarded by a rude sort of a parapet. Most men, except a Sam Patch or a Blondin, would have been afraid to pass on this beam by day. But the handsome hermit used to pass over it in the darkness of night, and would even hang on to it by his hands, with nothin\u2019 but his fingers between him and eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/francisabbott.png?resize=640%2C499&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/francisabbott.png?w=926&amp;ssl=1 926w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/francisabbott.png?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jerrykuntz.org\/harryhill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/francisabbott.png?resize=768%2C599&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Horseshoe Falls, Niagara<\/em> by Sir James E. Alexander. Francis Abbott can be seen dangling over the falls in upper left.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He also used to be very fond of goin\u2019 bathin\u2019&#8211;used to bathe every day. One day in June\u2013one rather chilly day, by the by\u2013a man employed by the ferry company saw the handsome hermit go into the water, from which he never came out alive. Probably he had been seized by a fit of cramps caused by the chilliness of the waters. At any rate he drowned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The next day the people searched for his body and found it in the Whirlpool Rapids. There it was tossed about, to and fro, and apparently strugglin\u2019 just as if it was still alive. It would appear for awhile, then disappear, then appear somewhere else again, as if it was really alive and divin\u2019 and strugglin\u2019 with the waters, a live corpse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It was a strange and fearful sight, and was continued for two days and two nights. The third day the people got hold of the body, which was nothin\u2019 now but a battered heap of mangled flesh and broken bones. But as soon as they took the body to the hut near Prospect Point the faithful dogs recognized it as their master\u2019s at once, and howled piteously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; They buried the once handsome hermit near his hut. His real name was Francis Abbott, and he was the son of an English clergyman. Some of the children of the lady he was to have married are livin\u2019 in this city. 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