Asa Gray. Alex. Agassiz. W. D. Howells. Charles Eliot Norton. F. J. Child. Horatio Seymour. E. D. Morgan. Thurlow Weed. John Jay. George W. Schuyler. Charles Francis Adams. Martin Brimmer. Edward C. Potter. Newbold Le Roy. Charles Russell Hone. James P. Lowrey. Theodore Weston. Henry D. Sedgwick. F. F. Marbury. G. N. Stoughton. Royal Phelps. John T. Terry. Albert B. Laning. F. W. Henshaw. Joseph Hickson. C. J. Seargent. Walter Shanley. Wolfeston Thomas. George Hague. W. J. Patterson. J. R. Gillis. Thomas Davidson. D. L. McDougall. W. H. Beard. W. A. Merry. Thomas Lyman. James B. M. Chipman. G. H. Massey. N. J. McGillevray. J. Penfold. James Dakers. John H. R. Molson. James F. D. Black. Maurice S. Baldwin. James A. McLeod. John Crawford. Andrew Robertson. Edward Sullivan. O. C. Edwards. John Fletcher. S. P. Avery. Daniel S. Appleton. R. T. Routh. John F. Ross. George A. Drummond. And 400 other citizens of Canada and the United States. 2d March, 1880. It would seem as if such sentiment, expressed by such a body of petitioners, would have been regarded as almost mandatory upon the authorities at Albany, but unfortunately, the auspices were not favorable for Niagara legislation under the new administration inaugurated January 1, 1880. Governor Cornell did not regard the memorial with approval, and when the Niagara bill was brought forward in the Legislature again in 1881, its friends deemed it good policy not to press the measure to a vote. A CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION. The advocates of the Niagara Reservation now settled down to a deliberate and carefully planned campaign of education by means of public addresses, pamphlets and newspaper articles. And it is proper in passing, to acknowledge the inestimable services rendered by the public press. The principal newspapers represented the most progressive thought on this subject, and were powerful agents in developing and moulding public opinion. They readily threw their columns open to communications designed to forward the movement, and Mr. Olmsted and Mr. Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard University, had little difficulty, early in 1881, in arranging for the publication in New York and Poston of a series of descriptive letters, written from Niagara Falls, with a view to arousing public attention to the danger of the oblitera |