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Excerpt from The Index Guide to Buffalo and Niagara Falls: Arranged Alfabetically Many an old resident does not know his own city well, for new things are constantly coming up outside the beaten track of his daily routine, and old things are frequently changing. For their own information and in order to be prepared to show visiting friends about the City, every family that has grown up from childhood here should have this book. Most of us who accomplish creditable things build more or less upon a foundation of others' work, and I cheerfully acknowledge indettedness to my predecessors, Dr. A. B. Floyd, author of Ins and Outs of Buffalo, (1901), and C. J. Pilkey, whose guide books aided me materially in becoming acquainted with Buffalo. The City Directory, the Evening News History of Buffalo, and the new Erie County Atlas have also furnisht information. Concerning Niagara Falls I have learnd much from the historical and descriptive book on Niagara, written about ten years ago, by the Hon. Peter A. Porter, also from the compact little pamflet of C. E. Burk, and the guide publisht by the Niagara Courier. I expect that future compilers will make similar use of my book, and they will find in it plenty of first hand information that I have personally collected and digested. I also wish to thank the officers of many institutions, societies and mercantile companies, who have furnisht information when applied to. Any other persons who can supply particulars that should be included in this Guide, are invited to send the material at once for another edition that I hope will be calld for before long. Many of the simplifications in spelling recommended by the Simplified Spelling Board are used in this book. Where scholars like Thomas R. Lounsbury, Francis A. March, Andrew D. White and Sir James Murray and men of affairs like Andrew Carnegie, Theodore Roosevelt, Lyman J. Gage and the late Justice David J.Brewer dare to lead, I dare to follow. 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.