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BUFFALO
"THE QUEEN CITY OF THE LAKES"
By ROWLAND B. MAHANY
Few cities of the United States have a history
more picturesque than Buffalo, or
more typical of the forces that have made the
Republic great. At the time of the adoption
of the Federal constitution, in 1787, not a single
white settler dwelt on the site of what is
now the Queen of the Lakes; and it was not
until after the second presidency of Washington,
that Joseph Ellicott, the founder of Buffalo,
laid out the plan of the town, which he
called New Amsterdam. Ellicott was a man
of great ability, force and foresight, and with
prophetic vision he saw the future importance
of the city, which is now the fourth commercial
entrepôt of the world. He had been the
assistant of his brother, Andrew Ellicott, the
first Surveyor General of the United States;
