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Show "i Y' ' - 1 v , V v I 4 ! x ' - t ' ' ' ' i - ' , ' ' - 4 ' : M ' 1 , ' ' ' y',' , , ; w ' " - ' t r t ff , ; 'ft', f ' - 1 -i , J A New York State Glove Factory. Prepared hy National Geographic Society, VVashlnetun, U. C. WNU ServlM. AKKC10NT census report reveals re-veals that New York state has 09 cities with a normal population popu-lation of more than 10,000 each, of which seven stand In the 100,000 class and six In the 50,000 class. New York city has more than half the population of the whole state. Buffalo, the metropolis of Erie county, coun-ty, with Its splendid system of parks connected by drives, boulevards and parkways, ranks ninth among the industrial in-dustrial centers of the United States and Is one of the ten leading ports of the world, although It lies at the foot of an Inland lake. No one could visit Rochester, with Its falls, Its beautiful parks, and its busy Industries, without agreeing that here Is one of America's most livable cities. Rochester makes enough "movie" film every year to belt the earth eight times. Kodak park has to "cook" four tons of silver every week, transforming it into nitrate of silver to make the emulsion for the films and photographic paper Eastman produces. Nearly 7,000,000 pounds of cotton Unters go into the making of film, and there is a saying that on the smooth side film Is first cousin to cotton and on the emulsion side cou-Bin-german to sterling silverware. Clealiness must be next to godliness when motion-picture film is made. A speck on Greta Garbo's nose or a splotch on Mary Plckford's cheek would ruin a picture. So the smokestacks smoke-stacks of Kodak Park are among the . highest in America, and 20,000,000 gallons gal-lons of water a day are pumped out of Lake Ontario. The gelatine on your film Is as chemically pure as that in the dessert on your dinner table. It Is an Impressive sight to see Bausch and Lomb melting tons of sand, mixed with chemicals according to the most accurate of formulae, and then pouring the great pots of white-hot white-hot liquid upon a table and rolling It into the giant pancakes from which come most of the spectacles of Amer-' ica. For forty years the two founders found-ers of this concern toiled away before their business began to grow. But now Bausch and Lomb are known the world around and have one of the largest optical works on earth. Syracuse Is a radiant city in a beautiful beau-tiful land. Salt gave Syracuse its start, but today the community takes rank as one of the most versatile in America. Famed for its typewriters, air-cooled automobiles, office furniture, furni-ture, and other nationally used products, prod-ucts, Syracuse is also distinctive as the capital of the Six Nations. Here the sachems of the several tribes meet In "The Long House," as they met centuries cen-turies ago, to consider the problems that have changed so vastly since these powwows began. A pitiful remnant of a once mighty nation they constitute. Their reservations reserva-tions are Islands in the Jurisdiction of the State of New York. Yonkers Comes Fifth. It is doubtful whether one person In ten would guess the fifth city of New York. It is Yonkers. Adrian van der Donck, who once owned its site, was a young Dutch nobleman, or Jonkheer, and it was an easy transition transi-tion to Yonkers from Jonkheer's land. The city has some of the largest carpet factories, sugar refineries, and elevator plants in America. Few states have capitals so fortunately fortu-nately located or capitals with as rich a history. Four of New York's six Presidents have been governors of the state Van Buren, Cleveland and the two Roosevelts and have lived In Albany. Al-bany. Another son of New York who won the presidency by vote of the people, peo-ple, but lost it at the hands of the electoral commission, was Governor Samuel J. Tilden. Utica, a fair city of the Mohawk valley, is a center of the knitgoods industry in America. Schenectady made a bold bid for position among the cities of the state in the 100,000 or more population class, under the 1930 census, and came only a few thousand short. As the home of the General Electric company, com-pany, where Stelnmetz, Coolldge, and Longmulr have delved so deeply Into the mysteries of matter and have made many an apparently unfathomable secret se-cret arise to serve the needs of everyday every-day life, Schenectady has become a household word In America. Bingliainton, which is strikingly located lo-cated astride east branch of the Susquehanna, Sus-quehanna, Is making a bid for a place beside Rochester In the manufacture of photographic supplies. The shoe factories of the neighboring town of Endlcott turn out footwear known far and wide. Troy Is a mild-mannered city; but, for all that, It makes America and much of the world wear its collars. In one factory there one finds a museum of autographed collars with the signatures signa-tures of such notables as Theodore lioosevelt, Ramsay MacDonald, the Prince of Wales, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau and Admiral Togo. Four-fifths of all of the collars made in America are manufactured in this city at the head of navigation on the Hudson. Troy is also noted for shirts. ' Mark Twain's Resting Place. As one of the homes of Mark Twain, Elmira has made the world its debtor. Quarry Farm Is a shrine of New York as much as Cooperstown and Irving-ton. Irving-ton. Mark Twain's ashes rest in the local cemetery, but his spirit roams wherever people love humor. After extensive investigations, the National Glider association selected the Elmira section as the ideal spot for its annual meetings and competitions. competi-tions. With a terrain closely answering answer-ing to the needs of gliding contests and with air currents meeting the conditions required for powerless aviation, Elmira was a ready choice. A prize recently has been set up for the first racer who will make the full 166 miles from Elmira to New York city in a single glide. As the home of the American-La France fire engine factory, Elmira has given protection to almost every city in the land and has quickened the pulses of small boys who have watched fire apparatus answering an alarm. Jamestown is a famous center of metal furniture manufacture. A large colony of Scandinavian metal workers work-ers has settled there, and the annual output of the furniture factories of the city and surrounding country was valued at $27,000,000 by a recent census. cen-sus. Chautauqua county, of which Jamestown James-town is the principal city, is at once New York state's major grape-producing area and its most historic meeting place of summer religious and educational assemblies. On the shores of the beautiful lake of the same name, the Chautauqua Idea was born. It swept to the ends of the nation before be-fore its growth was arrested by the modern competition of motion pictures pic-tures and automobiles. Poughkeepsie, with her boast as the Queen City of the Hudson and her intercollegiate boat races, and Amsterdam, Am-sterdam, the second city in the world in the production of rugs and carpets, are important communities. Home Town of Five-and-Ten. Watertown, where the five-and-ten-cent-store idea was born, when Frank Woolworth persuaded a local merchant to let him set up a five-cent table In the former's department store, Is the largest city in northern New York. All Americans hold Newburgh in reverence as the place where Washington Wash-ington repelled the idea of a crown, and for its Hasbrouck house, now a state shrine, where he bade his army farewell. It is pleasant to wander up to Rome, where .old Fort Stanwix stood, for here the American flag received its baptism of fire under circumstances that will be forever heroic In the hearts of the American people. Hither came Colonel Peter Ganse-voort Ganse-voort to defend the Mohawk valley from the invasion of the British, Tories, To-ries, and Indians, who were marching to the Hudson for a junction with Burgoyne under St. Leger. Out of a commandeered white shirt, a drafted red petticoat, and an impressed blue blouse, they were able to fashion a flag of accepted design. Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, and White Plains, triple towns of Westchester; West-chester; Auburn, Ithaca, and Geneva, a triad of gems that bedeck the Finger Lakes; Corning, with Its plants specializing spe-cializing In high grade glass; Glovers-ville, Glovers-ville, with Its hundred glove factories; Oswego, with Its dreams of becoming the Great Lakes gateway to the Hudson Hud-son ; Oneida, with Its striking organization organiz-ation that has made Community silver famous throughout America; Cortland that overlooks most cities In the state in point of elevation all of these municipalities bear witness to the versatility ver-satility of the Empire state and prove that the esthetic and the Industrial can march hand In hand. Nor can one forget Seneca Falls, where bloomers first bloomed, where woman's rights exponents held their firsf convention, and where enough pumps are made every year to win for It the Jocose nickname of Pump-town. Pump-town. There are literally scores of other live communities like Auburn and Batavia. Canandalgua and Dunkirk, Enst Aurora and Fulton, Geneva and Hornell, Ithaca and Johnstown, Kingston Kings-ton and Lockport, Malone and Norwich, Nor-wich, Olean and Perm Yan, Rye and Salamanca, Tonawanda, Valley Stream, apd Whitehall, that are pleasing stars In New York's galaxy of municipalities. |