| Show the emp emlise Em pise ire stafe 41 1 1 1 I A we A new york state glove factory prepared by national geographic society 8 n D C u service A census repost re al A l vents reals that new york state has JL JL ca cities with a normal population of more than each of which seven stand in the class and six in the class new york city has more than half calf the population of the whole state Bliff buffalo illo the metropolis of erie county with its splendid system of parks connected by drives boulevards and parkways park ways ranks ninth among the industrial dust du ilal 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 alth its falls its beautiful parks rind and its buby buy industries without agreeing that here is one of americas most livable cities rochester makes enough movie film every year to belt the earth eight times kodak park has to cook tour four tons of silver every week transforming it into nitrate of silver to make the emulsion for the file films and photographic paper eastman produces nearly OW pounds of cotton flinters 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 sin eln german to sterling silverware cleanness Cle allness oust must be next to godliness when motion picture film bin Is made A speck on greta garbos nose or a splotch on mary PIck fords cheek would ruin a picture so the smoke stacks of kodak park are among the highest hl hest in america and tO gallons of water a day are pumped out of lake ontario the gelatine gelat lne 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 band mixed with chemicals according to the most accurate of formulae and then pouring the great pots of white walte hot liquid upon a table and rolling it into the giant pancakes from which come most of the spectacles of america for forty years the two founders of this concern tolled 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 land salt gave syracuse its start but today the community takes tabes rank as one of the most versatile in america famed tor for its typewriters air cooled automobiles office furniture and other nationally used products 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 ago to consider the problems that have bare changed so vastly since these powwows began A pitiful remnant of a once mighty nation they constitute their reservations 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 to yonkers from Jonk beers land the city lias has some of the largest carpet factories sugar refineries and elevator plants in america few states have capitals so fortunately located or capitals with as rich a history four of new yorks six presidents have bare been governors of the state van buren cleveland and the two Roosevel ts and have lived in albany another son on r of new york who won the presidency by vote of the people but lost it at the hands bands of the electoral commission was governor samuel J tilden utica a fair city of the mohawk valley Is a center of the knit goods industry in america schenectady made a bold bid for position among the cities of the state in the or more population class under the 1930 census and came only a few thousand short As the home of the general electric company where steinmetz coolidge and Loong muir have delved so deeply into the mysteries of matter and have made many an apparently unfathomable secret arise to serve the needs of everyday life schenectady has become a household word in america binghamton ning hamton which Is strikingly located astride cast branch of the susquehanna aue que hanna is making a bid for a place beside rochester in the manufacture of photographic supplies the shoe factories of the neighboring town of endicott Endl cott turn out footwear known far and wide troy Is as a mild mannered city but tor for all that it makes america and much of t the he world wear its collars la in one factory there ono one finds ft a museum of autographed collars with the signatures of 0 such buch notables as theodore roosevelt ramsay macdonald Ua cDonald the prince of wales woodrow wilson georges clemenceau and admiral togo four fifths of all of the collars made in america are manufactured to in this city at the head of navigation on the hudson troy Is also noted for shirts mark twains kwains retting resting place placa As one of the homes ot of mark twain 1 imara has made the world its debtor quarry farm Is a shrine of new york k as much as cooperstown Coopers town and irvington mark alark twains kwains 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 with a terrain closely answering 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 aco 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 has settled there and the annual output of the furniture factories of the city and surrounding country was valued at by a recent census chautauqua county of which jamestown Is the principal city Is at once new york states major grape pro 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 its growth was arrested by the modern comperti competition tion of motion pictures and automobiles poughkeepsie with her boast as the queen city of the hudson and her intercollegiate boat races and amsterdam ster dam 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 fire 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 formers department store Is the largest city in northern new york all americans hold newburgh in reverence as the place where washington 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 tor for here the american flag received its baptism of fire under circumstances that will be forever heroic in the hearts of the american people uither came colonel peter gansevoort to defend the mohawk valley from the invasion of the british and indians who were marching to the bludson 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 yemen vernon new rochelle and white plains triple towns of westchester auburn ithaca and geneva a tried triad of gems that bedeck the finger lakes corning with its plants specializing cial izing in high grade glass glovers ville with its hundred glove factories oswego with its it dreams of becoming becom IDIZ the great lakes gateway to the hudson onelda with its striking organization 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 sati lity 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 womans comans rights exponents held their first convention and whore where enough pumps are ara made every year to wit win for it the jocose nickname of pump town there are literally scores of other live communities like auburn and batavia na tavla canandaigua and dunkirk east bast aurora and fulton geneva and hornell ithaca and johnstown kingston and lockport malone and norwich olean and penn yen yan rye bye and salamanca tonawanda valley stream and whitehall that fire are pleasing at stara ars in new yorks galaxy of municipalities |
