The Coolidge examiner., 1934-05-04

plies. The shoe factories OF the
nelghboring town Of Endlcott turn
out footwear known far and wide.
Troy is mild-mannered city:
but, for all that. II makes America
and much OF the world wear it's
collars. In one factory there one
finds n museum of autographed
collars with the signatures Of such
notables as Theodore Roosevelt.
Ramsay Macdonald. the Prince of
Wales. Woodrow Wilson, Georges
Clemenceau and Admiral Togo.
Four-hfths OF all the collars made
In America are manufactured In
this city at the head OF naviga-
ton 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
It's debtor. Quarry Farm is a shrine
OF New York as much as Coopers-
town and Iryington. Mark Twain's
ashes rest in the local cemetery,
but his spirit roams wherever peo-
pie love humor.
After extensive Investigations, the
National Glider association selected
the Elmlra section as the ideal spot
for its annual meetings and com
petitions. With terrain closely an
swering to the needs Of gliding con-
tests and with air currents meet
Ing the conditions required for pow
erless aviation, Elmira was a ready
choice.
AS the home of the American-La
France fire engine factory. Elmlra
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 famous center of
metal furniture manufacture A
large colony OF Scandinavian metal
workers has settled there, and the
annual output OF the furniture fac
tories OF the city and surrounding
country was valued at S27 100000
by a recent census
Chautauqua county, OF which
jamestown is the principal city, is
at once New York states major
grape producing area and its most
historic meeting place OF summer re-
llgious and educational assemblies.
Poughkeepsie, with her boast as
the Queen City OF the Hudson
and her intercollegiate boat races.
and Amsterdam, the second city in
the world in the production OF rugs
and carpets, are important commu-
mites.
Home Town Of Five-and- Ten.
Watertown, where the five-and
ten-cent-store idea was born, when
Frank Woolworth persuaded To-
cal merchant to let him set up n
fve-cent table In the formers de-
partment store. is the largest city
In northern New York.
All Americans hold Newburgh In
reverence as the place where Wash
ington repelled the idea Of crown.
and for its Hasbrouck house, now
a state shrine, where he bade his
army farewell.
1t 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 Ameri-
can people.
Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, and
White Plains, triple towns Of West
chester; Auburn, Ithaca, and Ge-
neva, a triad OF gems that bedeck
the Finger Lakes; Corning. with it's
plants specializing in high grade
glass; Gloversville, with its hun
dred glove factories; Oswego, with.
It's dreams Of becoming the Great
Lakes gateway to the Hudson: Onei-
da, with its striking organization
that has made Community silver ia
nous throughout America; Cort-
land that overlooks most cities In
the state In point Of elevation-all
Of these municipalities bear wit
ness to the versatility 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
first convention, and where enough
pumps are made every year to win
for it the jocose nickname of Pump
| town.
There are literally scores Of other
live communities like Auburn and
Basavia, Canandaigua and Dunkirk,
East Aurora and Fulton, Geneva
and Hornell. Ithaca and Johnstown.
Kingston and Lockport, Malone and
Norwich. Olean and Penn Yam, Rye
and Salamanca, Tonawanda. Valley
Stream, and Whitehall, that are
pleasing stars in New York's gal.
! axy of municipalities.