The Nome nugget., 1934-09-08
Prepared by National Geographic Society.
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Prepared by National Geographic Society.
 washIn Rton, D. C.-WNU Service.
 A REGENT census report re- A veals that New York state 4 has 69 cities with normal population of more than 10000 each, of which seven stand in the 100000 class and six in the 50,0O0 class. New York city has more than half the population of the whole state.
 Buffalo, the metropolis of Erie county, with It's splendid system of parks, connected by drives, boule- yards and parkways, ranks ninth among the industrial centers of the United States and Is one of the ten leading ports of the world, although 1t lies at the, foot of an inland lake.
 No one could visit Rochester, with It's falls, It's beautiful parks, and its busy industries, without agreeing that here is one of Amer ica'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 1t into nitrate of silver to make the emulsion for the films and photo graphic paper Eastman produces Nearly 100000 pounds of cotton linters go into the making of film, and there Is saying that on the smooth side film is first cousin to cotton and on the emulsion side cousin-german to sterling silver ware.
 Cleanliness must be next to godli- ness when motion-picture film Is made. A speck on Greta Garbo's nose or a splotch on Mary Pick ford's cheek would ruin picture. So the smokestacks of Kodak Park are among the highest in America, and 20O00,O0O gallons of water a day are pumped out of Lake On tario. 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, accord. Ing to the most accurate of formulae and then pouring the great pots of white-hot liquid upon a table and rolling 1t into the giant pancakes from which come most of the spec. tacles of America. For forty years the two founders 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 radiant city In q beautiful land. Salt gave Syracuse its start, but today the community takes rank as one of the most yer satile in America. Famed for it's typewriters, air-cooled automobiles, office furniture and other nationally used products, Syracuse is also dis tinctive 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 changed so vastly since these pow VOWS began.
 A pitiful remnant of once mighty nation they constitute. Their reservations are islands in the juris- diction of the state of New York.
 Yonkers Comes Fifth.
 It is doubtful whether one per son 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 1t was an easy transition 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 for tunately 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. An. other son of New York who won the presidency by vote of the people. but lost 1t at the hands of the cleo toral commission, was Governor Samuel J. Tilden.
 Utica, fair city of the Mohawk valley, is center of the knitgoods industry In America.
 Schenectady made a bold bid for position among the cities of the state in the 100, 900 or more popuIa- tlon class under the 1880 census, and came only a few thousand short. As the home of the General Electric company, where Stelnmetz, Coolidge, and Longmuir have delved so deeply into the mysteries of mat ter and have made many an appar- ently unfathomable secret arise to serve the needs of everyday life. Schenectady has become . house hold word in America.
 Binghamton, which is strikingly located astride the east branch of the