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Corning"OTORISTS to the Finger

Lakes Region have foundCorning a touring axis of

, many historic and scenicspots, with a rich back-ground of history and apresent beauty all its own.To such extent has motor-ing developed in Corningthat the local automobileclub has boasted the dis-tinction of having the larg-est membership in theUnited States for a com-munity the size of Corn-ing. Though settled yearsbefore, Corning really

started its advance with the completion of the Che-mung Canal in 1833. Six years later the road fromCorning to Lawrenceville was opened for business;in 1840 the advance guard of the New York & ErieRailroad made its appearance in Corning and in 1849the Erie road was finished to Corning. That yearthe community stood third in the state in the list ofshipping points.

The village was incorporated in 1848, when it hadbut 8S0 inhabitants. The growth of the place from1880 to 1890 was the second greatest of any city inthe state. The first school was opened in September,1839 at the house of S. B. Denton. From this startthe system has grown until today there are six modernschools, two of them High schools.

Founders of the city in selecting its location wereinfluenced by the promising appearance of the sur-rounding country for agricultural purposes and forits central location. The w i s d o m of these far-

Lake Salubna, northwest of Corning

Fishing is always good near Corning

seeing settlers was soon made apparent as thecommunity developed.

Corning has a peculiarly distinctive advantage inindustry. Being located less than 40 miles from thesoft coal region, with natural gas for heat and light,cheap electric power for light and power, an A-l in-surance classification, and a divergent type of laborprocurable from a wide territory naturually tributaryto the city, it is a natural industrial center.

Corning is particularly fortunate in its railroadtransportation facilities. With three trunk line roadsrunning with all points of the compass, the New YorkCentral, Lackawanna and Erie, furnish quick andcheap express and freight service between New Yorkand Chicago, via Buffalo, and all points north toSyracuse, south to Williamsport and Philadelphia

and Pittsburgh. Divisionoffices of the New York

: Central are located hereand of the Erie and Lack-awanna close by. A 24hour freight service withNew York is of great valueto the package or less carlot shipper. Switchingarrangements are inter-changeable and great con-venience results.

Corning has 37 man-ufacturers, producing andshipping for the markets ofthe world many productsof great merit. In glassproduction it leads all othercities in the volume ofdiversified manufacture.Edison and Westinghousebulbs are produced here, as

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KEUKA COLLEGEKEUKA PARK, N. Y.

KEUKA PARK, N. Y.The College is located four miles from PennYan on the west shore of the east branch ofLake Keuka. The campus borders the Lakefor more than half a mile, thus affording op-portunity for bathing, boating and water sports.

Keuka College is a college for women. Theregistration is limited to about 240. All courseslead to degrees. There are courses in Music,Expression, Home Economics, Secretarial Science,Christian Leadership, and Physical Culture.

Expenses $590 per college year.

A. H. NORTON,

President.

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well as glass tubing for thermometersand steam boilers, radio tubes and in-sulators, clinical and laboratory glass,lantern globes, famous Pyrex ovenware,art glass, cut, engraved and etched,automobile lenses and wing shields.

In diversified manufacture Corninghas many large factories producing gasengine regulators, wire fence stretchers,glass making machinery, brick, terracotta and tile, plaster relief work, millwork, confectionery, printing, ice cream,monument works, furnaces and cast-ings, butcher shop supplies, meat sawsand cleavers, pressed steel products, silk gloves, arti-ficial limbs, auto timers, auto springs and wheels,cigars, etc. Terra cotta and plaster relief shipped toall parts of the country for some of the finest buildings.

Unexcelled school facilities, 14 churches, 5 fraternalhomes, large new hospital, and 40 acres of beautifulparks with all kinds of recreational facilities, providethe needed requirements to guarantee to industry andbusiness the sort of conditions that have producedand will continue toproduce and main- r '_ ' _ ~ ~~tain the required sup-ply of satisfied in-dustrial workers ofthe highest class.

No city was everbetter equipped withfraternal homes thanCorning. Nearly allnew, and built forthe purpose, in size,appointment and gen-eral purpose they forma group of which anycommunity may beproud.

The Masonic Scot-tish Rite Cathedralon Walnut St., the Knights of Columbus Home onCedar St., the Elks Home on Walnut St., the OddFellows Temple on Erie Ave., the L. O. O. M. on Mar-ket St., all provide ample accommodations for themembers and to the visitor to the city.

In civic organizations, Corning has the Chamber ofCommerce, Corning Rotary, Woman's Club, Woman'sBusiness Club, Clionian Circle, American Legion and

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Corning is the home of art in glassware

CORMlnG GLASS "WOKKS CORNinG.HEWTDRK

Corning has an admirable golf coarse

Women's University Club. Nearly all of these organiza-tions function through the Chamber of Commerce, onthe broader civic questions and issues.

People of Corning enjoying club life and servicehave at their disposal three finely appointed clubs inCorning Club, Corning Country Club and ImperialClub. Corning Club, one of the finest clubs in Corning,was built about 25 years ago and has always served itsmembers with a high standard. It has made a most

happy meeting place_ i~ ^ for the smaller civic

functions and quietdinners between busi-ness associates. Itsmembership embracesall that is best in thecitizenry of Corning.The Country Club,built but four yearsago, with its locationone mile from thecity line, gives atwelve month's rec-reational service toits large membership

—• through its finely ap-pointed nine hole golfcourse, tennis courts,

and wintersports. The club house is finely appointed.The Imperial Club, for employees of the Ingersoll-

Rand Co., the largest air compressor factory in theworld, is in a beautiful old Colonial building, to whichhas been added a large dormitory capacity.

Corning is on the Liberty route between New Yorkand Buffalo, and at the head of the Susquehanna Trailfrom all points south through Williamsport. Within

eighteen miles of the Finger Lakeswith Watkins Glen but twenty-twomiles away, the beautiful Keuka Lakewith its wineries and vineyards withintwenty-eight miles, the routes to theseon hard surfaced roads leading throughthe picturesque valleys of Steuben,makes the city a natural starting pointfor all these places. A deluxe touristcamp site in beautiful Demson park withbathing facilities, gas to cook with, san-itary conveniences and police protec-tion is of great value to the visiting

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In 1878 Thomas A. Edison brought his dreamof an incandescent electric lamp to CorningGlass Works for fulfillment. It was but oneof the long series of achievements that havemade the initials C. G. W. the symbol ofscientific research in the manufacture and ap-plication of glass.

Tomorrow's geniuses are emerging today. Tobe ready for them, Corning Glass Worksforges steadily on. Tomorrow's problems willbe met with tomorrow's methods of solution.Corning Glass Works will maintain its posi-tion as the pioneer.

CORNING GLASS WORKSCorning, New York

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autoist. One of the great essentials to an industriallocation is a suitable recreational space for the wholepeople in the form of parks and playgrounds, wherethe entire body of citizenry can meet for sports andrelaxation from the stress of daily occupation.

Corning has a beautiful array of these modernnecessities, and the acreage devoted to parks and play-grounds is greater, perhaps, than is to be found inany similar city of its size. Den-ison Park of 38 acres, a modernresult of artistic landscapingcombining the beautiful andartificial to success in availabil-ity to all people for rest, recrea-tion or sport. It contains anatatorium of very large size,with clear water pumped for adaily change and purified con-stantly with chlorification; afterbeing heated by gas, it providesa constant source of joy to thebather and swimmer. Hundredsenjoy this privilege every dayin season. Base ball, tennis,croquet, extensive play groundsfor the children with everyvariety of equipment and underintelligent supervision, all pro-vide amusement and healthfuloccupation of the recreationalkind for every member of everyfamily. The facilities are usedby people from very long dis-tances and the pavillions arereserved sometimes two yearsin advance for gatherings ofdifferent kinds. The tree useof these, together with gas forcooking, make the welcome ofCorning felt to the stranger, Afree tourist camp site in thepark, with use of the gas for

cooking. As a trading center, recent years has seenthe city of Corning enter i nto a new era. With theexpansion of improved roads in every direction, allleading into the city like the spokes of a wheel, fromthe many fruitful valleys of the nearby rich agriculturalsections, the tributary trading area of the city has beenincreased over 200%. From a natural trading radiusof 20,000 a few years ago in the days of the mud roadsand horse drawn vehicles, this area now includes over80,000 people who can with ease and promptness reach

the city for their various errands and business. In thisarea there are 21 rural communities, depending onCorning largely for their wholesale and retail supplies.

With this natural development has come a corrre-sponding balance in the number and variety of storesin the city. In the place of a few standard lines on oneblock there has developed a business section two mileslong on which are located some of the finest stores and

business places to be seen any-where.

Coming's manufacturers nowproduce and ship all over theworld, the following widelyknown products. Glass in blubs,tubing, auto lenses, ovenware,railroad signal, optical, clinical,laboratory, auto glass wings,etched, cut, engraved and col-ored. Gas engine regulators,wire fence stretchers, air com-pressors (Painted Post), glassmaking machinery, brick, terracotta and tile, plaster relief, millwork, confectionery, printing,monument works, furnaces andcastings, butcher shop supplies,meat saws, garters, silk gloves,ice cream, artificial limbs, press-ed steel products, auto timers,auto springs and wheels, cigars,fibre boxes, piston rings, etc.

Painted Post

Northwest of Corning lies thevillage of Painted Post, said tohave been named because of apainted post marking the graveof Captain Montour, a son ofthe famous Queen Catherine.As late as 1810 the post was

Hector Falls k e p t m a b a r r o o m a s a r e i ;c

preserved by the first settlers.No sketch of Corning would be complete without

mention of the development of glass making there ona scale unequaled in the world. Though the ancientPhoenicians are said to have first discovered how tomake glass and the Egyptians made sham jewels otglass at least 5,000 or 6,000 B. C , the greatest advancein the art has been achieved at Corning. There theCorning Glass Works has the foremost laboratory andmost comprehensive knowledge of glass making pos-sessed by any industrial institution in the world.

Marine Clu-.mi.ai

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Most intricate utensils of glass are turned out by Corning craftsmen

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TILLMANS DRUG STOREPAINTED POST, N. Y.

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T. E. O'BRIENPLUMBING and HEATING

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64 W. Market St. CORNING, N. Y.

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7 and 9 Bridge St. CORNING, N. Y.

First National Bankand Trust Co.

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Capital $150,000.00 Surplus and Profits $439,468.24Resources Over $3,750,000.00

OFFICERSAaron F. Williams PresidentMarvin Olcott Vice PresidentFrancis C. Williams Trust OfficerHarvey T. Cole CashierRice B. Granger AssH CashierLloyd L. Conable Ass't Cashier

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Through several generations of the Houghtonfamily, the desire to excell in the making of glass forevery kind of purpose has made the company inter-nationally famed, so that today Corning glass is soldunder sixteen different trademarks and one or moreare in use in every country on the globe.

Wayne

R ISING nearly 400 feet above the waters of LakeKeuka, the charming village of Wayne rests at

the head of Waneta Lake. TrulyWaneta is a mountain lake of rare ,beauty. The invigorating atmo- ['sphere and scenic grandeur that :are Wayne's heritage of naturemake the village a fitting objectivefor tourists in the Lake Keukadistrict. Beautiful Lake Lamokalies about due south of Waneta,and is approximately 1,100 feetabove sea level.

Pulteney

PULTENEY, on the new Ham-mondsport-Branchport high-

way, is in a picturesque settingalong the west side of Lake Keukaopposite Bluff Point. As a shippingcenter for the grape industry it iswell known. Wagner's Gully andseveral interesting waterfalls nearthe village make it a pleasantstopping place lor the tourist.One of the most interesting sidetrips in the region is that fromPulteney west over the state high-way to Prattsburg, touching theElmira-Buffalo highway at Bathand Kanona. Pulteney has been an enthusiastic backerof the Finger Lakes movement and has extended acordial welcome to the visitors attracted to the town.

Hector-Valois

A LONG the picturesque Seneca Boulevard over-•*-*- looking Seneca Lake, the twin communities ofHector and Valois have a scenic setting and historicalbackground that are alike unique. Hector Falls is thefirst masterpiece of nature that greets the motoristcoming around the corner of Seneca Lake from Wat-kins Glen. Then through Hector and Valois a majesticpanorama greets him as the concrete road winds

through the famed Seneca fruitbelt on a plateau high above thesparkling waters of the lake.

Along this trail the soldiers ofSullivan marched, here setting eyesupon the first of the Finger Lakesas they trod northward, awestruckat the beauty of the scenery.

Near the foot of Hector Fallswas the first frame house on theeast slope of Seneca Lake, thefirst grist mill, carding machineryand distillery.

M]Myers

YERS, with a population ofabout 300, is on the Auburn

division of the Lehigh Valley onthe east shore of Cayuga Lakeand a b o u t eight m i l e s north ofIthaca.

It received its name from itsfirst settlers, the Myers family.Andrew Myers came through Ith-aca when that place contained onlyeight log houses. He followed theIndian trail to the mouth of SalmonCreek. There he built a log house

and settled with his family.Later, when Andrew, Jr., came to manhood, he

located in Ithaca.

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Finger Lakes RegionFish Fancies

HIS It's true There are fish in the Finger Lakesthat are as vicious as wolves — fish that grab

men's noses, m u t i l a t e boys' hands, smash um-brellas and make all sorts of "whoopee" withoutthought of consequences. These fish have been seen,encountered and in many instances caught, accordingto the lurid Finger Lakes fish yarns which are as weirdand as numerous as Indian myths in the lake country.But many of these stories, which lend to angling aglamor that only the linesman fully knows, have asbacking the words ot men whose integrity has neverbeen disputed.

There are thousands of these tales of rudder andstream. A few of them have become "history" amongthe angling fraternity. They are typical of the yarnsthat find birth eachyear in the cottagecolonies. A reviewof all the fish ad-ventures of the re-gion indicates thatalong Lake Keukathe fish are the mostformidable or im-aginations the mostfertile there in thegrape country. Forthe most unusualnarratives generallyeminate from Keu-ka. There is forinstance the storyof how on August27, 1873 Harry C.Morse caught aneight pound trout

Clifton Springs

Lower Falls in Taughannock

Along Cayuga Lake at Taughannock Park

on his nose in Bran-dy Bay.

Almost as strangea tale now comesfrom the same lake,with William Fen-ner of Penn Yanas the angler ex-traordinary. Helanded a bullheadwhich had caught apickerel twice itsown weight on itsnose. He was fish-ing about a third ofthe way across LakeKeuka in front ofthe "Ark," abouta mile south of PennYan, when he sawa pickerel lump from

the water, then swimabout near the surface.Rowing to the sceneof the commotion hedipped his landing netand brought out a ten-inch bullhead with asixteen inch pickerelhanging on its nose.

The larger fish ap-parently tried to swal-low the catfish whenone of the latter's hornspenetrated the jaw ofthe pickerel and be-came lodged there andthe captor was cap-tured, being slowly

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strangled as its mouth was held wide open by the headof the catfish. It was necessary to kill the pickerelbefore it could be freed.

Frank Annona of Buffalo happened to be fishingnearby and saw the incident. Later on shore, JackYetter, young son of I. L. Yetter, was photographedholding the two fish while they were still alive. Thepickerel weighed a pound and a half and the catfishthree-fourths of a pound.

Another Lake Keuka story deals with an unnamedangler who landed a big fish with an umbrella, whichwas wrecked in the process. The fisherman went outafter perch in the twilight. He felt a terrific strike.Quite alarmed over the violent attack that wasbeing made on his bait, yet determined not to lose themonster, regardless ot the cost, he began a series ofmaneuvers that were destined to bring the giganticfish to inglorious defeat.

With great effort, he finally got the fish within afew feet of the boat. He was at a loss to proceed further,due to the fact that he had no landing net. Castingabout for some way out of his predicament, his eyerested on an umbrella he had brought in case of rain.Holding fast with one hand to the violently jerkingline, the excited angler opened the umbrella and suc-ceeded, after several wild attempts, in getting itsspread beneath the fish.

What was his dismay, however, to discover thatthe fish was so big, and of such weight, that with one

vicious swipe of its tail, it caused the umbrella to co]_lapse into a useless tangle of metal ribs and soppedcloth. Still undaunted, however, the angler immediate-ly turned the umbrella about, and with the crookedhandle serving as a gaff hook, he succeeded in landingthe finny battler safely into the boat. Those of a curiousturn of mind who might be concerned as to the typeof fish which caused this great turmoil are informedthat it was a gigantic pickerel.

Skipping over to the eastermost Finger Lakes, itis found that Skaneateles has its quota of yarns. One

Old Wine Cellar on Hammondsport Sen

In Cornell Stadium

is sufficient. It is told by W. H. Hall ot Skaneatelesvillage, who swore to the following statement beforea notary:

"The list below is the number of, or pounds offish that I have caught with hook and line in Skaneateleslake from January, 1908, to November 13, 1927, andgiven away to my friends:

"Four thousand, one hundred and thirty-sevenperch, 371 rock bass, 1,452 small mouth bass, 1,831lake trout, three brown trout, and six so-called land-lock salmon, a total ot 7,800; also 390 pounds of suck-ers, 644 of perch, 181 perch and bass, and 912 poundsof fish, making a total of 2,127 pounds.

"I have also caught with hook and line and soldfrom April 1920, to September 26, 1927, 613 laketrout and 223 pounds ot perch."

Thomas Bamtord ot Hammondsport is creditedwith having told of a strange experience he encounteredcountered in fishing for brook trout in the Lake KeukaInlet, when he was using a light line and a peculiar

make of hook. He wassurprised by a tremendous)erk of the line and glimpseda very large fish as it swamaway with his broken lineand hook. LTpon his returnhome Mr. Bamford relatedthe incident to several ofhis triends, one of thefriends making a sketch ofthe peculiar hook he de-scribed.

Several days ago Am-brose Burd of Hammond-sport was trolling for troutnear the head of LakeKeuka and was fortunatein hooking a nine-poundRainbow. To his surprisehe found attached to themouth of the fish a shortline and imbedded in thejaws was a small hook. Mr.

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*779Bamford has identified the hook as being the one usedby himself. This is one of the true fish stories and isvouched for by George Connolly, well known Ham-mondsport man.

From Bath comes the story of how a ten-year-oldboy, Samuel Pruden, hooked a German brown troutin the Cohocton river and suffered for his pains. Inendeavoring to land the fish, the lad was drawn intothe water, but undaunted he managed to get thefish in his hands and brought it to shore. The boysuffered a number of bites from the fish on his handsand arms. The trout, the largest caught in this com-munity in years, weighed four pounds and two ounces.

Many are the tales of how pennies and other coinshave been taken from the stomachs of Finger Lakes fish.

How a snake and an angler landed a trout at thesame time in a stream in southern Cayuga County istold by Richard T. Anderson, Auburn. Andersonhooked a big rainbow trout, which lunged tor a deeppool, snagging the line in some brush by the water'sedge. The fisherman, seeing the writhing white bellyof the trout as it struggled to get loose, reached withhis hand into the water and drew out the big fellow.In the tail of the fish the fangs of a blacksnake wereimbedded. Anderson showed the trout with mutilatedtail as proof of the episode.

Stories of boys, some not yet in their teens, whohave made big catches, are common among FingerLakes fish fancies. On June 6, 1924, Harry McConnellof Penn Yan, while casting for bass in Lake Keukalanded a nine and a half pound lake trout. The fol-lowing year he cast over the same place where he sawa ripple in the water. This time he hooked a Steinwaypiano. Investigation proved it had been a discarded

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instrument used in building a dock miles distant theprevious year. The ice of winter had dislodged it tosend it on its way to the line of the boy fisherman.

Another of the Keuka fisherman, in his own words,tells this story: "I had pushed quietly out in the even-ing about a hundred feet from shore, when I heard asplashing and swishing in the water a few feet away.I turned and saw a fish, rushing like mad about in acircle, tearing through the water at express trainspeed. It was a trout which had become what fisher-men call 'wind bound.' He had come to the surfaceto catch a saw-belly, had missed his aim and hadtaken a goodly gulp of pure air, which put him in thecondition of being able neither to get up or go down.So there he was, racing around, bewildered, trying toexpell the extra air. I pulled my boat into the circlewhich the fish was making and waited. I took mylanding net, pushed her out in the water just above thespot where I thought Mr. Trout would circle on thenext curve. Sure enough that big silver boy camemarathoning around, blind as a bat and plunk—rightinto my net he plopped. And he weighed over fivepounds."

The largest small mouth bass ever taken from anyof the Finger Lakes, so far as known, was caught byC. B. Dounce of Waverly in Lake Keuka just Jnorthof Keuka College, after a battle of more than twohours. The fish tipped the scales at seven pounds andtwelve ounces, showing a catch that has seldom ifever been duplicated in this country.

The largest trout in the lake country are taken fromSeneca Lake, where they go up to thirty pounds.Indicative of size of fish are figures of weight. In aday three men caught 20 trout which weighed 118j^ lbs.

Seneca Lake at Watkins Glen

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