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Did we forget Albany — well not much, for who ever goes up 

 state without stopping at Albany? We employed a guide to con- 

 duct us through the Capitol building. He explained to us that the 

 l)uilding took thirty-one years to complete, and cost $18,000,000. 



The senate chamber cost approximately one million dollars, 

 the assembly room about $800,000. 



The various stairways cost from $300,000 to one million each ; 

 it is indeed a grand piece of architecture, not two pieces of stone 

 or wood inside are alike, no two rooms, stairways, corridors or 

 lobbies are alike; the furnishings, and everything connected with 

 each room are not duplicated anywhere in the building; the masonry 

 and woodwork come from all over the world, and from every state in 

 the Union. 



We had the great pleasure of shaking hands with the Governor, 

 who is always pleased to give a glad hand and smile to a New 

 Yorker. He is a very amiable person, and one cannot but be im- 

 pressed with his congeniality and I think that the time is not far 

 off when we shall see him occupying the President's Chair in 

 Washington. 



We spent the balance of our time trolleying to Troy and vari- 

 ous other little sections around that part of the country and thus 



ended our vacation. 



Yours sincerely, 



AMOS. P. DUNKEL. 



ICHTHYOL. 



Ichthvol maintains its position in spite of the increased com- 

 petition caused by the introduction of substitutes during the past 

 year. Extensive scientific researches, both chemical (Thai, Liiders) 

 and therapeutic (Schwarzenbach, Goldman, Hirschkron, Brodsky), 

 have demonstrated that the substitutes are not equivalent to ich- 

 thyol in action or composition. Moreover, in the United States, 

 where it was attempted to pass the ichthyol substitutes under the 

 tariff as being identical with ichthyol, the Board of General Ap- 

 praisers decided that these substitutes differed from ichthyol in 

 many respects, and could therefore not be passed as ichthyol. It 

 would be advisable therefore to avoid any claim that the so-called 

 substitutes are identical with ichthyol. — Gehe's Handcls-Bcricht, 1907. 



