VOLUME 



ORGAN IZ 

 KNOWLEDGE 



IN/ STORY 

 AND PICTURE 



TEN 



TROY, N. Y.. an important distributing point 

 and industrial center, noted especially for the 

 manufacture of shirts, collars and cuffs. It is 

 the leading center in the United States for this 

 industry. Troy is the county seat of Rensselaer 

 County, and is situated in the central-eastern 

 part of the state, on the east bank of the Hud- 

 son River, at the head of tidewater navigation, 

 opposite the main outlets' of the Erie and 

 Champlain canals (see NEW YORK STATE BARGE 

 CANAL). Albany, the state capital, is six miles 

 south, and New York City is 151 miles south. 

 Steamers and barges ply regularly between 

 Troy and New York, and there is water com- 

 munication with the Great Lakes through the 

 Erie Canal and with Canada through tin? 

 Champlain Canal. Railway transportation is 

 provided by the New York Central, the Dela- 

 ware & Hudson and the Boston & Maine rail- 

 roads, and electric lines afford passenger and 

 freight service to near-by cities. Irish, Ger- 

 mans, English, Italians and Russians comprise 

 a large part of the population, which in 1910 

 was 76313; in 1916 it was 77,916 (Federal esti- 

 mate). With contiguous communities there is 

 a centralized population of 135,000. 



Location and Description. The city lies for 

 the most part on a narrow strip of land ex- 

 tending along the river for several miles and 

 eastward to hills that rise in some places to a 

 of about 500 feet. Four bridges connect 

 it with Watt rvhrt. Cohoes, Green Island and 

 Waterford, on the opposite side of tin 

 that t> v, built 1804, was the 



oldest covered wooden bridge in the United 

 It was constructed for wagon and foot 

 traffic, but is now used for el.-etrie car 

 At thr follows the winding 



course od the intrr*retmg streets, 



which are regularly hid out, form a number of 

 tn.niL' hese is a fine, soldiers' and 



monuran 100 feet high. The 



more .- I district! and Pros- 



' rk. \\hirh covers more than , 

 the heights, which afford a l> 



m 



view of river and valley. Oakwood Cem 

 (400 acres) has an admirable site about 300 feet 

 higher than the lower city. It contains the 

 Earl Crematory and is the burial place of Gen- 

 eral Wool, of Mexican War fame, and of Gen- 

 eral Thomas, known in history as the Rock of 

 Chickamauga. 



Institutions and Buildings. In addition to 

 its public school system, the city has Emma 

 Willard Female Seminary, for the higher edu- 

 cation of women, including the Gurley, Plum 

 and Sage Memorial buildings; it was estab- 

 lished in 1825 as the Troy Female Seminary 

 and was among the first institutions of its kind 

 in the United States. Rensselaer Polytechnic 

 Institute is a famous school of civil engineering, 

 and the city has also Russell Sage College of 

 Practical Arts. There are four asylum.*- for or- 

 phans, three hospitals, a home for the aged and 

 a reformatory. The noteworthy buildings are 

 the granite post office, courthouse, city hall. 

 the new union station, a white marble public 

 library, and a fine savings bank building; the 

 latter contains a large music hall. Among re- 

 cent structures of importance are fine Y. M. 

 C. A. and Y. W. C. A. buildings. 



Manufactures. At Tro> T- has con- 



structed a dam across the Hud>on River, and 

 the water j>o\vrr thnvhy obtained, with that 

 of the Wynantskill and Poi -tmkill rivers, each 

 having a fall of about 200 feet, offers induce- 

 ments to manufacturers, and thrre arc a great 

 varirty of plants, some of which are among the 

 larg. : kind in ih-- 1 



collar-and-cuff industry gives employment to 

 more than 20,000 pcopl- . and has an annual 

 output of $18,000,000, a; hinery is 



made for it in Troy. I'ntil 1010 ninety-eight 

 per cent of the men's collars the 



United States came from this city. One of the 

 -s in the I'mon for making 

 mathematical m-tnimrnts is locat. d ben ; the 



iron product^ an- known for their superior 



le, and tl. facial and furnaces are fh<> 



largest in the Eastern states. Troy makes the 



