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THROUGH unknown centuries the natural
water-way made by the Hudson and Mo-
hawk Rivers constituted the principal
arteries of travel between the Atlantic Ocean
and those inland seas now known as the Great
Lakes. Along the narrow thread of the Mo-
hawk, the Indians pushed their canoes and the
hunter plied his trade. As early as 1 725 one
hundred and fifty-two hogshead of beaver
skins and two hundred hogshead of deer skins
were shipped over the river to Albany. Thus |
began the commercial activity of a region that now sends
its wares throughout the civilized world. One hundred
and sixty-five years ago the sturdy forefathers of the
present citizens reared
their first stockade at the
junction of the Mohawk
River and Ballou's Creek
and christened it "Fort
Schuyler" in honor of
an uncle of Philip Schuy-
ler of Revolutionary
Site of Fort Schuy lei fame. This was the be-
ginning and from this by steady, sure and certain
Copyrighted July, 1913, Central Universalist Society, Utica, N.Y.
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growth, Utica has achieved its present position. Built |
on a solid foundation — strong, steady and constant in
its progress — it has never known the intoxication of a p
boom or the depression of a panic. During the Revo-
lutionary War it was an outpost and listened with
bated breath while that sturdy old patriot General |
Herkimer fought the battle of Oriskany at its very door
and turned the tide of war in the struggle for Amer-
ican freedom.
Universalist Church and Parish House
Soldiers' Monument
EN 1 798 with approximately two hundred inhabitants
the settlement took to itself the name "Utica," and
was incorporated as a village. It bore its part as
one of the frontier towns during the War of 1812 and
helped celebrate the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825.
In 1832 with a population of ten thousand it was in-
corporated as a city — the largest city in the United
States west of Albany, and became one of New York
State's civic centers.
Monument— " Roscoe Conkling Park.
Given to the City of Utica for the use
and benefit of the people July 4th,
1909."— Thos. R. Proctor.
T? OCATED only four hundred feet above sea level;
J Ln at a point w^here the foot hills of the Catskills
come up to greet their ancient neighbors, the
Adirondacks; Utica has the advantage of a **sea-level
route" to the ocean and close proximity to some of na-
ture's most beautiful handiw^ork. Those vv^ho have
spent a summer day driving through the w^onderful hills
to the south or among the lakes and mountains to the
north have marveled at their beauty and spread the
fame of this "City Beautiful" until no^/^ it is the Mecca
tow^ard which many a tired tourist turns to spend a
vv^eek-end.
Utica Free Academy
'ITH natural advantages second to none this city
has developed along lines of beauty as well as
utility — a manufacturing city, it has neither
the smoke nor dirt common to industrial pursuits — a
residential city, it has all the energetic business enter-
prises found in many more celebrated for business ac-
tivity — an amusement loving city, it sacrifices neither
business, health nor morals to its pleasures. Other
cities may claim specific advantages, but -we claim for
Utica that hour for hour, day for day and year for year,
it is the best city to live in — for here you will find not a
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collections of houses but a city of homes. Here
are fifty-eight churches of
all denominations; con-
venient of access to all
and dominated by a broad
and brotherly feeling, not
only for the stranger, but
toward each other. Here
is a Public Library built
and maintained by local
capital. It contains over
Grace sixty-thousand volumes ;
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foreign sections, and supplies a modified form of circu-
lating library to the schools and fire houses.
MERE one high school with twelve hundred pupils
and twenty-four grade schools attest the thought
given to the coming citizens, while vocational
and night schools furnish opportunities for those with-
out the advantages of earlier training.
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MERE the Masonic bodies of the State with admira-
ble forethought have built a magnificent home,
together with an orphanage and a chapel where
the poor, the sickly, the widows and orphans of its
fraternity receive the best care that can be devised.
Located in the center of one hundred and sixty acres of
beautifully kept park with a view of the whole Mohawk
Valley, this home is a model of charity and an inspira-
tion to generosity.
Here with wholesouled liberality the good people of
the city have erected five asylums where those left with-
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ceive not only education but instruction in the ele-
ments of good citizenship.
Here five hospitals
maintained by the city
private subscription — all
attest the thoughtfulness
the suffering.
Here are three \
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tent nurses and
— one built and
and four largely by
perfectly appointed
of our citizens toward
homes for the aged
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surroundings, the sunset of life may be passed in peace
and contentment. And here also is maintained by the
State, a hospital for mental invalids where some sixteen
hundred patients are cared for in the most scientific and
comfortable manner possible.
St. Luke's Hospital and Scene in Park
OR is all the enterprise of Utica devoted to its
charities. Appreciating that charity is only for
the unfortunate the best thought of Utica has
for years been given to creating a city filled with diversi-
fied industries, so that whatever the financial condition
of the country may be, the wage-earners of Utica
should continue to have employment. It is Utica's
boast that panics may come and go, but in Utica pay
rolls go on forever. It is the center of the knit goods
industry of the United States. Twenty-five mills do a
business of over twenty millions per year, one mill alone
completing ready for shipment more than forty-eight
thousand garments a day. The famous **Richelieu**
Masonic Home
knit underwear is made here and is worn through-
out two continents.
Besides the knit goods, other textile mills produce
large quantities of cotton cloth,
sweaters, yarn, hosiery and cord-
uroys. All told over sixty million
pounds of cotton are brought to
Utica each year and manufactured
into articles of merchandise.
The Savage rifles and automatic
pistols are made in this city. With
a constantly growing business the
company is to-day famous wher-
Masonic Chapel cvcr sportsmen are found, and
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many foreign countries are continually inspecting both
its plant and its product.
NE large manufacturing plant, the Utica Drop
Forge and Tool Company is given over entire-
ly to the manufacture of pliers and nippers. By
sheer excellence of w^orkmanship, the company has
pushed to the front until to-day its product leads the
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world. It is worthy of note that this company main-
tains a complete reading and club room for its em-
ployees where all kinds of games may be enjoyed and
in addition provides a series of lectures each winter.
TPT is the home of the Foster Ideal Spring made by
J I, Foster Brothers Mfg. Co. — a company that has
made and sold so many beds that it can easily
claim the credit of putting half the world to sleep.
All told Utica has one hundred and sixty-two manu-
facturing plants engaged in manufacturing hardware,
rifles, revolvers, canned goods, iron and lead pipe, cotton
cloth, woolens, corduroys, automobile parts, agricultural
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implements, foundry supplies, worsted goods, cutlery,
metal beds, metal wheels, dairy products, candy,
clothing, brick and tile, lumber and mill products, yarn,
buffing and truck wheels and many other articles. Nor
is Utica content to rest on its present line of industries.
Within the last two years some of its enterprising busi-
ness men have established a plant for the manufacture
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of knives. To-day the Utica Cutlery Company is sell-
ing all over the United States as complete a line of
knives as any factory in the w^orld. Already the
*'Utica" knife is know^n to the trade, and it is Utica's
ambition to have every school boy count the name
"Utica" on his knife as a synonym of perfection.
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■E are particularly fortunate in our newspapers,
which strive in all ways to advance the city s
- - welfare. Three dailies and twelve other pub-
lications, including German, Polish, Italian and Welsh
newspapers give to our citizens the best of news service.
Unlike may cities Utica is not obliged to seek else-
where for funds to carry on any legitimate enterprise.
One Savings Bank, with resources of over seventeen
million dollars; the Utica Trust and Deposit Company
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with over eight million, the Citizens Trust Company
with over six million; four national banks with com-
bined resources of nineteen million and two Building
and Loan Associations, with about four million of as-
sets — gives it a combined banking resource of about
fifty-five millions of dollars or over five hundred dol-
lars for every inhabitant. This remarkable showing
indicates in some measure the wealth of the city and
of its people.
The city abounds with good stores. Cuts of three of
the largest department stores — John A. Roberts &
Company, Robert Fraser and J. B. Wells Son & Co.
are shown in this brochure. These stores are metro-
politan in design and appointments, and no more com-
plete departments stores can be found outside of New
York or Chicago. The Roberts store contains a beau-
tiful restaurant on its top floor and the Fraser, a well
appointed tea room in the basement.
ONTIL about a year ago Utica could not offer the
attraction of a modern fire proof hotel. Appre-
ciating the fact that this lack would give strangers
a bad impression of the city, some of its leading busi-
ness men gathered together, formed a company and
built a hotel. Approximately one million dollars was
raised, principally by local capital, and in March, 1912,
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the "Hotel Utica" was opened to the public. While it
contains but about two hundred rooms, it is claimed for
it in all seriousness, that not even the large New York
City hostelries are more complete in their appointment.
Its spacious lobby — light and airy restaurants — excel-
lent cuisine and carefully appointed service, make it a
delight to the weary traveller; and many automobile
tourists make it their headquarters for days at a time
while driving through the beautiful country surround-
ing the city. Utica has a large number of other hotels
Robert Fraser
Department Store
that compare favorably with any commercial hotels in
the State.
The hospitality of the hotels extends throughout the
City. Fifteen Masonic organizations; sixteen organiza-
tions of Odd Fellows ; seventeen Grand Army and allied
bodies; three National Guard Companies, including one
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Cavalry troop; seven clubs and forty-one fraternal so-
cieties attest the social spirit of the city. Of these the
Masons have their own temple; the Federation of Labor
has built and owns its home — the only one in New
York State. The New Century Club (the women's liter-
ary club) has had one of the most delightful homes on
Entrance to State Hospital
the main street remodeled into a Club House, and has
built in connection therewith a spacious auditorium cap-
able of seating 700 persons. The Fort Schuyler Club,
the leading men's club occupies a beautiful building on
one of the principal corners. The Knights of Columbus,
the Daughters of Isabella, the Elks, the Young Women's
Christian Association and the Young Men's Christian
Association all occupy beautiful buildings owned and
maintained by themselves. These buildings are scat-
tered throughout the residence section of the city and
add much to its beauty.
Where the Utica Knife is made
OTICA has not become addicted to the apartment
house craze and still remains a city of one and
two family homes. Scattered over its one hun-
dred and twenty-five miles of streets, over eighty per
cent of which are paved with asphalt and nearly all of
which are lined with magnificent elms, these homes
make it a most attractive residential place — and it is
clean. All streets are swept and constantly patrolled.
It spends one dollar for each inhabitant each year on
clean streets. Utica takes care of its residents. It col-
lects garbage ; it collects ashes ; removes its snow ; keeps
itself in prime municipal condition, has a tax rate
of only about two dollars per thousand on an assessed
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valuation of approximately seventy per cent, and its
bonded indebtedness is only a trifle over two millions
of dollars with an assessed valuation of over forty-four
and one-half millions.
'ITH the Utica Conservatory of Music having
eighteen high grade tachers, teaching all of the
musical branches — with the **B Sharp Club,'
and "Haydn Male Chorus," large musical organizations
devoted exclusively to the encouragement of musical
talent; with seven theatres, one of which presents ex-
ceptionally high class drama and with two amusement
parks, one having the finest minor league base ball
plant in the country— excellent provision is made for
the musical and amusement loving people of the city.
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T? T has thirteen parks — large and small — with an up-
J i, to-date athletic field and three modern out door
play grounds for children. The park land totals
five hundred and forty-six acres, and is laid out and
cared for under the supervision of a landscape architect.
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The larger parks which Utica acquired through the
generosity of one of its leading citizens, are connected
with a magnificent boulevard several miles in extent —
the smaller ones are scattered throughout the city. At
the playgrounds scientific play is carried on through the
summer months and at some of the schools social recrea-
tion work is kept up through the winter, both being
under the care of trained instructors.
Much has been said of Utica's beautiful location. Too
much can not be said. Constant trolley service to Rome
and Syracuse on the West; Clinton, the seat of Hamilton
College, on the South; and to Little Falls on the East;
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with state macadam roads running radially in all direc-
tions, and five railroads through the Adirondack moun-
tains, to the St. Lawrence River, to Richfield Springs,
Cooperstown and Binghamton; besides the New York
Central railroad running fifty-eight express and limited
trains through the city each day, the resident of Utica
is in constant touch with some of the most beautiful
spots in the world. The Thousand Islands; the lakes
and mountains of the Adirondacks; Otsego Lake — that
beautiful "Glimmerglass," the home and inspiration of
Cooper; the world famous Trenton Falls; the Oriskany
Battlefield, and many other places famed for their
beauty and historic interest lie within less than a day's
journey of our doors. Space will not permit detailed
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description of these but any of them will compare
favorably with the more advertised pleasure resorts.
TRENTON Falls deserve more than a passing men-
tion, for here the waters of a thousand springs
gathered together back in the recesses of the
mountains, formed a stream called by the Indians
"Kuyrahoora;" and have for centuries leaped a series of
precipices two hundred and sixty-four feet high. Mod-
ern engineers have gathered these falling waters and
forced them to do their duty to man, in turning water
turbines, and sending to Utica hydro-electric energy
sufficient to turn the wheels of a thousand mills. For
here the wonderful stream and chasm stand ready to
do the work of twenty thousand horses for all time.
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Relying upon its location, relying upon its record,
^l relying upon its energy, relying on its citizens — Utica
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has confidence in its future. Gathered here to-day are
one hundred thousand people. Mills are being construct-
ed — dwellings are being built and streets are being laid
out for one hundred thousand more. The one hundred
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barge canal is preparing
to bring one thousand ton
barges through the mil-
lion dollar terminal now
building and discharge
cargoes of copper, wheat
and other merchandise,
loaded in Duluth, at our
door; then to pick up
Utica's products, and take
them by water to Albany,
north to Montreal, or
south to New York. The
New York Central Rail-
road is building a million dollar station and a five million
dollar terminal— the largest between New York City
and Buffalo— where three hundred freight trains can
lie at once and make Utica the center of a two division
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system, bringing five thou-
sand people here immediately.
But not as much in this does
Utica rest its claim for future
growth, as upon the stern in-
tegrity, the aggressive enter-
prise and business foresight of
its citizens, the men w^ho have
built a city of one hundred
thousand inhabitants, will
double its size during the next
generation.
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