THE
STATE EMPLOYEE
Volume 2
JULY, 1933
Number 6
An Important Public
Service Well Done
Dr. Walter N. Thayer
Commissioner of Correction
When one beginning his thirtieth
year in State employment looks back
over that period of service, and
especially when those years have
been spent either in institutional
work or in close contact with it,
experiences a period of depression
like that through which the State
has been passing recently and listens
to the various remedies suggested
to relieve the State of some of the
expense under which it is laboring,
he is bound to be impressed by the
lack of understanding on the part
of the average man of the status of
institutional employees.
In the tremendously prosperous
period antedating the present period
of depression, the man on the street,
who was enjoying the most prosper-
ous conditions he had ever known,
was prone to look with amusement
at the State employee who, in no
measure, participated in the increas-
ed compensation enjoyed by the
average worker in civil lines, It
was about in the middle 1920's the
State recognized that, while practi-
cally every other worker had receiv-
ed increased compensation, nothing
had been done for the State em-
ployee. At this time there were
some increases in pay allowed those
employees who had remained faith-
ful to their duties, and who had not
been lured away by higher compen-
sation in other fields.
The difference between the atti-
tude of the public of the early 20's
and the public of today is striking.
The amused tolerance of the State
employee during the prosperous days
has now changed. The security of
his position is viewed with envy and
recently vociferous demands for pay
reduction were heard on every hand.
Speaking more especially for the
institutional employees, I do not feel
that they ever have been over-paid
when one considers the exacting
nature of their employment. The
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HERE COMES THE BRIDE - - By Jerry Costello
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Courtesy Albany Evening News—A Gannett Paper
Association’s Vacation Camp Awaits You.
Opens July 9th.
Last year the Association fostered the organization of the State Em-
ployees’ Recreational Club, Inc., the purpose of which was to take advan-
tage of the good cooperation of the State Conservation Department, in the
matter of the use of the Camp site on Meacham Lake in Franklin County
as a desirable vacation camp for State workers. The Recreational Club
conducted a very successful season and many workers enjoyed the cottage
accommodations and the exceptional boating, bathing, fishing, tennis, and
other recreational activities possible under the delightful and healthful
surroundings. The camp is operated on a non-profit basis and every cent
paid by guests goes to supply the best possible food, sleeping and necessary
accommodations, The maximum charge at the camp will be $12.00 per
week for adults. The rate for children under 10 years $6.00; and 10 to
14 years inclusive, $8.00. Make your reservations at once.
Shall We Level
Up or Down?
Horatio M. Pollock, Ph.D.,
Director, Mental Hygiene Statistics,
Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, speaking
at a joint meeting of the American
Statistical Association and the Amer-
ican Economie Association at Cincin-
nati last December, said that 1933
would be known as the year of the
great debate The topics to be de-
bated were inflation and deflation, or
the questions: Shall we level up or
down? Shall we increase our money
supply or our credit so as to bring
prices of commodities up to the level
of 1928 or 1929, or shall we reduce
wages, salaries, rents, rates for pub-
lic utilities, fixed charges and debts
to the level of commodity prices?_ The
question was partially answered at
the recent session of Congress, and
the Federal Administration has un-
dertaken to raise the price level in
accordance therewith. On its success
depends the happiness and well-being
of a large part of the people of this
country.
It needs but a brief survey of the
income and expenditures of ordinary
householders to see the striking ir-
regularities and injustices that exist
in the present price ‘structure, On
the income side we find reductions
from 10 to 100 per cent. Practically
no wage-earners, farmers or busi-
ness men now receive the income
they enjoyed in 1928 and 1929. Many
have lost their positions and are en-
tirely without income; workers, who
have been fortunate enough to retain
their positions, have suffered severe
cuts in wages, Business men until
recently were losing instead of gain-
ing, Ten million unemployed means
at least ten million impoverished
homes and tremendous reduction ih
national income.
On the expenditure side we find
most remarkable conditions. Food
and clothing are cheaper than in
1928, Fuel prices remain about the
same in spite of poor financial re-
Continued on Page 4
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July
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Making Work More Interesting
By HON. DAVID C. ADIE
State Commissioner of Social Welfare
In these days of pressure of work
and increased duties, we are, without
special effort, in danger of being in
the position of the efficiency expert
who so narrowed his interest in life
that his very specialization was the
means of intellectual strangulation.
Nature seems to work that way, too;
when a living creature over many
centuries specializes in ways of liv-
ing, nature adjusts his physical or-
ganism accordingly.
Routine, order and system nec-
essarily press more rigidly on one
person than on another. It is, for
instance, a well known fact that per-
sons in my profession have become
interminable bores by the constant
discussion of the particular “cases”
they are called upon to handle. How
can one run away from this danger?
From my windows in the tower of
the State Office Building, I look now
and then over the city to the staunch
hills of the Catskills. The long vista
rests my eyes and my mind, and I
can wander pleasantly in the fields
of memory. Such pauses are ex-
tremely beneficial in escaping what
might well be the tyranny of a task.
The state employee who has to work
day by day in one of the many in-
stitutions may have a more difficult
time in avoiding a fixed life problem
than his fellow worker in a state
office in Albany. But everywhere for
all of us, there is a bit of blue sky
to look up to.
There is, too, our old friend Fa-
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as the treadmill worked on the spirit
of the victim, so may we develop a
sort of dullness and flatness at our
task. The long hours of work, and
the necessity of living in constant
close proximity to the job seems
sometimes an oppressive burden.
It isn’t easy to run away from rou-
tine, depression and narrowing influ-
ences; yet we must all have change
and interest. No dynamo is worth
shucks until it is connected up and
at work. We must not fail to notice
that the most interesting. people in
the world are always interested in
other people. “He who would have
friends,” says Hazlitt, “must first
show himself friendly.” Friendship
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THE STATE EMPLOYEE
THE
STATE EMPLOYEE
Established 1929
Published by
The Association of State Civil Se
‘mployees of the State of New York
Room 156, State Capitol, Albany, N. Y.
OFFICERS
W. F, MeDONOUGH.
BEULAH BAILEY, .
CHESTER A. LEWIS.
WILLIAM J, PIERCE,
+President
JOSEPH D, LOCHNER.
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Time Service
One of the outstanding problems
of State service is the adoption of a
compensation plan based upon the
principle of rewarding workers ac-
cording to the character of service
rendered,
‘The peculiar requirements as to ef-
ficiency and faithfulness attaching to
work in hospital, correctional and
social welfare branches of State
service have not been fairly evalu-
ated any more than have the respon-
sibilities and training required in
hundreds of other positions in vari-
ous lines of public service.
In state institutional service, the
pay for a twelve hour day starts at
$54 per month or $646 a year, with
moderate allowance for maintenance,
Strenuous efforts over many years
to obtain recognition of faithful
work resulted in appropriations to
accord increases of $4.00 per month
at the end of three, five, ten, fifteen
and twenty years, as an award for
continuous time service.
For the fiscal year beginning July
1, 1933, these time service rewards
were eliminated, under law prohibit-
ing increases of any sort, It is dif-
ficult for employees in any branch of
the service to subscribe to the ne-
cessity for the small economy in-
volved. This Association believes it
to constitute disregard of a very im-
portant labor principle. If the em-
ployees concerned were highly paid
the matter would not be so important.
Unless continued devotion to duty is
recognized, initiative and zeal are
placed upon a par with indifference
and slothfulness. One of the great-
est assets to progress is the. response
in human hearts to appreciations of
good work. The State cannot afford
for the pittance of saving involved
to overlook the great moral value
inherent in honest recognition of
faithful and interested service.
Every proper effort will be made
by this Association to secure a de-
ficiency appropriation by the Gov-
ernor and the Legislature to restore
for the fiscal year the abandoned
The Civil Service System
It would be strange indeed if any
institution in American life so im-
portant as the civil service system
escaped entirely the demoralizing ef-
fect of the depression. In the panic
occasioned by fear and in the haste
of experimental adventure for recov-
ery, not only have policies and agen-
cies long suspected of inefficiency
been attacked, but popular education,
the rights of labor, and other well
recognized theories have been threat-
- ened.
Public service from the standpoint
of efficiency and economy is much
the same as private enterprise. But
from the standpoint of selection of
personnel it is vastly different. Every
citizen regardless of political affilia-
tion, of religion, of race, whether
rich or poor, has the right to serve
the people as a public officer or em-
ployee, providing he possesses the
requisite merit and fitness. The civil
service system was founded to as-
sure that political favor, personal
friendship, racial or religious prefer-
ence, snobbery or intolerance of any
sort would not interfere with the
inherent rights of citizens to prove
in a common and intelligent way
their merit and fitness to serve the
State.
Legislation to improve business and
industrial conditions, however, hon-
estly conceived or carried out, will
fail of its purpose if it destroy the
principle of fair play embodied in
the civil service system,
No intelligent human being ex-
pects permanent well-being for the
majority of mankind unless the sal-
aried and wage earning populations
are prosperous. Making up as they
do the vast preponderance of the
citizens of this country, they will al-
ways be the final arbiters of the
country’s fate. Political, religious and
racial freedom cannot be achieved
without the civil service plan of pub-
lic personnel administration. It is a
deep and far reaching matter. Truly,
as the great Theodore Roosevelt once
proclaimed, the civil service system
is as necessary as the common school
system itself,
Everyone of the State and Federal
employees is vitally interested, not
only in the preservation of the civil
service system everywhere through-
out the United States, but also in its
development along wise and practical
lines, because they are an integral
part of that sytem. But they are
most interested as part of the whole
citizenry who cannot without loss of
patriotism forsake the principle in-
volved in firm adherence to the prin-
ciple of an equal opportunity to qual-
ify for any post within the public
time service allowance,
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Level Up or Down?
Continued from Page 1
ports by coal and oil companies.
Railroad rates for passenger and
freight service remain at practically
the former level. Telephone rates
have not materially changed. Gas
and electricity rates stay about where
they were in 1928; hospital rates are
maintained at former levels. Doc-
tors, dentists and lawyers charge the
rates established in boom times, even
though they cannot collect them.
It is thus evident that in spite of
greatly reduced income the average
householder has to meet many
changes that were fixed on a much
higher level than that which pre-
vails today. Naturally, he and his
family save in every possible way.
Thus the general standard of living
is lowered.
Assume we had adopted the policy
of leveling down as advocated by
Colonel Ayres and had decided
henceforth to do business with less
money and lower prices, what would
have happened? All agree that if
such a policy had been adopted the
present depression would continue
until a great many adjustments had
been made. The serious nature of
these adjustments can easily be imag-
ined. The following may be men-
tioned as typical of the economic dis-
turbances that would have taken
place: Debts of individuals, corpor-
ations, municipalities, states and per-
haps those of the Federal govern-
ment would have been scaled down
or repudiated. Bankruptcies and re-
organizations of corporations would
have been multiplied. Railroads
would have defaulted on their bonds
and eventually would have fallen into
the hands of the government, Rates
of all public utilities would have
been reduced and all corporate in-
comes lessened so that dividends
would have become smaller and
scarcer. Public enterprises and char-
itable institutions would have been
neglected, and regression to more
primitive conditions would have fol-
lowed. The abandonment of land
and houses already common in many
places would have become wide-
spread. Insurance companies would
have been unable to meet their ob-
ligations and the security planned for
by millions would have disappeared.
If readjustment had been pursued to
the bitter end, our civilization might
have collapsed.
Fortunately the leveling up process
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will be fraught with much happier
consequences, The only danger is
that the process may be carried to
extremes. Excess of this kind, how-
ever, is not likely to occur in this
country in times of peace.
In leveling up the price structure
the amount of money in circulation
will have to be increased and confi-
dence in the future will have to be
restored, Various safe ways of in-
creasing currency in circulation may
be used: Bonds may be purchased
by Federal reserve banks; loans may
be made to corporations and indi-
viduals at low rates of interest; gold
or silver certificates may be issued
directly by the Federal treasury and
be used to defray government ex-
penses; bank note circulation may
be expanded. Some of these meth-
ods are now in use,
What will happen during the proc-
ess of leveling up? The first result
will be the restoration of hope in the
hearts of producers and merchants.
They will prepare for the expanding
market that will certainly follow.
Merchants will stock up; factories
will resume operations; laborers will
be employed. The demand for farm
products will increase; wages will be
restored, and the normal cycle of
production and distribution will again
operate. Many doubtful debts will
be paid in full and taxes will cease
to be an intolerable burden. Rail-
roads and other public utilities will
again be freely patronized, ‘The
standard of living will again rise.
The happy state that existed in 1928
will gradually be restored. Steps
should then be taken to prevent the
vicious changes in the price level
that have always been so productive
of misery.
It is believed that means are at
hand for the control of the price
level, It certainly should not be al-
lowed to get unreasonably high or
unreasonably low. A constant uni-
form price level constitutes an en-
during basis for prosperity. It
makes for confidence and security
and encourages economic planning
for the future.
Inflation and deflation are both
forerunners of evil days.
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July
The Public Should
Know Their Servants
Hon, WILLIAM GORHAM RICE,
President State Civil Service Commission
(From Address at Annual Meeting
of the Civil Service Reform
Association)
ments should be required from and
be filed by all appointing officers.
The principle can well be applied to
all exempt appointments in cities,
_—_— counties, towns and villages.
As to the future, of civil service,
I desire to offer what may at first
seem to be a radical proposal. But
I feel my proposal has a sound foun-
dation, for its basis is in the State
Constitution which at the beginning
of Article V, Section 6, contains the
following words: “Appointments in
the Civil Service of the State and
all of the civil divisions thereof shall
be made according to merit and fit-
ness...”
Public sentiment, it seems to me,
can be so awakened at this time that
it will become the natural thing to
expect always such an authoritative
statement, filed in a public office,
available to the press, giving the
qualifications of all civil appointees.
The publication of such a statement
would be a matter of news quite as
interesting as the name of an ap-
pointee. The procedure suggested
would honor those who are qualified ;
equally it would disclose those who
lack fitness.
The time has arrived, I believe,
when this merit and fitness declara-
tion of the Constitution should be
definitely applied to exempt and
unclassified appointments as well as
to competitive positions. Possibly
you may regard such a suggestion as
visionary and outside the pale of
practical administration. But if
careful consideration is given to the
suggestion, it seems to me you will
be convinced of its usefulness and
value, particularly at this time when
attention is much directed toward the
tly enlarging scope of State
ies.
Is not the proposal reasonable?
In exempt and unclassified appoint-
ments, the appointing official is allow-
ed entire freedom of choice. Should
he not, in proper regard for the tax-
payers whose money pays the salary
of his appointee, tell why he chooses
a particular person? And is it not
desirable that all citizens should
know from each appointing agent of
the State exactly what kind of merit
and fitness has moved him to a
choice? Indeed should not every
appointing officer count it a privilege
to admit his fellow citizens to his
confidence in this matter of appoint-
ments?
Concretely, I hope to see in the
immediate future public sentiment so
awakened that it will require that
all exempt and unclassified appoint-
ments shall be accepted only when
such appointments are made accord-
ing to disclosed merit and fitness
definitely recorded. This record,
substantiated by the signature of the
appointing authority, ought to be filed
in some public office where it will be
accessible to all citizens and tax-
payers. In other words, the recording
publicly of the qualifications of every
exempt appointee should hereafter be
an understood obligation on the part
of the appointing officer making
such exempt appointment.
The Governor of New York State
already essentially follows this course
in the case of officials appointed by
him. By means of a newspaper
press statement, which promptly
reaches readers throughout the State,
he announces not only the name but
also the qualifications, that is to say
the merit and fitness, of each person
Finally I would specially call to
your attention that each appointing
officer of this State has solemnly
sworn upon assuming office to obey
the constitutional provision requiring
appointments to be according to
merit and fitness. Is it anything
out of the way to ask that in every
case such qualifications as are found
existing should be definitely and
openly recorded. To me this seems
only a proper administrative require-
ment.
While the idea which I have just
presented may at first seem a counsel
of perfection, nevertheless I think
reflection will justify it as a reason-
ably progressive step in civil service
procedure. I believe it to be an ad-
vance step which will assuredly vivify
an existing constitutional declaration,
a step which will surely raise the
standard of all appointments, a step
whom he selects for appointment, |which will make more effective the
My proposal is that a record for)whole organization of the State
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Continued from Page 2
It is impossible for me to be spe-
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interest that surround the state em-
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and Membership
This is the most important period
in American history so far as sala-
ried employees are concerned. Na-
tional measures to stimulate business
recuperation inevitably deal with la-
bor matters, State employees in com-
mon with all other employees must
depend upon organization not only
to protect sound employee practices
but to be in a position to help with
the Nation’s new deal. You owe it
to yourself and fellow workers to
join this Association and support its
program,
The Misses DEE’S Rest Home
353 New Scotland Avenue
Convalescing,
Invalids and
Elderly Women
Cared for in
Trained Nurses
Pleasant Home
ALBANY, N. Y.
LOW RATES
TEL. 2-3644
‘Bonnie Brae
in the ADIRONDACKS
WARRENSBURG, N. Y.
The Center of the Resort District
Excellent beach and bathing
at ECHO LAKE
Golf—Tennis
Popular Rates. Write for Circular
E. W. SHEEHAN, Manager
Furnished Bungalow for rent by week or
to pay. If satisfied with this wonderful policy, send only $1.00 to
NOW! put your protection in force for 45 days—then about 3 cents a day. season, 4 rooms and bath.
. If not satisfied you owe nothing. Don’t delay—write today.
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July
THE STATE EMPLOYEE
7
Better Times
Business indices are showing a
healthy response to an awakened
public confidence.
The Federal administration is ap-
pealing to citizens everywhere to co-
operate toward the successful appli-
cation of the laws recently enacted.
This legal machinery needs men, The
human element capable of coping
with each of the tremendous prob-
lems which it is sought to solve is
the indispensable necessity of the
times. The.success or failure of the
government's efforts will rest wholly
upon the integrity and ability of the
human beings selected. This is a
100 per cent civil service function.
Government is in its most vital parts
a personnel problem. Everything
good and everything bad that results
from government is a reflection of
human action, Salaried workers
everywhere and in every line of hu-
man endeavor will be affected by the
new Federal Laws. Organizations
are the means of giving life to co-
operation. Civil service employees,
fully organized in a solid, state-wide
Association is needed at this time as
never before.
Help the 10,500 members of this
Association on to the “15,000 mem-
bership for 1933” goal!
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‘Arthritis Gone ?
Why, I’m as good as
new. Henry was 100%
right about what the
baths would do for me”
+++» For rheumatism, neuritis,
gout, you should gain real relief
at Saratoga. Ask your doctor!
+ +++ For your preliminary in-
formation, write for booklet
“The Mineral Baths at Saratoga”.
Address: Saratoga Springs Com-
mission, :77 Saratoga Springs,N.Y.
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average Correctional institutional em-
ployee, for instance, is working from
ten to twelve hours per day, many
of them without one day in seven
to themselves. It is true that these
employees are entitled to, and re-
ceive, two weeks vacation with pay.
It is true that after they have labored
for thirty-five years they may be
retired on half-pay. It is true that
there are several other options about
retirement, or in connection with it,
but nowhere, to my knowledge in
industry, are men required to work
longer hours.
It might be said in passing, as
well, that the nature of the employ-
ment of many institutional employees
places them in the hazardous class,
insofar as life and limb are con-
cerned, and their work is so viewed
by insurance companies.
It seems to me it is highly proper,
therefore, for some one to say a
word about these faithful servants
of the State, and that the impression
held by many uninformed individuals
that the State employee occupies an
easy berth with short hours and long
vacations be dispelled by a state-
ment of the facts. The success of
our institutional programs depend
upon the loyalty and intelligence of
the staffs of the institutions. That
these programs have been so success-
ful indicates that the employees have
performed, and are performing their
duties in a splendid way.
GREYHOUND
TRIPS ARE
COOL
It’s cooler, breesier CTTTT TEM
—and it costs far
Jess! Aren't these
excellent reasons
to all principal cities and vacation areas,
Low Summer Fares
Chicago... $15.50 Washington.
New York... 4.00
Philadelphia & a
Detroit...
Minneapolis.
Los Angel
Eastern Greyhound Terminal
350 BROADWAY Tel. 4-6165
Merritt Travel Bureau
40 State Tel, 4-220
GREYHOUND
BARRETT'S
BALD MOUNTAIN HOUSE
RD. LAKE—FULTON CHAIN
‘OLD FORGE, N. Y.
41st Year under the same management.
Many guests with us 10, 20, 30
consecutive seasons.
THOROUGHLY MODERN
ALL AMUSEMENTS
GOLF PRIVILEGES
NEW BATHING BEACH
Large illustrated booklet, full information, write:
E, S. BARRETT, OLD FORGE, N. Y.
ates iclading uses from $5.00 Fr dey and
2 ke Te 50 per
‘$32 per weel Get eD niko gs bes
‘Much lower in September
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GENERAL ELECTRIC
OIL FURNACE
and
AIR CONDITIONING
‘Where to Buy it”’
WESTOVER-WOLFE
INCORPORATED
170 Washington Avenue
Telephone 5-3324
“BERKSHIRE” —
With His Band and
Autos Carried, Low Rates
FAMOUS SEARCHLIGHT ROUTE TO
MAGNIFICENT NIGHT-LINE STEAMERS
“TROJAN” —
Featuring
WILBUR SWEATMAN
RK. O. Artist
a PANERA
Unique Entertainers
Each Evening, Leaving Steamboat Square, Albany Daily 9 P. M., D. S. T.
DINING AND DANCING
Clean, Modern Staterooms, $1 & $2
HUDSON RIVER NIGHT LINE
McALLISTER NIGHT LINE, Ine., Lessce
Call Albany 3-1181
Welcome
State
Employees!
The New and Beautiful
Those Who Know
rates:::::
1400 Rooms
HOTEL LIN
44th-45th Streets, Eighth Avenue
NEW YORK CITY
“Just a Step from Broadway”
“Home” in New York, because here they find
a cheery welcome . . cleanliness . . courtesy
. and MAXIMUM COMFORT --- at reasonable
Single: $2.50 to $4.00
Double: $3.50 to $6.00
Every room with tub and shower bath, radio,
Servidor — every modern convenience.
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consider the LINCOLN
30 Stories of Sunshine
AABRAARAC ONO GG
Delightful, Economical Cruises
A DAY...A WEEK...OR LONGER
To the Chicago World’s Fair. . . to Duluth
«via Great Lakes Transit Liners
ae
This summer save money. Spend your vaca- DAY GREAT LAKES
TRANSIT CRUISE
tion on palatial Great Lakes Transit liners. BUFFALO
$
Visit the Chicago World’s Fair. See Duluth. pps sas
] oi i Including Meals and Berth. Correspondingly low
Enjoy sun: swept lounging decks, meals fit for rates from other ports, (Railroad Tickets Honored).
a king, spacious staterooms at greatly reduced
DAY GREAT LAKES
TRANSIT CRUISE
fares. Dancing and deck sports daily. A fine
vacation for all the family. Ask about our
we a
Chicago All-Expense-Plan. Other cruises as AND RETURN
Including Meals and Berth, Correspondingly low
low as $4.25. rates from other ports. (Railroad Tickets Honored).
GREAT LAKES TRANSIT CORPORATION
S.S. Octorara, S.S. Juniata, S.S. Tionesta sailing frequently between Buffalo,
Cleveland, Detroit, Mackinac Island, Sault Ste. Marie, Houghton, Duluth,
Chicago, Milwaukee.
AUTOMOBILES CARRIED BETWEEN ALL PORTS
For full information apply any Tourist or Railroad Agent or J. F. Condon, P. T. M.
120 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, N. Y.
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