The Schenectadian, portraying the advantages, attractions and opportunities of the electic city . Bouh-circt Home Sites30. Piosfrclirr THE GREAT WESTERN GATEWAY (Means a boulevard bridge from tbe highlands ofSchenectady to the highlands of Glenville—onewhich will place the tide of travel forever abovethe Mohawk floods and which will eliminate theintolerable conditions that past generations havebeen forced to endure—a bridge befitting and be-coming the historic and commercial importance ofthe State of New York.) It is peculiarly appropriate that the readersof this book, descriptive of the Elect
The Schenectadian, portraying the advantages, attractions and opportunities of the electic city . Bouh-circt Home Sites30. Piosfrclirr THE GREAT WESTERN GATEWAY (Means a boulevard bridge from tbe highlands ofSchenectady to the highlands of Glenville—onewhich will place the tide of travel forever abovethe Mohawk floods and which will eliminate theintolerable conditions that past generations havebeen forced to endure—a bridge befitting and be-coming the historic and commercial importance ofthe State of New York.) It is peculiarly appropriate that the readersof this book, descriptive of the Electric City,should glance for a few minutes at a shortsynopsis of the movement that has taken thename that the Indians had in mind when theycalled the locality on which the Electric Citynow stands, Schenectady—The Gateway. Indian names were always significent andfull of meaning. By the tribes that lived here200 years ago this s[)Ot was always termedThe Gateway—the only opening at water levelin the great Appalachian range of mountainsfor hundreds of miles. That is what the wordSchenectady means, and what it is—
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