FIRST INSTALLMENT READY AUGUST FIRST THE ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA COMPLETE IN THIRTY VOLUMES This colossal work, under the direction of George Edwin Rines, Editor-in-Chief, assisted by a large editorial staff of trained encyclopedists and special departmental editors and advisors, is being revised to the minute, and is now in press. This stupendous undertaking has already been over two years in preparation and involves the writing and revising of more than 80,000 articles, comprising 24,000,000 words. This work will contain 10,000 original signed articles by eminent writers of America and Europe; 1,200 half-tone illustrations; 200 illustrations in color; thousands of text illustrations; new and up-to-date maps of all countries, states and cities. PRINTED ON THIN INDIA PAPER MADE IN AMERICA FOR THIS WORK SPECIAL CLASSIFIED INDEX VOLUME which will greatly increase the usefulness and value of the work THE NEW AMERICANA is the Most Complete Library of Reference AN AMERICAN WORK FOR THE The Latest and Last Word of Modern Authority in Industry, Commerce, Banking, Agriculture, Electricity, Chemistry, Education, Economics, Literature, History, Biography, Science, Engineering, Mechanics, Philosophy, Religion, Astronomy, Art, Medicine, Law, Music, Botany, Military Science, Etc., and Thousands of Articles of General Interest which will make THE AMERICANA THE LEADING REFERENCE WORK OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD THE ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA CORPORATION 27 WILLIAM STREET NEW YORK AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE VOLUME II AUGUST, 1918 NUMBER 8 CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE THE TWO TERMS OF GOVERNOR WHITMAN CANAL RATES UNDER FEDERAL CONTROL PUBLISHER'S AND EDITOR'S CORNER PERSONAL ITEMS OF STATE INTEREST POLITICAL NEWS OF THE STATE 83 86 89 CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATIONS NEWS OF THE STATE DEPARTMENTS PUBLISHED BY THE STATE SERVICE MAGAZINE CO., INC., LYON BLOCK, ALBANY, NEW YORK ERNEST A. BARVOETS, Treasurer CHARLES M. WINCHESTER, President GEORGE D. ELWELL, Advertising and Circulation Manager JAMES MALCOLM, Editor SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE; SINGLE COPIES, 25 CENTS Entered as second-class matter October 17, 1917, at the post-office at Albany, New York, under Act of March 3, 1879 COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY THE STATE SERVICE MAGAZINE CO., INC. SARATOGA Mineral Waters and Baths THE GIFT OF THE GREAT SPIRIT Under State Control: Saratoga has renewed its life as a world-famed watering place. It now offers a wealth and variety of springs, with an unsurpassed efficiency of equipment for health and recreation, amid the attractiveness of a most interesting and beautiful country. For Bathing: The mineral springs at Saratoga fully equal, and in many respects surpass, in curative value, the waters of the most famous European Spas. The treatments at the State Bath Houses are quite as effective as any given at the cures abroad, now closed by the war. Saratoga Baths are equal in every respect to those of Nauheim, Homburg, Kissingen, Marienbad, Wiesbaden, Carlsbad and other famous European Spas - with a value added to any of these in the fact that a higher degree of supersaturation with carbon dioxide gas is delivered at the tubs than at any other bath houses in the world. For Drinking: The waters cover a wide range of recog nized medicinal values. They include Mild Laxatives, Strong Cathartics, Diuretics, Chalybeates, Alkaline Digestives, Delicious Table Waters, Non-mineral, Noncarbonated water of absolute purity. These several waters are bottled at the springs and can be ordered of the Commission at Saratoga. Saratoga is Open the Year Round Three books just issued by the Conservation Commission, sent upon request: "Saratoga Mineral Springs and Baths "Saratoga for Health and Recreation "State Reservation, Saratoga Springs" State of New York Conservation Commission AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE VOLUME II AUGUST, 1918 NUMBER 8 THE TWO TERMS OF GOVERNOR WHITMAN His secretary sums up the big achievements of the State administra- tion BY WILLIAM A. ORR The STATE SERVICE magazine asked Mr. Orr, secretary to Governor Whitman, to briefly state the big things accomplished under the two terms of the governor. The magazine, although strictly non-partisan, aims to present the facts from the viewpoint of all political parties. Mr. Orr, it may be assumed, is in a position to give the side of Governor Whitman in the campaign now going on before the voters of New York state. In the RepubIn the Republican primary contest September 3d Mr. Whitman is to have two rivals, Attorney-General Merton E. Lewis and William M. Bennett. The voters will be interested to know what the secretary to the governor believes to be the important achievements of the Whitman administration.- EDITOR. S UPPORT of the nation in every move for the vigorous prosecution of the war-cooperation with our sister states in the same cause-preparation and action within our proper State functions to the same end- and the conduct of the domestic affairs of the State on a sound businesslike basis, without scandal or extravagance has been the program and the performance of the Whitman administration. Four years of Democratic misrule, beginning with the repudiated inefficiency of Governor Dix, swelling to the maximum amid the turmoil of party strife under Governor Sulzer, and waning to a quiet but dominant Tammany control under Governor Glynn, must be compared by the voters of the State State accomplishments this fall with the four years of constructive administration since Governor Whitman was inaugurated. The support of the nation, of the president and of every branch and arm of federal authority in the prosecution of the war, has been, is, and will be the primary motive for every administrative officer of the State under Governor Whitman. While this is the natural and to be expected course for the administration of the Empire State, it is worthy of comparison, in passing, that it was not the policy during the period of the last great war in which the union was engaged when with the party domination at Washington and Albany reversed, as compared to the present, the most bitter criticisms which President Lincoln had to endure came from Governor Horatio Seymour of the State of New York. In the present conflict, the State administration has lent itself in every possible way to the furtherance of every move for war efficiency. Among the administrative and legislative factors contributing to this end, the following are worthy of mention: (1) Provision for military training for boys from sixteen to nineteen years of age. (2) Provision for the training of boys from sixteen to nineteen in vocations supplementary to military activity. (3) The taking and tabulation of a State military spring, and the traffic has warranted the census and inventory. (4) Mobilization of an adequately equipped National Guard division, which is now on the western front. (5) Examination and induction of approximately 300,000 men through the operation of the national selective service act. (6) Organization of a State Guard to take the place of the former National Guard in the protection of vital industrial plants engaged in the production of war munitions. (7) Creation and performance of a State food commission, which has been vested by federal authority with the majority control of the federal food commission for the State of New York. (8) Completion of the State barge canal in time to assist in the relieving of wartime railroad congestion. (9) Maintenance of a through-route highway from Buffalo to the port of New York, now being effectively used by thousands of United States army motor-truck transports. (10) Organization of County Home Defense Committees in every County, cooperating with Council of National Defense and State Defense Council. As examples of administrative cooperation with adjoining states in the same cause of war efficiency, there may be cited such matters as the joint operations with New Jersey for the betterment of New York harbor; the joint operations with the same state, looking toward the building of a communicating bridge or tunnel over or under the Hudson; the construction of bridges for the maintenance of through-route highways over creeks and rivers on the Pennsylvania border; and the maintenance of throughroute highways to connect with Massachusetts roads now being used by federal military motor-truck transports. Governor Whitman long ago realized that the New York State barge canals would be of tremendous value to the United States government in relieving the railroads of undue pressure of war freight, and he cooperated with State Engineer Frank M. Williams to the end that the canals might be opened to navigation by large vessels of deep draught in the spring of 1918. In spite of many unforeseen difficulties caused by labor troubles and shortage of materials due to the war, the canals were opened this expenditure of great sums of money to make the waterways ready. The government was quick to take over the State canals and announcement has just been made that the wheat crop of the west, amounting to more than 100,000,000 bushels, will be moved via the barge canals instead of through the Canadian waterways and down the St. Lawrence. The system of giving out jobs on the State canals as political plums has been done away with, and under the State department of public works a corps of expert lock tenders and gate operators has been created, all of the men being high class electricians who passed civil service examinations and were appointed under the merit system. Early in 1917 Governor Whitman made plans to increase the food supply of the State, created a food supply commission that was later merged into the State council of farms and markets, and did everything possible to aid farmers in increasing their crops. Tractors were bought, seed was procured and sold to farmers at cost, a farm loan fund was established, farm cadet corps raised for supplying labor, and the result was an increase in the State's crops that amounted to fully thirty per cent. The governor called a special session of the legislature to create an emergency State food commission to act in conjunction with the United States food administration in conserving the food supply. The federal food board for New York State was organized to coordinate the work of the federal and State boards, and has so conducted its work as to protect the public from profiteers, conserving the food supply, and helping farmers solve labor and transportation problems. The Donnelly anti-trust law was amended so as to permit farmers to organize cooperative associations for the sale and distribution of their products; tractor schools were established and State-owned tractors |