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After compiling a list of 998 mid-sized cities, we researched the walkability of each city, and then ranked them by the number of antique shops, restaurants, and hotels. We also gathered the date each city was founded because history definitely adds to the charm factor.
The following ten cities have a walk score of 80 or higher, meaning you can easily park your car and spend the rest of your day perusing the many antique shops on foot.That being the criteria for charm, Hudson made the list: "The 10 Most Charming Cities in America."
The Quartermaster Corps is just now the busiest department of the United States Army. Without it not a single company of troops could reach the firing line, not a soldier clothed, fed or armed.
To move the great army Uncle Sam is bringing into being means the marshalling of 121,580 railroad cars in 7,320 trains and directing them without delay or confusion over routes many of them over three thousand miles long. To keep this force provisioned in the field means supplying and shipping one billion pounds of freight a month, requiring fifty-five trains a day.
The Quartermaster Corps, in cooperation with Defense Committee of railroad presidents, has organized America's 260,000 miles of railroad, with its hundreds of corporations, into one system and plotted every mile and every train move over its myriad routes….
Quartermaster Corps officers must know every stopping point, length of sidings, junctions, capacity of terminals, loading and unloading facilities, size of tunnels, capacity of bridges, &c., along their routes.
The estimates of the corps are based on a force of twenty field armies, or about 1,500,000 men. With them go 700,000 mount and draught animals, 60,000 vehicles and 3,360 big guns. A tabulation of rolling stock and other railroad equipment just completed shows that to handle this traffic there are needed, besides more heavy cars, special terminal yards and sidings, loading and unloading platforms, double tracking of many single track lines and the building of new lines into undeveloped territory.
This means the raising of a vast amount of new capital by the railroads. The railroad executives believe that the systematizing and unifying of railroad control under federal authority, brought about by war preparation, will prove the value of such centralized regulation for permanent adoption by the United States as a peace measure. This vast increase of expense is putting the roads in shape for war is also given as one of the chief reasons for asking the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to increase freight rates.
Today’s announcement by the Coast Guard is terrific news for the Hudson River and the countless community members, businesses, organizations, and elected officials--of both parties--who opposed the anchorages proposal. It brings welcome relief from the threat of increased petroleum traffic and potential oil spills that new anchorage grounds would inevitably bring.
My office has spoken out against this plan since it was first introduced, and I’m proud of our recently passed legislation that increases the state’s capacity to protect communities and natural habitats along the Hudson River. Often referred to as America’s River, the Hudson is the lifeline of our region: It connects us economically, culturally, and historically. We remain committed to fighting for a healthy, safe, and vital Hudson River, today and for future generations.COPYRIGHT 2017 CAROLE OSTERINK
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So far, the plan is for senior housing in one complex with both market value and government subsidized units. Another complex would have market value apartment units with some recreational amenities, while across 9H there would be a large commercial area for big box stores, warehouses, office space and whatever other commercial endeavors could be induced to locate there.Elsewhere, the proposed development has been described as "an $80 million, 700-unit apartment complex and big box commercial development that will be just south of 66." Amedore Homes has previously built developments in Albany, Saratoga, and Schenectady counties.
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| Amedore development in Voorheesville |
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Dr. Henry C. Galster, as well known physician and surgeon of this city, to-day received a commission as captain in the medical section of the Officers Reserve corps of the United States army. He is now awaiting orders to leave Hudson for some concentration camp, from which he probably will be detailed to Europe.
In April Dr. Galster offered his services to the United States government, and stated that he was ready for immediate service in Europe. He was recommended for a captaincy commission, but subsequently received word that led him to believe that he would be appointed a first lieutenant.
This morning he received a communication from the office of the secretary of War, in which was his commission as captain in the medical section of the Officers' Reserve corps, which commission became effective June 15. His many friends will be delighted to learn of the designation and that he will make a most capable officer is not doubted.
Dr. Galster for some time was first lieutenant in the Medical corps of the Tenth regiment, National Guard, a position he filled in a most capable manner. He has, therefore, considerable military experience.Galster, who was 29 in 1917, lived and practiced medicine at 454 Warren Street. It is the address given on his draft registration card.
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Miss Helen M. Hall, daughter of Judge and Mrs. M. M. Hall of this city, has the distinction of being the first woman to apply for entrance into the government Aviation schools. A week ago Miss Hall offered her services to Captain Davidson of the Cornell Aviation school. The course is for eight weeks, after which the students are transferred to another government school to get practical experience in flying. Upon finishing at these schools, students are given commissions as Lieutenants, Captains or Majors. As yet no provisions have been made for women in the Signal corp so that immediate entrance to impossible. The War department at Washington, however, has assured Miss Hall that such provisions will be made within the next few months and that the county will be glad to welcome her as the first aviatrix in the government schools.
Miss Hall, while waiting for the government to take action, is at present engaged in organizing a Cornell Women's Ambulance corps for immediate service in France.A week later, there was more news about Miss Hall on the front page of the Register.
Miss Helen M. Hall, daughter of former City Judge and Mrs. Milton M. Hall of this city, returned home yesterday from Cornell university. She was graduated from that institution on Wednesday, receiving the degree of A.B. Miss Hall will remain here for a week, and will then return Ithaca, where she has an excellent position.
The commencement exercises at Cornell this year, Miss Hall states, were not as impressive as in former years because of the fact that a large number of the seniors are in the United States service and many are now in France. Those who were graduated were sent telegrams to the effect that they had been graduated.
Miss Hall has been very much interested in aviation, and has offered her service to the United States government. She has been informed by the Adjutant General of the United States that as soon as women are accepted in the government's aviation department she will be notified.Census records indicate that Judge Milton M. Hall and his family lived at 110 Green Street, in the house that is now the location of Bates & Anderson Redmond & Keeler Funeral Services.
The complete history of American ambulanciers in the Great War will never be satisfactorily told because a significant part of the record is incomplete: that involving the work of female volunteers. American women who drove ambulances in France usually got there by sheer force of their ability, ingenuity and resolve, and yet their extraordinary work is seldom treated in detail in either public or private accounts of the war. Still, sparse though the evidence may be many women did in fact swap their stateside lives for a term of ambulancing that was largely without exhilarating moments.No evidence could be found about what Helen Hall did during wartime, but the decennial census for 1920 lists Helen M. Hall, then 25, who was born in New York and whose father was also born in New York, as living in Oklahoma City with two other young women. According to census records, Helen and one of her roommates, Ruth F. Harel, 24, from California, have the same illegible occupation in the same illegible industry.
