ITHACA, N. Y., city and county-seat of Tompkins County, on Cayuga Lake (42 miles long), and on the Lackawanna, Lehigh Valley and Central New York Southern railroads. It derives water power from several streams and has manufactories of autophones, silent roller chains, flour, advertising signs, cement, furni ture, calendar clocks, firearms, salt, salt bags, well-drilling machinery and tools, furniture, paper, cigars, carriages, boats, iron castings, traction engines, portable houses, incubators, brick, heel plates, rowing shells, aeroplanes, shirts, moving picture films, etc. The city is best known as the seat of Cornell University (q.v.) and the New York State Colleges of Agriculture and Veterinary Surgery (com bined annual registration over 7,000), and the Cascadilla Preparatory School; and also as a popular summer resort. There • are two na tional banks, one trust company and two sav ings banks (bank resources, $10,000,000), trolley connection with East Ithaca, large farming trade with Tompkins, Tioga, Cortland and Sen eca counties; and an assessed property valua tion' exceeding $8,000,000. Excellent State
highways radiate in all directions. In the immediate vicinity are numerous gorges and waterfalls, the most noted of the falls being Triphammer. Ithaca. Enfield. Taurrhannock and IButtermilk. The Taughannock is 215 feet in height and is the highest waterfall east of the Rocky Mountains. There is here the Cornell Free Library containing 21,000 volumes, the Ithaca Conservatory of Music and Renwick Park. Under the charter of the govern ment is vested in a mayor and city council elected every two years. An active Board of Commerce extends co-operation to manufac turing concerns and the rural community. Ithaca was first settled in 1787 and was called at different periods,.(Sodom,I) (The Flats' and 'the city,* until 1806, when Simeon Dewitt gave it the name it bears. It was incorporated as a village in 1821. Pop. 16,759.