Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1904 — New York’s Classic Cities. [ARTICLE]

New York’s Classic Cities.

New York State Is full of cities and towns of classic nomenclature. There must hfive been a wave of GraecoRoman lore when the christening of municipalities took place, with a byproduct of Asianism as a seasoning. There are such names as Rome, Troy, Athens, Cairo, ' Syracuse, Ithaca, Sparta, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Tyre, Memphis, Venice, Florence, Corinth, Parma, Milan, Naples, Hector, Ovid, Delhi, Delphi, Diana, Paris, Pompey, Ilion, Palmyra, Palermo, Marathon, Mycenae, Napoli, Nineveh, Babylon, Romulus, Siloam, Smyrna, Utica, Virgil, Homer, Cicero, Ceres, etc.