The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-23
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 MAMMOTH CARNIVAL ID c0MMEMO- RATE HUDsON-FULTON ANNI- yERsARlEs.
 
 New York. April 21.-Measures are being | taken to insure q mammoth celebration in l 1909 of the combined anniversaries of tho | discovery of the Hudson River by Henry | Hudson. whc sailed up the river in the Half Moon in 1908. and the sailing of the first steamboat, the Clermont with which Robert Fulton startled the farmers along the rbrer iShen 1t padded laboriously up in is0s.yA measure now before Governor Higgins for Signature incorporates the Hudson-FuIton l celebration committee and appropriates S26.600 for preliminary expenses. The cele- bfAtion will include the greatest marine carnival ever seen in New York. in which between 1000 and 5000 vessels of all classes from great battieships to little Easoiene launches. will participate. and great mii- itary parade. Incidental to the celebration will be the building of a memorial bridge over historical Spuyten Duyvil Creek just north of the city. thus opening . great bou- ievard extending forty miles along the east bank ot the river as far Peekskill This road will be a suitable companion to the similar highway planned to run along the western bank of the river. some thirty-fivs
 
 construction of this second thorouGhfare awaits the passage of bill now pending in the legislature at Albany to permit the Pali- sades commission to acquire land for the purpose and also to preserve the upper pali- sades. which stone Quarrymen are rapidly blasting away. If the bill Is passed and the scenic features of the American Rhine protected. New York will have an ap- proach from the north unrtvalled in beau fv.
 The Gorhy incident in New York was not without its amusing features. and now Fa- ther Knickerbccker is enjoying a bit of . laugh at himself. As soon as the Russian revolutionist representative of the red cap.
 landed, good part of the local beauty and chivalry made lion of him as they had done before in the case of Prince Louis of Battenberg, and Prince Henry of Prussio. representatives of hereditary sovereignty. Gotham's literary respectabies. socialist mil- lionaires, club women, persons whose social position depended on keeping in the news paper limeltght, and the lesureIy thousands and one who have nothing more ser.css to do than cry hurrah to every little hero all flocked to Gorky's apartments and sang hymns of praise to the new lion. Enthusias- tio women (many of whom won distinction in 1898 making fudge and lace handker- chiefs for the dear soldiers in Cuba) feted Mine. Gorky" amid unprecedented con- sumption of marshmallows and ice cream. Enough public dinners were planned ahead in honor of Gorky to feed all the hungr peasants of Russia. Revolution became the mode. Fifth Avenue struck hands with the wavers of the red flag on the East Side. Broadway dandies took to putting Russion cigarettes and the demand for vodka in the palace hotels began to worry the cham pasne agents. Then suddenly. it was dis covered that Mime. Gorky'' was not Mrs. Gorky after all This like Napoeon's the French Revolution. suddenly snded our amateur revolutionists. Exit William Dean Howells ana literary respectables exit J. G. Phelps stskes and socialist milionaires. ex- it scandalized club ladies and marshmallow eating legions, the series of revolutionary literary dinners colapses and the lion skuiks to cover. Only the caterers mourn.
 New York, the haunt of the millionaire has been hot with discussion this week over that portion of the Presidents muck rake" speech devoted to the proposition to limit great fortunes. over which the opinions ex- pressed have been many and various. Scarcely less interest has been aroused over the section of the speech in which the Pres idept referred to the proposed law for government supertntendence over interstate commerce.. this superintendence and con- trol not to be exercised in q spirit of ma levolence toward the men who have created wealth. but with the firm purpose both to do justice to them and to see that they in their turn do justice to the public at large" By local commercial interests this is as- stunned to mean that the President is not un- favorable to conservative legislation and F following 1t have come reports from Wash- ington that the President looks with a friendly eye on the simmons amendment to the Hepburn bill. The amendment. which, up to the present time hasssnot achieved much public notice, provides for adequate court review, together with suspension of the orders of the commission pending ap- peal, provided that the railroads institute proceedings fur such suspensioni within fif- teen days of the filing of the order of the commission
 If the dogs cats horses and other do- nestle animals of New York could read the news 1t Is probable that they would have joined a great chorus of celebration during the past week. for John P. Haines. for many years president of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. has at last been forced out of office The trouble with Mir. Haines was that the society under him apparently never did anything and he gave no accounting to any body of the large funds placed with the society. amount ing to s115.0 900 or more year. The instance Is related of dog found in the street by a woman member of the society and taken to her home. where she telephoned for the ambulance of the society. It took just six days for the ambulance to get there. Numerous similar instances are given to de- monstrate the incapacity of the manage ment. Colonel Alfred Wagstaff ia now acting as temporary president of the socie- ty, and the presidency has been offered to Lieutenant General Adna R. Chaffee, who retired recently as Chlet or the 6enerdl Staff of the United States Army. It is be- iieved that General Chaffee can devise a system whereby an ambulance can be got- ten to a sick dog in less than six days.
 The old-fashioned assembly at the ola Astor House this week, at which local fash ionables danced the mazourkas and mnuets of sixty odd years ago clothed in the knee brooches and hoopskirts of their granddad- dies and grandmothers. recalled the days when old New York was young. Then the plain old gray-stone hotel on lower Broad way was the palatial hostelry of the me- tropolis and the center of social life of the town Democratic Presidents to the time of Buchanan had rooms there. But this centre has now moved over three miles up Broadway and Longacre Square usurps the honors of Post Office Square. The old Astor House looks very small and shabby now in comparison with such a palace as the new S7 900. 900 Hotel Astor uptown, and It's antiquity Is accentuated by the towering office buildings that have grown up around It. At the assembly on Wednesday night the dancers refreshed themselve with "Governor Clinton Punch made after Ia nous recipe handed down through several generations There were present one or two veterans of the old time. who drinking, recalled sadly that the ancient wine list of the hotel contained champagne at $2 quart old reserve Madeira $2 50, old port $2. The spirit of the forties may be reviv- ed for a night in New York. but the old prices will never come again.
 Gotham's sturdy Democratic Americanism dearly loves a pedigree and undoubtedly there is much local qualification over the