The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-11-14
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ANNIVERSARYSOF
ROBERT! i. |. |. FULTON. D!
Will Be Observed
This Evening

NEW YORK. Nov. Il l.--The i42d an
niyersary OF the birth OF Robert Full
ton and the centenary Of the SUCCESS.
ful Inauguration OF steam navigation
on the Hudson In 1907 VIII gbe com
men,orated. by a public meeting to be
held in the new building OF the New
York Historical Society on Central
Park west this evening, Descendants
Of the great inventor Will be the guests
Of honor, and addresses viii. be deliy.
cred By General Stewart u. woodford.
Rear Admiral Coghlan. Captain George
A. White and others. x
The exercises are In charge OF the
Robert Fulton Monument Assoc ociaton,
which will erect in this city a mauso.
leum and shaft to commemorate rul.
ton and his invention. and VIM also
construct a water gate or approach To-
the city. This gate will be carried
out into the deep water OF the fiud.
son river. 1t will5beEbuilt Of granite
and marble and will be a point ofI Iap.
proach to the city available 8for the;
largest merchant and naval yesseis.
When completed Il will be a place
where the president Of the United
States may receive foreign ;dlgnataries
or the governor Of this. State or the
mayor Of New York may receive lsis-
itors from abroad with proper cere:
monies. This is feature which has
been lacking in the American metropo.
lis for many years.
The association TO carry out this
work has for president Cornelius
Vanderbilt. The secretary 1 Is w, H;
Fletcher, and the treasurer Is Rich.
ard peIafeld, president or the Nation.
al Park bank OF New York. The a.
nance committee includes Isaac Gug.
genheim, chairman: John Jacob Az.
tor. Samuel L. Clemens William Bay.
ard Cutting, Edward p. Bates. Rich
ard Delaheld. William H. Fletcher
Charles R. Lamb, Walter Scott Geo.
J. Smith, Colonel H. o. \ S! Seistands
and Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie, Levi Morton and
John Jacob Astor are among the mem.
bers OF the committee Interested In
the building Of the structure.
The Robert Fulton Monument Asso.
citation will also combine with the
Hudson-Fulton Celebration comnis.
sion in arranging a great demonstra-
tion in observance Of the 800 anniyer-
sary of the discovery OF the Hudson.
river by Henry Hudson and the cen.
tennial anniversary Of the practical
application Of steam to navigation by
Robert Fulton. which was made on
the Hudson. This celebration VIII be
held September IS to IS, 1909 In this
city. The original plans tontempIat.
ed great international exposition, but
this Idea has been abandoned. and the
greater portion OF, the money collected
will be expended for permanent .monu.
ments and improvements,
The dates marking the conines OF,
the confines OF the celebration were
chosen because OF the fact that Hud.l
son reached his "farthest north in
the exploration Of the river With the:
Half Moon on September il. 1868.
and started down stream on HIS re-
turn voyage on September "a. ii lis
not considered inappropriate that the
Fulton end Of the celebration should
be coupled with date two years after
the centennial anniversary OF Robert
Fulton's epoch.making trip on the,
steamer clermont, inasmuch as Il was
in 1909 that the Legislature of the
State granted to him a perpetual mon
opoly Of the steam navigation Of the
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