The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25
The Discoverer of the River
Which Bears, His Name
And the Inventor of the Steam
boat to Be HOnOred Alike.
TO LAST EIGHT DAYS.
Celebration of Events One and
Three Centuries Age.
Largest Collection of War YES
sells Ever in One Place.

New York. Sept. 25.-The man who
discovered the Hudson river and the
man whose invention made it OF great
est service will be honored during the
coming week here at the scene of their
achievements Three centuries ago
Hendrix Hudson sailed past Manhattan
island and up the river to the head of
navigation. Two hundred years later
Robert Fulton made the same trip in
the first successful steamboat. The
Hudson-F'llton celebration, which opens
here today. will visualize their achieve
ments.
For the next seven days the people OF
New York and visitors from all parts
of the world will witness series OF
pageants surprising anything hitherto
attempted in the way OF historic COM
menoration. The crowning attachments
of the twentieth century will be ex-
hibited to set off those of the past. The
leviathanS of the worlds navieS have
gathered to honor the two little ships
tina. made history one and three cen
turtles ago. Above the waters where
eighty warships lie at anchor the con-
mastery. Airship flights, naval parades.
military parades and historical
pageants will all contribute to the an
niversary. Eva~-- important nation IS
York waters, the floating part of the
exhibition will move up the river, where
the cities whose settlement and growth
followed Hudson's discovery and Full
tons invention will spend the next
week in performing their part of the
celebration.
Half Moon and Clermont.
At 10 O'Clock today the Half Moon
and acknowledgements reproductions
of the little Dutch shallop in which an
English master and mixed crew first
assembled the Hudson river from Man
haitian island to Albany, and of the I'M
calmly monster belching smoke and
Kissing vapor in which Robert Fulton,
an American inventor, made the same
distance for the first time propelled By
steam, moved from their quiet anchor
ages in the lee of Staten island to
salute the vast bulk of the assembled
american and foreign ships of war in
the lower harbor.
The Clermont, reproduced, moved un-
der her own steam. Her clumsy en-
gines ratified and groaned in her open
hull; ner unprotected paddle wheels
spattered foam on her decks and she
pushed slowly through the water at a
speed of a little better than four miles
an hour. very much like the floating
gllst mill that Hudson river farmer
first thought her, 100 years ago She
Is built Of wood. the ships around her
gre built of steel; she carried no wills
tie, nothing but q bell; steam was too
young then-and chrieking sirens will
salute her; her engines snort their
waste energy into the opeE air while in
the submarines depths of the great
hulls around her Willing turbines do
the same work with an efficiency and
power unGreemed of by Fulton The
bell the original Clermont carried on
her first trip hangs now in the pilot
house of a great slde-wheeler that daily
makes in less than II hours the same
distance that Robert Fulton for whom
she has been fittingly named, took
from Monday morning until Wednes-
day night to cover.
Hudson and His Crew.
This is a verv good land to fall in
with and 4 pleasant land to see," wrote
Robert Juet in his diary of the voyage
OF the Half Moon. 1909. The magnif1
cent oaks, the populars, lndens and
blue plum trees that Hudson and Rob
ert Juet. his clerk saw then. have been
replaced with soaring skyscrapers on
the shores of that pleasant land" but
Hudson and his crew on the Half
Moon, and Fulton and his men on the
Clermont. walk their decks in the same
dress that they wore the one 300 years
and the other 100 years ago. Over their
n. astheads during the week will fly air
ships and under their keels will burrow
daily the tunnel trains of the McAdoo
cystem.
This IS the way in which the Hud-
son-Fulton celebration proposes to
teach history and commemorate the