The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-09-25
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tor. have signed contracts to attempt
at least as much OF 1t as their judg-
ment will warrant.
Busy as will be the days. the nights
VIII be perhaps even more beautiful
For week during the Hudson-Fulton
celebration the city of New York In
all its boroushs will be the most bril-
liantly Illuminated in the world. The
decorative uses of electricity were first
realized on a scole worthy of their
possibilities at the Worlds Fair. in
Chicago, in 1893. and from that time
on every succeeding exhibition has
been more lavish in its appropriation
for lighting, until this year IL is esti-
mated conservatively that in addition
10 the regular lighting of the city and
exclusive of the contracts placed by
private firms for advertising display,
there will burst into Blaze. on the
night of September 25. 26,26O,000 can
die power.
This great aggregate is apportion
ed as nearly as can be determined.
between the four iboroughs as follows:
500 900 incandescent globes, 1000
arc lights. 5000 flaming arcs and two
batteries Of search-lights-oneo of four
lights aggregating 100000 candle
power. and the other of twelve lights
aggregating 1.700.0O0 candle power
The smaller battery Will play coniinu
ously from all sides on the white mar
BILE OF Grants Tomb. high above the
river on the Manhattan shore of the
Hudson and the great battery of l..
100000 candle power will light up the
river Itself in both directions from its
farthest visible upper reaches to tae
lower harbor All the United States
Battleships and the ships of war OF
other nations lying in the roadstead
will likewise i5e outlined in fire from
stem to stern and draped with incan-
descent festoons from their topnasts
TO their hulls.
The Singer tower. the white shaft
of the new Metropolitan tower. the
F-lat-iron building. the Times building
and all the better known and more
con spicuous private buildings. as well
rs all the municipal buildings, will be
made the objects of special display.
Hidden searchlights will play on the
white marble until they sGnd OH:
against the night glowing and luni-
nous as If from within through trans
parent walls.
The four steel spans across the
East River between New York and
Brooklyn-the Queensborough. the
Williamsburg. the uncompleted Man
haitian and the Brooklyn bridges
will all be outlined from end TO end.
| The route of the parades will be bor
dered on both curbs with festoons of
| incandescent globes. and the Wash
ington area and the reviewing stands
will punctuate the long lines with a
| contrasting arrangement of colored
| floral designs. In the huge bronze
urn topping the marble shaft OF the
| Martyrs Monument at Fort Greene,
| in Brooklyn. designed by stanford
White. will burn a continuous fire of
| faggots. as was the original intent of
the architect, never before realized.
| And on the closing night of the ce-
| LIBERATION. beacon fires will flame from
every headland all the length of the
path that Henry Hudson Travelled
from Manhattan Island to Albany 800
years ago.
| New York, Sept. 25.-With more
| than three score of the picked figh in g
| ships of eight nations, swinging al
| anchor in the Hudson River await
! ing the coming of the Clermont and
the Hall Moon. sightseers at the Hud
| son-Fulton celebration looked upon
the most impressive assembly of for
eign warships that has probably ev-
| er been seen in American waters
Riding in the river between 44th
street and Spuyten Duyvil. besides
the 50 vessels of the United States
Atlantic fleet under Rear Admiral
Seaton Schroeder. the foreign navies
are represented Thy sixteen fighting
craft in all. Great Britain has four
Germany has four also. France has
two, Italy has two. Mexico has one
Argentine has one and Cuba has one
| Their massive bulls tugging laZilH
al their anchorages represent The
highest development in construction
from the great shipyards on the Clyde
and the best efforts of the German
naval constructors. The trimmes
ships of France. the pick of the fee
| of Italy. are most impressive ennis
Saries from the old worh to the new
| Swift cruisers with triple expansion
engines and long rakish lines lik'
grey hounds of the ocean; -nassiv'
r battleships mounted from turrets 4
the fighting tops with batteries of tn
! highest type. swift torpedo boats AM
torpedo boat destroyers. wonderful
submarines-every type of fighting
> craft known to the United States an
! eight other nav1es. four of them world
4 powers. are in this impressive as
seznbly.
The United States Atlantic flee
+ Seaton Schroeder. is represented b
the baftleships Connecticut. 1000
II tons. flagship; Vermont. 10000, Kar
6 sas. 10000. Louisiana, 10000. Mime
: sofa. $1,000 New Hampshire. 5000
? Mississippi. $4,000. Idaho, 1906
: Georgia. l4.94S. New Jersev, 14,94'
$ Nebraska. l4.94s. Rhode Island, IA
: 94S, Virginia, 14.S4S. Missouri. 1890
n and Ohio. 12.440. the armored crui
n speed 22.4s knots. New York, 500
= Montana. 14.500 tons. 22 knots; Il
, | scout cruisers Chester Bir=ningha1
: and Salem. also tons. 25 knots; an
1 a f1eet of 1--WE submarines and
. destrovers. torpedo boats and Oths
| auxiliaries.
i Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder