The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-08-14

was fully established, ~ u was thought
appropriate to combine the two eele.
brations in honor Of the two a%nniversa.
rics and call the joint affair the Hud.
son.Fulton celebration. In this way
equal honors are TO be paid to the dar.
fury, aud to the courageous and per.
sistent inventor whose achievements
htly ushered in the nineteenth century,
So having decided the promoters pro.
eeeded against the country publishers
In 4 body, and the resulting free ad
ycrtising will take several millions to
that Dear New York, where several
kinds Of anniversaries not ON the pro.
gram will be celebrated. That was
where we get on.
There is Of course abur liant informa.
ton about Robert Fulton, but Of Hud
son we know comparatively little, ex
eept that he was the discovery Of llud.
son = bay, that somewhere between
Sept. 2 and Oct. I, 1909, he catered
New York Harbor, and landed several
kegs Of bork beer where the Battery il
now located. Part of this consignment
fell into the hands of the gobernador
Of the pueblo, who after consuming
the tame readily admitted that New
York was discovered and didn't care
a darn II 1t was, aud readily accom-
panied Hank up the river where the
fishing was better. lie was perfectly
willing to stay a long as the beer held
out, a popularity that attaches to al
good Indians down to this day. They
all like the Dutch, for don't you be
lieve it when they try to tell you thai
Henrik was English. lie was born IN
wurtemburg, but when q year old In
dueed his parents to move to England
where his father debated for some tim,
whether be would start n saloon or taxi,
q job as policemen, finally decided OF
the latter.
Henrik first appears on the carpet Of
history on April 10, 1907, in the little
church Of st. Ethelburga, in London
p~artaking Of Holy Communion prioI
to embarkation Of his first voyage
From that time on he kept steadily il
the discovery business, finally dropping
out Of sight somewhere up on Hudson I
bay, where his mutinous crew deserted
him rs soon as the shedding got bad ant
tho hmburger run out. His present
whereabouts are unknown. lie wa
working for the Dutch government a
the time, which served him right FOL
quitting the English. The Dutch ar,
good people all right, and in their tim'
we're the mos, powerful people on earth
But this has nothing to do with THU
participation, while it is correct history
Hnerik's first, second and fourtl
voyages under the auspices Of the En-
glish. The third, in the course o.
which he discovered the Hudson river
by grace Of the Dutch, was in the foo
search Of a northwest passage arount
the American continent 10 the Eas
Indies. We now know that the passage
Ia there all right, but that only an al
ship could rAverse 1t, but poor Hen
rik didn Z, which is where he lost out
He didn I lose when be sailed through
the Narrows. He found something, an,
we have neyer since been able TO los
il, or forget that we have IL. The wa,
he discovered it will be faithfully show
in the pageant in September. The Dutel
government have sent over a replica o
his ship, the Half Moon, aud il will lea'
the procession, accompanied by a pat
tern Of the Clermont, Fulton = frs
steamboat, all the way up TO Albany
II will be the great show, all right
and worth the prise Of railroad fare
II you have Il. Most Of those who q
to New York won't see il, but a Ii,
tie thing like that makes no difference
Hudson reaches the American oss
on July l2 and at arst anchored in
harbor on the coast OF Maine. He mex
touched ut Cape Cod, and after teach
ing the natives how to make codfs
balls, proceeded on south and entere
Delaware bay. There being no on
there TO touch, he went north up th
coast again, aud on Sept. 2 anehore
at the mouth Of the Hudson. The Hal
Moon remained In the lower harbo
about u week aud then proceeded b
slow and careful navigation up the ri'
or until a point about opposite Alban
was reached on Sept. 10. Hudson WI
disappointed when he saw that he ha
not found a route TO the Pacific, unle'
he got of and walked, but the countr
, looked good to him. II be had bee
wise, he would have eamped right Their
! and II he had might have become a
alderman Of Albany and otherwi'
really famous. The chief value Of ii
/ whole show will be found In the demoI
strRtion Of the evolution Of stream ma
igation In the l02 years since the vo.
I age Of the Clermont, all the dope aboI
Fulton being merely historical, and {
infinitely less importance, since IL