The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-09-25

miles an hour very much like the
floating grist mill that a Hudson Riv-
er farmer first thought her 100 years
ago She is built Of wood. the ships
around her are built of steel: she
carried not whistle, nothing but bell
steam was too young dhen-and
Shrieking sirens will salute her; her
engines snort their waste energy into
the open air. while the submarine
depths of the great hulls around her
whirring turbines do the same work
with an efficiency and power un-
dreamed of by Fulton. The bell the
original Clermont carried on her first
trip hangs now in the pilot house of a
great side-wheeler that daily makes
in less than twelve hours the same
distance that Robert Fulton, for
whom she has been fittingly na-neal.
took from Monday morning until We'd
Wednesday night to cover.
This as very good land to fall
in with and a pleasant land TO see"
wrote Robert Juet in his diary of the
voyage of the Half Moon, 1909. The
! magnificent oaks, the poplars, lindens
and blue plum trees that Hudson and
Robert Juet his clerk saw then have
been replaced with soaring skyscrap-
ers on the shores of that pleasant
land" asut Hudson and his crew on
the Half Moon. and Fulton and his
men on the Clermont, will walk tneir
decks in the same dress that they
wore. the one three hundred years
ago. over their mastheads during
| the week will fly airships and under
their keels will 'burrow daily the tun
mel trains of the McAdoo system.
This Is the way in which the Hud-
son-Fulton celebration proposes TO
! teach history and commemorate the
share that America has had in the
| making of IL. IL will show by pa
geant and parade and visual demon
stration what we were and what we
have made ourselves. The nations of
the world have been invited to wit
| ness. Delegates are in attendance
| from the governments of -Abyssina
and the Argentine Republic. from
Austria Hun gary. Bolivia. Brazil, Chile.
| China. Colombia. Costa 'Rica. Cuba.
| Denmark. England. Haiti. France and
so on down the alphabetical list of all
the nations of the world, with es-
pecial emphasis allotted the Neither
| lands. because of the prominent part
! they played in forming the early his
| tory of the territory in which the cele-
hration is being held. With the ex-
ception of our own. England and Ger
1 many have sent the most notable con
| tributions to the fleet of war vessels
| that will assemble in the lower har
bor In this connection General
Stewart l.. Woodford, president of the
Hudson-Fulton Commission. has said
"We are now assured OF the larg
| est collection of war vessels. aggre
eating as least eighty, that has ever
been assembled in one place. with the
exception OF the rendezvous OF Brit
ish ships in The English Channel. II
| will be the largest collection of wal
vessels ever brought together on this
side of the Atlantic and the largest
collection of an International charac
ter ever assembled anywhere.
Supplementing the parades by land
down Fifth avenue. past great white
court OF staff erected opposite ti'
new AstorLenox-Tilden public libra
ry. and the naval pageants of hiStor
ic and illuminated floats opposite th'
Riverside Park. there will be thrown
open during the celebration a grea
number of private and public collec
tions of historic interest. The mas
terpieces gathered by the late Mau
: rice Kann will be shown here by Dgl
: veen Brothers. and the private pur
} chases from the old Flemish. HOLLAND
and German schools made by ].
Morgan and other connoisseurs hav'
, been assembled and are now open q
public view in the galleries of the Ne
tropolitan Museum of Art.
The parades of street floats dow
Fifth avenue and through the cour
D of honor. past the reviewing stand:
! have been planned two years In a6
|, vance and worked out by a great sta
Of artists. sculptors. costumers an
5 designers. night and day. IN a specia
ly designed factory. Captain A. r
: Stoddard. master of tn Mardi Gras p'
rades that made New Orleans tn
4 carnival city of the world. has bee
e brought on to New York and place
/ In full charge of his specially.
But impressive as the naval para
| es will be. and colorful as will be III
o pageants. there is no question bt
:. that the greatest popular inferes'
n attaches to airship flights that wi
l. be made from Governors Island som
n time during the first week of the eel
II bration. Just what the performa1C
n will be must depend on the condition
q of the atmosphere and the willingness
n of the aviarors. but the program cal
y for a fight from Governors Island U
the North River. across Manhatts
.r Island I'm the Neighborhood of Spu
II ten Duyvil and down East River. N
!: der or over the four great steel brid
II es that now span 1t. back TO the star
le ing point Nothing so daring befo
- has ever been contemplated. fbut w
ir bur Wright and Glenn H. Curtiss.