Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-09-25
Flight by Airships to Be One of
Principal Features.
iP1ToME OF NATIONAL GROWTH
Celebration Not a Mere Glorificstion
of Local Achievement.
GREAT GATHERING OF wARSH1PS
Presence of Many ENJOYS and Naval
Officers of High Rank Give
International Aspect to
Great Affair.

NEW YORK, Sept. 24-The stage tonight
is set for the great historical pageant on
/ land and water which opens here tomor-
row and will continue for two weeks along
the length Of the stream that Hudson dis
covered and Fulton first navgated by
steam. All day long the preparations
ashore and afloat went on behind a cur
tain Of driving rain and mist, but the
weather bureau promises fair skies tomor-
row.
Wilbur Wright was busy on Governor $
Island preparing for his aerial flights. The
great elevated battery of forty search
lights of 10000 candle-power each. which at
night will play up and down the Hudson
and throw colored patterns on a screen of
smoke and steam. is in place and needs but
the touch of a button to blaze into binding
brightness. Tire streets, shops, the hotels,
theaters and transit facilities of the city
are filled to overflowing with the great
est crowds-more than a million, II is es-
timated-that have ever been attracted TO
New York. All the public buildings, the
bridges, the monumental office buildings
and the greater nnnber of private estab-
lishments, are gag with the blue and or
ange Of Hudson-Fulton bunting and flags.
and trimmed with incandescent lights. The
clumsy little Clermont-a reproduction of
the vessel in which Robert Fulton made
the first voyage by steamship-has had
its official trials and proved that II can do
as well as It's original. The quaint Half
Moon, with its qualnter crew of old world
mariners, is historically complete, even to
the rude navigators' instruments by which
Henry Hudson shaped his course to these
shores and only waits a favoring breeze
to make a second voyage of discovery II
1t fails, it will have to be ANONYMOUSLY
towed.
EpitOme of National Growth.
State dinners to the many ENJOYS here
representing the powers of the world give
nightly emphasis to the international as
pect of celebration which Is an epltome
of national growth and not a mere gorifi-
cation Of local achievement. A great chain
or warships-the largest International gath
ering ever assembled-stretches up the
Hudson river from opposite the central
portion of the city until it is lost In the
distance beyond Spuyten Duyvil. The ar
rival today Of the British flagship Inflex-
ible, one of the swiftest, largest and most
powerful ships of the royal navy, carrying
Sir Edward Seymour, the British admiral
and the ranking naval officer of the cele-
bration, and OF the German cruisers. the
Bremen, the Dresden. the Pertha and the
Victoria Louise, completes the prelimina-
ries for tomorrow's naval parade
Grand Admiral Won Koester the personal
representative of the emperor at the Hud-
son-Fulton celebration, spent day of Of
ficial visits, despite the rain First came
his return call this noon on General
Leonard Wood commanding the Depart
~
The general had guard of honor drawn
up and the guns OF Fort Jay fired an ad-
mirals salute. Accompanied by his personal
aides, Captain Won Mueller and the German
naval attache Captain Retzman, the ad-
miral next spent an hour on board the
German flagship Victoria Louise receiving
the commanders and officers of the Ger
man ships.
Then began his visits 70 the other flag
ships. First he called on Admiral
Schroeder. aboard the Connecticut. The
commanders Of all the American ships were
there to greet him. Next he called on Ad-
miral Sir Edward Seymour on board the
Inflexible.
Admiral Seymour, because of the rain.
did not come ashore all day. Succeeding
visits to the French and Italian fIagships
lolo"eu' Late III the AFTERNOON recep-
tion was given at the Brooklyn navy yard
to the commanders Of all the foreign ships
to give them an opportunity Of becoming
acquainted.
Flags of Peace TO Fly.
That day when justice not force, shall
be the arbiter OF peace will be forecasted
tomorrow, when in reply 10 the interna-
tional salute OF twenty-one guns from the
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