The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-25
HUDSON FULTON
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| them. He is no less distinguished a
parsonage than Grand Admiral Won
Rooster, whose flagship in the Vic
tora Luise Frances colOrs were car
ried by three turret cruisers under
L. NJ. lie Pord, while Italy had two,
the cadet school ship Aetna and the
Etruria, under Capt. Marchesa Flip
pc Baggia Ducarne, the ranking Of
ficer of the Italian representation. The
| Netherlands. Mexico, Japan and Cuba
were also represented, as we'll as Ar
gentine. Russia did not send a war
ship but was represented by the ma
val attache Of the embassy here, Capt.
| Wassilieff
! Japan has outdone all other foreign
/ countries by sending Il prince Of the
| clal representative
When the foreign and American ma
val vessels had taken their stations,
| their. productions of the little old
Half Moon and the Clermont entered
| the river and were received with fit
| ting ceremonies and much noise as
| they took the place of honor in the
line.
1t was 10000 when the escort squad
ron assembled with the replicas of the
Half Moon and Clermont off Consta-
| BILE Point in the Kill Won Kull and
Staten Island and Bay Ridge shores
The formation of the various other
squadrons began between 1890 and 1
o'clock, and at rs the whole fleet
started up the bay to the Hudson
river, the escort division. with the
replicas of the Half Moon and Cler-
mont in the centre.
The fleet steamed slowly up to For
ty-second street. then passed to the
west between the war vessels and the
Jersey shore and continued up the
warship line to 175th street-its north
ern end. Then it recrossed the river
and headed downstream on the New
York side to 10th street There the
official reception of the Half Moon
and Clermont was celebrated with
appropriate ceremonies.
In the evening the same parade will
be repeated, starting at 7:30 O'Clock,
amid a brilliant display of fireworks.
The commission, with the approval of
the War Department, decided that no
pleasure Or commercial craft not reg
ularly enrolled would be allowed Ill
the Hudson river between Seventy
second and both streets during tie
parade.
For the two water pageants 10
sauadrons besides the war vessels
were formed The first consisted Of
seagoing and cOastwise merchant yes
sells: then came steamboats, plying in
inland waters of the United States,
including ferry boats; steam yachts,
commanded by w. Butler Duncan, Jr,
next in line, followed the botor boats
| lenhauer. The fifth squadron was
| made up of tugs and steam lighters.
/ followed by the sixth, consisting Of
| sailing craft.
| Police boats and the craft devoted
to the preserva ton of the public safe
| ty, such as wrecking, fire, and hoeri-
j tai boats made up the seventh squad
ron. and then came the escort liad-
| ron. including such government craft
as torpedo boats and submarines, ma
val militia vessels, steam launches ana
| cutters in the government service es-
cortine the Half Moon and the Cler-
mont. under the command OF Com
mander R. P Forshew of the Second
battalion of the Naval militia. TIE
| patrol squadron. the ninth in humble,
was made up of vessels in the revenue
service and other government. state
4 or private vessels authorized by the
War Department Is do patrol duty
! The final squadron was th5 scout
squadron. and consisted of fast steam
ers and motor boats detailed to 10
| dispatch boat boat duty.
/ The naval yeests at Tie close dis
| embarked and were received at ths
great landing stages in the vicinity If
10th street aud Riverside park. This
evening the first days observances
will close with a night pageant on the
river.
Meantime the Metropolitan Museum