New-York tribune., 1909-09-23
HAVE SPENT A MILLION
STILL MORE TO FOLLOW.
FultOn'S GraCe To BE Decorated
Orders to Police HOspitdL Plans.

OVuTS 10 oitCC-f1OSptt0G II tdHS.
.'T'wsnt Hudson. twas Fulton discovered the
river"
'I didn't say Hudson discovered de river. said
he discovered De ocean"
He didn't Dat was dat Venus wit funny last
name"
son done f. Come around TO my house and en-
show you in Bible History
The educational features of the Hudson-Fulton
celebration beginning TO impress themselves
on the youthful mind History is becoming an i'm
portant study. and the million dollars the celebra-
ton has cost up date will not be entirely wasted
The trustees of the celebration commission held
their meeting before the celebration yesterday
afternoon General Stewart L Woodford, the chair
man. in congTatulatory speech, said that 10 the
present time the commission had spent approxi-
rrately s. oo0O00 The hooks Of the commission bal.
enoed. he said, within $4,000. He could not tell
Yet whether there would he a deficit OF that
amount, hut he added that there would he a great
deal more spent before the celebration was ended.
The grave Of Robert Fulton in Trinity Church
yard. will be decorated daily for week by the Rob
ert Fulton Monument Association, the first organi-
zation formed TO do permanent honor to the MEM
ory Of Fllton. The grave will be decorated to-day
with Southern smilaK, laurel wreaths and ameri-
can flags.
The Robert Fulton Monument Association Is pro-
3ecting the idea of a water gate, TO be used a
point Of reception where persons Of from for
egn countries visiting the city may be received.
and which edifoe will stand as a permanent re-
hinder OF Fulton and his work The gate is to be
erected the Hudson. between Hath and 11sth
streets Many prominent men. among them Mark
Twain. r Fulton Cutting. Richard Delaheld. pres
fdent OF the National Park Bank. and Colonel H.
o. s Hestand. Z. S. A. adjutant general Of the
Department OF the East, ofncers Of the sssoci-
alton.
The city is rapidly filling with visitors to the
celebration Every train that arrives brings its
quota and every incoming steamer adds 10 the
crowd. Police Commissioner Baker has taken
tiee of the arriving throng by issuing open let
ter OF general instructions citizens for the pro-
lection OF their homes. The Commissioner says
4 is 70 be expected that there will be many unde-
sirahe persons among the visitors and Il must not
be forgotten that there many criminals resi-
dent n New York He asks all househoders to
aid the police by taking special to lock their
homes securely when leaving them during the cele-
bration.
the severest punishment Hoodlums must under
stand that the celebration does not afford them a
uoense TO annoy and harass others Persons caught
throwing confetti using uckfers. blowing horns in
other persons faces or smashing hats will be ar
rested A thousand policemen viii be in Broadway
ard Fifth avenue the nights of the celebration
ana orders VIII be given TO arrest any acting
n disorderly manner. The Commissioner
noUnced that there would be final conference OF
Inspectors and captains at Headquarters tomorrow
morning for the final instructions.
There viii be fwenty-Shree field hospitals and
more than hundred and fifty first aid stations.
with three hundrad doctors and one thousand
nurses on duty, during the celebration. The hospi-
tss and aid stations viii be served by several fast
ambulance launches and more than a score OF
motor and horse anbulances, besides upward of a
hundred litter bearers. The regular hospitals will
make e 30 per cent increase in their normal
paoty and put all Of their arnbulanoes in commits
sion. All the anbulances. both those OF the regu-
lar hospitals and those Of the emergency stations.
viii Re controlled and operated by the police. The
hospitals Will be open continuously from Saturday
night until midnight OF October 2. while the first
sd stations will be open daily from 10 a. m until
midnight
Attempts to speculate in stands on park property
have NOT ceased with the tearing down OF the
stands fnom list 10 I'D street The Sons OF the
American Revolution informed Park Commissioner
Smith yesterday that forged tickets for the So
cietys stand being offered for sale The So
ciety has employed the Pinkerton Detective Agency
TO find the makers Of the forged tickets.
When the bearing on the application for an IN
Junction 10 restrain Park Commissioner Smith from
tearing down the stands from list 10 I'D street
cane up yesterday before Justice Brady, in the
Supreme Court. the attorney FOR the Order or
Founders and Patriots OF America said that both
MOTORS had been withdrawn. An application for a
new permit for the order build stand was made
70 Commissioner Smith later, but he would not
give it,
Commissioner Hebberd Of the Department Of
Charities applied TO the Park Department yester-
day for space for stand for I've hundred children
from Randau's Island. Mr.. Hebberd asked the
committee on decorations and stands OF the cele-
bEalion commission 10 build a stand for the chill
drsn on the space TO be allotted by the Park De-
larcu5nt as the Charities Department had no funds
70 build & stand.
William H Maxwell. City Superintendent Of
Schools. has sent letter TO the principals of the
VARIOUS public schools. instructing them 10 close
the schools at noon the days Of the historical
pageant IN The various boroughs in order that the
Children may have opportunity to see the pa
race