The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-09-07
HERE is FIRST PROGRAMME
OF HUDSON-FULTON FESTIVAL
Commission Officially Announces Schedule of Water
Events in New York City and State to Which Many Ma
tons Will Electric Display Feature

| opening of the various exhibitions,
the nature of which is to be an
nounced later, and the beginning of
the airship flights over New York
The historical parade is scheduled
| for Tuesday, September 2S, and in
| this pageant all nationalities will be
represented There will be dozens
of floats and moving tableaux repre-
senting events in the history of the
aboriginal, Dutch, English, Revolu-
tionary and American periods. These
floats have been prepared at great ex-
pense, and the costuming and effects,
aside from their historical fidelity
will have great educational value.
Aquatic sports opposite Riverside
Park and Yonkers will take place on
| Wednesday, September 20. The day
will be marked by general commem-
orative exercises in educational insti-
tutions throughout the State. Me-
MORALS on spots dignifed by great
historic events will be dedicated The
day in Manhattan will be known as
Bronx Borough Day" and the chief
celebration will be in that borough
There will be festival in Richmond
Borough and reception to United
States officials and guests of the city
at West Point
The military parade is to take place
on Thursday, September 80 This
will be participated in by United
States infantry regiments, Navy and
Marine corps, the National Guard,
Naval Militia, veteran organizations
and marines and sailors from foreign
vessels.
Tho Dorodo ~ naval vocco1c n, o,,
chant marine, excursion boats and
4 pleasure craft of every description
will take place on Friday, Oct. 1 II
from New York, the other from AL
bany. The divisions will meet at
Newburg, celebrated in Revolution
ary history, and a general good time
will be enjoyed In Newburg Bay. In
the division bound north will be the
Half Moon, manned by Dutch sailors
in the costumes of the mariners of
Hudson's day. and the Clermont, the
f1rst boat built by Fulton, operated
by her own steam
Ceremonies will be held on both
these vessels at the Joining of the
two divisions. At Newburg there will
be parade, reception and the like.
with illuminations and fireworks in
the evening. The vessels taking part
in the naval parade will return to
New York and the Manhattan histori-
cal parade previously mentioned will
be repeated in Brooklyn.
The school children in New York
will engage in festivals on Saturday
October 2. There will be exercises
in fifty centres in New York, con-
Quoted in view of more than five hun
dred thousand children of the pub
| lie and private schools. The two di.
visions of the naval parade will be
welcomed on their return from New
burg. There will be historical par.
ade on Staten Island and dedicatory
exercises. at Stony Point, the scene OF
a decisive battle during the Revolu.
ton. In the evening there will be q
carnival parade in New York, in
which there will be seen fifty bril-.
liantly illuminated floats, escorted by
various organizations.
The final week of the celebration
will be devoted to events on the Hud.
son north of New York from October
to October 9. Special ceremonies
with the historical floats in parades
will take place in all the river cities
and larger villages. with neighborine
smaller municipalities participating in
each Of them. On Monday, October
4, the chief celebrations will be al
! Poughkeepsie and Yonkers: Tuesday
at Kingston, Hastings, Dobbs Ferry
Irvington and Tarrytown; Wednes.
day, at Catskill and Nyack: Thurs,
day, at Hudson, Ossining and Haver.
straw; Friday, at Albany and Peeks.
kill. and Saturday at Troy and Cold
Spring. Similar ceremonies will be
held at Cohoes on Monday, October
H. The carnival parade in Brooklyn
Saturday evening, October g, will
bring the celebration to a close, as
far as Manhattan is concerned.