The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-09-30
THE GREATEST
INTERNATIONAL
CELEBRATION YET
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reproductions of the little Dutch
shallop in which an English master
and a mixed crew first assembled the
Hudson River from Manhattan Island
to Albany and of the ungainly mon
ster belching smoke and kissing va
DOR. in which Robert Fulton, an Am
erican inventor, made the same dis
lance for the first time propelled by
steam. will move from their quiet an
chorages in the lee of Staten Island
to salute the vast bulk of the assem-,
bled American and foreign ships of
war in the lower harbor.
The Clermont will move under her
own steam. Her clumsy engines will
rattle and groan in her open hull;
her unprotected padde-wheels will
spatter foam Sn her decks, and she
will push slowly through the water
at a speed of little better than four
miles an hour, very much like the
floating grist mill that 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 no whistle, nothing but
a bell; steam was too young then
and shrieking sirens will salute her;
her engines snort their waste energy
into the open air, while in the sub
marine depths of the great hulls
around her whirring turbines do the
same work with an efficiency and
power undreameG of by Fulton. The
bell tha original Clermont carried
A,,3,D in
pilot house of great side-wheeler
that daily makes in less than twelve
hours the same distance that Robert
fulton, for whom she has been fit
tlngly named, took from Monday
morning until Wednesday night TO
cover.
| This is a very good land to TALL
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, lindeps
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" but Hudson and his crew on
the Half Moon. and Fulton and his
men on the Clermont, will walk their
decks in the same dress that they
wore, the one three hundred years
and the other one hundred years ago.
Over their mastheads during the
week viii fly alrships and under their
keels will burrow daily the tunnel
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 it. 1t will show by page
ant and parade and visual demonstra-
ton what we were and what We have
made ourselves. The nations of the
world have been invited to witness.
Delegates are in attendance from the
governments of Abyssinia and the
Argentine Republic, from Austria
Hungary, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Chi
ma, Colombia, Costa RIGA, Cuba. Den
mark, England, Haiti France and so
on down the alphabetical list of all
the nations of the world, with espe
cial emphasis allotted the Neither
lands, because of the prominent part
they played in forming the early his
tory of the territory in which the
celebration is being held. With the
exception Of our own, England and
Germany have sent the most notable
contributions to the fleet of war yes,
sells that will assemble in the lower
harbor In this connection General
Stewart L. Woodford, president OF
the Hudson-Fulton Commission, has
said:
1--WE are now assured of the largest
collection of war vessels, aggregatine
at least eighty, that has ever beer
assamhlad in one nlann with the CIV