The San Francisco call., 1909-09-12
TAFT Will SIGNAL
FORMANY BFACONS
HudsOn-Fulton Celebration in
New York Will Call for I'M
precedented Illumination
Electric Lights Will Furnish a
Beam Visible Within RAJ
dius of so Miles
BY c. c. CARLTON
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call

NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-Extra cleo
tric lights equal to 26,ooo,ooo candle
power to be provided by the Hudson
Fulton committee. Will make the East
river and the Hudson in and around
New York city as bright as day during
at least eight nights of the big cele-.
bration beginning September %.
Some idea may be gained of the vol
ume of light which will flood the
streets while the celebration is in
progress when it is understood that
these estimates do not include the
hundreds of thousands of separate
lights which the various electric light
ing, display advertising and other
firms have contracted for. All this is.
of course, for this city alone, not TAX
ing into account the lights along the
New Jersey shore and other places ad-
jacent TO the city. but just outside the
corporate limits, 1000 arc lights being
apportioned to illuminate the pali-
sades alone.
One of the most interesting of the
Illumination features is expected to be
the use of an immense battery of
searchlights in Riverside drive at One
Hundred and Tenth street. which ex-
perts say will make the river as bright
as day for miles. When the giant
beams are thrown together into a per-
pendicular shaft it will be visible any
where within a radius of so miles.
TAFT TO SIGNAL FOR BEACONs
Fourteen thousand lights will illumi-
nate the beautiful new Greensboro
bridge across the East river at Fifty
int I, ~i,1r,a Il
to the Brooklyn bridge at Park row,
1900 to the Williamsburg bridge
across the East river at Delaney
street and 1900 to the new Manhattan
bridge, now in course OF erection across
the East river between the Brooklyn
and Williamsburg bridges.
Twenty five thousand extra lights
Will help illuminate the line of land
parade up Fifth avenue. to F'ifty-ninth
street, thence to Eighth avenue and up
to One Hundred and Tenth street. H.
coo lights will illuminate the various
borough halls of greater New York,
viz; Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx,
Queens, Richmond, Jamaica and Flush
ing.
9, immense signal fires will be con-
structed. which will burn 80 feet high
for four hours. These beacons and all
those near and beyond Newburgh to
Albany will be started at the same
moment on telegraphic signal by Presi-
dent Taft. Signal rockets, bombs and
a large display of such fireworks will
be kept in operation throughout the
evening.
GREAT WATER CARNIVAL
Up the river every town and city is
arranging for elaborate, and costly dis
plays. The great water pageant will
eclipse anything of the kind ever be-
fore seen in any part of the world 1T
is roughly estimated that 500 vessels
representative of every craft of wood
and steel that floats will follow the
course marked out 800 years ago by
the Halfmoon, the little Dutch craft
Dutch half English crew, and by the
replica of Robert Fulton's firt steam
boat, the Clermont. The pa geant will
include warships. revenue cutters, mer-
chant vessels. ferryboats, tugs excur-
sion craft, steam yachts, motor boats
steam lighters, with police ambulances
and scout squadrons. The Clermont
made it's first trip up the Hudson 102
years ago.
WARSHIPS OF ALL NATIONS
The contingent of United States war
ships will include the 16 battleships
that went around the world, three ar
mored cruisers. three scout cruisers
twelve torpedo boats, four submarines.
two parent ships, one tender two sup
ply ships, one repair ship, one torpedo
vessel, one tug and seven GOLFERS
Germany will send a squadron of four
warships under the command of the
ranking officer of the German navy,
Grand Admiral A. d. Won Koester.
England Will send four cruisers the
Drake, one of the older ships; the Ar
gyle; the Duke of Edinburgh, and the