The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-09-24
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CELEBRATION

New York, Sept. 24.-New York is
on the eve of the greatest celebration
in its history. During the seven
days beginning tomorrow the $780,
600 residents of the metropolis, to-
gether with tens of thousands of Wis
itors, will engage in a program of
festivities and brilliant pageants 10
celebrate the achievements of Henry
Hudson, seaman and explorer, and
Robert Fulton, inventor, artist and
patriot. One hundred war vessels
representing the navies of the world
will participate in a series of paraies
and pageants on the great waterway
with which the names of Hudson and
Fulton are inseparably linked. In ad-
dition to the naval pageants the
weeks program provides for land pa
rades of an historical character, Of
uiShed guests from abroad aquatic
and athletic sports, military parades,
commemorative exercises in the pub
lie schools, carnival professions and
Examinations and fireworks each
evening.
City PrOfusely Decorated.
Within the past twenty-four hours
the entire city has blossomed out in
a mass Of color From the Battery
to the Bronx and in all the outlying
bOroughs profuse decorations of flags
and bunting greet the eye at every
turn. The flags of all nations are 20
be seen, with the colors of the United
States and the Netherlands predom-
mating. The decorations are not con-
fined to the business section. OF flags
there seems to be no end in the tene-
ment districts. They are not as large
as those in Broadway and Fifth ave-
nue.. but they make brave show,
fluttering from windows forty or
fifty feet from the ground. Next in
popular esteem after pictures of Hud-
son and Fulton and the national col
ors come pictures of the "aHlf Moon"
and the "Clermont" Many of the
pictures are of a character to make
famous explorer and the equally ia
nous inventor wish they had never
become famous, should either revisit
the scene of his great achievement.
Brilliant Illumination at Night.
Each night of the celebration the
city is to be blaze of light and
color. The borough halls of all five
boroughs, the bridges across the East
river, Grants tomb in Riverside
Drive, the Soldiers and Sailors mon
ument on the same drive, the Wash
ington arch and many other promi-
nent buildings and structures are to
be outlined with electric lights. The
line of three great parades, the his
torical, the military and the night
carnival will be outlined in festOons
of electric lights on both sides of the
street, while a battery of powerful
searchlights will play upon Grants
tomb. Other plans on similar lines
will help make New York city spec
tacle of unprecedented brilliance
during the celebration. Each night
the shores of the Hudson are to be
made light as day by countless
searchlights on the many foreign and
American warships anchored in the
river
Hotels Filled to Overlooking.
1t is evident that the celebration
will draw a bigger crowd to town
titan ever odtHcIcu mere UCOI1S, Dul
it remains true that in hotels there
is usually room for one more. On
and after tomorrow the managers of
the big hotels will make no promises.
but they say they will probably be
able to take nj a limited number
from night to night all through the
week. So far as can be learned no
reputable hotel in town has advanced
its rates in anticipation of the big
crowd. The big hotels will be able to
feed many more than they can supply
with sleeping accommodations. and
this will be fortunate, the managers
say. because thousands will come in
on daily excursions who will take
luncheons and dinner here, and re-
turn home at night. Many of the
hotels have arranged with boarding
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