The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-25

tributions to the feet Of war vessels
that will assemble In the lower har-
Dor. In this connection General Stew
art L. Woodford, president of the
Hudson.Fulton commission, has said:
5. Largest In History
I'VE are now assured Of the larg-
est collection Of war vessels, aggre-
eating at least eighty. that has ever
been assembled In one place. " Shthe
exception Of the rendezvous Of ~se
ships in the English channel. It
be the largest collection Of war YES
sells ever brought together on this
side OF the Atlantic and the largest
collection of an international charac-
ter ever assembled anywhere.
Supplementing the parades by land
down Fifth avenue, past great white
court of stan. erected opposite the new
Astor-Lenox- -Tllden public library,
and the naval pageants Of historic and
Illuminated floats opposite the River
side park, there will be thrown open
during the celebration great num-
ber of private collections and public
collections of historic interest. The
masterpieces gathered by the late
Murice Kann will be shown here by
Duveen brothers, and the private pur-
chaseS from the old Flemish, Holland
and German schools made by j. p.
Morgan and other connoisseurs have
been assembled and are now open to
public view in the galleries Of the
Metropolitan museum of art.
The parade of street floats down
Fifth avenue and through the court Of
honor, past the reviewing stands, have
been planned two years in advance
and worked out by great staff Of
artists, sculptors, costumers and de-
signers, night and day, In a specially
designed factory. Captain A. H. Stod-
dard, master Of the Mardi Gras pa
rades that made New Orleans the car
nival city Of the world, has been
brought to New York and placed in
full charge Of his speciality.
Air Navigation
But impressive as the naval parades
will be, and colorful as will be the
pageants, there is no question but that
the greatest popular interest attaches
to the airship flights that will be
made from Governors island some
time during the first week Of the cele-
bration. Just what the performance
will be must depend on the condi-
tions Of the atmosphere and the WILL
ingness of the aviators, but the pro-
gram calls for a flight from Cover
nor's island up the North river, across
Manhattan island in the neighborhood
of Sruyten Duyvil and down the East
river, under or over the four great
steel bridges. that now span 1t, back
to the starting point. Nothing 80
daring before has even been contem-
plated, but both Wilbur Wright and
Glenn H. Curtiss, his most formidable
American competitor, have signed
contracts TO attempt at least az much
of It as their Judgment will warrant.
i A City Of Light
Busy aB will be the days, the nights
will be perhaps even more beautiful.
For week during the Hudson Fulton
celebration the city Of New York In
all Its boroughs will be the most bril-
liantly Illuminated in the world. The
decorative uses Of electricity were
first realized on a scale worthy Of
their possibilities at the worlds fair,
in Chicago, In 1893, and from that
time on ever succeeding exhibition
has been more lavish in its approp-
Ration for lighting, until this year
1t is estimated conservatively that, in
addition to the regular lighting of the
city and exclusive of the contracts
placed by private firms for advertis-
ing display there will burst into blaze
tonight, 26,260,00O candle power.
This great aggregate is apportion-
ed as nearly as can be determined,
between the four >boroughs as fol-
lows: 100000 incandescent globes,
1000 arc lights; 5000 flaming arcs
and two batteries of searchlights-
one of -four lights aggregating 100000
candle power, and the other Of twelve
lights. aggregating 100000 candle
power The smaller battery will play
continuously from all sides on the
white marble of Grants tomb, high
above the river on the Manhattan
battery of 100000 candle power will
light up the river itself in both d.
rections from it's farthest visible up
per reaches to the lower harbor. All
the United States battleships and the
ships of war of other nations lying In
the roadstead will likewise be out
lined in fire from stem to stern and
draped with incandescent festoons
from their topmasts to their hulls.
The Singer tower, the white shaft
Of the new Metropolitan tower, the
Flatiron building, the Times building
and all the better known and more
conspicuous private buildings. as we'll
as all the municipal buildings. will
be made the objects Of special dis
play. Hidden searchlights will play
OIL the white marble until they stand
out against the night glowing and
luminous as II from within. through
transparent walls.
The four steel spans across the
East river between New York and
Brool1lyn-the Queensborough. the
Williamsburg. the uncompleted Man
haitian and the Brooklyn bridges
will all be outlined from end to end.
The route Of the parades will be bor-
dered on both cursbs With festoons of