The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-26
QUAINT CRAFT REVIVE PAST |Hudson-Fulton Celebra- tion Begins. HALF MOON HIS dERMONT flight Accident Mars Naval
 Parade. Greatest Naval Fighting Forces oi Earth Form Contrast to Little
 Repiicas of Ancient Navf-
 gators.

New York, Sept 25.--denry Hudson who melted from view 800 years ago into those Arctic mists from which two American discoverers have but lately returned. walked his quarter deck again today and In sea boots and plumei ha. surveyed the changes Aloft and ashore that make his second visit to these shores scarcely less memorable than his first.
 With New York harbor and Manhat- tan Island for a stage. the play opened today for a weeks run and will for another week show at lesser cities anu towns along the route that Hudson travelled.
 Hudson was an English adventurer outfitted from Dutch funds and master of a mixed crew. England and HSl- land are today, after America the e~na- tions sharing most prominently In the celebration although twenty-one in al have sent their envoys and five others their ships of war.
 Fulton's voyage of adventure over the same course to test the power of steam came just 200 years later. HIS name today follows that of Hudson on the program and the reproduction of the Clermont followed the reproduction of the Half Moon on the waters of the harbor.
 Little ships Make Rounds.
 The two little ships. once so weighty with achievement before a marvelling world and now mere toys for an older and more sophisticated civilization made their rounds today of the War ships assembled to do them honor with thousand merchant ships and plea sure craft trailing behind them in a parade fifteen miles long: saluted the national and the international flags of peace were officially- received by the city and the Hudson-Fult commiss- ion this afternoon with the other visit ing notables and then tonight repeated the coufse over a river white as day with the glare of the hundreds Of searchlights and afloat before they an chored. Their sisterly progress was marred by but one accident-a sligut collision early in the morning by which the Clermont lost a little paint and the Half Moon m anchor chain. Thers was no excitment worthy of memti 1u because of the accident and very little delay. ss .s t.l-
 The weather man made good hls prmise. At o'clock this morning rain had ceased to fall and dawn brought a brilliant day of intensely blue sky and establishing sunlight.
 The winds had cleared the skies as the rains had cleansed the streets; the city was washed. dressed and flushed with expectancy.
 Every Train Crowded.
 Every morning train and ferry brought its hundreds and It's thousands By 10 o'clock the city was noticeably crowded; by II o'clock 1t was 1anmed and by noon 1t held one of the greatest crowds that has ever been assembled anywhere for any purpose. Conserva- tive estimate tonight places the mum. bers of those who witnessed the naval parades today from the shores or Staten Isand. Lond Island. Brooklyn. the Palisades and New Jersey at h' OO00 900.
 Impressive as were the ships of war. squirting fire and smoke from their sides in one series of salures after an other, sufficient as was the parade that swept about them in great crescent the crowd was most majestical. It drew the greater shade of comment from the 7sO, 900 who are estimated to have watched 1t from excursion steamers motor boats. tug boats. sailing cratt and even canoes. Looking up one coulo see that the clif of sky scrapers on Manhattan Island wore an unaccus toned fringe of black human heads Every window was filled; every roo' was lined. Wharves. pier ends. hBht CTS ferry boats. the sterns Of ocean unars. the water front. the docks. et" cry available inch of space was used Motor cars flashed in an amending nnT from end to end of the Riverside Drive, women standing on the seats men riding on the roofs and the ar' was blue with the smoke of their pas sage. The crowds overf1owed on to the railway tracks below, along the driVs and massed on the hillsides until the fields. gay with the colors of women skirts and hats. seemed sown witb daisies and peoples.
 Naval Parade as Planned.
 The naval parade. though a httIr late in starting, due to the collision oi the Clermont and the Half Moon. wen' through substantially as planned and noble order.
 At the water gate the day exercises eliminated with the presentation or the Half Moon to the commission py the Dutch envoys. His ceremony was formal and furnished a picturesque climax as the living shade or henry Hudson. in velvet and rurf' SIaspeo the hand of the descendant of Robert Fulton, in small clothes and beaver hat Tn front of them sat the gold laced be-ribboned and frocK coated representatives of nearly dozen na- tions. while behind them rolled the river which carried their ancestors to fame. And as they stood there on the Ileft bank with the afternoon sun streaming down upon them, the thun- der of guns and warships echoed back from the Jersey hills and Tar up the river.
 Beside the sombre frock coats of the American and Japanese officials in the reviewing stands there Flashed out the gold dress of the admirals' the red fez of the Turkish minister and the ieweled cap of Wu Ting Fang. the Chinese representative. while shifting throurh the crowd was a host Of at- taches in full regalia.
 Up a golden path which the descend ing sun had laid came the little Halr Moon. behind her the rakish Clermont. Roth anchored before the reviewing stand and s. P. Van Weghen' Presi- dent of the Dutch Commission. made the sueech of presentation. Then Lieutenant Lam of the Dutch navy. representing Hudson. came ashore and was received with great formality by General stewart L. Woodford, chair man of the commission, who greeted him as one risen from the grave.
 Robert Fulton Appears.
 Than the scene shifted and 200 years were covered in as many seconds. for s+ s+enpine on the float and extending his hand 10 his fair lady came the modern Robert Fulton impersonated by his
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