The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-25

share shat America has had in Inc
making of it. 1t viii show by pageant
and parade and visual demonstration
what we were and what we have made
ourselves. The nations of the world
have been invited to witness Delegates
arc in attendance from the governments
OF Abyssinia and the Argentine Re-
public from Austria-Hungary, Bolivia,
Brazil CHILE, China. Colombia, Costa
RIGA, Cuba, Denmark. England, HAITI
France and SO on down the alphabet
cal list of all the nations of the world
with special emphasis allotted the
Netherlands, because of the prominent
part they played in forming the early
history 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
Eighty War vessels.
We are now assured OF the largest
collection of war vessels, aggregating
at least eighty, that has ever been as
Sembled in one place, with the excep-
ton of the rendezvous of British ships
in the English channel. 1t will be the
largest collection of war vessels ever
brought together on this side of the
Atlantic and the largest collection of
an international character ever assem-
b1ed anywhere.
Supplementing the parades by land
down Fifth avenue, past a great white
court of staff erected opposite the new
Astor-Lenox-Tilden public library.
and the naval pageants of historic and
illuminated floats opposite the River
side park, there will be thrown open
during the celebration a great number
of private and public collections of
historic interest. The masterpieces
gathered by the late Maurice Kann
will be shown here by Duveen Broth
ers, and the private purchasers from
the old Flemish, Holland and German
other connoisseurs have been assem-
bled and are now open to public view
in the galleries of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
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 designers,
night and day, in a specially designed
factory. Captain A. H. Stoddard, mas
ter of the Mardi Gras parades that
made New Orleans the carnival city of
the world, has been brought on to New
York and placed in full charge of his
speciality.
Airship Flights.
But impressive as the naval parades
will be, and colorful as will be the
pageants, there is no question that
to the airship flights that will be made
from Governors Island some time dur
| ing the first week of the celebration.
Just what the performance will be
must depend on the conditions of the
atmosphere and the willingness of the
aviators, but the program calls for a
| flight from Governors Island up the
| North river, across Manhattan Island
in the neighborhood of Spuyten Duyvil
and down the East river. under or
over the four great steel bridges that
span it, back to the starting point.
Nothing so daring before has even
ben contemplated, but both Wilbur
Wright and Glenn H. Curtiss. his most
formidable American competitor, have
| signed contracts to attempt at least as
much of it as their judgement will
Busy as will be tbI days, the nights
will be perhaps. even more beautiful.
For a week duripG the Hudson Fulton
celebration theScity of New York in all
| its boroughs Mill be the most brilliant
| ly illuminated in the word. y The deco
rative uses of electricity we're first
| realized on a scale worthy OF their
possibilities at the Worlds fair, in Chi
| cage, in 1898, and from that time on