The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-09-25


New York waters. the floating part
of the exhibition will move up the
river, where the cities whose settle
ment and growth followed Hudson's
discovery and Fultons invention will
spend the next week in performing
their part OF the celebration.
Two Reproductions.
Moon and the acknowledgements re
productions o. tho little Dutch shallop
in which an English master and
mixed crew first ascended the Hud-
son river from Manhattan island to
Albany. and of the ungainly monster
belching smoke and kissing vapor. i'm
which Robert Fulton. an American in
ventor. made the same distance for
the first time propelled by steam. will
move from their quiet anchorages in
the lee of Staten island to salute the
vast bulk OF the assembled Ameri-
can and foreign ships of war i'm the
lower harbor.
The Ciermont will move under her
own steam. Her clumsy engines will
rattle and groan In her open hull: her
unprotected paddle-wheels will spatter
foam on her decks. and she will push
slowly through the water at a speed
of a little better than four miles an
hour. very much like the floating grist
mill that a Hudson river farmer first
thought her, 100 years ago. She Is built
OF steel: she carried no whistle, moth
ing but bell; steam was too young
then-and shrieking sirens will salute
her. har anutpax gnarf THAR ,snSt. ar,
ergy into the open air. while in the
submarine depths of the great hulis
around her whirring turbines do the
same work with an efficiency and
power undreamed OF by Fulton. The
bell the original Clermont carried on
her first trip hangs now in the pilot
house Of a great sidewheeler that
daily makes in less than II hours the
same distance that Robert Fulton, for
whom she has been fittingly named,
took from Monday morning until
Wednesday night to cover. -5t ~
This Is very good land to fall
with an a pleasant land to see." wrote
Robert Juet i'm his diary of the voyage
of the Half Moon. 1909. The magnif-
ieent oaks. the poplars lindens and
blue plum trees that Hudson and
Robert Juet. his clerk. saw then, have
replaced with soaring skyscrapers on
the shores of that pleasant land" but
Hudson and his crew on the Half
Moon. and Fulton and his men on the
clermont. will walk their decks in
the samo dress that they wore, the
one 800 years and the other 100 years
ago. over their mastheads during the
week will fly airships and under their
keels will burrow daily the tunnel
trains of the McAdoo system.
Teaches History. sn
| This is the way in which the Hud-
son-Fulton celebration proposes to
| teach history and commemorate the
| share that America has had in the
making of 1t. Ii will show by page
ant and parade and visual demonstra-
/ tion what we We're and what We have
been invited to witness. Delegates
are in attendance from the govern,
meRts of Abyssinia and the Argen.
tine Republic. from Austria Hungary
Bolivia, Brazil, fChile. China. CO.
lumbia. Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark
England, Haiti. France and so on
down the alphabetical list of all the
nations Of the world. with especia
emphasis allotted tho Netherlands
because of the prominent part the,
played in forming the early histor,
of the territory in which the celebra
ton in being held. With the ex
ception of our own, England aad
Germany have sent the most notable
contributions to the fleet of war yes
sells that will assemble in the lowel
harbor. In this connection Genera
Stewart =. woodford. president OF tn.
Hudson-Fu commission, has said
We are now assured of the larg
est collection OF war vessels, aggre
eating at least so. that has ever beeI
assembled in one place, with the ex
ception of the rendezvous OF British
ships in the English channel. 1t viii
be the largest collection oil war YES
sells ever brought together on this sid,
of the Atlantic and the largest col
lection OF an international charaete
ever assembled anywhere
Supplementing the parades by Ian,
down Fifth avenue, past a great whit
court of staff erected opposite tn
n1s -Assoi ~LVaiaA- liidtH nuhllc library
anu the naval pageants of histor
and illuminated floats opposite tn.
Riverside park. there will be thrown
open during the celebration a grea
number of private and public coiiec
tions OF historic interest. The master
pieces gathered by the late Maurie
kann will be shown here by Duyeel
Brothers. and the private purchase
from the old Flemish. Holland ant