Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-25


warship afoat, and naval men say II
outranks in power any Of the American
battleships. 1t cost the British gov
ernment $8,500,000.
With the railroads running double
train service the city Is rapidly hlllng
with visitors. That all of them cannot
obtain hotel accommodations Is lndl-
Gated by the operations OF a syndlcate
which has leased all Of thes trans-At-
lantic liners which will be lying at
their piers during the celebration.
This syndicate has made arrange
ments with many of the hotels to SEND
their overflow of applicants for lodg-
ings to the steamships, where they will
be given berths at 81 a night
viii Make Money
Steamship owners are likely to be
among the big money makers during
the celebration. All manner of craft
have been put into service carrying
visitors in the naval pageants at
price ranging from SO to $5 a person.
vessel carrying 1900 passengers brings
$4,000 a day to it's owners from the
lessees.
Sixty-fve custom house clerks will
assist the regular 180 customs 1nspec-
tors in seeing. that none of the eXcur-
sion boats are overcrowded.
The special ENJOYS Of twetny- nine
countries are now here, and their ranks
are augmented by the presence of most
of the foreign diplomats resident in the
United States. For more than week
the city will witness brilliant social ac~
tivities of international Importance.
The arrival of the British and Ger
man warships at the navy anchorage
in Hudson river was the signal for
noisy demonstration of welcome by the
French and American squadrons.
T,A l.
ing the way, the British fleet steamed
up the river through a gray curtain of
mist and rain. Passing Fort Jay, on
Governors island, the welcoming guns
greeted the incoming Britons with an
admiral's salute, and those of the In-
flexible and her consorts roared back
the salute.
Welcomed by Many
Hundreds of vessels in the harbor
took up the welcome and the deep
voiced whistles of ocean liners Joined
in.
The docks and piers at the Battery
and along the river were crowded with
persons eager to see the great spec
tacle.
Scarcely was the salute to the fleet
over than another booming was heard
from Governors island as Odmiral Won
Koester of the German navy stepped
ashore
Wood. The admiral was accompanied
by Lieut. Frederick II. Potet of the
United States battleship Connecticut
as the American escort of honor and
by his flag lieutenant
The Dutch cruiser Utrecht, which ar
rived here September 8, and the steam
er Nieu Amsterdam took their places
today in the long line of naval craft in
the Hudson river.
The Half Moon was towed from her
berth at the Brooklyn dock this morn
ing down the East river and harbor to
the Kill Won Kull, between Staten is
land and the New Jersey shore, where
she took her station in readiness for
the start of tomorrOWs parade The
quaint little vessel was greeted by the
whistles of every boat on the river and
bay
The grave of Robert Fulton in Old
Trinity churchyard was marked and
decorated today by the Robert Fulton
association. At each corner Of the slab
was placed an enormous American flag
and around were set various American,
British and French standards
At the grave gathered a number of
relatives of the inventor.
The monument which the association
hopes to erect in Fulton's memory will
be on Riverside drive, between One
Hundred and F'orty-fourth and One
is expected the work will be begun
next year. The cost will be about
$2,50,OOO.
That First Voyage
Three centuries ago Hendrix Hudson
sailed past Manhattan island and up
the river to the head of navigation.
Two hundred years later Robert Full
ton made the same trip in the first
successful steamboat The Hudson
Fulton celebration, which opens in
New York tomorrow will visualize
their achievements.
For the next eight days the people
of New York and visitors from all
parts of the world will witness a Sc
ries of pageants surprising anything
hitherto attempted in the way of his
toric commemoratiOn. The crowning
attainments of the twentieth century
will be exhibited to set off those of
the past. The leviathans of the worlds
navies have gathered to honor the two
little ships that made history one and
three centuries ago. Above the waters
where so warships lie at anchor the
conquerors OF the air will exhibit their
mastery. Airship fights, naval pa
rades, military parades and historical
pageants will all contribute to the an
niversary. Every important nation is
represented. After a week in New
York waters the floating part of the
eXllDlLlOn Will IIlON6 up lIlS "IINGIi
where the cities whose settlement and
growth followed Hudsons discovery
and Fulton's invention will spend the
next week In performing their part of
the celebration.
At 10 o'clock tomorrow the Half
Moon and Clermont-accurate repro
ductions of the little Dutch shallop in
which an English master and a mixed
crew first ascended the Hudson river
from Manhattan island to Albany, and
of the ungainly monster, belching
smoke and kissing vapor, in which
Robert Fulton, an American inventor
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 American and for
eign ships of war in the lower harbor.
cIermont's ManeuVers
The Clermont 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 speed
of a little better than four miles an
hour, very much like the floating grist
mill that Hudson river farmer first
thought her 100 years ago She is
built of wood, the ships around her
are built Of steel; she carried no whis-
tie. nothing but bell; steam was too