The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-25
SHIPS READY TO CELEBRATE Strange Craft Gathers at
 New Yoak. DISCOVERY OF THE HUDSON Vessels Of Foreign Nayiss Will
 Take Part. Vast Thronss of People from All over World are Arriving in American
 Metropolis for the
 Occasion.

New York. Sept 24.--Ali the units which will compose the magnificent marine and aeronautic spectacles dur ing the celebration of the s00th anni- versary of the Hudson River and the tooth anniversary of Fulton's first trip up that river in a steamboat. were gathered In and about New York today. with the single exception of one of the aeroplanes.
 And a strange and wonderful fleet of marine and air craft they would have made if assembled In compari. son.
 Here was the little half moon with her towering poop. sunny spars and strange rig, in which Hudson navf- gated the river 800 years ago. Across the harbor was the reproduction of the Ciermont, capable at the best of steam. ing seven miles an hour. with her un- covered paddle wheels in striking dis similarity with the great turbine liner Lusitania. which came in this morn ing.
 Lying outside Sandy Hook bar with three other British war vessels was the splendid British battleship IniexI ible, one of the heaviest hitting. fast. est and most costly of the British navy. Four German cruisers. the Victoria Louise, Hertha Dresden and Bremen. representing the navy with which the German Emperor Is bidding for the supremacy of the seas, came maJesti- eaily up the harbor this morning amid salutes from the batteries which they returned gun for gun. and took their places in the long column of American. French and Mexican ships already at anchor in the Hudson.
 British ships Present.
 The Infiexible, with Admiral Sir Ed ward Hobart Seymour In command, joined the British ships of Sandy Hook this morning and anchored there at the head of the British column until 10l6 o'clock, when they started up the bay.
 With the arrival of this ship the gathering fleets will be complete, for the harbor was already dotted with beautiful steam yachts in readiness for the naval parade tomorrow, when the Half Moon and the the Clermont will be escorted around the harbor and up the Hudson River to be saluted by the warships.
 over on the fiat land recently added to Governors Island. two plain wooden structures marked the housing of the latest and most remarkable develop ment of avtation--the aeroplanes of the Wright brothers and Glenn H. Curtiss. Mir. Curtiss, however, was in Ham mondsport, N Y., assembling his aero plane. He intended to bring his hyer 10 New York Saturday and make preliminary flight Monday
 Wilbur Wright was hard at work on his dyer in the Governors Island shed preparing for a possible flight to. morrow. lin town in the outskirts of the city, dirigible balloons were being made ready.
 Every train today swelled the num- bers of visitors from ell over the coun- try. r.. fish fleet up the river through gray curtain of mist and rain.
 Passing Fort Jay. on Governors lsl- and, the welcoming guns greeted the incoming Britons win an adnlra. salute, which was responded to oy the Infiexibie and her consorts. Hundreds of vessels in the harbor took up the welcome to the English ships.
 The docks and piers at the Battery and along the river were crowded with ohaervers. who braved rain to see the great Infexible.
 Half Moon Ready.
 The Half Moon was lowed rom ner berth at a Brooklyn dock this morning dowr the East River and harbor to the Ku1 vou Kull, between Staten Island ana the New Jersey shore. where she took her station, In readiness for to- morrow's naval parade. The quaint little vessel was greeted by the whis- lies of every boat on river and bay ana thousands rushed to the windows and roofs of the sky-scrapers ana cheered as she rounded the Battery.
 The grave of Robert Fulton. m org TrinItv churchyard, was marked ana decorated today by the Robert Fulton Monument Association. At each cor" ner of the slab was placed an enormous American flag and around were set miniature American. British and French standards.
 Al fine graves gathered a number of relatives of the inventor. Including Mrs. Arthur Taylor Sutcline ana MISS Cornelia Crary. great granddaushters' IT schuyler Cammann, great grand son and Mrs. Herman H. Cammann. ,he only living granddaughter.
 The nonument which the association oronoses to erect in Fulton's memory ,,,Ii he on Riverside Drive. Between One Hundred and Fourteenth and one Hundred and Sixteenth Streets great water gate will be built. where distin- euished guests of the State and nation nav he fittingly received. It Is ex- nected that work will begin next year. srha cost will be about $2,5OO,OOO.
 Herman Vessels Arrive.
 Naw York. Sept. 24.-The German cruIser squadron, composed of the victoria Louise, Hertha, Breme and Dresden, which will participate In the Hudson Fulton celebration arrived a' New York today.
 The British battleship Infiextble, un- der command of Admiral Sir Edward Hohart Seymour, arrived of Sandy Hook this morning and joined the three a+her warships. which have been await Inr her arrival since yesterday. The prit,sh ships remained at anchor of the Hook. >.
 The American cruiser Montaha ar .,,,aa ,r New York harbor this morn- ing.
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