Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-12

The 1903 Hudson Fulton celebration Of the
discovery OF the Hudson river 10y Hendrick
Hudson, 800 years ago, and its successful
navigation by steam, by Robert Futon. 900
years later Is attracting widespread notice.
II will be a memorable affair. The old
places along the river are awakening TO
the possibilities. The past. the present. tell
a wonderful story. Seeing and hearing
will be worth while. The reproductions OF
the Half-Moon and the Clermont are well
under way. To the eye. today. they will
be queer and quaint looking. Navigation
as 1t was; its transition to what 1t is,
will he the main feature. The develop
ment Of the country from Hudson's time,
the people who did It. their history. their
descendants, are certainly worth recalling.
Honorable mention at least they have won.
The festivities will require two or three
weeks, and extend from day to day, along
this river from New York to Albany. Sep
TENDER will be the anniversary month.
Home days in many Of the river colonial
towns will be appropriately observed. The
call OF the old home will be made and
heard. The ancient Beekman-Livingston
town OF Rhinebeck with a river and
colonial history dating from 1895 has had
inaugurated a novel quest. The object is
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ancestry, birth. residence, business, mar
riage or otherwise have reason to remem-
Der Rhinebeck. who. and where are they?
TO reach them is the purpose of the quest.
Answers sent to Aran Kee, Rhinebeck, N.
Y, will secure registration of name and
address. An acknowledgment with an old
home souvenir will be sent to each person
answering the old home call. This inter
esting quest will prove many things.
An army officer whose duties require him
to frequently visit three large cities which
are so situated that a straight line drawn
from one to the other forms a perfect
triangle Is soon to face a court-martial on
Governors island for adding a fourth side,
a proceeding that made possible, army Off
GERS say. his collecting expense money
for the fourth. line, whereas he should
have sought reimbursement only for the
three regular sides of the triangle. A care
full study of the map Of one Of the most
thickly populated states in the union will
make easy the Identification Of the three
cities Ohey are all over 100, 000).
According to the charges against the Of
ficer in question. he was required to fire.
quently visit all the cities, which may be
designated as X. Y and q. Under the
regulations the officer should have gone
from X TO Y, then from Y to 2, and from
q back to X.
But the officer did not follow the straight
and narrow path marked by the three
sides of the triangle. Instead he would
go from X TO Y, and, after he finished his
work in Y. instead OF proceeding on to 2,
would double back to Y, according to his
expense accounts. Then from X he would
proceed to q, then again double back to Y,
making four sides OF the triangle traversed,
instead Of three.
Probably the most astonishing piece of
millinery which has reached the port of
New York this season was worn by a
young woman on the promenade deck of
the Cunarder Lusitania.
Women passengers after careful scrutiny
pronounced It shocking Some Of the
men thought differently, and openly said it
was very becoming; but perhaps the fact
that II was rerched over a rather pretty
face and that from beneath the rim peeped
a fringe Of fetching blonde curls has some
thing to do with the favorable
A mere mans description would run
something like this: Made OF straw. top
Just like an inverted bucket and about the
size Of an ordinary one, perhaps ten inches
high. From either side at the bottom
were vizors. attached helmet-like.
In the center front a peculiar ornamen
about five inches in diamenter, being a
large fla stone OF some description, sur
rounded by three rows of beads, each about
three-uuarters of an inch in diameter.
These beads, set close together, follow
around the lower portion of the structure
like a band. From the ornament in front
trails a huge ostrich feather along the
starboard side and aft like the smoke
steaming from a steamers funnel.
Colonel John NJ. otter, who once ham
died all of the A. T.. Stewart hotel inter-
ests in Saratoga and New York and who
was consulted by men purposing
to erect new hotels in New York, died at
his home in New York at noon and left In
his will the directions for the strange
funeral services that were held on the
night of March 4, according to the strict
letter Of his final injunction, at the home
where he died. No prayer was said, no
hymns we're sung. there was not a flower
upon his casket, just a farewell session of
fifteen or more old cronies of Colonel Of
ter's House of Lords"
These fifteen gentlemen, none OF whom
Is under 30 ana some OF whom are over %,
who compose the survivors of the little club
OF Colonel Offers founding, sat about the
plain mahogany coffin in the parlor and
told stories Of their dead friends whimsi-
~calities and his CHEEKY optimism and I'M
failing good humor. That was all Of the
| service. the only requiem.
Those who were Colonel Offers intimates
knew the reason for this last request of
his. He was a man who believed that after
death there was nothing more. He had al
ways said that the lamentations and forms
OF grief attending the stereotyped funeral
service revolted him. He was no more i'm
mortal than the flowers, Colonel Otter
thought. He did not want even that a
flower should be robbed of life in order that
1t might wither on his coffin.
He came from Georgia. typical southern
boy. From his father. a gentleman of the
| old school. he had imbibed his ideas of de-
pertinent. He came TO New York recently
to Visit an aunt on the upper West Side
and was much impressed by what he re-
garded as a lack of politeness and consld-
Grafton shown to women by many New
York men on street cars and in other pub
lie places. Even at the risk Of making
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