The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-09-25

will all contribute to the anniversary.
Every important nation is represent
ed After week in New York waters
the floating part of the exhibition will
move up the river where the cities
whose settlement and growth followed
Hudsons discovery and Futon's in.
yention will spend the next week in
performing their part of the celebra-
tion.
At 10 O'Clock tomorrow the Half
Moon and the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT re-
productions of the little Dntch shal.op
In which an English master and
mixed crew FIRST ascended the Hudson
river from Manhattan Island to Al
bany, and Of the ungainly monster,
belching smoke and Missing vapor, in
which Robert Fulton, an American
inventor, made the same distance for
the first time propelled by steam, viii
nioVe from their quiet anchorage8
in the lee of Staten Island to salute
the vast bulk Of the assembled Ameri,
can and foreign ships of war in the
lower harbor.
The CfermUnt viii move under her
own steam. Her ciylsy engines viii
rattle and groan in her open hull her
unprotected paddIe.wheels will spatter
foam on the decks and she will push
slowly through the water at speed
nf mil m
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
whistle, nothing but a bell; steam was
too young then-and shrieking sirens
will salute her: her engines snort
their waste energy into the open air,
while in the submarine depths of the
great hulls around her whrring tur-
bines do the same work with an eff,
cicncy and power undreamed of by
Fulton. The hell the original Cler
mont carried on her first trip hangs
Inow in the pilot house Of great
side wheeler that daily makes in less
than twelve hours the same distance
that Robert Fulton, from whom she
has been fittinlg named, took from
Monday morning until Wednesday
night to cover
This is a very good land to fall
with and pleasant land to see, -
wrote Robert ,Jret in his diary of the
voyage Of the Mali Moon. 1909, The
magnificent oaks, the poplars, lindens
Robert Juet, his clerk, saw then, have
/ been replaced with soaring sky
i tscrapers on the shores Of that pleas.
| ant land, but Hudson and his crew on
/ the Half Moon, and Fulton and his
men on the Clermont, will walk their
/ decks in the same dress that they
wore, the one three hundred years
tand the other one hundred years ago.
Over their mastheads during the
iweek will fly airships and under their
keols will burrow daily the tunnel
ttrains Of the McAdoo system.
This is the way in which the Hud.
fsonFulton celebration proposes tc
teach history and commemorate the
share that America mas had in the
making of it. 1t will show by pageant
land parade and visual demonstration
/ what we were and what we have
made ourselves. The nations of the
world have been invited to witness
4 delegates are in attendance from the
governments of ADyssinia and the
| Argentine Republic, from Austria
Hungary, Bolivia, Erazil, Chile, China
COLOMBIA, Costa Rica, Cuba, Den
mark, England, Haiti France and sc
on down the alphabetical list of al
the nations of the world, with es
pecial emphasis allotted the Neither
lands. because of the prominent par
they played in forming the early his
tory of the territory in which TIL.
celebration is being held With tn,
exception OF our own England ans
Germany have sent the most notabl,
contributions to the feet of war YES
sells that will assemble in the lowe
harbor.
Great care has heen taken to see t,
II (Cqntinupt on Secnnd paxal