The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-09-30
ALL THE UNITS WHICH WILL COM
POSE SPECTACLE GATHERED
ABOUT GOTHAM.
STRANGE COMPARISON MADE.
Fulton's Clermont and Dutch Half Moon
Will Pass Big Liners and Fight
ing Monsters.
CURTISS AND WRIGHT WILL FLY.

NEW YORK. Sept. 24.-All the units
which will compose the magnificent ma
rine and aeronautic spectacles during the
celebration of the 300th anniversary of
the discovery of the Hudson river and
the Tooth anniversary of Fulton's ilrst
trip up that river in steamboat were
gathered in and about New York today,
with the single exception of one of the
aeroplanes. And a strange and wonder
full fleet of marine and air crafts they
would have made il assembled in com
parison.
Here was the little Half Moon. with
her towering poop, stumpy spars and
strange rig, in which Hudson navigated
the river 300 years ago. Across the har-
Dor was the reproduction of the Cler-
mont, capable at the best of steaming
seven miles an hour, with her uncovered
paddle wheels in striking dissimilarity
with the great turbine liner Lusitania,
which came in this morning.
Big British Warship There.
Lying outside Sandy Hook bar with
three other British war vessels was the
splendid British battleship Intlexible, one
of the heaviest hitting, fastest and most
costly of the British navy. Four Ger
man cruisers, the Victoria Luise, Her
tina, Dresden and Bremen, representing
the navy with which the German Empe-
ror is bidding for the supremacy of the
seas, came majestically up the harbor
this morning amid salutes from the bat
teries, 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.
The 1ntleyible, with Admiral Sir Ed
ward Hobart Seymour in command,
joined the other British ships off Sandy
Hook this morning and anchored there
at the head of the British column until
1913 o'clock, when they started up the
bay. This ship with her splendid arma-
ment and high speed is regarded as one
of the most interesting sights of the
great assemblage.
With her arrival, the gathering of the
fleets would 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
Clermont will be escorted around the
harbor and up the Hudson river to be
salutcd by the warships anchored there.
Aeroplane Sheds Complete.
Over on the fat land recently added to
Governors island. two plain wooded
structures marked the housing of the
latest and most remarkable development
of the aviators--the aeroplanes of the
Wright brothers and Glenn Ii. Curtiss.
Mr.. Curtss. however, was in Ham
plane. He intended to bring his flyer to
New York Saturday. and make Il pre-
liminary flight Monday.
Wilbur Wright was hard at work on
his flyer in the Governors island shed
preparing for possible flight tomor-
row. Further up town and in the out
skirts Of the city. dirigible balloons We're
being made ready to attempt flights
about the city and perhaps up the Hud-
son river next week.
In the city itself. the fever of prepare
ton for the ceremonies beginning to-
morrow was at its height Every train
swelled the numbers of visitors from all
over the country.
The arrival of the German warshipS
ut the naval anchorage in Hudson river
was the signal for "A noisy demonstration
of welcome from the French and Amer
lean squadrons.
With the Indexible cautiously leading
the way, the British fleet steamed up the
river through II gray curtain of mist and
rain. Passing Fort JAY on Governor s
Island, the welcoming guns greeted the
incoming Britons with an admiraTs sa-
Lutte, and those of the Inhexible and her
consorts roared back the salute. Hun
dreds of vessels in the harbor took up
the chorus and deep-voiced whistles of
ocean liners joined in the welcome to the
English ships.
Docks and Piers Crowded
The docks and piers at the Battery and
along the river Were crowded with OBJ
servers who braved the rain to see the
great Inlexible. The British tars were
lined up AT the rail in the driving rain
and some of them answered greetings
from those on shore by waving their
hands or their caps.
Scarcely was the salute to the British
fleet ended when another booming was
heard from Governors island, as Admir-
al Won Rooster of the German navy
stepped ashore to pay an official visit 70
Gen. Leonard Wood.
The Half Moon was towed from her
berth at a Brooklyn dock this morning
down the East river and harbor 10 the
xii Won Kull,. between Staten island
and the New Jersey shore where she
took her station in readiness for the
start of tomorrow's naval parade. Nhe
quaint little vessel was greeted by the
whistles of every boat on the river and
bay. and thousands rushed to the win
| dows and roofs of the skyscrapers and
! Cheercd as she rounded the Battery.
The grave of Robert Fulton in old
Trinity church yard was marked ard
decorated today by the Robert Fulton
monument association. At each corner
! of the slab was placed an enormous
| American flag and around were set min.
iature American, British and French
! standards.