Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-26
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AMAZES
NATIONS
Great Hudson Celebration
Begun at Gotham
THOUSANDS CHEER AS YES
sells MOVE UP RIVER
HALF MOON AND cLERMoNT OBJ
JECTs OF INTEREST
New York surpasses Expectations in
Beauty and Grandeur of Un-
precedented Naval and
Aerial Show
tBy Associated Press

n EW 1Otthf sept. Z5.-Reproduc-
Y tions of Henry Hudson's boat, the
~ Half Moon, and Robert Fulton's
Clermont, made the rounds of New
York harbor today, the central figures
in the Hudson Fulton celebration.
The two little ships, once so weighty
with achievement before a marveling
world, passed the warships assem- bled
to do them honor, with a thousand
merchant ships and pleasure craft
trailing behind, fifteen miles long;
saluted the national and international
flags of peace; was officially received
by the city and the Hudson Fulton
commission with the other visiting no.
tables, and tonight repeated the course
over river which was white as day
with the glare of hundreds of search
lights from shore and ahoat, before
they anchored.
Their progress was marred by but
one accident-a slight collision early
in the morning by which the Cler-
mont lost little paint and the Half
Moon an anchor chain
By noon the city held one of the
greatest crowds that has ever assem-
bled anywhere for any purpose Prob
ably 100000 persons witnessed the
great naval parade.
Crowd Majestic
Impressive as We're the ships of war,
squirting fire and smoke from their
sides in salute; sufficient as was the
parade that swept about them in
great crescent, the crowd was more
majestic yet.
1t drew the greater share of COM
ment\ from the 100000 who are esti-
mated to have witnessed it from excur-
sion steamers, motor boats tug boats,
sailing craft and even canoes.
Looking up one could see that the
cliff of sky scrapers of Manhattan is
land We're an unaccustomed fringe of
black-human forms.
Every roof was lined. Every (lvail-
able inch of space was used by people
determined to see the unusual naval
pageant.
The boom of sunrise guns aboard the
warships in the North river awoke
New York early this morning to the
first day of the celebration, long
planned and long-awaited which honors
the achievements of Henry Hudson and
Robert Fulton.
The river that Hudson found and
where Fulton set his steamboat was
the place toward which the eyes of
], 100000 persons turned today for the
most impressive pageant that ever
aoated in the New York harbor
Crowds on Roofs
The city today was a shell, with
two-thirds of it's population
nassed on its water front
From the Battery to Spuyten Duyvil
he sloping western edge of Manhattan
sland afforded vantage ground from
which 100000 spectators viewed the
laval parade that moved up and down
he river.
Two million more lined the Jersey
hore, and on the western water front
# Brooklyn, facing the bay, at least
lalf that number watched the gather
ng of this pageant in the waters be-
ween the mainland and Staten island
This is what they saw today under
he unclouded September sun and
What they will have chance to look
It tonight under the glare, scarcely
ess brilliant, of myriads of electric
lights:
A thousand vessels, varying in type
rom the one-man catboat to the
mighty British cruiser -battleship In
exible.
Fifty-seven warships representing
he navies of the United States, Great
Germany, France. Italy, Hol-
and, Mexico and Argentina, bearing
5000 officers and men, and armed with
S97 guns
Copies of the Half Moon and Cler-
mont, so faithful to the original models
n every detail that Hudson and Full
on themselves would have been pua-
led to tell the differer1s
Vessels in Line
One hundred and twenty steamboats,
nd ferryboats, seventy-five steam
achts, seventy-five motor boats, 300
Ugs and steam lighters, 400 sailing
raft and small launches.
All but the greatest and the least of
hese craft gathered in the upper bs.
Dr. the parade that escorted the Hat
loon and the Clermont up the Hud.
on. The warships remained at theil
nchorages between Forty-fourth and
wenty-second streets, while the sail
oats and the launches took positions
long the route which afforded those
n board the best view of the spec
acle.
The first spectacle-not counting the
rim lines of warships in the North
ver--was the assembling of the naval
ageant in the upper bay. Between
and II o'clock the squadron of four
.merican cruisers and four sub
assigned to escort the Half
loon and the Clermont met in the
Ill Won Kull, between Staten Island
nd the New Jersey shore. The Cler-
lont was towed from its night anchor
ge at Stapleton, s. l., to join the
Lalf Moon off st. George
Then, with the escort trailing to the
EAR, the two little craft which epitom-
e the celebration cruised along the
~onIrIvn chnra Ia cfQhf Of the oDaQ-