The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-10-04
UP THE HUDSON END
FULTON-HUDSON
CELEBRATION
Interest Centers at Albany and
Troy Last of Week
PROGRAM OF FESTIVITIES
Exercises Start Today at Poughkeep-
sic, Kingston Tomorrow and
catskiIl Wednesday

New York, Oct. 3.-The Hudson
Fulton celebration, after a week of
pomp and pageantry in New York,
moves up the Hudson tomorrow, and
for another week the cities lying to
the north will vie with each other in
doing honor to the memory of Hudson
and Fulton. The Half Moon and the
Clermont, with their naval escort, now
at anchor at Poughkeepsie, will con-
tinue their voyage northward stop
ping at Kingston, Catskill, Hudson,
Albany and Troy, where elaborate
local celebrations have been planned
to mark each successive stage of the
journey.
Cites and Villages Decorated
Cities and villages along the river
are gay with color by day and bril-
liantly lighted by night, and many or
them have planned old home week
| obseryances. Special religious ser
vices were held today in the churches
| in Yonkers, Poughkeepsie, Kingston.
Catskill and Hudson, while several
pastors in New York drew lessons
from the celebration. During the
week a military tournament by Unit
ed States troops will be held at Camp
Oliver on Island Park, near Albany
The troops will take part in Albany's
parade on Friday. Robert Shaw
Oliver, in whose honor the camp was
named, has promised to attend.
Yonkers and Poughkeepsie Today.
Governor Hughes who. with his
staff, attended sacred concert in
n hoI
will begin his upstate trip tomorrow
During the forenoon he viii review a
parade at Yonkers, going on TO
Poughkeepsie in the afternoon, where
a banquet and reception will be given
in his honor in the evening. Pough-
keepsie's big parade will be held to-
morrow.
At Kingston Tomorrow.
On Tuesday the naval squadron
with the Half Moon and Clermont
will move on to Kingston. A feature
of the day will be the unwilling of a
monument to Sir. Thomas Chambers.
lord of the Manor of Fox Hall and
one OF the founders of Kingston.
At catskiII Wednesday.
Catskil will be the scene of Wed
nesday's celebration. which in many
respects will be similar to that ar
ranged in Kingston. A special trip
to the haunts of Rip Van Wrinkle In
the Catskill mountains has been ar
ranged for the officers and men of the
Half Moon during the afternoon
Thursday Hudson Will See FlotiIIa
Hudson will receive the flotilla
Thursday.
Arrival at Albany Friday
The capital of the state will be
reached on Friday when the Half
Moon and Clermont and their escort
will be met down the river by a num-
Der of Albany boats. Governor
Hughes, Mayor Snyder and other city
officials will precede to Riverside
park where the visitors will be for
mally welcomed. A "Hudson-Fulton
welcome parade"will be reviewed in
the afternoon and there will be fire
works at night.
At Troy on Saturday
AS the naval parade passes up the
river on the following day on the way
to Troy, it will be saluted by federal
authorities at the Watervliet arsenal
and will be met further along by a
flotilla from the city of Troy where
a land parade has been planned. 1t
will be reviewed by Governor Hughes.
At Cohoes on Monday
At night a chain of signal fires on
mountain tops and other eligible |
points from Staten Island to the head |
of navigation will mark the close of !
the celebration as originally planned, |
but it will extend over to the follow |
ing Monday. when the fleet will pro-
coed to Cohoes where an evening |
parade will be held.