The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-27
HudSOn=FultOn Celebration Has Crowded the
Hotels and Guests Are Sleeping on Cots in
Halls===Big Prices Paid for Seats

New York, Sept. 27.-The eyes Of
the million or moro visitors. with
those of the local celebrators of the
HudsonFulton anniversaries, arc to.
day turned toward Governors Island.
from where 1t is expected Wilbur
Wright and Glenn H Curtiss will make
their first trial flights in aeroplanes.
Both machines had been tuned to per.
fection and. with a prediction that
the wind would not be as high as dur
ing the last two days. both avlators
declared that they were prepared 10
make flights.
Display of certain colored flags In
high buildings in various sections Of
the city was designed to inform the
people If the flights were TO be at
tempted and the approximate hour
The advertised location of the flag
STATS were watched eagerly by the
crowd. who had planned to reach the
water front as quickly as possible af-
ter the display Of the signals that
flights would be made.
The airships are attracting almost
as much attention as the powerful
armada OF war vessels. All efforts of
the public to reach the aiTship sheds
on Governors Island have failed. The
public Is not permitted there: no ex-
cursion boats are allowed To land and
the only view which visitors and 9th
ers In the city can have will be when
the machines arc in full flight,
Beyond possibility OF airship
flights today, the principal events OF
the Hudson-F'ulton celebration was the
opening OF number OF especially ap-
rfofo oxhIhIfIAp, -.
lures painted by Robert Fulton him
self to live fishes which inhabited the
waters OF New York bay when Henry
Hudson visited 1t three hundred years
ago. The art exhibits include many
valuable paintings by Dutch and 9th
er artists of the seventeenth CEN
tury
Although the prices asked for seats
in the many miles Of grandstands be
fore the celebration began was con-
sidered eXorbltant, they have been
steadily increased until today a seat
in a choice stand along the route of
the land parades is quoted at $40
Five dollars a seat for each parade
IS the average demand and 1t is re-
ported that spectators are doing an
enormous business.
The minimum estimate OF the num-
Der Of visitors In the city is one mil
lion. Other authorities give IL as high
as 1000. 900 persons. The hotels are
packed to their capacity with many
guests sleeping on cots in the halls
and with the Office sending surplus
customers TO the ocean liners al their
piers where they are charged 81 for a
berth
AS II was believed that many thous-
andS of persons had been unable to
get to New York In time to see the
spectacular illumination of the great
fleet OF international war vessels on
Saturday night. II has been ordered
that the illumination be repeated next
Saturday night II is expected that
this order Will have the effect OF vast
~ increasing the already record
breaking crowd.
New York. Sept 27-The ceremony
about the Hudson monument took
place early in the afternoon at the
conclusion OF the exercises at Alpine
Landing Governor Hughes spoke
here also. other speakers were Gen
cral Stewart L. Woodford, president
OF the Hudsop-Fulton commission
Mayor Mcclellan OF New York and
Archbishop Parley of New York The
American warships anchored In the
Hudson near this point fred salutes
and the Half Moon, which had stood
up the river from its station at the
foot OF 10th street, dipped her flag
in honor of the daring naNgators who
had piloted her original up the river
for the first time,
The adverse wind made II practical
1v cprtaln tho raco of dirieiblo hal