Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-25

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 whirring turbines do
the same work with an efficiency and
power undreamed of by Fulton.
The bell the original Clermont car
ried on her first trip hangs now in the
pilot house of a great sidewheeler that
daily makes in less than twelve hours
the same distance that Robert Fulton,
for whom she has been fittin6ly named,
took from Monday morning until We'd
nesday night to cover.
This is very good land to fall
with and a pleasant land to see,' wrote
Robert Juet in his diary of the voy-
age of the Half Moon, 1909. The mag
nificent oaks the poplars, lindens and
blue plum trees that Hudson and Rob
ert Juet, his clerk, saw then, have
been replaced with soaring skyscrap-
ers on the shores Of that pleasant
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 300 years ago and the
other 100 years ago. over their mast
heads during the week will fly air
ships and under their keels will bur
row daily the tunnel trains Of the
McAdoo system.
This is the way in which the Hudson
Fulton celebration proposes to teach
history and commemorate the share
that America has had in the making
of it. 1t will show by pageant and
parade and visual demonstration what
we were and what we have made our
| selves.
Nations Invited
The nations of the world have been
| invited to witness. Delegates are in
attendance from the governments of
| Abyssinia and the Argentine Repub-
lie, from Austria Hungary, Bolivia,
Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa
Rica. Cuba, Denmark, England, Hayti,
| France and so on down the alphabet
| cal list of all the nations of the world,
! with especial emphasis allotted the
| Netherlands because of the prominent
part they played in forming the early
history of the territory in which the
celebration is being held. With the
| execution of our own, England and
! GERMANY have sent the most notable
contributions to the fleet of war Ves-
sells that will assemble in the lower
barbor. In this connection General
| Stewart L. Woodford, president OF the
| Hudson Fulton commission, mas salu
| 1--WE are now assured of the largest
! collection of war vessels, aggregatng
at least eighty, that has ever been as
sembled in one place, with the eNcep-
tiOn of the rendezvous of BRUSH shlpS
| in the English channel IL VIII De the
largest collection of war vessels ever
brought together on this side of the
| Atlantic and the largest collection or
an international character ever assem-
| bled anywhere.
| SuDpIementing the parades by lana
| down Fifth avenue, past a great Whlte
court of staff erected opposite the new
Astor-Lenox-T -Tilden public library ana
| the naval pageants of historic ana IL
! Illuminated floats opposite the Riverside
park there will be thrown open during
| the celebration a great number OF prl-
vate and public collections of histo lie
interest Tht masterpieces gathered by
| the late Maurice Kann will he shown
| here by DuVeen brothers, and the prl-
vate purchases from the old FLEMISH
Holland and German schools made by
J. P. Morgan and other connoisseurs
have been assembled and are now open
to public view in the galleries of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The parades of street floats down
Fifth avenue and through the court Of
honor, past the reviewing stands, have
, been planned two years in advance ard
worked out by a great staff of artists,
night and day, in a specially designed
factory. Capt. A. II. Stoddard, master
of the Mardi Gras parades that made
New Orleans the carnival city of the
world, has been brought on to New
York and placed in full charge of his
speciality.
Airship Flights
But impressive as the naval parades
will be, and colorful as will be the
pageants, there is no question but that
the greatest popular interest attaches
to the alrship flights that will be made
from Governors Island some time dur
ing the first week of the celebra tion.
Just what the performance will be
must depend on the conditions of the
atmosphere and the willingness of the
aviators, but the program calls for a
flight from Governors Island up the
North river across Manhattan Island
in the neighborhood Of Spuyten Duyvil