The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-09-25
As Trinity Bells Chime '.Peace on.
Earth, Ten Thousand Riuer Craft
and Warships Salute Henry Hudson

the first time propelled by steam
moved from their quiet anchorages
in the lee Of Staten Island to salute
the vast bulk Of the assembled Amer
lean and foreign ships of war in the
lower harbor.
The Clermont moved under her
own steam. Her classy engines rat
tied and groaned in her open hull;
her unprotected paddle wheels spat-
tered foam on the decks as she push
ed slowly through the water at a
speed of a little better than four
miles an hour, very much like the
floating grist mill that a Hudson river
farmer first thought her. 100 years
ago. She Is built OF wood, the ships
around her are built of steel; she
carries no whistle, nothing but bell
steam was too young then-and
shrieking sirens saluted her; her en-
gines 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 I'M
dreamed OF by Fulton. The bell the
original Clermont carried on her first
trip hangs now in the pilot house OF a
great side-wheeler that daily makes
in less than twelve hours the same
distance that Robert Fulton, from
whom she has been fiittingly named
took from Monday morning until
Wednesday night to cover.
This is a very good land to fall
with and a pleasant land to see, I"
wrote Robert Juet in his diary of the
voyage Of the Half Moon, 1909. The
magnificent oaks, the poplars. lin
dens and blue plum trees that Hud-
son and Robert Juet, his clerk, saw
then. have been replaced with soar
ing skyscrapers on the shores OF
that pleasant land" but Hudson
aud 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 three
hundred years and the other one
hundred years ago. over their mast
heads during the week will fly air
ships and under their keels Will
burrow daily the tunnel trains Of
the McAdoo system.
This Is the way in which the Hud-
son-Fulton celebration proposes to
teach history and commemorate the
share that America has had in the
making Of IL. IL will show by pageant
and parade and visual demonstration
what we were and what we have
made ourselves. The nations of the
world have been Invited to witness
Delegates are IN attendance from the
Argentine Republic, from Austria.
Hungary, Bolivia, Erazil, Chile, China
Colombia. Costa Rica. Cuba, Den
mark, England. Haiti, France and 80
on down the alphabetical list OF til
the nations of the world, with es-
pecial emphasis allotted the Neither
lands. because of the prominent part
they played in forming the early his
tory of the territory in which the
celebration Is being held. With the
exception OF our own, England and
Germany have sent the most notable
contributions to the feet Of war YES
sells that will assemble in the lower
harbor.
Great care has been taken TO see 10
the comfort and safety of out-of-town
visitors. The city will be cleaned OF
old offenders; out-of-town crooks will
be looked for with an especially sharp
eve. not only by local detectives. but
By details sent here from other cities
field hospitals and ambulance stations
have been placed where they can be
most promptly OF service in calls of
emergency. and. finally. the informa-
ton bureau of the commission. in its
Offices a. the Tribune building, will
give out a list OF reputable hotels and
boarding houses which are not so
likely to be overcrowded as those
better known.
On Friday, October /, viii be a
junction of the upstate and New
York City divisions of the eelebra-
tion, when the lesser ships OF war will
escort the Clermont and the Half
Moon TO Newburgh, where they Will
be turned over to the authorities
from Albany During the following
week. beginning October 3. there
will be dedicatory. historic and spec
tacular exercises at various points
between New York and Cohoes.