The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-09-30

ception of the rendezvous of British
ships in the English Channel 1t will
be the largest collection of war YES
sells ever brought together on this
side of the Atlantic and the largest
collection of an international char
acter ever assembled anywhere
Supplementing the parades by land
down Fifth avenue, past a great
white court of staff erected opposite
the new Astor-Lenox-Tilden public
library, and the naval pageants OF
historic and illuminated floats oppo-
SIZE the Riverside Park, there will
De thrown open during the celebra
ton a great number of private ana
public collections of historic interest.
The masterpieces gathered by the
late Maurice Kann will be shown
mere by Duveen Brothers, and the
private purchases from the old Flem-
ish. Holland and German schools
made by j. P. Morgan and other con.
noisseurs 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,
nave been planned two years in ad-
vance and worked out by great
stan of artists, sculptors, costumers
and designers, night and day, in a
81 ecially designed factory. Captain
A. H. 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 specially.
! But impressive as the naval par
AIDES will be. and colorful as will be
the pageants, there is no question
but that the greatest popular interest
attaches to the airship flights that
will be made from Governors Island
some time during the first week of
the celebration Just what the per-
Torrance will be must depend on the
conditions of the atmosphere and
the willingness of the aviators, but
Governors Island up the North Riv-
er. across Manhattan Island in the
neighborhood of Spuyten Duyvil and
down the East River, under Or over
the four great steel bridges that now
span 1t, back to the starting point
Nothing so daring before has even
been contemplated, but both Wilbur
/ Wright and Glenn II. Curtiss his most
formidable American competition,
have signed contracts to attempt at
least as much of it as their judgment
will warrant
Busy as will be the days, the nights
will be perhaps even more beautiful.
For week during the Hudson-Fulton
celebration the city of New York in
all it's boroughs will be the most bril-
liahtly illuminated in the world The
decorative uses of electricity were
first realized on scale worthy OF
their possibilities at the Worlds Fair
In Chicago, in 1898, and from that
ciine on every succeeding exhibition
has been more lavish in it's appro
priation for lighting, until this veal
1t is estimated conservatively that
in addition to the regular lighting Of
, the city and exclusive of the contract.
placed by private firms for advertis
, ing display, there will burst int
blaze. on the night of Sept. 25, 26,
100000 candle power.
This great aggregate is apportion
ed, as nearly as can be determined
between the four boroughs as fol
lows: 100000 incandescent globes
1000 arc lights, 5000 flaming arct
and two batteries of searchlights-
one Of four lights, aggregating 4OO,OOt
candle power, and the other of twelve
lights, aggregating 100000 candle
! power The smaller battery will
play continuously from all sides OF
the white marble of Grants Tomb
. high above the river on the Manhat
Tan shore of the Hudson, and thu
great battery of l,7OO,000 candle pow
, er will light up the river itself il
, both directions from it's farthest visi
. bic upper reaches to the lower hal
Dor All the United States battleship
, and the ships of war of other ma
| tons lying in the roadstead will like
f wise be outlined in fire from stem t.
3 stern and draped with incandescen
festoons from their topmasts to thei
t bulls.
3 The Singer tower, the white shai
n Of the new Metropolitan tower, tn
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