The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-09-27
MILLIONS VIEW
VAST PAGEANT
thousand Vessels Partici=
pate in River Parade.
LINE FIFTEEN MILES LONG

Fifty-seven Warships, Representing
the United States and the Leading
Countries of Europe. Take Part in
Stirring observation-disclosures
Celebration at New York City Gets
e.. Under Way in Most Auspcious
Manner.
New York, Sept. 27.--Fully 100000
people, gathered along the Hudson
river, viewed the most impressive
pageant that ever floated in New York
harbor. The affair was in connection
with the Hudson-Fulton celebration.
Humanity speaking the city was a
shell, with probably two-thirds of it's
population massed on it's water front.
From the Battery to Spuyten Duyval
the sloping western edge of Manhat-
tan island afforded a vantage ground
from which 100000 spectators
viewed the naval parade that moved
up and down the river. Two million
more lined the Jersey shore and on
the western water front of Brooklyn,
facing the bay, at least half that mum.
Der watched the gathering of this
pageant in the waters between the
mainland and Staten Island.
The pageant consisted of fully a
thousand vessels, varying in type from
the one man catboat to the mighty
British battleship Infexible. In detail
the fleet was made up as follows:
Fifty-seven warships, representing
the navies of the United States, Great
Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Hol-
land, Mexico and Argentina-450,0 900
tons of steel, bearing $4,000 officers
and men and armed with 1897 guns.
Copies of the Half Moon and Cler-
mont, so faithful to the original mod
els in every detail that Hudson and
Fulton themselves would have been
puzzled to tell the difference.
One hundred and twenty steamboats,
and ferrybOats.
Seventy-five steam yachts and sew
enty-fve motor boats.
Three hundred tugs and steam light
ers.
Four hundred sailing craft and small
launches.
Imposing Naval Procession.
The days first spectacle was the as.
selnbling of the naval pageant in the
upper bay. Between 10 and II o'clock
the squadron of four American cruis-
ers and five submarines assigned to
escort the Half Moon and the Cler-
mont met in the Kill Won Kull, be-
tween Staten Island and the New Jer-
sey shore. The Clermont was lowed
from it's night anchorage at Staple
ton, S. l., to join the Half Moon off
st. George. Then, with the escort
trailing to the rear, the two little craft
which epitomize the celebration
cruised along the Brooklyn shore in
sight of the spectators that blackened
every street and housetop in view.
Meanwhile the rest of the parade was
assembling and when the Half Moon
and the Clermont finished their round
of the upper bay and sailed into the
mouth of the Hudson they fell into
line. The assembling of the 500 or
more boats that followed Hudson's
and Fulton's craft up the river occu-
pied the whole morning and it was
late when the mass Strengthened out
into something like procession forma-
ton.
The boats moved up the Hudson in
double line at speed of about eight
miles an hour, but such was the num-
Der of participants and the distances
necessarily maintained between each
that the column was nearly fifteen
miles long.
The Half Moon and the Clermont
went only as far as One Hundred and
Tenth street, where the land cere-
monies of the day occurred, with
speeches by Governor Hughes and
others.
In the evening the participants in
the day parade went over the same
route, the river being gorgeously illu'
minated