The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-09-11

lions of this nature throughout the
city in general will open about week
ahead of the actual celebration. the
opening date at the Metropolitan Mu-
scum of Art being Sept. 20. The exhi-
billions will remain open in some in
stances three or four months.
On some day during the week there
will be held the $4,000 airship navi-
CATION contest from New York to Al
bany and also series of airship flights
by Wilbur Wright, who has signed a
contract with the Hudsen-Fulton COM
mission and will hold several exhibit
tons that cannot fail to give an added
interest to the festivities Glenn Cur
tiss has also signed q contract with the
commission and will make series OF
fights.
Oct. 2 has been set apart as gen.
eral carnival day for New York city.
In all the cities along the Hudson car
niyal exercises have been arranged
with an especial view to the participa-
tion of the children. and on the stony
Point battlefield that day the Daugh-
ters of the Revolution will unveil their
memorial arch. The unwilling of the
Henry Hudson statue at Spuyten Duy-
vii win probably be arranged for the
preceding Tuesday, Sept. Is
On Saturday evening will come the
climax of the whole celebration SO far
| as New York city is concerned. Inc
commission has arranged one great
carnival parade, with moving allegor-
zeal tableaux, participated in by the
German societies, and this parade and
| Ire attendant features of individual cell
ehration are expected to make the an
NAL New Years eve celebration look
| like a May party in country village.
The Illumination and pyrotechnic DIS
nIav will be on a scale never attempt
ed in this country before. Every mu-
nicinal building and thousands of pri-
vate bindings, every great bridge span
ming the East river every monument
and many of the great thoroughfares
i VIII he illuminated with tens of thou
/ sands of electric lights. There will be
"a mo of these on the greensboro
i bridge and nearly as many on eacn OF
the other great bridges. Along the
E4ndson river front there viii be an
;Ilnmination of both sides of the river
from Spuyten Duyyil to Seventy-sec-
ond street.
an Riverside drive there Will be two
enormous batteries of searchlights. one
located at One Hundred and Tentn
s+raat with twelve searehlights aggre-
eating 100000 candle power and an
atbnr of four searchlights aggregatine
,noono candle power. which will DC
t,,rnaa mon Grants tomb. Meantime
thare will be special firework displays
- eoats along the river front in honor
of the visiting fleets.
Al q o'clock the signal fires are to ns
pgbted all along the Hudson INT
ne,nts selected are Governors island
Fort lee. Fort washington. Spuyter
T,,,vvil. Alpina. Hastings Point, Hool
n,a,,ntain. High Tor, Stony Point, Dun
darh,,ru Ant1ony's Nose. Sugar Loai
hill west Peint, Constitution isiana
st.rn, King. Bull hill and Crows Nest
+ has heen arranged that Presiden
reft shall give the signal for lighting
II thase fires. When the signal i
ss.a,, rockets. bombs and an enormous
display Of fireworks will be set on q
at af the points selected. and thel
80 ore,t fires viii be lighted, whicl
In brrn for four hours with a dam
thirty feet high.
,rhara .,re ether special events on tn
.rae-,s,n. md Il number of towns i
~ gate have arranged some grea
f.olehrafions. which will go 70 max
he Hudson-Fulton affair the creates
g ehe kind ever held in this or an
other country.