The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-25
BIG WEEK
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NEW YORK.
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HudsOn-FuItOn Anniver-
sary Observation Be-
gins Today Great
Assemblaee Of Ships

NEW YORK, Sept. 24.-All the
units which compose the magnificent
Marine and Aeronautic spectacle
during the celebration of the 300th
anniversary of the discovery of the
Hudson river and the Tooth an
niversary of Fulton's trip on the
river in a steamboat, were gathered
in and about New York today with
the exception of one of the aero
planes.
Among the vessels was the Half
Moon" reproduction of, Hudson's
ship, which presented strange con-
trast to the modern vessels of war
of all nations lying in the harbOr.
For the next eight days the people
of New York and visitors from all
parts of the world will witness a
series of pageants SURPRISING any
thing hitherto attempted< in the way
historic commemoration The crown
ing attachments of the twentieth
century will be exhibited to set of
those Of the past The leviathans of
the worlds navies have gathered to
honor the two little ships that made
history one and three centuries ago.
Above the waters where eighty war
ships lie at. anchor the conquerers
of the air will exhibit their mastery.
Airship flights, naval parades, mill
tary parade and historical pageants
will all contribute to the anniversary.
Every important nation is represent
ed. After a week in New York wat
ers, the floating part of the exhibit
tion will move up the river where the
cities whose settlement and growth
followed Hudson's discovery and
Fulton's invention will sped the next
week in performing their part of the
celebration.
At ten o'clock tomorrow the Half
Moon and the Clermont- accurate
reproductions of the little Dutch
ship in which an English master
and mixed crew first ascended the
Hudson River from Manhattan Is
land to Albany, and of the ungainly
monster, belching smoke and Kissing
vapor, in which Robert Fulton, an
American inventor, made the same
distance for the first time propelled
by steam, will move from their quiet
anchorages in the lee of Staten Is
land to salute the vast bulk of the
assembled American and foreign
ships of war in the lower harbor.
The Clermont will move under her
own stean. Her clumsy engines will
rattle and groan in her open hull;
her unprotected paddle-wheels will
spatter and foam on her decks, and
she will push slowly through the wat
er at speed of little better than
four miles an hour, very much like
the floating grist mill that Hudson
River farmer first thought her, 100
years ago. She is built of wood, the
ships around her are built of steel;
she carried no whistle, nothing but
a bell; steam was too young then
and shrieking sirens will salute her;
her engines snort their waste energy
into the open air, while In the sub
marine 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 carried
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 had been fit
tingly named, took from Monday
morning until Wednesday night to
cover.
This is very good land to fall
with and pleasant land to see,"
wrote Robert Juet N his diary Of
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