Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-25
Everything Readytor Open
ing Of Celebration,
Halt Moon and C|ermont Will
Today Sail Up Hudson
And Receive Honors in Memory Of
Originals Commanders.

which will compose the magnificent
marine and aeronautic spectacles dur.
| ing the celebration of the 300th ami
versary Of the discovery of the Hudson
river and the Tooth anniversary of Full
| tons first trip up that river in a steam
boat were gathered in and about Ne"
York today with the single exception
of one of the aeroplaneS.
And a strange and wonderful fleet 81
marine and air craft they would have
made If assembled in comparison. Here
was a replica of the little Half Moon
with her towering poop and stumpy
spars, in which Hudson navigated the
| river 300 years ago. Across the harbol
| was the reproduction of the Clermont
capable at the best of steaming sever
miles an hour with her uncovered pad
die wheels, in striking dissimilarit.
with the great turbine liner Lusitania
which came in this morning.
Lying outside Sandy Hook bar witt
| three other British war vessels was
the splendid British battleship Inflexi-
BILE, one of the heaviest hitting. tastes
and most costly of the British navy
Four German cruisers, the Victoria
Luise, Hertha, Bremen and Bresder
came majestically up the harbor this
morning amid the salutes from tn
batteries, which they returned gun fol
gun and took their places in the lonl
column of American, French and Mexi.
can ships already at anchor in tn,
Hudson.
The Infiexible, with Admiral Sir Ed
ward Hobart Seymour in command
;a;, +l,o D.;t; ,l, a,
Hook this morning and anchored there
at the head of the British column
awaiting favorable opportunity t.
come up the bay. This ship is regard
ed as one of the most interesting OBJ
jects of the great assemblage. With
her arrival the gathering of the fleets
would be complete, for the harbor wa
already dotted with beautiful steam
yachts in readiness for the naval pa
rade tomorrow, when the Half Moor
and the Clermont will be escorte'
around the harbor and up the Hudson
river, to be saluted by the warship
anchored there.
Over on the fiat land recently added
to Governors Island two plain homely
wooden structures marked the pres
ence of the latest and most remark
able development of the aviators-
the aoroplanes of the Wright brothers
and Glenn H. Curtiss. Mr.. Curtss
however, was in Hammondsport, n
v, assembling his aeroplare. He in
tended TO bring his flyer to New Yorl
Saturday and may make preliminar,
Hight Monday. Wilbur Wright wa
hard at work on his flyer in the Gov
ernor's island shed preparing for /;
possible hight tomorrow. Further vi
town and in the outskirts of the cit.
dirigible balloons We're being mad
ready to attempt flights about the cit,
and perhaps upon the Hudson rive
next week.
In the city itself the fever of prepa
ration for the ceremonies beginning to
morrow was at its height. Ever,
train swelled the number of visitor
from all over the country and hotel
were beginning to be crowded wit
guests.
The grave of Robert Fulton in Oh
Trinity church yard was marked an
decorated today by the Robert Fulton
Monument Association At each cor
ner of the slab was placed an Ameri-
No' tiuE dIil uIO'lIlu were SET NINA
ture American, British and Frencl
standards.
at the grave gathered number O
relatives of the inventor. They wer
Mrs. Arthur Taylor SutcIffe and he.
sister, Miss CorneIia Crazy, great
Granddaughters, Fl. Schuyler Cam
mann, a great grandson, Mrs. HERNIA,
II. Cammann, the only living grand
daughter of Fulton, and David s
Jacobus. Cornelius Vanderbilt tn.
pre- sident Of the association, cablet
from Europe his greetings and was
represented by his secretary, Waite,
Scott vice president of the organiza
ton. said that during the Hudson Full
ton celebration the Monument Asso-
citation would place fresh flowers or
the grave every day.
The monument which the association
proposes to erect in Fulton's memory
will be on Riverside drive. Between
Hath and 18th streets. great unter
gate will be built where distinguished
guests of the state and nation may be
fittingly received. 1t is expected that
the work will begin next year. TIL
cost will be about $2,500,0O0. TIL.
state has already granted the rights o.
the land under water to the association
and the city has given the ground fo'
the site of the monument.
The Halt Moon was towcd from hel
berth at Brooklyn dock this morning
down the East river and harbor to tn,
Kill Won Kull between Staten Islam
and the New Jersey shore. She tool
her station in readiness for the star
of tomorrow's naval parade.
The arrival of the German warshio
at the naval anchorage in the Hudso!
| river was the signal for noisy de-
monstration of welcome from tn.
French and American warships. Witt
the nflexible cautiously leading the
way, the British fleet steamed up this
river through a grey curtain Of mist
| and rain.
Passing Fort 10y on Governors Is
| land the welcoming guns greeted the
| incoming Britons with an admiral's
salute and those of the Infiexible and
her consorts roared back the salute
Hundreds of smaller vessels in the
harbor took up the welcome. The docks
and piers at the Battery and along
the roller were crowded with observ-
| ers who braved the rain to see the
great Tnf,eXible. The British tars were