The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-25
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NEW YORK, Sept. 25.--The boom OF
sunrise guns aboard the warships In
the North river awoke New York to-
day to the first day of the celebration.
long planned and long awaited, which
honors the deeds of Henry Hudson
and Robert Fulton. The river that
Hudson discovered and where Fulton
! set HIS steamboat was the place
toward which the eyes OF 10000
persons turned for the most impress
sive pageant that ever hoated In the
New York harbor.
The city today looked like shell,
with probably two-thirds of its popu-
lation massed on its water front. From
the Battery to Spuyten Duyvil, the
sloping western edge of Manhatten
Island afforded vantage ground from
which two million spectators viewed
the naval parade that moved up ana
down the river Two millions more lined
the Jersey shore, and on the western
water front of Brooklyn facing the
bay at least half that number watched
the gathering OF this pageant In the
waters between the mainland ana
Staten Island.
This is what they saw today under
the unclouded September sun and what
they will have a chance to look at to-
| night under the glare. scarcely less
brilliant, of millions of electric lights:
thousand vessels varying in type
! from the one-man catboat to the
mighty British crulser-battleship In
| flexible.
Fiftyseven War vessels.
Fifty-seven warshps representing
the navies of the United States Gres.
Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Hoi-
land Mexico and 45o'oVo
tons of steel, bearing 2S,0Oo officers ana
men and armed with 1,19f guns.
Copies Of the Half Moon and Cler-
mont, so faithful to the original models
in every detail that Hudson ana fultoi'
themselves would have been puzzled
to tell the difference.
one hundred and twenty steamboats,
and ferryboats.
| Seyenty-fve steam yachts
Seventy-hve motorboats.
Three hundred tugs and steam
lighters.
-Four hundred sailing craft and smalE
launches.
! An hut the greatest and the least ef
/ these craft gathered In the upper BAY
for the parade that escorted the Halt
! Noon and the Clermont up the Hud-
son The warships remained at their
anchorage between Forty fourth and
2ood streets while the sailboats and
launches took positions along the route
where they could afford those aboard
| the hest view of the spectacle.
The days first spectacle was the as
sen1bling of the naval pageant In the
INNER bay. Between 10 and IL O'Clock
the SQUADRON of four American cruisers
and five summaries assigned to escort
! Tho Half Moon and the Clermont met
1 in the Kill Won Kull, between Staten
| island and the New Jersey shores. The
! Clcrmont was towed from it's night
anchorage at Stapeton, 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.
The Half Moon and the Clermont will
\ remain at the foot of 10th street until
Wednesday. Tonight, with scarcely
enough interval to allow the crews to
get dinner the participants in the day
1 parade will go over the same route
while the river will be gorgeously
Illuminated.
800 Boats Assembled.
When the Half Moon and the Cler-
mont finished their round of the upper
bay and sailed into the mouth of the
Hudson they fell into line, The as
sembling of the 500 or more boats that
followed Hudson's and Fulton's craft
lp the river occupied the whole morn
ing, and ii was not until after l O'clock
when the mass Strengthened out into
something like procession formation.
First came police and scout and patrol
boats and torpedo boats; then the Half
Moon and Clermont, with their Inn
mediate escorts; then, in order, the