The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-09-25
Two Great Events in Discovery
and Invention are Jointly
oonmemorated
HUDsOA.FulTON CELEBRATION
AusP|CI0UslY OPENED TODAY
New York City Gorgeous Exhibition
BY Day and Blaze Of Glory by Night
--Old and New IN Navigation Are
Contrasted.

New York, Sept. 25.-The man who
discovered the Hudson river and the
man whose invention made it Of
greatest service will be honored dur
ing the coming week here at the scene
Of their achievements. Three CEN
turtles ago Hendrick Hudson sailed
past Manhattan Island and up the
river to the head of navigation. Two
F; hundred years later Robert Fulton
made the same trip in the first sue
cAssful steamboat. The Hudson-Ful-
ton celebration, which opens here to-
day will visualize their, achievements.
For the next eight days the people
Of New York and visitors from an
parts of the world will witness a
series of pageants SURPRISING any
thing hitherto attempted in the way
Of historic commoration. The crown
ing attainments of the twentieth CEN
tury will be exhibited to set off 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 warships lie
ct anchor the ccnquerors Of the air
will exhibit their mastery. Airship
flights, naval parades, military pa
rades and historical pageants will all
contribute to the anniversary. Every
important nation Ia represented. Aft
er a week in New York waters, the
floating part of the exhibition will
move up the river, where the cities
whose settlement and growth follow
ed Hudson's discovery and Fulton's
invention will spend the next week In
performing their part Of the celebra-
tion. B. >a.
Reproducing History [
At 10 O'Clock today the Halt
Moon and thu Clerznont -saccurate re-
productions Of the little Dutch shall
lop in which an English master and
a mixed crew assembled the Hudson
river from Manhattan Island to AL
bany. and of the ungsinly monster,
belching smoke and kissing vapor,
in which Robert Fulton, an American
inventor, made the ssme distance for
the first time propelled by steam,
moved from their quiet anchorages in
the lee Of Staten Island to salute the
vast bulk OF the assembled American
ara foreign ships of war in the lower
harbor.
The Clermont moved under her
own steam. Her clumsy engines rat
tied and groaned in her open hull; her
unprotected paddle-wheels spatter-
ed foam on her decks and she push
ed slowly through the water at a
speed Of q little better than four miles
an hour, very much like the floating
grist mill thar Hudson river farm
er 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 q 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 submarine depths
of the great hulls around her whir-
ring turbines do the same work with
an efficiency and power undreamed of
by Fulton. Tue bell the original
Clermont carried on her first trip
hangs now In the pilot house of a
great side wheeler that daily makes
in less than twelve hours the same
distance that Robert Fulton, for
whom she has been flttingly named,
took from Monday morning until
Wednesday night to cover.
A Pleasant Land
"This is q very good land to fall
with and q pleasant land to sec,''
wrote Robert Juer in his diary of the
voyage of the Hals Moor. 1909. The
magnificent oaks, tho roplaps, lindens
and blue plum trees that Hudson and
Robert Juet." his clerk, saw then, have
been replaced with soaring skyscrap-
ers a. the shores of that pleasant
land" but Hudson and his crew ON
the Half Moon and Fulton and his, ON
the Clermont, will walk their decks In
the same dress that they wore. the
one three hundred years and the other
one hundred years ago. Over their
mastheads during the. week will fly
airships and under their keels will
burrow daily the tunnel trains of the
IcAdoo system.
Il This is the way9in which the Hud-
sop:Fulton celebration proposes to
{ teach history and commemorate the
share that America has had in the
making of IT, 1t will show by pn.
geant and parade and. visual demon.
stration4 what we, were and what we
I have made ourselves. The nations OF
the world have been invited to wit
{ ness. Delegates are III attendance
i from the governments Of Abyssinia
and the Argentine Republic, from
Il Austria Hungary, Bolivia, Brazil, Chi
\ le. China, Colombia. Costa Rica. Cuba
Deamark. England, Haiti, France and