New-York tribune., 1910-07-28
HUDSON-FU[TON RELICS
Brinq Low Prices. Leaving
Deficit of $4,000.
ABOUT S4,5OO REALIZED
Allegorical Floats That Cost
S4OO Each Knocked Down
for SO so Apiece.

| The Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commits
sion sold all its remaining property yes
| terday at auction for $3.50. in round hs-
| ures One item in the sale was the forty
| eight allegoricaI floats used in the carnival
parade They cost the commission in the
neighborhood of s400 apiece. and sold for
IS so each The floats were perhaps the
greatest bargains of the day. but there
were others and the total proceeds fell far
below the expectations Of the commission
ers They needed $1,000 more TO pay all
the debts OF the celebration, and had hoped
to realize this amount.
Just where the additional money is to
come from is the question which is bother
ing though by no means terrifying them
1t was intinated yesterday by one Of them
that probably they would have to dig down
into their individual pockets and produce
the $1,000 But Herman Ridder, VINO was
chairman of the finance committee Of the
commission, Is at present in Europe, and
until his return no definite plan of meeting
the deficit Will be adopted. His colleagues
hope Mr.. Ridder will be able to think up
some more pleasant solution of the prob
lem.
The sale yesterday took place at the
Den, 149th street and Exterior avenue, The
Bronx The Den" is the large warehouse
leased from the Erie Railroad where the
floats were stored. 1t was named after the
building in New Orleans where that city
keeps its Mardi Gras floats
Besides the carnival floats there were
stored there some sixty-six trucks, which
had carried the historical floats, most Of
which were dismantled in the cities and
towns UP the Hudson where they figured
in pageants following those here. There
were also offered most of the costumes used
on these HISTORICAL floats, as well as those
used in the carnival parade and mis-
cellaneous assortment of machinery. tools,
hardware. paints, brushes and lumber.
The commission advertised for bids on all
this previous TO the auction sale, Offering
II in lots, but the only bid accepted was
one Of $3.50 .or the canvas and tarpaulins
which were used to cover the floats where
they were stored before the ceIebration
This amount is included in computing the
total proceeds of yesterdays sale.
About one hundred and fifty persons at
tended the latter. The bidding was brisk
on the costumes, which sold for an average
Of & apiece, having cost the commission
between SIS and $50 each. The lot Of cos
tunes used on the float representing Die
heistersInger brought S4. the largest
amount for any one lot. The total proceeds
of the costumes sale were s.. 600.
But when it came to the floats and trucks
the bidders were very few. and all were in
terested exclusively in the trucks. The
bidding took no account, therefore OF the
superstructUre of the carnival floats, which
went for S 80 each to George Bockhaus
former lessee of the Den Ten trucks. de-
nuded of their superstructure, which were
put UP Immediately afterward, proved more
valuable to the bidders, bringing s11 80
apiece But the ffty-six remaining trucks
brought little less each than the floats
1t was explained that they would have
proved much more desirable to the bidders
II they had not been SO wide, the axIes
measuring eight feet in length
In all the trucks and floats brought about
$1,000. The miscellaneous materials added
$50, making up the total