Arizona republican., 1911-10-30
MAKES LONG
 RIVER TRIP
Steamer Will Travel From Pittsburg to New Or leans in Commemoration of Historic Event of Last Century.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. 29.-Ro- mantle as well as historic significance attaches to the great river centennial celebration which commences tomor- row in Pittsburgh, cOmmemorating the tooth anniversary of the departure from this city of the New Orleans. the first steamboat on western waters. It was on his honeymoon trip west of the Allegheny mountains that Nicholas Roosevelt, grand uncle of the former president. started the era of steam navigation of the western streams by building the New Orleans and piloting that curious two-masted, single smoke stacked craft on her maiden trip down the Ohio. This was in october. 1911. about four years after Fulton had built and launched the historic Clermont m the Hudson river trade. A replica or the New Orleans has been constructed and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, de- scendant of the noted pioneer, will dash the flask of wine against the sides of the vessel that is to follow in the wake of the New Orleans on her journey Of a hundred years ago. President 1aft will be here tomorrow to witness the naval pageant and see the New Or leans start grandly down the Ohio on her tourney to New Orleans. She Will be escorted out of the harbor by hundred other vessels, ranging rom packets and towboats down to steam launches, and the whistles of all the factories of the Smoky City will toot a noisy godspeed.
 The co cbration inaugurated today IS not essentially a Pittsburgh jubilee. Al Cincinnati, Louisville, Cairo, St. Louls, Nemphis and all the river towns ms .orical societies will hold celebrations unon th. arrival of the New Orleans, and at New orleans there will be noisy rlver demonstration. The Juoiiee will probably continue through all or next month, as the New Orleans VIII take her own sweet time about making the trip down tht Ohio and Misslsslppi to th., Gulf. for it will be one contin- nous round of welcome, entertainment and farewell between the smoky anu the Crescent cities. She Will not pe hampered by schedule, but her ap- proach to each city will be heralded m time to permit reception committees and river craft to tune up their orators and whistles.
 It was soon after the Clermont was launched at New York that MICROBES Roosevelt decided to expand the inter- ests of the firm of Fulton. Livingston and Roosevelt. Following his marriage in 1s11 he started on the long journey to Pittsburgh by canal and stage, ar irving here in midsummer of that year He modelled the New orleans after the Clermont and the vessel was built on the nresent site of the Baltimore x Ohio railroad station in this city.
 The New Orleans left Pittsburgh TOT New Orleans on Oct. 30, 1911, carrying a fair cargo of miscellaneous freight Her prototype will carry big cargo of historical and commercial souvenirs and literature booming waterways nm movement along the ohio and the MIS- sissippi.
 A number of prominent men Will ac- company the New Orleans down the rivers. old MT. Statistics is on the job today, too, Wltn "ehi'h ' 9 ures for the consideration or congress to emphasize the oft repeated demand for a nine foot water stage all the year round from Pittsburgh to Cairo, III.
 Pittsburgh is decorated today as It has seldom been before and thousanos of visitors from all over western Penn sylvania and down the Ohio valley are pouring in to witness the spectacular features of the big celebration.