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About The daily gazette-times. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1909-1921 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 25, 1909)
f "CM) lift Thirtyeight Nations Join In fing Homage to Mem ones of Explorer and Inventor. Payi Great Celebrations Planned to Take Place on Banks of River Connected With . Their Fame. By JAMES A. EDGERTON. ST has been said several billion ., times already, but really must be repeated, that this Is a year of years. It is so by deeds in Its own right and by the celebration of other deeds. Especially is it a red let ter year for America. Look at a few of the star events first news of the discovery of the north pole by an American; the Turkish revolution, in which American democratic ideals pre vailed; the Rheims airship meet, which, with other aviation events, awakened the world to the fact that the flying age Is here and in which the . -chief prize was taken by an American; the. flight of an aeroplane across the English channel: first report of a dash to within a hundred miles of the south pole; four day steamer across the At lantic from dock to dock; the tramp of a seyenty-one-year-old man from New York to San Francisco in a trifle over 300 days; finish of the American bat tleship cruise around the world: the Messina earthquake. These are a few of the deeds, and the year yet has three months to run. As for celebra tions, we have been centenaried till we have the birthday habit.- Lincoln, Dafwin, Gladstone, Tennyson.. Poe, ' Holmes, Fitzgerald, Chopin,, Mendels sohn and numberless ot tiers, many of them Americans, have been honored throughout the earth on their one hun dredth birthday, Samuel Johnson on ills two hundredth, John Calvin on bis four hundredth and "Thomas i'aiue on the one hundredth anniversary of his death. The tercentenary of the dis covery of Lake Cbamplain is held: also ; -the'" Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition .and," last and in soineways most bril- twelve torpedo boats and four sub marines. Germany will send a squad ron of four ships, commanded by Ad miral -von Koester, ranking officer of the German navy. England will, be represented by four cruisers the Ar gyll, the Drake, the Duke of Edinburgh and the Black Prince under command of Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour, who will be the official representative for Great Britain. Italy will send the cruiser Etruria and the cadet ship Aetna. France also will be generously represented in the parade. Five war ships will come from South America; Mexico will send the gunboat Bravo, jthe Netherlands the , cruiser Utrecht and Guatemala a coast patrol boat. German and English Eivalry. To add to the excitement of the occa sion there will be an echo of the German-English war scare. The, Germans expected Admiral von, Koester to.be the ranking naval officer of the occa sion, but when the English beard of this they decided that It would never do to have their, prospective enemy honored in so conspicuous a . - manner, so they nipped it in the bud by dis patching the ranking officer - of the British navy In place of Itear. Admiral . Hamilton, who had been originally scheduled for the job. " Admiral Sey mour outranks even Von Koester, so England becomes the large fish in the river. It is an Interesting byplay, but will hardly lead to hostilities. It shows, however, that Great Britain can lick the German empire, on dress parade, whatever she might do in actual war. -King Edward, has., not been called "Monsieur Etiquette" In vain. When it comes to ceremony and fuss and , - --' " "-yT,U,"'-' '"ZZvP '" ,.".7'-'LJ'?'-lXHS HALF KOaif COMPfTRZ& W I t Sf. V,-6V, ' t r&H'TH A MODEM LINER : g. y. :jfX f --x j-j , j, "ffij" BijtlM f II I Ti ' ; I r " 1 1) 1 1 1 1 1) I 1 Will liant of all, the Hudson-Kulton expo sition. There 1 have got to it at last and am all out of breath. " it was 1609 when Henry Hudson, in the little Half Moon discovered the rriver that bears his name and 1807 when Robert Fulton, propelled on this -ame . river the Clermont, the world's first steamboat. These are the events -commemorated, and in their honor thirty-eight nations; will be represent--d," eighty1 warships will: be present from many lands, hundreds of Com mercial craft will-join. Immense pagr, -cants will be seen by land, andi wa-. terr and the most brilliant, r ana com prehensive system of. lighting will be turned on .ever undertaken. ,In. an equal rfirea on the planet. Two "Weeks of Pageants. ' The Hudson-Fulton .celebration offi cially opens on Saturday. Sept. i5, and lasts two weeks, one week in New York city and one week on the upper Hudson. The most noticeable features will . We the na val parades, the his torical pageant and the carnlvaL New fork city will also have a military jparade of 25.000 men that In many ways will be a record breaker. Rep aicas of Hudson's Half Moon and Ful jtou's Clermont will be escorted up the tfiv-er In state by a flotilla of hundreds feathers he Is the royal big noise of Europe. . . As for the historical pageant, there will be .fifty floats that will be guije the most gorgeous papier mache cre ations ever, seen on .wheels. . They will represent the various phases ,of , Manhattan .history from . the days .of the noble red man of , the forest down, to these piping times of .the red men, of Tammany Hall. In that innocent and, bloodthirsty epoch the chiefs sold Manhattan Island for a bupch of beads and a jewsbarp. while our modern chiefs sell It for. a II they can get. There , will be about a million school children participating In the .affair.. iuey nave peen drilling lor tne event for months. In addition, the colleges, libraries .and other . institutions .will celebrate . elaborately., .There, are al ready a large number of fine collec-, tions of old relics, and prints on ex hibition. Even J. Pierpont Morgan has looseued up . on some : art , treasures; which ,he iPemits the vulgar populace to gaze upon. Sixteen Searchlights. In the matter of lights little old New York for one week will ' have any other lighting scheme ,ev.er wit-1 nessed on this ' small earth looking like the outer darkness. There will of 'vessels.-' The naval contingent and 1 be acres of lights, - oceans of lights, the big' commercial boats will go as j festoons of lights. '.- myriads, legions, ,far ' north as. Newburg - bay. where I they will be "met by a jBeet from up the river, which .will escort , the Half Moon and the Clermont as far as Troy. . Aii-eat Jbeac.o.n fires .will be Jighted on, abe hilltops along the Hudson., preced ed by a brilliant display of fireworks. In most of the river towns and cities old home week will be ' celebrated at the same time, the two ceremonies nerglng intp one. All. sorts of water races will be run, chiefly at New.york, J fljut .also at.,ewpurg.iang.. iqnKers. Most spectacular of all, a flock of aeror planes will fly up the rlyer from New "York to "Albany! .' 1 " " 'V-.Y' : There will be at least 1.000 vessels o do honor to the little old ships fit -the past." . Every kind .of commercial and pleasure craft has been chartered -from far and nearby ports. So 'nu merous are these boats that they are -to be divided Into ten squadrons. Of 4he naval contingent there wfil be fifty--three vessels of theTJuited ?tafes nay,, Including sixteen battleships, three Armored cruisers, three scout cruisers. swarms of lights or any other kind of oumerousness of lights that can be thought of. . Conservative estimates blace the number of lights to be used, in addition to the regular lighting of the city, at between 1,000.000 and 1500.000 incandescents, 7.000 arc lights, 3,000 pare arcs, :.one battry of four searchlights of 100.000 candle power eaph and one .battery , of twelve search lights aggregating 1.700,000 candle power, thus making a grand total of approximately zb.vjw.Uuu canaie power. This scheme of illumination, does sot include, the ,iights alo'ng ,j;he New Jer sey shore and in other places adja cent to but outside the city limits. This.; ought to be a chance ;for the astronomers to give their Jong talked of light signals to Mars. ;, Now that we have discovered -the north . pole "and learned to fly there is,-no reason why we should not start up a little con versation - with our planetary ' neigh :bora..ii'h'e.buchiof.Jlghts on Manhat tan during tfjat celp)jratio,weel will catenation looking like a winter' tw light. If Mars is really Inhabited, and if its inhabitants , are intelligent, ;and if they, have eyes;, and if they -care a stellar ray for their neighbors on this ball of. mud, .they ought to see that light patch and do a little Illuminating on their own hook. It Is the chance of a lifetime, and If the Martians do not embrace It they. are. not as bright as their spider web canals would make them appear. ', f ' Ends. In a Carnival. v Quite the most dizzy, spectacular and Irresponsible part of the celebration will occur on Saturday, Oct. 'i. Then the .metropolis will give itself up to. , carnival and jollity. All day and most of the night it will last and is design ed to -eeHpse.-anything in the carnival line ever before witnessed. It will outshoot the Shooters , of Philadel phia and in comparison will make the Mardi Gras and Coney Island' look like .undertakers': , conventions : i; This; will close the celebration In the big city, after, which : it "will- be re-enacted in 'various forms and degrees of brillian cy in most of the river cities and towns, finallywinding up a week later in Albany and Troy. The naval pro cession itself will start up the river on Friday, Oct. 1, however, and will proceed on Its way from city to city. On Saturday, Oct. 2, a string of elec tric lights will blaze out all along the Hudson: .throughout the 150 miles of Its lower course, and simultaneously will the bonfires be lighted on the bills.'...;; Ini ihe Highlands these signal .fires will be, .especially numerous and because of their great height especial ly conspicuous.- They will blaze on several -mountains about Peekskill. In the West Point, region, where the no blest .hills of the Highlands an found. thei will be five fires in a distance of three miles-rat West Point Itself, on .Constitution island Cro' Nest, Bull hill and Storm King. The signal for lighting these fires will be given by President Taft. who wilt touch a but ton at an agreed spot on his western trip. . immediately following this will be a brilliant display of fireworks, aft er which the fire themselves will flame forth. " Elaborate ceremonies will be held at Tonkers. Haverstraw, Peeksklll, West Point, tNewburg. ;Poughkeepsie, King ston. Catskill.Hndson.l Albany, Troy and other points along the river, the magnificent naval pageant and the old home week celebrations combining with stbe historical s. parades and, .dis plays and carnival features to repro duce on a smaller-scale the previous week's celebration in the metropolis. Thds the celebration will in. reafity -be a series of expositions. Some of these Hudson river cities have in the neigh borhood of- 50.000- population, while Albany has about. 100.000. ,. Y Two Statnes Unveiled- a One of the notable features-Of the celebration wilt be the unveiling of a statue to. Hudson at- Spuyten DuyviU at the northern extremity of .Manhat tan Island. This will consist of a- tall shaft surmounted by a heroic-figure of the . discoverer. . Thirty . miles ,up the, river... on .the : site; of the battle of Stony Point, will be unveiled a me morial arch at about . the same time. - Not the least feature of the celebra tion will be New York's great parade, made-up exclusively of soldiers and sailors. The affair was confined to the , army and navy because : of - the great number; in line-and;for the 'fur ther ; reason , that there would be too much confusion in handling undrilled organizations. At least 25.000 uni formed, men will march, a number al most unprecedented in this country in; peacetimes.. ! ' - Despite the millions that will ' be present, to view this series of imposing spectacles, the committee in charge as sures the public that every one. will have a chance to Bee. There are many miles of river front from which the naval, parades can: be witnessed, and, as ; for the. iand . pageants.- they , will move, through such a long .stretch of streets that (there will -be room for all. Considering that New York '.her self has, more ..than .4,000,000 people and that she is situated in the midst of a densely populated area extending from Boston to Washington, it is; im possible to estimate cthe i multitudes that will be present, i : ; , When Henry Hudsonvwas cast adrift to die amid the icebergs of bis own Hudson bay little did .be dream , that such a pageant would ever be held in his honor. After all. It is quite a beautiful piece of poetic Justice. : It is the Hudson river that made'New York, and the city can do no less than pay -tribute to its discoverer. j. Nor will it permit the reflection ithat at least one explorer and probably v two saw the river before Hudson. -to detract from his glory. ,Be it was that called atten tion to the. stream, he it was that ex plored it. and be it was that started the era. of settlement To him shall be the honor. -J - As for Fulton, - the - artist-inventor, he belongs to the world and to the ages. When the little Clermont start ed its first trip down the 'Hudson It inaugurated a new eraln "navigation all about the earth. ..Barely a century has passed, and yet a Mauretania now docks In the same river when only four days out from the other shore of the Atlantic. That one stupendous fact Is Itself an infinite, honor to the-name of Robert Fulton. t SAN FRANCISCO, SAN JOSE, SANTA CRUZ, LOS - ANGELES and all the principal cities -';"-' of California. A Pr Pullman foiStiie Elxclusive T It? A x 1' of r the All Expenses'Vill be paid by The Gazette-Time?. ; Two weeks of sight seeinp:; pleas ' lire and recreation. The Oregon .Booster . Girls will be chaperoned by one of the mast prominent matrons of Linn County. , NOMINATE YOUR FAVORITE TODAY Names will be published in the near future OREGON Italy's Tribute . to American Woman. 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