The Hudson-Fulton Celebration ON MONDAY next the great Hudson-Fulton celebration cel-ebration will be in full blast in New York City and up the beautiful North river to Troy. Perhaps no other celebration since men were on the earth was ever planned on so immense and spectacular a scale. A dozen nations, among them tho foremost of the earth, have sent their fighting ships iu New York to join with our great battleships In roaring thoir salutes. Kings and presidents have sent their immediate representative to take part in tho tremendous festivities, learned societies from abroad will join with our own to give dignity to the proceedings. Art galleries and museums will be open to the throngs of visitors; the bunting will bo measured by oceans and electric lights will turn night into day over the great city and for 160 miles up the stately river. Three hundred years ago a sturdy English sailor sailed a rude Dutch ship into that river; one hundred years ago an American started a crude little steam craft, of a speed of six miles an hour, up the same rivor. Models of the ship and the steamboat will be shown, and compared with tho haughty ships moored near, one can estimate the mighty changes that have been wrought. When the first navigator came, the island since called Manhattan, Man-hattan, was but an Indian hunting ground. When the steamboat first started up the river the then New York City was but a cluster of shabby struc- tures, and behind the city and the river more than half the state was a wilderness. When we consider these things the celebration celebra-tion takes on a new light. It Is, indeed, the celo- - bration of the progress of three hundred years. ' Looked upon from that standpoint and keeping in thought what the land is for which the great city, at the mouth of the Hudson, is the commercial commer-cial capital of, then the achievements of former , ages shrink and grow small, and the great repub- J lie takes on new splendors and represents a new J power. Of course, the great change has been made possible more through that agent, which Fulton, V in a rude way sought to partially tame and utilize, - 3 but it is only one of the factors in the mighty un- ' folding of the past century. Listen! From over a trackless and viewless ' path the all halls of the realms beyond the sea come to salute the great celebration; more substantial sub-stantial still, while the guns of ships and shore are 4 roaring, bells are ringing and whistles are blow- L ing, in from tho sea come monster ships and J all are loaded to the guards with people from f strange lands that have come to make homes on 1 this side and swell the power and renown of our I native land. 4 Do not smile at the Incoming throng! Three I score years ago a young man and woman like them i came, looked out upon the strange new land in apprehension and fear. But to them a son was born, born In poverty and sorrow, but on Sunday morning last that son died, and the people of a vsovereign state, with bowed and uncovered heads, stood in tears around his bier. But look again! While the old worm i unloading unload-ing its muscle and mind at one pier, at another pier near some other great ships are casting off their lines and moving out into and down the bay, all freighted with food and textiles for those r same nations beyond the sea. This, in a hun- ,' dred years since the first respiration sr a steam ', engine was heard on that great river what will t another hundred years bring, if the staute of liberty, enlightening the world, continues to Bhed its light over those waters? And the city Itself: What are to be its limitations, lim-itations, And it is but one. For 3,000 miles north and south are other cities, none so large as the one which Is the commercial center, but all being driven on with the same resistless force, the same irrepressible energy. After this, let no American ever discount his own country. He will be the loser if he does, I for every year shows a material advance wonder- fl ful to note, while at the same time the triumph of mind over matter is making more progress still, and its achievements in the coming few years promise more marked and gorlous advances than is the Lusltanla's power and splendor an advance over Hudson's Half Moon or Fulton's Clermont.