Show TRIBUTE TO HENRY HUDSON HudsonFulton Celebration In Full Swing the Opening Day Being All I That Was Expected i New York Brilliant sunshine a sparkling harbor streets gay with bunting and throngs in holiday attire made Saturday September 25 the opening day of the HudsonFulton celebration cele-bration allthat two years of preparation prepara-tion have promised The progress up the Hudson river of the Half Moon and the Clermont faithful copies of the craft made fam ou i by Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton Ful-ton was attended by a demonstration never before equaled on the shores of I New York and New Jersey Between banks crowded with half the population popula-tion of Manhattan and the cities on fhb7AtfCfy 180jiasttboic1totf r elgn navies moved tho quaint little craft attended by the largest fleet that ever gathered in New York waters The land ceremonies were confined to a reception at the WaldorfAstoria during the morning to the flag and ranking officers of the visiting fleets and the diplomatic delegates to the celebration VicePresident Sherman Governor Hughes Mayor McClellan and Joseph H Choate former ahibos sador to Great Britain were the reel re-el lng committee The river that Hudson found and where Fulton set his steamboat was the place Saturday morning toward which the eyes of 6000000 persons turnpd for the most impressive pagantthaf ever floated In the New York harbor An appeal by Governor Hughes to the people of New York and New Jersey Jer-sey to conserve their rlvere gad forests for-ests was a feature of the Hudson Fulton Ful-ton celebration on Monday The governor gov-ernor spoke at the dedication of Palisades Pali-sades park the new interstate preserve pre-serve along the lower Hudson The cornerstone of the monument to Henry Hudson on Spuyten Duyvll Hill was laid later in the day In a drizzling rain The storm kept down the attendance but did not bother Governor Hughes who had come over from Palisades park In time to deliver an eulogy on the discoverer of the Hudson The governor spoke standIng stand-Ing bareheaded In the open and declining de-clining all offers of umbrellas The rain caused a postponement of the proposed aeroplane flights and the balloon race to Albany |