Deseret Evening News | 1909-09-25 | Page 6 | Booming of Cannon Awakens New York

BOOMING OF CANNON GANNON AWAKENS NEW YORK New rw York J Sept pt The boom of or sunrise guns aboard the warships In Inthe Inthe inthe the North river rive awoke Now NoV York this morning to 10 the thc first clays daya celebration long planned and long lone Ion I awaited which honors honor the deeds of or Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton lIlIon The Tue river that Hudson found and where Fulton set net his hili steam bout bent was wan the th place toward which the tho eyes Iye of or porn parSons turned turne today fur for the most Impressive pageant that over floated In the New York harbor The city today WitH was a with probably probably ably of 01 ha It II population Hed on its ItH water front Front From tho the Battery flattery to IPU the thc slop slopIng lug Ing III western edge of ot Manhattan Island afforded a vantage ground from which h viewed tho the naval parade pelado that nULt moved mOld up und and down tho the river Two million moro lined th Jersey shore and on the th western water waterfront waterfront front of or Brooklyn facing racing tho the bay ut at utI least I l half holt that thai number watched tho the gathering of 01 title pageant In the Iho between bel the mainland and Staten Island laland This Is III what hat they saw naw today under tinder the thc September sun HUH un and what whal they the will have a chance chaner to 10 look at tonight under tinder tIn the glare scarcely III Ies brilliant of or mil saIl millions lions of or electric lights light lightA A thousand d vessels varying In type tyre from the one man catboat to the lie mighty emitter cruiser battleship In S Flit warships Ta representing the navies of ot the United States State treat ireat Britain Germany German Franco France Italy Hol 1101 Holland land Mexico and Argentina tons tone of or steel bearing b anti and men and armed with 1837 1897 guns Copies Copl of or tho the Halt Half Moon and CIr Cler mont so Oo faithful to th the original models In overy every detail that Hudson and Fulton themselves would have havo been puzzled to lo tell loll II the he difference Onn One hundred humOred and twenty steamboats and ferryboats fl vo steamboats steamboat motor molar boat boats Three hundred tugs lugs anti and lighters Pour Four I c ur hundred sailing ailing craft and small All but bul the lie III greatest and an the least of ot thuM craft gathered d In tho Ito up Or bay bt y for fr this the l that thai escorted the Halt Moon and anI the tM Hermont Clermont up tIm the hudson Tim Till warships remained at lit their anti and nil Tw cond street whilo the sail MIt boats boata b la and 1111 1 tha he Ih took along the thO where they could afford aboard th the beet view of or the lie The Tile dayn daya first not count countIng Ing iiii tics Ille of if war WaN warshIp In the thi North river tho the of or the lu iii tho the upper tipper bay buy Be De Between U tween 10 JO ami ant It 11 the tho squadron nf ot If four lour American and five I to 10 escort o ourt tho Half Moon Joon and the tho met mol In the Kill You Yon Cull Kull between Staten Island Inland and tho the Now Jersey shore Tim TI Cler Char Charmont mont was towed from it iii night anchor anchorage age at Stapleton It I I to join the halt Half Moon Maon of or St Goor Georgo o