Show v BEGINNING OF THE BIG CELEBRATION Tomorrow Is the da day of oC the lie I In Now New I York City Wc rC are told that the Iho elt city will be bc so crowded with sightseers that thai although the hotel accommodations are lile thoU capacious or of ally place In the world the thc strangers will wili overflow 1119 bIg building an and hun reds of tho thousands II sands will uc be forced to seek rest In the ocean liners and oth other othor or er ships at anchor along the thc miles of piers which encircle Manhattan Is Island Island land Old Henr Henry Hudson who died In a lonely place In the thu north were ills his spirit callable of re returning turning for Cor a day dar would be convinced that nil all the world had bad gathered to do him homage antI and wille out the recollections of oC tue tho neglect ct lie he suffered while still In the flesh It was 1609 when Henry Hudson so his hI biographer relates In the thc little littleHalf Half Moon loon discovered the river that bears his name In ISO when Ro Robert ert Fulton propelled on this same river tho Clermont the worlds first steam steamboat steamboat boat These are arc the events Commemorated orated and In their theil honor nations ls will be eIghty warships will be present froni Crom man many lands hundreds of commercial craft will join immense pageants wIll be by land and water vater and the most brilliant and comprehensive system of lighting will be turned on en ever under In all au equal area all on the The fhe program states that the Ih celebration officially opens on onI I Saturday and ant lasts two one week Ill Iii New ew York elt city and one On the tho upper Hudson Th The most noticeable will belic be bethe the lic naval parade the historical sag lIag cant anti and the tho carnival New York City will also have hao a military or of men that in man many wn s will be bea a record brenker Replicas o of Bud Hod bolls bons Half Moon and Cler Cher Clermont Chermont mont will he hc escorted up lie Iho I river in iii state b by a 1 flotilla ur o or of vessels The Tho naval and the big hig bolts boats will go as asfar asfar far north as S bay bar hore the they wIll be net by a fleet from up tho river which will escort tho Half HalfMoon Moon loon and the as far as Proy Great beacon fires will be lighted on the Ito hilltops along the J Hudson ldson etl cd Ii by a brilliant display of oC In most or of the tho towns anti cities old week III uc be celebrated at atthe atthe the same jame time lime the two Ceremonies merging Into ono one All sorts ot of water races will vill be O run chiefly at Now New York Yori but also at anil anI Yonkers Most 51 of all a flock of oC nero planes ll fly up the river Crom New ow 10 Albany Thoro will b at least leat t 1003 vessels to do honor to the little old or of ortho the tho p past sl Every el kind or o and craft hUH ha been from far Car an and nearby ports So nu ni morons are these boats that thor they are aro areto to ho divided Into litto ton squadrons or Of orthe the tho urn naval a I contingent th there ro will he henrt thre vessels of the tho United States navy Including sixteen three armored cruisers three cruIsers I Sf IS To 10 add to tho excitement of the tho oc occasion caslon casion there will be bc nn flu echo or o lie War scare The Tho Ger Germans Germans mans expected Admiral von on Koester to he be the rankIng naval oj Of the occasion ni the English heard hearel or of this they thoy decided that It would no do to to have hae 01 their prospective enemy honored in so BO conspicuous a nian so thoy nipped It Iii the bud h by patchIng he oO CeI or of the tho British nay navy In or of Rem Rear 1 I Hamilton who had he been n originally scheduled for the Chic job Jo Admiral Soy Sey hOur even eron Von Kooster so England becomes the tho large fish In the tho river and the Inflexible tho thio SWifteSt and most powerful cruiser cruise afloat Is fI to bo be present and the dispatches state the tho monster of the sen wn was sighted off Now New York yea t There Is great enmity developing be I the Germans and and the r which Is predicted by Lord and Editor ell of the Lon London don doll Times may be bc hn b by the thc out outward ad show of oC bitterness which tho sailors of oC the two may mar ex cx I if the warships are arc ill lii close proxImity luring the tho water pageantry In that case Hudson and Fulton 10 Indirectly responsible fr for the most conflict of oC times The Thc celebration to eclipse cn COlin cotin tr try Over Oer OOOO has been een sub suh scribed hy by the leading men of oC Nc ew York Two To or of the donators gave and sC for fOl while a halt half COh or of names were affixed to the 1100 sub This of Itself Is of New Yorks wealth and greatness and Us Its ability to do great t things |