HUDSON FETE IS
BEGUN AT GOTHAM
CELEBRATION OPENS WITH THE
GREATEST NAVAL RENDEZ
VOUS IN UNITED STATES.
HALF MOON LEADS PARADE
Replica of Dutch Explorer's Vessel Is
Accompanied by That of Fulton's
Clermont —Warships of Many
Nations Follow.
N.nv York City.—The Hudson-Ful
ton celebration for which New York
has been so long preparing, opened
auspiwously September 25 with the
formal recognition of the presence of
the American and foreign naval ves
sels and official guests. The interna
tional naval fleet, comprising more
than 7# vessels, was anchored in the
Hudson river from Seventy-second
street northward, and was an impos
ing sight.
At it):uO o'clock in the morning the
repii'a of Henry Hudson's little Half
oon and that of Robert Fulton's
Clermont,-escorted by a squadron of
torpedo boats, submarines, naval mili
tia vessels and other craft, left the
Kill Van Kull and proceded to Staple
toil, Staten Island, where the squad
ron was joined by the commanding
officer of the naval parades. There
was an interchange of civilities with
citizens' committees here and at the
Brooklyn shore, and at 1 o'clock the
squadron started up the Hudson river.
Great Parade on the Hudson.
As the bluff-bowed little Half Moon
and Mr' tunny, splashing Clermont en
tered the river cannon boomed from
shore batteries and warships ami ae
immense throng along the shores and
on innumerable vessels cheered might
ily. Behind the two queer craft
trail, il a great merchant fleet that had
assembled in the lower bay and that
was divided into ten big squadrons.
Eighteen men from the crew of the
Dutch cruiser manned the Half Moon,
with Lieut. Commander William Lam,
representing Hudson, and Lieut. A. De
Bruyne as liuet, the mate. All were
dressed in the costumes of Hudson's
time. The crew of the Clermont wore
the dress of 1807, when the inventor
of the steamship piloted his craft up
the river which Hudson had discov
ered in 160!). When the Half Moon
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Hudson's Half Moon.
reaped the southernmost man-of-war
it and the Clermont with their escort
squadron, proceeded to the eastern
shore of the river and took positions
opposite the official reviewing stand.
Meanwhile the merchant marine fleet
moved northward between the war
ships and the Jersey shore to the
north end of the naval fleet, turned
soutfi and passed back between the
anchored fleet and Riverside park. All
this time the salutes from the men-of
war and shore batteries and the whis
tle blasts from all manner of vessels
was continuous and deafening.
Many Warships in Fleet.
Tfce Half Moon and Clermont were
received with elaborate ceremony at
the official reviewing stand and land
ing stage at One Hundred and Tenth
street, and there they will remain an
chored during the entire celebration,
open for the inspection of the public.
In the international naval fleet the
Cnited States has 53 vessels, includ
ing 16 battleships and six cruisers,
comamnded by Rear Admiral Seaton
Schroeder. The Netherlands sent the
Utrecht, under command of Capt. van
Heeking Colenbrander, in addition to
the replica of the Half Moon, which
was a present from the people of Hol
land. Germany is represented by four
vessels, Great Britain by four, France
by three, Italy by two, and Mexico,
Cuba, Argentina and Guatemala by
one each.
In (he evening the naval parade was
repeated with illuminations, and the
doings on shore began. On the seven
succedings eveings New York will be
the most brilliantly illuminted place in
the world.
Program for the Week.
September 26 there were commem
orative services in many churches,
and in the evening an Irish concert
in Carnegie hall and a German con
cert in the Hippodrome. For the re
mainder ol' the week every day i:
full of events of interest. Briefly, the
program is as follows:
Monday Official reception to the
Works Great Swindle Game.
Buffalo, N. Y.--A wholesale money
order swindle on the express com
panies of the country in which a
passport signed by Secretary of State
Philander C. Knox was the money get
ting means of identification for the
swindler came to light in this city
wheu the Buffalo police were called in
to the case. Thousands of dollars
have been secured by means of these
forged orders and just how widespread
the swindle is it not yet known. Tbe
forged orders have been passed in a
gozea cities of the country.
guests, opening of historical exhibi
tions and beginning airship flights; al
so dedicaton of Palisades Interstate
park and the Henry Hudson Monu
ment at Spuyten Duyvil.
Tuesday Historical parade and
pageant, participated in by all nation
alities; procession of floats and mov
ing tableaux representing principal
events in history of aboriginal, Dutch,
English revolutionary and American
periods.
Wednesday Aquatic sports oppo
site Riverside park and Yonkers;
general commemorative exercises in
educational institutions throughout the
state; also dedication of memorials
throughout the state; ceremonies of
"Bronx Borough Day"in that borough;
children's festivals in Richmond bor
ough; reception by United States au
thorities to official guests at West
Point.
Thursday Military parade in Man
hattan borough, participated in by
United States army, navy and marine
corps, National Guard, Naval Militia,
veteran organization and marines
and sailors from foreign vessels.
Friday -Naval parade of naval ves
sels, merchant, marine, excursion
boats, pleasure craft, etc.
Saturday Children's festivals in 50
centers in Great New York, conduct
ed in view of 500,000 school children;
dedicatory exercises at Stony Point.
In the evening great carnival parade
in Manhattan.
The celebration will be continued
through the second week in all the
towns on the Hudson river north of
New York, closing on the evening of
October '■> with an illumination consist
ing of a chain of great beacon fires
on mountain tops and other points
from Staten Island to the head of nav
igation. accompanied by pyrotechnic
displays.
SUED ON ALIENATION CHARGE
Theodore P. Shonts Asked for $200,000
as the Price of Affections —Lawyer
Says Mistaken Identity Cass.
New York City. Theodore I'.
Shonts, president of the $225,000,000
Ryan-Belinont Interborougli .Metropol
itan Co., president of the Chicago &
Alton railroad, president of the Tole
do, St. Louis & Western railroad, a
director of many other important com
panies and one of the most potent fig
ures in the financial and business life
of the city, has been sued for $200,-
000 damages by the husband of a wom
an whose affections he is charged with
having alienated.
Through his lawyer, De Lancey Ni
coll, .Mr. Shonts declares he is the vic
tim of one of the strangest cases of
mistaken identity on record. It would
seem, according to Mr. Nieoll, that the
president of the Interborougli Metro
politan has some evil double for whose
misdeeds Mr. Shonts is being held re
sponsible. As to who this double is
there is no hint.
The suit against Mr . Shonts is
brought by Frederick Hipsh, the New
York manager of a Kentucky distil
lery with offices in the Flatiron build
ing. He lives at the Hotel Langham
at One Hundred and Third street and
Broadway. Mr. Hipsh, while not a
man of large wealth, has a comfort
able income. He is ranked as a suc
cessful business man.
Extreme devotion to his business
caused the only disagreements he and
his wife had until he made discoveries
on August 2 which led to a violent
scene at Allenhurbt, N. J„ which culmi
nated in a separation. Mr. Hipsh has
made it a practice to work 12 or 14
hours a day and this left him little or
no time for social diversions, of which
his wife was exceedingly fond. She
is 14 years his junior. It was her cus
tom to spend every summer at some
fashionable resort, while he remained
in town attending to his business af
fairs and joining his wife for the week
end. The summer of 1907 Mrs. Hipsh
spent at. Narragansett pier where it is
charged by Mr. Hipsh that she met
Mr. Shonts. Later she met him in this
city, but on behalf of Mr. Shonts it is
declared that he has not seen her for
at least six months and it is further
asserted that his acquaintance with
Mrs. Hipsh was most limited and con
fined to the most conventional cour
tesies which any man pays to a wom
an whom he knows only casually.
DEMAND FOR STAPLE LINES
Retail Trade Getting Into Better Shape
at Many Centers—lndustrial
Outputs Increase.
New York City.—Bradstreets says:
Trade continues of favorable propor
tion's, demands for all staple lines be
ing noteworthy features, though there
is tone of conservatism in many parts.
Shipments are heavy and in many
instances buyers are requesting
prompt deliveries. Business on spring
account is also of good volume. Re
tail trade is getting into better shape
at many centers but warm weather
has retarded its fullest development.
Commodity prices, both for raw ma
terials and edibles, are generally very
firm, and the high prices that manu
facturers have to pay for such raw
products as cotton and wool, together
with a certain degree of unsettlemnt
resulting therefrom, making them
careful about .booking future orders.
Fed With a Stomach Pump.
London, England.—Wild scenes are
reported to have taken place in the
prison at Birmingham as a result of
the forcible feeding, with a stomach
pump, of suffragettes who are on a
hunger strike. The women resisted
the efforts of the keepers, smashed
windows and assaulted the wardresses
and finally had to be handcuffed and
placed in solitary confinement. The
leaders of the suffragettes here are
indignant over the attempt to feed
the women. They contend that forci
ble feeding is illegal.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1909.
HAPPENINGS
OF AJ/EEK
Latest News Told
in Briefest and
Best Form.
TOUR OF THE PRESIDENT.
President Taft reviewed the troops
at Fort Douglas during his stay at
Salt Lake City, and was the guest
of the Commercial and Alta clubs and
the Yale Alumni association.
President Taft in a speech at Den
ver Tuesday declared that the corpora
lion tax, passed as part of the Payne
tariff bill, was far better than ;*n in
come tax and urged all states to
adopt it.
During President Taft's visit at
Omaha, Mayor Dahlman prevented
the running of all street cars, fear
ing that there might be trouble from
the striking ear employes while the
chief executive was in the city. <
President Taft met 50 members of
the Japanese commercial mission to
the United States at Minneapolis and
bade their, a hearty welcome to this
country.
PERSONAL.
Lee McClurg, the treasurer of Yale
university, lias been selected by Pres
ident Taft to succeed Charles 11.
Treat as treasurer of the United
States.
M. F. Ryan of Kansas City was
elected grand chief of the Brotherhood
of Railway Carmen of America at At
lanta, (la. Frank Paquin of Chicago
was elected first vice-president.
Until the question of the north pole
lias been decided Commander Robert E.
Peary will accept no public honors or
invitations to receptions. He will
reach his home on Eagle island Fri
day.
Ralph M. Easley of the National
Civic federation announced in New
York on returning from Europe that
the leading industrial nations of Eu
rope would take part in an internation
al congress to be held in this country
next year.
To stimulate interest in church, Rev.
T. W. Cook, Episcopal rector of Day
ton, 0., has announced that he will
permit smoking during services.
GENERAL NOTES.
Fifty-six lives were lost in the
West Indian hurricane which swept
over the gulf coast. The property
damage was enormous.
Remains of John A. Johnson, gov
ernor of Minnesota, now lie beside
that of his mother, in the Johnson
family lot at St. Peter, Minn.
Eleven lives were lost and more
than a million dollars' worth of proper
ty was destroyed in Louisiana by Mon
day's tropical huricane. Other gulf
states suffered to a lesser degree.
Over 400 miners had a narrow es
cape from a burning mine at Ells
worth, Pa., Tuesday. Almost suffocat
ed by smoke, they fought their way
to the surface through an unused exit.
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., and wife of
New York have signed an agreement
to separate, notwithstanding efforts on
the part of relatives to prevent the
separation. Mrs. Vanderbilt was for
merly Mis Virgiina Fair of San Fran
cisco.
The body of Gov. Johnson of Minne
sota lay instate at St. Paul Wednes
day and was viewed by thousands.
Funeral services were held Thursday
from the Presbyterian church at SL
Peter, his birthplace.
Dr. Frederick E. Cook made the
statement Tuesday that he is willing
to abide by the final vgrdict of com
petent judges and that he will bring
human witnesses to America to prove
that he reached the north pole.
Unless Charles A. Zabriskie, who
disappeared from Poonton, N. J., two
years ago. returns to his family with
in four years ho will lose a legacy of
120,000 left him by his father, condi
tionally.
The 12-cent stamp just ordered pre
pared for the post-office department
was last issued in 1870, The new
stamp will bear a likeness of Wash
ington.
In view of the turbulent scenes, and
the frequent annoying collisions be
tween the imported crews and the
strike sympathizers, the Omaha offi
cials of the street car company have
decided to cease attempting to run
cars at night for an indefinite period.
J. C. Harbert was shot and killed on
the street at Frankfort, Kan., by C. W.
Humberd. Both were railroad con
tractors.
United Spanish War Veterans
opened their sixth liat'onai encamp
ment at Tacoma, Wash. Chicago seeks
the next encampment
Bandits who attacked the post office
at Miass, in Samara province, Russia,
escaped with SIO,OOO after killing four
officers.
James H. Stevenson, a former editor
in lowa, was killed by a street car in
Washington. He served in the civi
war.
Four lives were lost and much prop
erty damaged at New Orleans during
the prevelance of the West Indian
hurricane. Many T>ther points on the
gulf coast suffered from the severt
gales. Miles of railroads were inun
dated and wire communication was
acr'.cv.-.. interrupted.
Police Inspector Edward McCann
was found guilty by a Chicago jury of
extorting bribes from fallen women
and degraded men in the "Red Light"
district. Sentence was deferred.
Secretary Wilson says he is con
vinced that federal control of railroad
capitalization would lead to large in
vestments in railroad securities by
American farmers.
Three days were devoted by the
duke of the Abruzzi to visiting Miss
Katherine Elkins and her mother near
Geneva, Switzerland, according to
Rome reports.
Commander Peary reached his home
city, Portland, Me. His journey
through the state was one continuous
ovation, large crowds greeting at
every station.
It is feared the loss of life occa
sioned by the West Indian hurricane
will reach 100 in Louisiana. Hun
dreds of people are destitute and the
loss runs into the millions.
The lludson-Fulton celebration
opened at New York with a naval
parade of merchant marine vessels led
by the replicas of Hudson's Half Moon
and Fulton's Clermont, and the as
sembling of more than 70 warships
from (he navies of the United States,
the Netherlands, Great Britain,
France, Germany and other countries.
The fortieth anniversary of the
birth of the Prohibition party was
celebrated in Chicago with a monster
parade of temperance, church and law
and order organizations.
The Japanese Commercial commis
sion. comprising 75 persons, arrived in
Chicago and began an inspection of
the industries of that district by visit
ing the stock yards and the steel
works at Gary, Ind.
Tiie completion of the flunnison
river tunnel project was signalized by
the presence of President Taft, who
opened the gates which admitted tho
waters of the Gunnison river into the
Uncompahgre valley.
Prof. Edgar S. Hewitt, president of
the School of American Archaelogy,
who has been excavating near Santa
Fe, N. M., believes the ancient cliff
dwellers abandoned their homes be
cause the land dried up and were
mixed with the lower order of Indians.
Estimates of the Tanana, Alaska,
gold output this year place it at more
than $12,000,000. Scarcity of water
curtailed the yield.
Arguments for the two disinherited
sons of Claus Spreckels against distri
bution of a part of the estate, opened
the will contest at San Francisco in
volving from $!»,000,000 to $10,000,000.
During August 16,000 new settlers
entered western Canada, 7,500 being
from the United States. This is an in
crease of C 4 pel cent, over August last
year.
It is said that three men under ar
rest at Chicago on the charge of tam
pering with jurors have confessed that
they had taken part in "fixing" juries,
and State's Attorney Wayman prom
ises more startling sensations in the
near future.
Three men were killed when the
Montreal express, bound for Boston,
crashed into the rear of the disabled
Quebec express, from Quebec for Bos
ton, about a mile and a half from
Pattee, N. H. The dead are: En
gineer John P. Callahan, Fireman
George Parmenter of the Montreal ex
press and a tramp.
More than 400 miners narrowly es
caped death when fire destroyed the j-ie
j-ie if Ellsworth coal mine No. 2
of the Lackawanna Steel Company at
Ellsworth. Pa.
Opera singers in New York have
been the victims of a company of
blackmailers with inventive minds,
who obtained money through threats
of hissing at performances and prom
ises of applause.
Three-quarters of an hour was cut
from the time between New York and
Queenstown for the east-bound voyage
by the Mauretania, which reached the
Irish port after crossing the ocean in
four days, 13 hours and 41 minutes.
Striking street car employes and
their sympathizers derailed a car at
Council Bluffs, la., and severely in
jured the conductor with a brickbat.
Five strikers were arrested. Fifty
four strike-breakers have reached
Omaha from Chicago and 400 more
are expected.
At its convention at Atlanta, Ga.,
the United Brotherhood of Car Men,
comprising employes of many of the
large railroads, decided to affiliate
with the American Federation of La
bor, and it will probably be amalga
mated with the Car Workers' Interna
tional union, also a member of the fed
eration.
Richard T. Crane 111. of Chicago,
son of Charles R. Crane, minister to
China, and Miss Ellen Douglas Bruce,
whose father was a well-known Vir
ginia capitalist, were married at the
home of the bride. Berry Hill, near
South Boston, Va.
By the will of George F. Peabody,
late merchant of Appleton, Wis., $25,-
000 is left for the endowment of a Y.
M. C. A. at Appleton, $50,000 for a
park along the Fox river and $2,500
for beautifying the Appleton public
schools.
An organized attack against "usur
pation of state revenues" it! the prin
cipal topic on the program of the In
ternational Tax association which con
vened in Louisville, Ky.
Col. George Harvey, editor of
Harper's Weekly, was seriously in
jured near Manbawkin, N. J., by the
overturning of an automobile in which
he was riding.
"Stop thief," shrieked by a parrot
as it was being carried down the
street, at San Francisco caused the ar
rest of Terry Rooney, who was fleeing
with the bird.
Catherine Bradley Bigelow, 12 years
old, of New York, has boon left a one
third interest in her grandmother's es
tate of $500,000 on condition that she
be not married to a divorced man or
an actor.
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