418 HUDSON HONORED IN NEW YORK 



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that those who know said marked the last flight as one of the great exhibi- 

 tions thus far made in the science of aviation. 



The Hudson celebration became more definitely linked with the north 

 pole discovery when, on October i, Commander Robert E. Peary, his wife, 

 and every member of the crew that accompanied him on his quest of the north 

 pole aboard, and the steamer Roosevelt, just back from the region of eternal 

 ice, formed salient features of a naval parade up the lower Hudson to meet 

 the Half Moon and the Clermont at Newburgh. 



Mr. and Mrs. Peary arrived in New York early from Portland, Me. The 

 Roosevelt was coming up the harbor amid the salutes of other shipping when 

 the commander arrived. The Roosevelt's progress from quarantine to the 

 dock at West Forty-second street was marked by a continuous blast of 

 whistles. When it came off Riverside drive, where the crowd was gathered, 

 and started on the way up the river, the salute was taken up by thousands of 

 cheerinsr voices. 



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NAVAL PARADE CATCHES THRONG. 



The naval parade was the principal incident of the Hudson-Fulton cele- 

 bration of the day in so far as Manhattan was concerned. In Brooklyn the 

 historical pageant of the previous Tuesday was repeated, and there was 

 everywhere the usual expectation of aeroplane flights, but the great majority 

 of sightseers flocked to the banks of the Hudson. There they saw, in addi- 

 tion to Peary's vessel, a great fleet of excursion steamers, steam tugs, yachts, 

 motorboats, and other craft which rendezvoused between Fort Lee and Spuy- 

 ten Duyvil and about lo o'clock fell into line for the fifty-mile journey to 

 Newburgh. 



The nucleus of the "lower Hudson" fleet that started to meet the Half 

 Moon and Clermont and the other craft coming down the river was a squad- 

 ron composed of one small United States cruiser, twelve torpedo boats and 

 four submarines. The Castine, the parent boat of the submarine squadron, 

 and four other submarines acted as escort to the Half Moon and Clermont, 

 making twenty-two American warships in the demonstration. The other 

 members of the American war fleet and the foreign men-o'-war remained 

 at their anchorages in the Hudson. 



The Half Moon and the Clermont passed the night at Ossining, and had 

 a comparatively short run to reach Newburgh. 



Newburgh, a quaint little city that dates from early Dutch colonial times. 



