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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



Last Days op Henry Hudson, by Sir John Collier. Original in Tate Gallery- London. 



On his last voyage (in the Adriatic) Hudson was set adrift in a small boat 



by his mutinous crew and nothing was later heard of him. 



Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. 



yet, where the great expositions of the past have cost from $10,000,000 

 to $20,000,000 or more for their organization, all the treasures and 

 beauties of New York can be displayed at an expense of only $1,000,000. 

 A single building, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the objects it 

 will hold, would not be over-valued at from $30,000,000 to $40,000,000. 

 At an exposition the public is called upon to pay fifty cents admis- 

 sion each time to enter the gates and an additional fee for each special 

 exhibition. The great New York celebration will be free for all, even 

 for those who have no car fare to enable them to ride. The demon- 

 strations are in the heart of the city itself. They do not take place in 

 some suburb, or barren, out-of-the-way spot. They are not encompassed 



