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tastes. On Sunday evening, September 26, the masterpieces of Irish 

 music and song will be rendered in Carnegie Hall by Irish citizens of 

 New York, many of the songs being given in both English and Gaelic. 

 In the Hippodrome, on the same evening, there will be a concert by the 

 United German Singers of the Northeast District of New York. 



On Monday evening, September 27, the Hudson-Fulton official 

 ceremonies will open with a reception to the distinguished visiting 

 guests at the Metropolitan Opera House, when all the distinguished 

 foreign guests will present their addresses, after an official welcome by 

 the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission, Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, 

 Charles E. Hughes, Governor of the state of New York, Mayor George 

 B. McClellan, and Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, over ninety years old, author 

 of the " Battle Hymn of the Republic," will, recite a poem. 



On Tuesday evening, September 28, there will be a musical festival 

 by the German Liederkranz in the Metropolitan Opera House, and on 

 Thursday evening, September 30, a concert will be given by the New 

 York Festival Chorus in Carnegie Hall. Lastly, there will be a sacred 

 concert at Carnegie Hall by the People's Choral Union, under the 

 leadership of Walter Damrosch, on Sunday, the third of October. 



Educational exercises, dealing with subjects appropriate to the 

 celebration, and designed to be participated in by universities, colleges, 

 schools, museums and learned and patriotic societies throughout the 

 state, will be held on Wednesday, September 29. In New York City, 

 the following lectures will be delivered in various rooms of the New 

 York University: "Literature of the First Two Centuries of New 

 York City," by Professor Francis H. Stoddard ; " Conditions Deter- 

 mining the Greatness of New York City as a Commercial and Financial 

 Center," by Professor Joseph F. Johnson ; " The Political History of 

 New Netherland," by Professor Marshall S. Brown ; " History of 

 Education in New York," by Professor Herman H. Home ; " Fulton 

 and Other Promoters of Steam Navigation," by Professor Daniel W. 

 Hering ; " History of Steam Navigation," by Professor Charles E.. 

 Houghton; "A Comparison of the Steam Engine Before 1809 with 

 Fulton's Steam Engine," by Professor Collins P. Bliss; "The Physio- 

 graphic Development of the Hudson Biver Valley," by Professor Joseph 

 E. Woodman. There will also be exercises in connection with the 

 university's schools in Washington Square. In Brooklyn Borough 

 there will be literary exercises on Tuesday evening, September 28, at 

 the Brooklyn Academy of Music. 



Commemorative services will take place throughout the city and 

 state on Saturday, September 28. On this day the Reformed Protestant 

 Dutch Church of the City of New York, organized in 1628 and repre- 

 senting the earliest religious organization in New York, will hold special 

 commemorative services at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m., in its churches at Second 



