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Avenue and Seventh Street, Fifth Avenue and Twenty-ninth Street, 

 Fifth Avenue and Forty-eighth Street and West End Avenue and 

 Seventy-seventh Street. 



The Henry Hudson Monument on Spuyten Duyvil Hill will be 

 dedicated on Monday, September 27, and is so placed as to form a 

 prominent landmark. From a base ornamented with bas-reliefs springs 

 a fluted Doric column, surmounted by a pedestal supporting the statue 

 of Hudson. This monument, by Karl Bitter and Schrady, is a chaste 

 and beautiful work of art. It is 110 feet high, and, being set upon an 







Gateway erected on Stony Point Battlefield by Daughters of the Revolution 



(New York State) and to be dedicated during Hudson-Fulton Celebration — 



September 25 to October 9, 1909 — as part of the official program. 



Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission. 



elevation 200 feet above tide-water, it can be seen from a distance of 

 several miles up and down the Hudson Eiver, and even from the waters 

 of Long Island Sound; the sum required for its erection was supplied 

 by private subscription. The monument rests on the site of the Indian 

 village of Mpinichsen, whence, on October 2, 1609, an attack was made 

 upon the Half Moon. 



The last scene of Hudson's life makes a gloomy picture. Set adrift 

 in a small boat by the mutinous crew of his ship Adriatic, he passed 

 away out of the sight of men and was never heard of again. In the 

 dreary hours of aimless drifting over the tossing waves, and face to face 

 with death, Hudson had not even the consolation of knowing that his 



