Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1909 — FENCES AROUND GOTHAM HOUSES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FENCES AROUND GOTHAM HOUSES

Downpour Causes the Postponement of Air Flights. ROOMS ON PARADE LINE SIOO Hudson-Fulton Fete Dampened but Not Subdued by Rain—Governor . Hughes In Speech at Dedication of Explorer's Monument Stands Bareheaded In Drizzle and Refuses to Accept an Umbrella—By an Interstate Arrangement Palisades Are Saved. New York, Sept. 28.—Showers dampened but failed to subdue New York enthusiasm. Although rain necessitated the postponement of the aeroplane flights anh the balloon race to Albany, the more formal part of the Hudson-Fulton program—including the dedication of Palisades park, the dedication of an impos-

(Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont Behind Chair.) ing monunient to Henry Hudson and the reception to the naval visitors on Governors Island—went off without a hitch. The cornerstone of the monument to Hudson on Sputten Duyvil hill was laid in a drizzling rain. The storm kept down the attendance, but did not bother Governor Hughes, who had come over from Palisades park in time to deliver a eulogy on the discovery of the Hudson. The governor spoke standing bareheaded in the open and declining all offers of umbrellas. Mrs. Howe Only Woman on Stage. The envoys of seven nations were officially received at a reception in the Metropolitan Opera House. One of the most conspicuous figures on the stage, and the only woman occupying such a position was Mrst Julia Ward Howe, the venerable author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Because of her advanced years, Mrs. Howe sat in a wheeled chair. At her left was Admiral Sir Edward Seymour of the British fleet, while nearby were M. Jean paston Darboux the French representative; Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder, commanding the Atlantic battleship fleet, and Admiral Le Pord of the French battleship, La Justice. The vast bhilding was solemnly hushed when Mrs. Howe read an original poem lauding the daring and the deeds of the man who commanded the Half Moon and the Inventor who built the Clermont. Plateglass Is Protected.

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Preparations for the great historical parade today went on ynnindered by the downpour. In making ready for the largest crowd which the city has ever seen, shopkeepers have shuttered their plate glass windows with boards, and householders have barricaded themselves behind strong picket fences which the crowds will be unable to scale. Grandstand tickets sold at prices running from 18 to 125 apiece. Hotel rooms fronting on the line of parade are worth |75 to 1100 each. If the wind does not exceed five or six miles an hour and the weather otherwise is agreeable, both Wilbur Wright and Glenn H. Curtiss will make flights in their aeroplanes at Governors Island today. Their machines have been thoroughly overhauled and the gasoline tanks filled, leaving nothing

unprepared in the event of good weather.

MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE.