Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1909 — Hudson-Fulton Parade Boats Shown In Newspaper Advertisement [ARTICLE]

Hudson-Fulton Parade Boats Shown In Newspaper Advertisement

A picture showing the “Half Moon”, the boat which Henry Hudson used in his discoveries and explorations, and the “Clermont,” the first steamboat, as they appeared in the Hud-son-Fulton Parade, which started up the Hudson river on September 25th, is shown elsewhere in this paper today in the advertisement of the G. E. Murray Co. Hart Schaffner & Marx, manufacturers of fine clothing, have issued this picture. Their artist visited the reproductions of the two historic boats and has shown them in a vivid and interesting picture. The picture shows the passengers on an ocean liner cheering the two odd-looking craft as they plow their way up the river. The “Half Moon,” in the foreground, shows the Dutch sailors returning the cheers in much the same manner as they probably hailed the natives on the island of Manhattan three hundred years ago. The little "Clermont," shown in the background, was able in its original form to attain a speed of five miles an hour, according to Robert Fulton, the Inventor, with the wind blowing against it all the way when it went up the Hudson river a hundred years ago, completing the first journey of Importance ever performed through the power of a steam-engine..

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