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374 Hertha and _ Victoria Louise, German; Etna and Etruria, Italian; Morales, Mexico; Utrecht, Holland; and *Sarmiento, Argentina. With Saturday morning every ship in the line broke out masses and strings of bunting with the signal gun at 8 o'clock. Every craft in the harbor, every pier head and every building ashore were masses of color. The parade was under the command of Capt. Jacob W. Miller, with the Gloucester as flagship. . Promptly at den, Bremen, THe Marine REVIEW red blouses and wide trousers of Hudson's time, on deck and in the rigging, and the latter sputtering along under her own steam at the dizzy speed of four miles per hour with her little stovepspe of a stack spouting pungent wood smoke and her unhoused paddles splashing brine aboard. The escort squadrons and the "resurrectos'" came to anchor off the reviewing stand at the water gate at 110th street, where Hendrick Hudson (Lieut, Lam, of the ' Royal Dutch « October, 1909 with sightseers but the handling was decidedly inferior and the procession straggled wretchedly, prolonging the passage until long after dark. In the van, close behind the Providence, came the old Norwich, nestor of steamboats, followed closely by the Hendrick Hudson and Robert Fulton, examples of latter-day river boats. Altogether the number of craft taking part in the parade was vari- ously estimated at from 600 to 1,000, while 'hundreds of others were in evi- THe CLerMont at ANCHOR AT THE WATER Gatr, 110TH STREET the hour set, 1 p. m., a gun from the Gloucester set the marine cavalcade in motion. The column was'headed by a squad- ron of revenue cutters, followed by eight torpedo boats; the Gloucester, Aileen and Wasp, with four subma- tines, the Tarantula, Cuttlefish, Oc- topus and Viper lumbering and splash- ing in their wake. The Half Moon and the Clermont brought up the rear of this column, the former in tow of a tug, with her entire crew, picked from the Dutch cruiser Utrecht, and costumed in the navy) went ashore and was received in state by Governor Hughes, Mayor McClellan and Gen. Stewart L. Wood- ford. Robert Fulton was represented in the persons of several of his de- scendants. On behalf of the Nether- lands, Mr. Van Eeghen formally pre- sented the Half Moon: -to. the Hud- son-Fulton commission. Meanwhile the parade fleet, headed by the Providence, of the Fall River line, taking the westerly side of the naval line proceeded up the river to the turn at 222nd street. Every boat in the line was crowded dence which did not join in the pro- cession. From the signal gun which broke out colors at 8 o'clock, onward until the upper end of the line was round- ed by the first divisions, the air was split by continuous salutes from the ships of war. Crews bands played, the and all went well. That there were not numerous mis- haps with such a mighty throng of craft of all sorts crowding the bay and river from shore to really wonderful. were paraded, sightseers cheered, shore is