Daily Honolulu press. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1886, 1885-10-31
PILGRIM FATHERS.
cURloslTlEs CONTAINED IN THE
MUSEUM AT PLYMOUTH, MASS.
Portraits of Old Cofonists and THOR
Successors standish's Platter.
Pot and sword-Chairs and
-nfnnuscripts.


l'dntn' IN Cinclnnnti EnQulrer.l
None of the houses in Plymouth have any
particular antiquity. There is an old tav-
ern called the Winslow house which was
for good while bank, but IL only runs
tack to the close Of the revolution. There
were good many Dutch ovens originally
In Plymouth, built in imitation Of what the
pilgrims had seen in Holland. One Of the
little houses down in the hollow of the town
f. said to have been partly built In 1865.
There are about six houses which go back to
the close of the seventeenth century, and
none Of them have anything antique TO the
eve.
When you enter the museum, however,
you have q genuine feast, though not a very
long one, OF old English antiquities This
building makes good impression; originally
put up in 1924, rich Baltimorean
name Stickney, who had been born in Bos-
ton, gave SIS, 900 to have 1t made over fire.
proof The building is now n sort OF doric
temple, with six columns In front and steps
its entire width; and In the p,iiment above
is an effective wood engraving saudei and
colored gvny-like stone, showing man
stopping out of boat, and being received
BY an Indian, while mother person in the
beat holds the oars. To the right of the door
isfhe Office where you pay Is cents and re-
cord your name. This room and similar
one opposite the main hall within ere filed
with furniture and other curiosties, md
down stairs are many others.
The portraits of the old Prilgrim chaps
and their successors down to the Revolu-
ton are quite interesting Nearly all the
pictures AMI engravings concerning tho Pill
grims have been framed, from Buf'nstt AMI
Lucy down to Bouton. You see the clock
OF John Hancock, made in 100; the royal
arms In tho old court houie which had
Punishment to Nova Scotia during the
Revolutions; pictures of Plymouth in
1897; commission by Cromwell TO
Edward winslow OF 1854, with Crom-
wells autograph stolen from It;
John Trumbull's likeness, by him;
D.. Thatcher's portrait of tho Revolution,
man who wrote an interesting book; pct-
ures OF several OF the Winslows, one Of them
an original emigrant, who was buried ut
sea In 1865: an original picture OF Daniel
Webster; many of the earliest books used by
the Pilgrims. one published by them In
Leyden in 1918, before they sailed, called a
Combination OF Rhemists. translations,
glosses and annotations of the Now Testa-
nient This is q great curiosity.
Notable among the curiositles Il the patent
issued by the president and council for New
England in 1921 1t Is said 60 be the Oldest
state paper in the United States, aud was
brought out hero by vessel called the Good
Fortune the year after the Pilgrims arrived
There are also pictures of the houses in Eng
land whore the Brad ford family came from
There is an engraving Of cradle brought
out in 1923. You SEQ fragment Of Rose
Standishs quilt, embroidery work Of
Miles Standish's daughter. brick and
ppcstem from the ruins of Standish's
house. Standish's old pewter platter,
iron pot and sword; this sword has
not tho original hilt upon 1t; the blade
has on 1t figures of the sun, moon and
stars This sword Is said to have been Of
Persian manufacture and the figures on It
OF Persian mythology You see among the
relics of Standsh's house the wrought iron
nails he put it up with.
There Is Dutch Bible as old as the Pill
grims, pair of spectacles worn by one OF
the passengers in tho Maylower, an instru-
ment with the autograph OF John Alden
old steel-yards of 1923, halberd carried
around the Plymouth governor. a leather
pocketbook of the Pilgrims, Elder Bre wster's
chair, Governor Carver's chair. both said
to have been brought out ia tho May flower;
you probably see copies of these chairs
throughout the country. Brewster's chair il
little defective, but originally had five
rods in the back and two cross pieces and
four rods running from each arm down
through the chair to the braces In tho legs
and these legs were further braced and
rodded down almoit to the ground. Carv-
er's chair has also high back with three
rods In 1t, and there Is cross-piece above
tho two roi-cr6sses 1t wa, straw-seated,
AMI had arms and double crossroads con
Meeting the legs on all sides. A Dutch
cradle from the Mayflower is quite an inter-
estiny object to tn, ladies. Very interest.
ing are tia old pewter platters or platel.
TIE above chairs are made of ash.
Here IL gun-barrsl With which King
Phillip was killed.; the original manu- ,cript
OF Mr.. Heman's hymn, "The Breaking
Wave, Dashed High" and dirk-knife
going back to 1926. Queer enough, there
Is brick and clay from Roger Will
Jams house In Salem, given by John
iiorrissey. tho prizs-fghter. There Is
also candle believed to be Of tho date OF
1927 Ancient spoons are shown, and q
bond signed by Peregrine White, born on
tho Mayfower. Here Is a cabinet brought
over in the May1ower by Peregrine Whites
father; very espsctable-looking cane OF
ono of the passengers and a brass candle
stick. which lighted the people on the May
flower about their devotons
Here is a gold ring worn by tho old
Governor WlnsloW; cead-purse nearly al
old; huge pestle and mortar brought over
in the NARROWER to pound out pills for the
ssa-sick. Here aru infant shoes worn by one
OF the Wns.ows There is q beautiful col
lections of ancient silver going back t.
ancient times; q book by John Robinson
published In lJ10-the real founder o
Plymouth. an autograph letter from Roge
Williams; very ancient foot wheel, an
Old spinning-wheel, a walnut table ownej
Ly the Winslows, and John Hancock's sofa
There are many other rolicsof colonial and
Revolutionary times