New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-05
CELEBRATION At RYE.

The Fourth OF July celebrated at Rye yes
terday under the auspices OF the Village Improve
ment Association. The celebration began IN the
morning with a parade. including the Rye police.
the Rye Fire Department boys military com
pany from Mamaroneck some thirty members of
the Grand Army OF the Republic in carriages.
about five hundred school children and the chill
dren OF St BenedtCts Home, carrying small Ameri-
flags stand had been erected in the OK
ford grounds and there the procession ended
Reginald P. Sherman, president Of the Village
Improvement Association, delivered an address on
Improvement after which LincoIn's address at
Gettysburg read by the Rev. Douglas Putnam
Brnie. and the Declaration of Independence was
read by A. Outrarn Sherman. great grandson OF
Roger Sherman. one OF the signer5 OF that histor-
teal document.
Whiteaw Reid the last speaker He began
by discussing the work OF the Village Improvement
Society and wishing power TO its elbow
Referring to its report in regulating automobiles
he praised the zeal Of the associations police but
suggested that IL ought always 10 be a zeal ac-
cordins to knowledge. II over eight miles an hour
was dangerous their roads In an automobile il
was dangerous. too, IN vehicle drawn by mettIe-
some horses; and II carriage was allowed to pass
1t was questionable wisdom TO arrest the automo-
bile coming along behind and going faster.
Next. referring TO the varied activities Of the
Improvement Society. Mir. Reid continued:
s1 Most st OF these things are regulated by law
Iae reason would seem to be that. while you
nave a village association, you haven't YET got
some. you win be celebrating not merely two AMY
association sss that OF Ameriean Inderendence ana
"a But perhaps this is politics If apologize
politics on this Gay. which belongs 10 ali parties
a 1e6t,6 TO all good b Americans So hasten
remain non-partisan-your schools. Village or not
not boast-hve hundred or six hundred Wide eyed
after and re n}div Sisu t1esht and looked
en- some OF them have lust taken RessGSt o n c
tiheates and more Of them are likely to do it next
year These young people are .better omen FOR
Society It's hard to r ras n age I'M
the Young ones srh Tr0T 4 6uf hen ssy 70 start
everything else in time Will come right
Make, them proud OF their home. Train them 70
love this beautiful Weschester County aud to know
you permit them to read novels give them rst that
yvdy aHd exacy pctnTe their T them how
neighbOrhood they were a century and a auartsp
Married and lived IN Wssc Gy IeTse en who
little house stil standing think. down in the
rG S a tafm shs 5toy T Of that
the Boston Post Road that Is still standinr tba
t house next to that Of Mr.. John ;. Parsons. Tell
house here in the village street lately renovated by
Two nf your noted citizens so glorihed that it IS
long as its moudering timbers will hold together
side at White Pla ms which a Westchester iur,st
and rS orator summed up in a single sentence;
Inc sun rose that morning on the still subject
colony or ms majesty George III; its descending
rays Gflded with an aureole that has never Ieft h
the fr1e and independent State Of New-YorB
reach Them too. / pray you. something OF the
spirit OF those DAYS and of the foundation on which
the fathers built obedience authority. reverence
FOR law and the widest freedom under IL for evary
indlvidual limited only when infringing the SINH
lar rights OF another on that foundation this vii
lage was built. this country. this State into what
we see to-day; Clingng TO those principles. the
men Of '76 and their descendants spread TN they
occupied and possessed the continent on the mere
eastern fringe OF which they had been ercnn1pad
courage and faith the twentieth century will not
see their progress stayed till they dominate hotb
the oceans that wash the continents shores -'
The children then sang America" Benediction
was pronounced by Archdeacon William w Kirby