Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-07
300th Anniversary Gel
ebrated at Th0rnaSt0n.
Memorials Unveiled Addresses
by Gov. Cobb and Others.

ceeding cautiously up the river. passed
of his race. England was already great
and powerful nation. She was great not
only in arms but in intellect, for those
were the days of Shakespeare and the
Elizabethan era. But America was a
Wilderness its inhabitants savage abo-
rhymes. and our country yet unborn.
Three hundred years have passed since
that day Our national government is
not one-half that old. our State not one
third and into the last 30 years We have
crowded the best of our achievements for
material development, for civilization
| and for humanity. In contemplating the
changes between Waymouth's day and
| our own. we may well exclaim, What
marvels hath God wrought.
The romance and sentiment attaching
| to occurrences like Waymouth's voyage
have not yet appealed to our people with
sufficient force to compel general recog-
| milton in form Of monument or tablet.
| The stress attending the up-buiiding of
| a country has allowed scant time for
| that. and minor events however far
reaching in historical Importance have
| possessed interest for the student of his
| tory alone But with an awakened i'm
| pulse to know more of our early days
| there has developed a better conception
Of the value Of historical knowledge, and
this is finding expression in acts of COM
memoration like those we perform, to-
day 1t is well that this is true and for,
| tunate indeed for the advancement OF
learning ana of patriotism that the SEN
l..
dedication of tablets like this one fine a
ready and generous response in the
| hearts and minds Of the citizens of oul
| State.
The town of Thomaston is rich ir
| historical associations and replete witt
the memory of men who gave strength
ana counsel to State and nation. Hei
citizens. many of them, are students anC
lovers of her past, and with a fine pub
lie spirit she has caused to be perpetu
ated here in enduring bronze the memory
of Waymouths voyage and landing OF
This coast BY this appreciative acknowl
edgement of the claims of history
Thomaston has furnished an example
that all other towns in Maine may wei
emulate and has earned the gratitude OF
the state"
Addresses We're given by British Vic,
Consul John Il. Heating of Portland
General Joshua l.. Chamberlain OF
/ Brunswick. and Congressman Chas. f
Littlefield of Rockland Mr. Littlefield
after offering congratulations said:
Il am glad that our distinguished
representative Of Great Britain, Vice
Consul Heating, is with US, today and
that FL gland and America are so like
one people. We speak the same lang
uage. we write the same and above
| all. we have the same God. May the
| time come when there shall be univer-
| sal, everlasting peace and the war
drum throb shall be heard no longer
| AS Governor and Mrs. Cobb stepped
from the Woodbury. upon the return
| to the wharf a salute Of l guns was
| fred by the cutter.
| Mayor James F. BaYte. of Portland
delivered an address at a meeting. this
evening, THE Initial Act in the Eng
| lish Possession of Maine" An histori-
cal address was REID by Major Henry
s. Burrage. chaplain of the National
| Soldiers Home st Togus.