Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-06
FAMOUS OLD SEAPORT
Plymouth, Formerly Headquar-
tiers of British Seamen.
WHENCE PILGRIMS SAILED
Quitting Place for the Adventures
Of the Sixteenth Century.
CHANGES WROUGHT BY TINE
Homes of Rich Merchants Now Given
to Fish Dealers, Sailmakers
and Shipchandlers.
CHANGES WROUGHT BY TINE
BY WILLIAM E. CURTIS.
Special Correspondence The star and the Chicago
Record Herald.

Record Herald.
PLYMOUTH, England. June II, 1905.
1t Isl good thing to study history on
the ground. Hence, 1t would be well for
every true American to visit the ancient
town of Plymouth and see the place
where the history Of the United States be-
gan. 1t is a quaint, old-fashioned city
and has been the scene of vital events In
the development of the English people;
closely identified with their supremacy on
the seas and their colonization of foreign
lands. Carew, chatty Cornish historian
In describing the town, says:
Here mostly have the troops OF adven-
turers made their rendezvous for attempt
ing new discoveries inhabitancies, as
Thomas Stukeleigh for Florida. Sir Rich
ard Granville for Virginia. Sir Humphrey
Gilbert for Newfoundland. Sir Martin For
bisher and Master Davies for the North
West Passage, and Sir Walter Raleigh for
Guiana Here Sir Francis Drake first ex-
tended the point of that liquid line where
with, as an emulator of the sunne's giorie,
he encompassed the world; and here. In
'SS, the aforementioned lord admiral ex
pected and set forth against that heaven
threa tening Armada which, to be tainted
with the shamefuller disgrace, and to blaze
our renoun with brighter luSter, termed
itself Invincible.
Those facts, so quantity stated, make
Plymouth of local interest to US, and even
more so because the Pilgrim Fathers en-
barked here upon their fateful voyage TO
New England where in honor of this city,
and as an acknowledgment of the hospi-
tality they had received from It's inhabl-
tants, they called their first settlement by
the same name. Every one of the original
expeditions that left England for the
United States sailed from Plymouth.
Headquarters of British Sailors.
In the golden days of Queen Elizabeth,
In tba FoIl iro~ p1yrO-
outh was the headquarters and school of
British seamanship. Here some of the
greatest of British sailors were BORN and
it was the meeting place for those bold and
adventurous spirits who sought gold and
glory in the unknown seas. Martin Fro
bsher was born in Plymouth and sailed
from here in 1879 to explore for the first
time the north Atlantic coast of America,
and the reports of his expedition gave the
greatest impulse to English seamen TO fol-
low the example of the great Spanish ad-
venturers. Sir John Hawkins Sir Richard
Hawkins Sir Humphrey Gilbert, and other
famous sailors were natives. Sir Francis
Drake was born near Tavistock, but was
brought up here and was once the mayor
of the town. He built the waterworks by
which the inhabitants still supplied,
bringing stream from the hills sixteen
miles distant 1t is now carried in pipes
from a huge storage reservoir, but still
follows the aqueduct that Sir Francis Drake
constructed, and every year a quaint GUS
tom is observed when the mayor and other
municipal officials proceed to the reservoir
and drink with champagne solemn toast
to his memory 1t has been repeated an
nually for more than three hundred years:
May the descendants Of him who brought
us water never want for WINE
In 1877 Sir Francis Drake set out from
Plymouth to pillow his furrow around the
world; in 1884 Sir Humphrey Gilbert sailed
out of the harbor with three shiploads of
colonists to settle in New England; and
several years later Sir Walter Raleigh set
out with an expedition for the land which
he called Virginia in honor of his virgin
queen. In 1906 the first charater for col
onizing North America was granted by
James to Plymouth company In 1929
the Mayflower, little barque Of $50 tons
scarcely larger than canal boat, with one
hundred and one brave souls aboard left
Plymouth to found the great republic. AT
Plymouth Mass, a monument commence
rates their voyage. At Plymouth, England,
a bronze tablet has been erectSu on the
pier at Sutten's Pool where they
barked. The inscription reads as follows:
ION the 9th of September, 1920, in the
mayoralty of Thomas Fownes. after being
kindly entertained and courteously used by
divers friends there dwelling, the Pilgrim
fathers sailed from Plymouth in the May
flower. in the providence of God to settle
| In New Plymouth and to lay the foundation
OF the New England states. The ancient
cawsey (causeway) whence they embarked
was destroyed not many years afterward
but the site of their embarkation is marked
by the stone bearing the name of the May
flower in the adjacent pier. This tablet
vas erected in the mayoralty of ]. T. Bond
1891. to commemorate their departure and
the visit to Plymouth in July of that year
of a number of their descendants and rep
resentatives."
Appearance of Sutten's Pool.
sutten's Pool. or the Barbican, as il Is
also called. is the ancient harbor and the
oldest portion of Plymouth, now given up
to the fishing trade. Here we saw nearly
two hundred fishing boats and steam trawi-
ers arranged in rows like a battalion of
soldiers. dashed to floating buoys. They
were laid up for Sunday because the peo-
pie of Plymouth are a God-fearlng COM
munity and remember the Sabbath day to
keep it holy. All the fishermen who be-
long To Ga tirda