New-York tribune., 1907-08-16
THE GLOUCESTER TABLET
UnUeiIed zcith 4ddress on Early NeIc
EngIdnd bY Senator Lodge.

Gloucester Mass. Aug I5-Thousands OF persons
assembled in the quaint hshins port OF Gloucester
today for the unveiling OF a large bronze tablet
commemoratiug the first settlement of the Mas
sachusetts Bay Colony al Stage Fort Park The
tablet is set on tn face OF a great ledge overlook
ing Gloucester harbor. and is close 70 The site OF
the first settlement which IL commentaries Ihe
dimensions OF the plate give IL surface OF sixty
five square feet and il IS believed that r IS one OF
the largest cast in the United States As q
framework it had an ornamental carving. two feet
deep in the solid granite with inscriptions depict
ing the marine history Of Gloucester
Before the dedication and unveiling exercises
there was a civic military and trades parade.
which marched through Gloucester's narrow.
crooked streets in which nearly every society IN
the city represented by a float John Hays
Hammond the marshal
After the parade the invited guests assembled at
the City Hall where they were welcomed By the
Mayor Miss Natalie Hammond. daughter Of John
Hays Hammond. unveiled the bronze plate Sena-
tor Lodge made the chief address. saying in part:
Al the beginning Of tina; historic period when
those great and earliest civilizations were rising IN
bold headIaud which marks the boundary Of Mas
sachusetts Bay stretched out into the ocean just
II was here in le4 that Bartholomew Gosnold
Is believed 20 haN- utue Idiu "'IeH ~ - -,
emerged from the wastes OF ocean. and IN lol4
Captain John Smith. explorer. discoverer and hero
this region New England. He gave TO our. cape
here the fantastic name ~ Trasaoigzanda. but Il
Denmark By Prince Charles ot England her
SIX wears after the voyage of Captain Smith
came the famous landing At Plymouth and the
establishment OF that memorable settlement upon
which, and James.q~F WI. the foundations OF the
THE actual beginning Of the settlement 1t Cape
Ann was made I6Z}. when crew % fourteen men
from rshing vessel landed here. TEeS. hardy
were long left alone. however Tor that
very wear when they We're establishing themselves
al THIS spot members of the Plymouth colony Sc
cured title 20 cape Ann and effected settl- nt
IN that wear and formed colony with the hSneF
,oeu They. chose Roger Conaut their first Gov
error In I626 Couaut took his people % the spot
where Salem now IS -.
great Puritan settlement and migration found a
small bodv OF EnEliShmsn already established at
SaIeru C'onant and his did not make per
r7tanent settlement Cape Ann. but further down
tra bav they began the settlement which grew
into the colony OF Massachusetts
The monument dedicate here bears witre~>
nrSt plantation Salem Although they
FaiIed to ma ke a permanent settlement here they
made the first permanent settlement on this coast
yVbirb later developed into the State or MasSst-
chIsat.s The monument which raise here to
was done here. a stepping stone To greater
things
Cther speakers the tablet exercises included
former Mayor w. W. French and Baron ROsen Ths
progra1nrle closed with the reading OF original
poems by Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. OF
Newton and Madison Cawein. of Lexington. Ny
In the evening an electrical and fireworks display
took place and all the summer residents along
the North Shore interested themselves in maNins
,be illumination brilliant feature OF the day Oh
servanCes.