The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1908-06-03
25OTH ANNIVERSARY
OF the Founding of the City Of
Kingston, N. Y.

OTedt MILITARY anu OiVlC FdTdue was
Started by Signal From President
Roosevelt at Washington - Sham
Battle Re-Enacted Stormine Of ESQ
pos stockade by Indians In 1868.
Kingston, N. Y, June 2. After a
day devoted to outdoor festivities, In.
cluding a military and civic parade
started by signal from President
Roosevelt in Washington, a parade Of
automobiles, a sham battle and an ad-
dress by Governor Hughes, the city Of
Kingston last night closed the cele-
bration of the 250th anniversary of Its
founding as a settlement, with undi-
minished fervor, by the fare Of rock
cts and the glow of set pieces in a
fireworks display at Kingston Point
park.
Except for slight shower while
the three mile parade was being re-
viewed by Governor Hughes, weather
conditions were faultless, and no visi-
tor has left Kingston without pleas
ant memories. The stand from which
Governor Hughes reviewed the parade
was canopied, but thousands of sight
seers who packed Kingston academy
campus and surrounding streets pro-
tected themselves under the trees or
under raised umbrellas. The shower
lasted but three minutes.
Governor Hughes received an en-
thusiastic ovation, and his remarks
concerning home rule were particu-
larly applauded. Just before he be-
gan to speak the governors salute was
fired by the Second battery.
Rev. Hough Houston, presiding ell
der of the Kingston district Of the
Methodist Episcopal church, made
the invocation at the meeting where
the governor spoke, and Samuel D.
Coykendall presided. The benedic-
tion was by Rev. Charles Mercer Hall,
son-in-law of ex-Judge Parker.
After the meeting, Governor and
Mrs. Hughes and other notable guests
were entertained at lunch in the spa
cious hall of school No. Z, and later at
tended the spectacular feature of the
day-the attack on Esopus stockade,
on the lowlands below the historic
Senate house, the states first Capitol.
Twenty-Five thousand people lined
the ridge fronting the lowlands, and
spread over five acres of the low
lands itself. The stockade, covered
with paper, contained men and wo-
men, dressed in Dutch costumes, and
the attack was by various tribes of the
Order of Red Men. After a spectacu-
lar attack and resistance, the Dutch
men were killed and the women were
carried away captives.
The attack was in miniature a rep
resentation of the attack made June Z,
1868, when the then village of Esopus
was destroyed and its inhabitants
were either massacred or made cap
tives.
A reception at night at the Kings
ton club closed the formal functions.
At Kingston Point park an exhibition
of fireworks attracted thousands, In
Guiding many excursion parties from
along the Hudson river, who did not
attend the day celebration.
The military organizations left for
their homes at night and during the
night the torpedo and submarine hotil-
la left for New York. Governor and
Mrs. Hughes remained until today.
All excursion trains and steamers
made the time of their departure after
10 o'clock at night, until which time
the entire city bore a truly festal ap-
pearance with impromptu parades and
carnivals of undreamed-of originality.
Music, red fire, conviviality and con.
fetti were everywhere.
Messages Of congratulation to the
city were received from President
Roosevelt and Vice President Fair
banks.