Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-07-23
QUEBEC En- FETE
FOR CELEbRAT TON
THREE HUNDRED YEARS SINCE
CITY WAS SETTLED BY
CHAMPLAIN
ENGLAND'S FUTURE KING CONES
TO PARTICIPATE IN
FESTIVITIES.
BIG BRITISH FLEET ARRIVES
JUST AHEAD OF THE PRINCE
or WALES.

Quebec, July 21.-Now the eyes Of
half the world are turned toward Que
bee, the gibraltar Of America" For
ten days this ancient city will stand
ia the very center of the limelight
of news dispatches, while, with the
fleets Of three nations TO help her and
thousands thronging her feteday
scenes, she celebrates the 300th ami
Versary Of her founding.
When the prince OF Wales accepted
The dominion's invitation to be pre-
sent at her birthday party, he speCl-
fed that the festivities should begin
on July 22d,-the day when he is 10
arriYe-and that is the reason that the
tercentenary Of the city is not exactly
marked, for it was on the Sd of July,
1903, that Samuel de Champlain, now
at rest in Quebecs basilica, planted
there, in new France, that fur-trade-
ing post for his COureurs des Bots,
which was to grow with the years
into the metropolis Of to day. Cartier
had Wintered on the site years earl
ier, but nothing had come Of that al
most chance enCampment; the high
destiny Of the future stronghold lay
rather in the farsighted act Of the
cOutempory of John Smith and Hen
.drick Hudson. The one had made
that memorable beginning of English
colonies, at jamestown, the year be-
fore; the other was to steer his Half
Moon up the great river which bears
his name, the year later.
Amity After Warfare.
The fortnights festivals VIII place
the seal OF hnal reconciliation on the
age-IOug warfare vi the TWO peoples,
french and English, who have fought
for this era through the years. 1t
Will not only serve to recall Initial
planting OF Champlaius trading post,
but. as well, the two heroes protagon-
lists IN that AngIO-Freuch struggle
who laid down their lives the self
same hour on the bloody field of the
plains of observation-disclosures Mont
calm de Saint Veran, the beau ideal OF
the cavalier, loyal and gallant, higl-
minded and courteous; and General
James Wolfe, skilIful soldier impetu-
Gus lover and Christian gentleman,
whose amazing victory, there under
the shadow OF the CIty'S venerable
walls, has been written down for all
time as one Of the decisive battles OF
worlds history. In the public gar
dens rises to day 4 monument TO them
both, set up in 1927 when Count Dai-
hOu5ie was governor general OF the
dominion, where the Slghtseer reads:
Time softens the wrath of nations.
The French will now go up TO the
ancient citadel which, for SO long,
was the priced bone Of contention be-
tween their ancestors and the tore
bearers of their British allies of to-
day-wiIl go up with the kindHest
feelings and be received with acclaim
by a people still largely French both
in their tastes and language"
A Future Emperor.
While Canada is hostess-and it Is
the dominion which is the center OF
iuJerest-the much-talked OF British
imperial spirit is to be everywhere IN
evidence. Populations are present
from New Zealand and Australia, In
dia and south Africa, as we'll as from
neIghboring Newfoundland The
mother country, too, is playing 4
large part in it all, as is emlnently
proper. The king to be, George Fred
erick, Prince of Wales, dignifed and
cIear-headed, modest and wise, has
himself crossed the Atlantic to repre-
sent his royal father at the birthday
OF this eldest and richest Of the EN-
Dires daughters. The British Allan
tic squadron is now here, crossing
ahead OF their future lord admiral the
bltter to welcome his arrival. Thir-
teen ships of the line Will fly the
union jack in the broad St. Lawrence,
aud their crews, when ashore VIII
march shoulder to shoulder, not
merely with the troops of sister col
oules. but with company of the ia
nous life guards and with the best OF
She kntjes, the Gordon Highlenders.
Old Times Recalled.
The characteristic British program
N such anniversaries as this. stohu
and tSrmal, Will be carried through
at QueCeC in such a festival spirit as
marked neither the Warwick nor Ok
ford pageant in the" tight little
island" itself for the French-Canadian
is being born for buoyant fetes.
All proclamations and orders of the
day are to be cried at the gates and
in the squares o. the ancient city,
with clangor of trumpets." by
heraIds representing the two-foId ma.
ton of Canada today.
In the military part of the parade
$4,000 uniformed regulars are to ap
pear. and in the historical division
where floats and fancy costumes are
20 play their parts. fully 1000 are
10 participate. First will come stout
old JACQUES Cartier with the crews 81
his three tiny vessels. the Grand Her
mine. the Petite Hermine and tbs
EmerilL.on, these adventurous Graf
being present in exact facsimile at the
head Of The long Inc of floats, Samue
de Champlain win follow. with n:
Foureurs des Bots, Indians from The
aud cavaliers from The cour
lis Fourth Henri. The spectacle