Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-04-22
Big Crowd Expected in Burling-
ton on Presidential Day of
Precautionary Week.
PRESIDE NY TO SPEAK
Address in City HILL Park TO &c FOL
lowed by PnEcnnts on the Lake
during the Afternoon and
Evening" Hicinl Song Ad-
opted for Celebration.

The state tercentenary committee met
with the local executive committee in
| the Commercial club rooms Saturday
| afternoon and discussed principally the
problem OF building an amphtheatre and
It's probable location. The State COM
mittee were all present with the exception
Of l.. VI. Hays. +. o. Beaupre and Presi-
dent ]. N. Thomas Of Mddlebury. The
executive committee included Mayor j.
+. Burke. chairman. W. j. Van Patten,
j. l.. Southwick, c. r. Allen, Lawrence
| BARLEY Jules Simays and W. J. BIgeow.
| That there will be a crowd in BurinR-
ton during precautionary week Is a fore
gone conclusion. the attendance here on
Thursday. presidential day. being
estimated AT between 10000 and 5000
people. As to tho amphltheatre. It will
be large enough to accommodate 1900
and probably more. It Is planned TO
erect the seats, from which the pa-ernts
will he viewed, south Of the Lake cham
plain Yacnt club dock. TO do this
| however. permission of the Central Yer
mont Railwai company will have to be
nninci AMI Governor ProutN and g +.
smith a director e the road. will visit
the railroad officials ut St Alb1ns this
.
be necessary fcr the Shepard & Morse
Lumber company to remoy" some OF their
lumber piles. also.
On Thursday It ia planned that rresi-
dent taft and party and Governor
Hughes and staff will arrive in the city
ut ten o'clock In the morning, probably
a. the dock If tho Lake CHAMPAIGN Yacht
clun. An escort ~ the Vermont Naticnal
Guard viii he there to mee, him and
the President will he immediately driven
up town \ rlrtfprn v~ll be built Oh
the wat 7!is OF tle Commercial cluh
rootna facing City Han Parry, and from
this Pren,dent I'aft will speak II- 40
drese will b. followed by tho military
parade Tho reviewing stand VIII he On
the ves, side of the park. about opposlt,
the Hotel burlington. II v-;e Arst
proposed that PRECEDENT Taft speak IN
: front Of the am1hthoatrc from thH
nareant raft. hlt this was found i'm
prnc icablc hccauae Of the large crowd
, that Will crovd the lake frort during
the morning hours in tho vicinity of the
railroad station At this time all the
Rutlan6 trains. REGULAR and excursion
viii arrive and General Manager q. r.
Jarvis said TINT il would interfere ser
iousv with tie runrit7 81 traffic md
also cndnnrer human ne In the af'-~-
noon the situation Will be relieved there.
t, being the period het ween The arriving
and leaving Of trains. .4s it is NJ
Jarvis will have a hieh haort Fence
erected along tho Rutland tracks t.
protect tho rublic
Three thousand Invitations will he sont
ont by the State COMM scion to various
Representative citizens throughout the
. United States. inviting them 10 he
present during precautionary week. Til.
matter Of n banquet which is pro7osed
=, for Thursday evening Of that week. has
boon left In tho hands Of ex-Moyor w j
BiEAlow. who Is in correspondence with
various caterers.
T. OFFICIAL SONG ADOPTED
The Vermont state Tercentcrnry COM
r mission continued it's Friday night ses-
I sion at the Van Ness House on Sotur-
= day morning and because Of the absence
| Of l.. NJ. Hays, who Is threatened with
:. pneumonia. ". II. Crockett OF St. Al
4 bans acted as cha irman.
q A. this session the committee adopted
& "Charplnin." = song and chorus written
Y by two Vormonters, MS tho oNicill song
, | Of the precautionary celebration. The
words We're written by ]. w. Ncllette Of
Rutland. linotype n1-chnist Of tho Hut-
\ lard Herald and tho music was com
n posed by G. l.. Ha.el'ine Of Montpelier
,s an employe Of tho National Life Insur-
"a anc~ Company. The song will be issued
= directly. the title page being drawn by
!. w g. Allen. night editor Of the Rutlan nd
J. Herald On the title page is medallion
- portrait OF the French explorer, with .
" scene representing his coming ashore
near an Indian encampment Just soutr
!, Of burlington. There are also the English
Va and French faEs and an outline map o
ia the lake. The song will be published by
&c the Euphonic Music Company OF Rut
land. Miss Susie r. Stowell, one of Bur
lingtcn's best known young singers ant
,s w. =. walker, with the violin. renderc,
IA tho selection before the commission.
10 The words Of the song are as follows
From hist'ry's page we know. three hun
u dred years ago
ID Champaign and his gallant crew
is Discovered thee, o lake, thine echoe
a did awake
re With cheer. for France end Henry
IN AS wears came on apace, behold anothe
s race
err With Allen, the patriot bold,
Whose valor at Fort I'll. is deed tina
cannot die
While freemen the flag uphold
ut CHORUS
~ You're the mirror OF my dreams. Chan
~ plain.
'' Where the mellow moonlight beams
Chonplain;
=, ne from thy dim. historic shore. faintl
comes the battles re1r,