The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-07-03
LAKE CHAMPLA|N
TERCEkTENARY

Gus picturesque little towns and viii
lagos surrounding the beautiful Lake
Champlain are rapidly filling up
with visitors and by tomorrow &C
commodations will be at a premium,
as the celebration of Lake Champlain
tercentenary, extending over the en-
tire lake region and over a period of
six days, beginning with tomorrow,
is attracting tremendous number Of
visitors from New York, Vermont
and other eastern states and from
Canada, which viii take an active
part in the celebration.
Primarily the celebration will be
in honor of the discovery of Lake
Champlain by Samuel Champlain,
the French explorer, but incidentally
it will also commemorate the num-
erous important historical events of
| which Lake Champlain and the va
rious points in the lake region have
been the scene during the past three
| hundred years. The celebration will
| be on a large scale and will be Of
ficially participated in by the gov
ernments of New York and Yer
mont. Among the distinguished
guests who will be present at various
stages of the celebration will be Pres
ident Taft and most of the members
of his cabinet, Vice President Sher-
man, Speaker Cannon, Senator Elihu
Root, the British and French am
bassadors, Earl Grey, governor gen
eral of Canada, Sir Wilfrid Laurier,
Governor Hughes of New York, Gov
ernor Prouty and Ex-Governor Proc
tor of Vermont, Cardinal Gibbons,
Seth Low, Chief Justice Albert c..
Barnes of the Illinois supreme court,
and many other men of national dis
tinction.
| The celebration will begin tomor-
row with religious observances at va
rious points of the lake region. The
most elaborate services will be held
at Cliff Haven, where the Catholic
Summer School of America is locat-
ed. A pontifical high mass will be
celebrated there tomorrow morning
on the banks of the lake by Bishop
Thomas F. Hickey of Rochester. Car
dinal Gibbons will preach the sermon
and Bishop Hickey will be assisted
by Bishop Burke of Albany, Bishop
Ludien Of Syracuse, Bishop Cotton
of Buffalo and Mgr. Denis J. Nc
Mahon of New York, who is presi-
dent of the summer school.
The first in the series of historical
celebrations will be held at Crown
Point, N. Y, where the French built
Notifications in 1871, which they
subsequently destroyed before they
withdrew from Canada. The celebra-
ton at Crown Point will include a
magnificent water pageant depicting
the discovery Of Lake Champlain and
the fight between the allied Algo-
quins and Hurons under Champlain
and the hostile Iroquois More than
one hundred and fifty Indians from
western Canada, descendants Of the
Algoquins who fought so valiantly
under Champlain, will take part in
these pageants. The stage Of the
historical reproductions will be a
large island with trees, bushes,
grass and beach and provided with a
log house and stockade. The island
has been skillfully constructed upon
a number of barges and will be tow
ed from here to the various other
places along the shores of the lake,
where the pageants and spectacular
performances will be repeated. An
other feature of the day will be q
dramatic performance of "Hiawatha"
by the same Indians, but not after
Longfellow's version. The version
used will be in accordance with the
Indian Interpretation of the legend
and will express the warlike char
acter of the Algonquins. Governor
Hughes, Seth Low and Chief JUS
| tice Albert c. Barnes of Illinois will
deliver addresses and a poem will be
read, commemorating the discovery
of Lake Champlain.
On Tuesday, July 6, the scene of
! the celebration will shift to Ticon-
deroga, N. Y, where President Taft
and members of his party will arrive
in time to attend the various events
OF the day. The pageant and histor-
ical performances by the Indians will
be held at Fort Ticonderoga, which
has been restored at great expense
by the owners of the site, the wealthy
Pell family of New York. Hamilton
Wright Mabie will deliver the his
torical address and Percy Mackaye