Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-07-06
THOUSANDS GATHER 10 HONOR DOUGHTY DISCOvERER 0F
 BEAUTIFUL LAKE

PLATTSBURG, N. r., July 5.-The hotels of this city and of the numer- ous picturesque little towns and viii lages surrounding the beautiful Lake Champlain are well filled up with visitors and by tomorrow accommoda- tions are at premium, as the eel ebration of the Lake Champlain Ter centenary, extending over the entire lake region and over period of six days, beginning yesterday, is attract ing d tremendous number of visitors from New York, Vermont and other eastern states and from Canada, which will take an active part in the celebra- tion.
 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 numerous important historical events of which Lake Champlain and the various points l in the lake region have been the scene during the past three hundred years. The celebration will be on large scale and will be officially participated ! in by the governments of the United States and Canada and by the state | governments of New York and Yer mont. Among the distinguished guests who will be present at various stages of the celebration will be President Taft and most of the members of his cabinet, Vice President sherman, Speaker Cannon. Senator Elihu Root, l the British and French ambassadors, | Earl Grey, governor general of Can ada, Sir Wilfred Laurier, Governor Hughes of New York, Governor Prouty and Ex-Governor Proctor of Vermont. Cardinal Gibbons, Seth Low, Chief Jus tice Albert C. Barnes, of the Illinois supreme court and many other men of national distinction.
 The celebration began yesterday with religious observances at various points of the lake region. The most | elaborate services were held at Cliff ! Haven, where the Catholic Summer school of America is located A polit- | ieal high mass was celebrated there yesterday iorring on the l9nks of the lake by Bishop Thomas F. Hickey of Rochester. Cardinal Gibbons preached the sermon and Bishop Hickey was assisted by Bis ,op Burke of | Albany, Bishop Ludden of Syracuse, Bishop Coton of Buffalo and Mgr. l Denis J. McMahon of New York, who is president of the summer school.
 | The first in the series of historical | celebrations will be held at Crown | Point, N. Y, where the French built l Notifications in l7Sl, which they sub seauently destroyed before they with drew to Canada. The celebration at ! Crown Point will include magnificent water pageant depicting the discovery of Lake Champlain and the fight be tween the allied Algonquins and Hur- ons under Champlan and the hostile Iroouois. More than one hundred and ! fifty Indians from western Canada, des- cendants of the Algonquins 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 log house and stockade. The island has been skillfully constructed upon number of barges and will be lowed from here to the various other places along the shores of the lake, where the pageantS and spectacular performances will De
 repeated Another feature of the day will be dramatic performance of " Hi
 awatha by the same Indians, but not after Longfellow $ version. The yer
 sion used will be in accordance witt
 the Indian interpretation of the legend
 and will express the warlike character
 of the Algonquns. Governor Hughes
 Seth Low and Chief Justice Albert c Barnes of Illinois will deliver addresses