The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-08
DAY AT PLATTSBURG
NEW YORK TAKES FLING AT CHAM.
 PLAIN CELEBRATION.
Taft, Hughes, Jusserand, Bryce and Other Dfstin gufshed Men on PrO- gram--Brilliant Display
 By Soldiers.

Plattsburg, N. Y., July 7-New York States share in the ter-centenary cele-
 bration of the discovery of Lake Cham
 plain, reached its climax today.
 Tomorrow the scenes of pageantry,
 the parades, the speechmaking, the in-
 terchange of compliments among the three nations of France, Great Britain and the United States, who shared in the history making of the Champlain country, will all be transferred across the lake to Vermont. and Burlington will have its fling.
 Governor Hughes of New York and Governor Prouty of Vermont. in their speechmaking tours today, indulged in
 good deal of pleasantly about the
 rivalry between the two States. where upon Ambassador Jusserand this after
 noon declared:
 "Gentlemen of Champlain: Both sides of the lake at the same time. He looked n one side and then the other. He saw New York and he saw Ver-
 mont. and he liked them both.' President Taft Ambassadors Jussc- rand of France and Bryce of Great Britain, with Governors Hughes and Prouty, again today occupied the can- ter of the celebration stage. Postmas- | ter General Lemieux' of Canada. also | spoke at the barracks. and with Senap
 
 at the banquet.
 | MT. Lemfeux and Ambassador Jus serand each took President Taft for a
 subject and In their remarks gave him
 equal prominence with Champlain. "The spirit and all that was best in | Champlain." declared Mir. Jusserand | Hives again in President Taft. And there is a people in distant archipel. ago who know 1t and feel 1t and wha forever will bless his name" Canada has large share in today't
 celebration and on the American mili- | tary reservation at Plattsburg bar
 racks this afternoon there was pa. spectacular to degree seldom attain
 ed in this country. A regiment oi Highlanders in characteristic scarlet
 coats, furry hats and kilts, from Ot- | tawa, and another regiment. the Gov
 ernor Generals Foot Guards. also from Ottawa, in uniform of almost equal I, brilliancy, participated in the military display. Two regiments and a squad | ron of cavalry from the United States | and a regiment of the New York Ma tional Guard-all in modest blue, form | ed She contrast for the vivid color of the foreigners.
 While all of the troops. Canadian | and American alike, stood at attention. | tho squad of buglers began the famif far notes of the evening call. When
 the last martial tones had died away | the band of the 5th Infantry started
 ''The Star Spangled Banner" and the | big post flag began to drop slowly from | It's lofty staff.
 Governor Hughes and President Taft
 were much together today and on eacn ! speechmaking occasion they exchanged
 many compliments.
 At the ceremonies at Plattsburg bar
 racks. Governor Hughes spoke first and was followed in turn by Governor Prouty, Ambassador Jusserand, Ambas-
 sador Bryce, Postmaster General Le-
 mieux. Senator Root and President
 Taft.
 Mr. Jusserand delivered a part of his
 address in French.
 l Mr. Bryce again today expressed the | hope that celebrations a hundred years | henco would be to commemorate the beginning in this generation of pro-
 longed friendship and good feeling be- tween the nations which were once di- vided by hatred.
 President Taft said:
 T am delighted to say that for six | teen years. l have spent most of my
 summers in Canada and have learned | that north Of us is great and rising | people, people bound to be prosper
 ous. bound to be great and whose pros- perity and greatness know that Amer
 jeans are great enough not to be jeal-
 ous of, but to welcome.
 T congratulate you, my friends most | heartily, on the success of the celebra- | tion and memorials that bring out such good neighborhood feeling, that bring
 out such pride in our ancestry, that nll
 us with a knowledge or history and
 that hold high before us the ideals
 which 1t is right for nations and peo'
 pie to feel"
 At the banquet tonight. President
 Taft. speaking to the toast "The United
 States" declared that the United
 States constituted the most conserva-
 tive nation in the world. | ''For," he continued. i've have had
 the longest experience in self-govern-
 ment."
 1 The President expressed the thanks
 of the American people to Canada and
 pointed out the spirit of amity which
 made possible the spectacle today of
 the troops of the two great nations
 marching in parade under one com
 mander-Colonel Calvin Cowles. of the | 5th Infantry.