Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-13
BRILLIANT PAGEANT
AT SUMMER SCHOOL
Features of the Notable CeIebra.
ton OF independence Day Held
Recently at the University.
Extracts from CharlottesvilIe Prorress.

Three hundred years of history por-
trayed in three hours of time; this is
the story in brief of the pageant at the
University of Virginia Summer School
last Saturday, in commemoration of the
signing of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence.
More than one thousand persons took
part-the students and teachers of the
University Summer School-represent
ing fifty different counties of Virginia,
seventeen States outside of Virginia,
the District of Columbia, Mexico and
China.
AS the procession came up, Good
Queen Bess and Sir Walter Raleigh were
seen at its head, and close behind them
CaptainJ JohnSmithandP Pocshontas. True
to legend and his gallant character, Sir
Walter cast down his cloak for the
Queen to walk upon as she mounted the
steps and took her place among her
host and hostesses. The Queen was
personated by Miss Elizabeth Pickett, of
Norfolk, a niece of the famous general:
DIR. Edwin Minis, Of the University of
North Carolina. acted the part Of
Raleigh, while John Smith and Poca-
hontas were personated by Professor
Thomas Fitzhugh. Of the University of
Virginia. and Miss Anna johnson, re-
spectively.
The group of worthless just named
formed part of the delegation of Nor
folk county. Virginia: and other famous
personages in that company were Lord
Dunmore and John Marshall. women
for Sale" recalled the famous cargo of
maids of 1919; and a match between
one of the businesslike young women, a
young pioneer OF the wilderness was
actually bargained out under the very
nose of royalty.
The entire procession was about q
quarter of mile long. and took up
nearly two hours in passing the point
of review; and in consequence, out of
regard for the readers patience, though
at the expense of many interesting de-
tails. connected recital of the whole
proceeding must not be attempted here.
Accomac county, with Northampton,
presented Prince Charles of England,
for whom the Cape was named, and
Nandua the Indian Queen; Elizabeth
City carried a model of Syms- Eaton
Academy, said to have been the first
free-school in America; with the COM
pany from Warwick county marched
Captain Christopher Newport, and after
him was carried a miniature sailing
vessel; Colonel William Byrd, his beau
tiful daughter Evelyn, Powhatan and
POcahontas. and John Marshall were
personated in the group from Henrico.
In all these, and similar groups, the
appropriate costumes were worn. The
paint and feathers of the Indians, the
knee-breeches, embroidered coats, DOW
dered wigs. cooked hats and dangling
swords of the gentlemen, and the varia-
BILE and witching finery of the ladies',
all combined to produce mystic atmos-
phere Of long ago.
Lancaster county represented the
House of Lancaster with garland of
red roses; John Rolfe and Pocahontas
walked in the group from Mathews and
Gloucester; Surry revived its white
Apron Brigade" of Nathaniel Bacon s
day; York and Rockingham both laid
claim to Spotswood and his Knights of
the golden Horseshoe; Fairfax presented
George Mason of Gunston Hall, bearing
his ''Bill of rights" Albemarle and the
city of Charlottesville had in their COM
pany Queen Charlotte, Richard Henry
Lee, Meriwether Lewis and William
Clark, and Kosciusko, the ill-starred hero
of Poland: Amherst carried Lord Am
herst's coat-of-arms; Botetourt ap-
peared, as she had right, in the role
of mothers of States and countless"
Shenandoah sent her daughters of the
stars" following the old soldier-priest
Muhlenburg. Sam Houston and w. Fl.
BURNER of Rockridge, one, the Wash
ington of Texas and the other the Hor.
ace Mann of the South. were fit com.
pany for the sturdy Scotch-Irish and
Germans of Augusta and other Valley
counties.
Some of the Virginia counties repre-.
sented their characteristic products
and others their notable features OF