The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-05-13

toric ruins at each place; at Crown
Point on Monday, July 3. and at Fort
Ticonderoga on Tuesday, July 6, and
az Plattsburg where the principal
celebration of the week is to take
place on Wednesday. July 7. 1t is ex-
pected that Governor Hughes will pre-
side at Plattsburg and that the prin-
cipal address will be delivered by
Senator Root. For the comfort of its
many distinguished guests on that
occasion the state of New York acting
through the New York Lake Cham
plain Tercentenary commission has
engaged 400 of the best rooms in Ho-
tel Champlain which crowns the head
of picturesque Blue Point, three miles
south of Plattsburg, and from which
there is one of the most magnificent
views of Lake Champlain.
At the Catholic Summer school OF
America located at Cliff Haven near
by, arrangements have been made
for receptions in honor of President
Taft and Vice President Sherman,
and there will be a great banquet in
guests in Hotel Champlain on the eve
ming of Wednesday, July Z, following
the exercises in Plattsburg.
Thursday, July s, the distinguish
ed visitors will be transferred across
the lake to Burlington, and for the
convenience of their guests the states
of New York and Vermont have joint
ly chartered the steamer Ticondero-
ga, designating her the official steam
err. During her trips about the lake
the Ticinderoga will be escorted NY
several torpedo boats and submarines
which the war department has con-
sented to allow the use of during the
Tercentenary week and which will be
brought into Lake Champlain via the
st. Lawrence river.
At Burlington the principal speak
er on Thursday will be Sir Wilfred
Iaurier, Premier of Canada. Both
Burlington and Plattsburg will have
special exercises of their own lasting
throughout the week and at Burling-
ton on Sunday, July special Cham
plain services will be held. Under
the auspices of the Catholic clergy
of Burlington, great open air SER
vice will take place in an amphithe-
alter to be erected in Battery park.
Prominent ecclesiastics of the Catho-
lie church from all over this country
and Canada are expected to be pres
ent and participate in this service.
among them being Cardinal Gibbons
and Archbishop Farley.
The exercises of Friday. July g. will
take place at Isle le Motto which is
the birthplace of Senator Henry W.
Hill, secretary of the New York-Lake
Champlain Tercentenary commission
and which at his present request has
lust appropriated $500 towards de-
fraying the expenses of the celebra-
ton. Motor boat races will be a fea-
ture of the program which have been
prepared for the week at both Platts-
burg and Burlington.
Probably one of the most interest
ing features of the official program.
which is now i'm the making is the
series of Indian pageants to be re-
peated twice daily from an artificial
island, which is now being construct
ed, from number of great barges,
and which will be moved about the
lake from point to point at which ex-
ercises are held. Hon Walter C.
Witherbee formerly collector of the
port of Champlain, and now treas
urer of the New York commission, has
taken keen interest in the produc-
ton of these 'pageants which are to be
under the direction of l.. o. Arm
strong of Montreal and in which about
$50 Indians from upper Canada said
TO be lineal descendants of the very
Algonquins allies of Champlain in his
wars upon the IrOquois, will take part
The first encounter of Champain
with the Iriquois said to have taken
place near Ticonderoga. is to be re-
produced in a manner historically cor
rect and the Indian version of the le-
gend of Hiawatha will also be repro
duced
Among the projects under consid-
Grafton, as an outcome of the prepa-
rations for the tercentenary celebra-
ton is the erection of a great Cham
plain memorial to take the form OF
a light house to be erected at some
suitable spot on the shores of the
lake, as well as the raising from the
bottom of the lake a little southwest
of Valcour Island, the hull OF the Roy
al Savage. Benedict Arnold's flagship
which went aground and was aban-
doned by him during an encounter
with a British fleet under Sir Guy
Carleton October II, 1875