The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-07-10
EXERCISES At ISLE
LA NOTE CLOSE
CELEBRATION
Honor to ChampIain's Memory
at Historic Spot.
MARKER TO SETH WARNER
Cows Hughes and Prouty Take Part
Addresses by President Of Middle
bury College and Judge Stafford.

Isle La Motto, July 10.-The Lake
Champlain tercentenary celebration
arranged jointly between the states
of New York and Vermont, after a
week of oratory and pageantry closed
yesterday with ceremonies on histor-
lie Isle La Motto, where years ago, in
the shelter of Fort Ann the earliest
Christian service in the history of
Vermont was held.
On its wooded slopes thousands
gathered to listen to addresses
by Gov Prouty of Vermont. Gov.
Hughes of New York, Lieut. De Vais-
seau Benoist day naval attache of
the French embassy at Washington,
who was commissioned by Ambassa-
dor Jusserand to represent France;
Very Rev. f. Prevel and Wendell p.
Stafford, justice of the Supreme court
of the District of Columbia.
II cannot tell you how glad | am
finally to have reached the spot
where Champlain made his discov-
cry" said Gov. Hughes by way OF
Introduction
1T is appropriate" he continued,
that we should come to a place
which has been associated in the me-
mory with characteristics of Cham
plain, which the addresses OF the
week have emphasized and which we
shall never forget"
Justice Stafford, former son of
Vermont, eloquently sketching the
history of Champlain valley pictured
1.-THE horrors of more than century
of wars.
The prayer and the benediction
were by Rev. John NJ. Thomas, presi-
dent of Middlebury college. Earlier
in the day solemn nigh mass was
sung in the chapel of the Shrine by
Bishop T. NJ. Burke of the Roman
Catholic diocese of Albany. ~ Y.
One Of the impressive ceremonies
of the day was the uneviling OF a
tablet erected on giant boulder
along the roadside not far from the
EShrine on a knoll overlooking the
lake. IL is gift to the state by tne
women OF the patriotic societies OF
Vermont, and bears the following in
scription: -
In honor of the first white men
who fortified this Island in 1866.
In memory of the sacrifice and va
Tor of Col Seth Warner and Capt,
Remember Baker. eminent Green
Mountain boys and patriots.
And,
ito commemorate the campaign of
Gen. Montgomery who encamped
near this spot with 1900 men in 1871,
this tablet is erected by the patriotic
societies of Vermont. women.
1909"
Mrs Clayton n. North of Shore
ham. state regent of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, present
ed the monument to the state and II
was accepted by Gov. Prouty. The
dedicatory address was made by
President Thomas of Middlebury col
lege,
Mrs. Elvira Sarah Warner Parker
of st. Adams, great granddaughter
of Ethan Allen. was present. She
placed wreath on the boulder.
Gov. Prouty and staff and Gov.
Hughes and staff and the commits
sioners of New York reached Isle La
Motto at 1880 and high mass was
said by the bishop of Albany. An ad-
dress was then delivered by Rev. p.
j. Barrett of Burlington. followed by
one Ill fTencn Dy REV. TT. PreVai.
Following the intermission for din
ner, the exercises were resumed at
2:30 o'clock. Gov. Prouty presided
and introduced Senator Hill.
At the unwilling of the tablet
there was an address by Mrs. r. S.
Stranahan representing the Colonial
Danes; the presentation speech by
Mrs. c. S. North. unwilling by Miss
Dorothea Smith and Harry Hill
speech of acceptance by Gov. Prouty,
and the dedication speech. by Judge
Stafford. followed by the benedic-
| ton by Rev. Dr. Thomas.
The Indian pageants brought the
celebration to a close.