The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-09
rERcENTENARY 0ELERRAroN
The Towns on Lake Champlain will
Celebrate Today.

F4stal ~ SOAS0A QUO tOUitys
Burlington, VT, July q With
the arrival today of the advance
guard of visitors attracted by the
elaborate program of the Lake
Champlatn. tercentenary,. Burling-
ton and other lake towns in Yer
MONT and New York are preparing
for the most glorious Fourth of July
celebration ever held in this section.
With President Taft, Vice President
Sherman, and may governors, SEN
ators, representatives and ambas-
sailors in attendance at the celebra-
ton, the oratory of the occasion will
be quite equal to the p~ageantry.
While the formal celebration will
not begin until Sunday, there were
%incipient festivities today, and to-
morrow will doubtless be marked
by a veritable outburst of enthusi-
asm. On Sunday, special religious
services will be held in all the Lake
Champlain towns, with a great
gathering of Catholic clergymen in
this city.
On Monday the celebration will be
staged at Crown Point, N. Y, and
the speakers will be Governor
Charles b. Hughes, Seth Low and
Chief Justice Albert G. Barnes of
the Superior court Of Illinois.
Clinton Scollard will read the poem.
The great spectacle of the day
will be the presentation of a pageant
depicting the discovery of Lake
Champlain, followed by the fight of
Champlain and the Algonquin In
dams with the Iroquois. Defendants
of the Algonquin and Iroquois, Sc
cured in Upper Canada, will appear
in this pageant. Following these
pageants there will be a presentation
of the Indian drama of Hiawatha in
which $50 Indians will take part.
The drama and the p%ageants will be
given on the water on a specially
constructed stage 800 feet long by
100 feet wide, equipped with scenic
effects and electric lights. This
stage is constructed so it may be
moved from point to point about
the lake.
Tuesday will be the great day of
the celebration, the exercises at Fort
zUJconderoga to be featured by the
presence Of 7-aeidant Taft, Vice
President Sherman, Senator Nihu
Root, Speaker Joseph G.. Cannon
Ambassadors Bryce and Jusserand,
Governor Hughes of New York, and
Governor P. Jrouty of Vermont.
Hamilton Wright Mabel will deliver
the historical address and Percy
Mackaye will read the poem.
The celebration at Pittsburg on
Wednesday will include a reception
to President Taft by the Catholic
Summer School of America, an In
diam pageant, a luncheon to the
president and a military parade,
which will be reviewed by the pres
ident at the Plattsburg Barracks.
Addresses will be delivered here by
Senator Root, Cardinal Gibbons.
Postmaster General Lemieux of Cam
ada and Sir Lomer Gorun, Premier
Of Quebec. There will be a ban
quet and a display of fireworks in
the evening.
On Tuesday the celebration shifts
TO this city.
The presidential party and foreign
guests will arrive in the forenoon,
end will be escorted to the amphi-
theatre by United States troops and
the Vermont National Guard. Here
there will be addresses and poems.
The water pageants will be given in
the afternoon and evening. Burling-
ton plans a week Of celebration, so
fitting her program that it will not
Interfere with the Thursday events
given by the two state commissions.
One feature of the week will be
known as French Day." when the
French societies of New England and
Canada are expected to participate
In a mammoth parade.