The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-07-01
TERCENTtNARY
PROGRAM NEXT WEEK
Story Of Events on Historic Shores
of Lake Champlain-President Ar
riyes in New York on Tuesday.

hundred years ago in the summer
of 1869, Samuel de Champlain, ex-
plorer and colonizer, leading an ex-
petition southwark from Canada,
discovered the picturesque lake
which bears his name. The precise
date is not known, but it was either
on or very near the 4th Of July, and
to celebrate the tercentenary of this
memorable event New York and
Vermont have joined in arranging
exercises for the week of July 40.
The federal government and Canada
will also participate.
The tercentenary commissions of
New York and Vermont have ar
ranged elaborate programs in which
President Taft, Vice President Sher-
man, Speaker Cannon, Ambassador
Jusserand of France, Ambassador
Bryce of Great Britain, United
States Senators Root and Depew,
Governor Hughes of New York, Gov
ernor Prouty of Vermont, Postmas-
ter Lemmieux of Canada and other
dignitaries will take part.
Churches throughout New York
and Canada have been invited to
observe Sunday, July 4, with spec
| ial services. Cardinal Gibbons and
other prominent clergymen will
participate in the services at Platts-
burgh. Indian pageants will be
presented daily at various places.
An artificial island has been con-
structed by covering floating barges
with earth and rocks. Trees,
bushes and rocks will be growing
on the island, and stockades, wig
vans, tepees and sandy beaches
will lend realistic setting to the
pageants. One hundred and fifty
native Indians, descendants of the
original tribes that occupied por-
tions of the Champlain valley at the
same time of its discovery by Cham
plain will reproduce the battle of
Champlain with the Iroquois, and
will also present a dramatic YER
sion of Longfellow's "Hiawatha. "
The island will be towed about the
lake to the places where the formal
exercises are to be held.
Monday, July 5, will be given oI :.
to the ceremonies at Crown Point,
the site of old Fort Crown Point,
commemorative of the part it played
in the country's early history.
There will be review of the Tenth
regiment which will be in camp
there, and the Indian pageants will
follow the formal exercises, which
include addresses by Gov. Hughes,
former Mayor Seth Low of New
York City, Albert C. Barnes of
Chicago, chief justice of the super
ior court of Illinois. and DR.. Gin
ton Scollard.
President Taft and party will ar
rive on Tuesday from Norwich, Ct,
and will attend the exercises that
day at Fort Ticonderoga, the scene
of Ethan Aliens triumph. The
New York state commission and its
party of distinguished guests, in
Guiding members Of the legislature
will arrive from Albany on a spec
ial train. Here the chief address
will be delivered by Speaker Can
non, and the historic address by
Hamilton Mabie, editor of The Out
look President Taft, Vice Presi-
dent Sherman, Senator Root, Am
bassador Bryce, Ambassador Jusser
and and Percy Mackaye are also
on the program of speakers. Fol.
lowing the addresses the party will
leave for Hotel Champlain on Bluff
Point, three miles south of Platts-
burgh where the New York com.
mission will entertain the numerous
distinguished guests.
Champlain day at Plattsburgh or
Wednesday is expected to be the
banner day of the weeks celebra.
ton. During tn forenoon President
Taft will visit the Catholic Summer
School of America at Cliff Haven
on his way to Plattsburgh. Later
the President and other guests viii
be entertained at luncheon at the
residence of Smith NJ. Weed.
military parade in which State
Federal and Canadian troops and
possibly naval reserves and West
Point cadets will participate, will bt
reviewed during the afternoon by
the President and other guests, af
ter which addresses will be deliver,
ed by a number of speakers. Sena
tor Root will make the principa
speech, and Canadian guests includ
ing Postmaster General Lemieu,
and Sir Lemuel Guam, Premier O