The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-07-06
WEEKS FETE ON
HISTORIC Lake
Champlair Celebrating Its
Precautionary.
PRESIDENT TAFT PRESENT.

With Vice President Sherman, Speak
er Cannon and Other Prominent
Men He Will Help to Celebrate
Three Hundredth Anniversary of
Lakes Discovery as Well as Mem
orable Events Along Its Shores.
Crown Point, N. Y, July with
the review of the Tenth regiment of
the national guard of the state of New
York, addresses by Governor Hughes
and others and Indian pageants
Crown Point begins today the weeks
celebration of the 300th anniversary
Of the discovery of Lake Champlain
by the French explorer from whom
it takes it's name. Before the end of
the week the celebration will have
extended all along the 10 miles
length of the beautiful lake and will
have drawn to itself thousands of
visitors from the surrounding country
as we'll as from other parts of the
United States and the nearby Domin-
ion Of Canada.
The celebration commentaries not
only the tercentenary of the discovery
of the lake, but also the events in
American history in which the places
situated on the lake have taken part.
The list of celebration points reads
almost like a resume of American
history in the Seventeenth and Eight
eenth centuries and the beginning of
the Nineteenth. In it are included
Crown Point, Ticonderoga, Isle La
motto and other localities in which
the French and the English, aided on
each side by the Indians, fought for
supremacy and in which, after the
Issues of that long struggle were de-
cided in favor of Anglo-Saxon civiliza-
ton, the Americans and their British
kinsfolk fought in the Revolutionary
war and the War of 1912.
Prominent Men Taking Part.
TO help in the commemoration of
the battles and sieges and historic
meetings President Taft, Vice Presi-
dent Sherman, Speaker Cannon, Am
bassadors Bryce and Jusserand, Gov
ernor Prouty Of Vermont, Governor
Hughes of New York, Earl Grey, gov
ernor general Of Canada; Premier
Laurier of the Dominion and host
of other distinguished men will visit
the various points of interest and de-
liver addresses. President Taft's first
formal appearance will be made to-
morrow at Fort Ticonderoga, the
scene Of the triumph of Ethan Allen,
May 10, ITS. The principal addresses
there will be delivered by Speaker
Cannon and Hamilton w. Mabie, ed
itor of the Outlook, but President
Taft and the other distinguished
guests will also speak
The principal fete day will come on
Wednesday at Plattsburg. On his
way to Plattsburg the president and
his party will visit the Catholic Sum-
mer school at Cliff Haven and will
stop at the summer residence of
Smith M. Weed for luncheon. In the
afternoon there will be military
parade, followed by more speeches,
and in the evening the president and
the other guests will attend a ban
quet at the Hotel Champlain. On
Thursday the president and the men
of international prominence will be
the guests of the state of Vermont at
Burlington. Mr.. Taft will probably
leave on Friday, but the celebration
will continue at Isle Lamotte with the
dedication of great granite boulder
suitably inscribed to the memory of
Colonel Seth Warner, lieutenant to
Ethan Allen at the taking of Fort Ii
conderoga and himself the captor of
the old fort at Crown Point
Great Outdoor Celebration.
Land and water pageants of all
sorts, automobile parades, motorboat
races, fireworks, bonfires and every
imaginable feature of an outdoor fete
will be called into play during the
celebration. An especially interesting
feature is the floating island, built to
represent real island, with trees
and shrubbery, and SO constructed
that it can be towed from one part
of Lake Champlain to another. On
1t will be shown reproductions of
some of the famous battles with the
Indians fought on and near the shores
of the lake.
The tercentenary has been in charge
of two commissions, appointed by the
governors of the states of New York
and Vermont, who have been working
several months for it's success. To
the secretary of the New York com.
mission, State Senator Henry w. Hin
of Erie county, is awarded the credit
for originating the idea Of the ter
centenary, which is expected to prove
one of the most successful affairs of
the kind ever held in. the United
States. =..~ g..