The sun., 1910-07-31
IN MEMORY OR THE PILGRIMS
.NONI NEWT To BE DEDICtTED
an FRIDtI.
% Commentaries the First LANDING OF
the PnGrim FATHERS on American
soil and the MaynoMer COMPACT
President TAFT NuI Take par,

y grim FATHERS on American soil and the
, Guing of the compact In the cabin Of the
NAyhower as she lay in Provincetown
--Arhor II 70 be dedicated next Friday.
august S J. Henry Sears. president Of
she Pilgrim Memorial Association; Eben
Draper. Governor OF Massachusetts:
William n. Taft. President Of the United
states: Charles W. Eliot. president emeritus
Harvard University. and Senator Henry
,uut Lodge will. in the order named
urhver addresses. The PRINCIPAL address
a. the day will he by DR.. Eliot
II Was expected that the British Am
t,-sador and the Minister Plenipo,entiary
from he Netherlands would participata
iu the exercises. but mourning etiquette
incident upon the death OF King Edward
rr-c ludes the presence of Mr. Bryce
while the Netherlands representative il
visiting his home and will be away until
after the date OF the dedication.
The Pilgrim monument is a shaft of
granite resting upon a REINFORCED con-
crete foundation. built upon the crest of
Prpvincetown highest hill. The hill
sItuated in the centre OF the town and
only 600 ieet from the sea . margin. is
ninety feet high. The shaft rises ?s2 fee,
higher.
The monument project got its real start
IN 1904. when the Commonwealth OF Mas
sa"husstts agreed to give s75 900 toward
the object IL the promoters would raise a
Ike sum IN q specified time Within the
time limit the Pilgrim Memorial As.ocia.
uon acquired SO. .00O from the national
Government and $4,000 from other
sources, and work OF eHcavating a nit
n reooiv. a concrete foundation was be-
gun early in July. 1901.
In that hoIs concrete reinforced
With steel rods was laid in succe..ivs
layers. Twenty -four thousand cubic fee,
of -and Was removed tn receive the great
hASe SDich. sunk FIVE and half feet in the
ground and rising four and a half feet
above the surface. is ~ fest square a.
the bottom hut batters in to - fee,
square At the ton. Ths cornerstone. in
whose laying President Roosevelt assisted,
August 20. 1907. 10 S feet 10 inches long,
feet wide. 81, feet thick and weighs nearly
eco pounds.
Il was nearly q year after the laying
Of the cornerstone that the actual
work Of erecting the monuInsnt was
t-g'm. That work was started early
In the summer % Isn- On August rs |
is9, the final stone of the monument was !
laid. Ia laying u two girls. Isahsi A. |
u
aged ~ years. took rart
With the exception ot the Washington |
Monument the Pilgrim Monument IN
ths tallest Of solid construction in this /
oaTntry Its weight 10 about ~ OOO 40 1
Pounds exclusive of the hasa The |
~ei Sht Of the tower aud hA~e is approIi-
maisly 52SO tons. This great weight |
r"stS upon a hill Of riRin sand The |
hNse of the monument il ~ feet square
The walls at the base are feet thick |
while at the hattlemented top the thick
ness W still greater.
Inchor rods OF steel set in concr.,e
givssdded stnen 9Th 90 the tower through
out il antire length. The Granite blocks 4
q ~hsch u "a biilt are laid IN concrete
When a short time ago experts detailed /
from The office ~ the United States sngi- |
neern in Boston made scientific tests ~ |
The monument foundation to ascertain |
n u had ainched under the great pressure
imposed ON u and u the monument had /
varied from the exact perpendicular /
" was found that the whole structure
had settled only one-quarter Of an inch.
that depression being uniform at all /
points and that the structure had not
varied hairs breadth from the per-
pendcular.
The interior of the monument is II
feet square Ascent is made by a COM
hlns'tion of the inclined plane and step
sy-tems composed ~ REINFORCED con-
crete and extending from the mon nument
base 70 the second observation platform
under the big arch at the top 81 the monu-
rent, 2ol feet above the hilltop.
The architect is Willard 7. Sears The
design - a near copy of the town hall
tower at Siena, Italv The shaft 10 slsn-
der and carries in width aloft until nearly
go feet above the ground. where il " idens
out with buttressed head adorned with
Rargoyles
Memorial stones 10 the number ~ IoO
or more. the gift of a. many towns and
cities associAted with the Pilgrims. occupy
inches IN the interior facing Of the monu-
President Taft will arrive here about
. N A. VI in the Presidential yacht May
flower and will review and be saluted by
'ha big guns Of the Atlantic battleshi ip
s1uadron. which 10 20 arrive here on the
evening Of August Z. The Presidential
party will be met bv q delegation com
posed ~ Officers of the Pilgrim Memorial
association. town officials and others
and be escorted u the monument site.
After the exercises on the hill a banquet
" ill he given in the town hall
II IL expected that fully 1000 officers
ard sailors from the battleships in hArbor
vii land To participate in the exercises
~ the day.
Provincetown is situated at the very
'lp u Cape Cod. SIXTY miles sea award from
'he Massachusetts, mainland II il
rrosperous town OF .70o inhabitants
Three life saving stations and three
ryht houses. Race Point (erected in
l'iel. Long Point us7e) and Wood End
p-72i. are within its borders. First
s"ttled in 1890. IL has since been wholly
srpDorted by the fisheries Its present
s-ling feet contains p large vessels
and besides the biggest motor fishing
7""t numerically 70 bs found on the
\sv England coast. 225 OF that style Of
fsnIng craft averaging three men a boat.
comprising that particular feet. which
is employed in bay shore fishing the year
through
Hero in November. 1920. the Pilgrims
made landing: here OCCURRED the first
fir'h that Of Peregrine White and the
first death. that OF Dorothy May Bradford.
m the Pilgrim band after the Atlantic
yOyage
n became precinct under Truro
June 10. i7It. and a town June ~. i777. In
~nt years 10 has become the resort Of
thousands OF health and pleasure seeking
. In t,la,a ~ r.rdaz xynt.a nd it, haU