Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-08-10
GREAT DAY FOR
PROvINCET0WN
Many Distinguished Guests Are
Within Her Gates
GREAT FLEET IN THE HARBOR

Ceremony In Connection With Dedica
ton of Pilgrim Monument Partici-
pated In by President Taft, Gov
ernor Draper and Other Men of Ma
tionaI Prominence-Great Shaft
Stands as Firmly Upon Its Sand
Foundation as Hills of Bay State
ThemseIves-ResuIt of Great Feat
In Engineering
Provincetown, Mass, Aug. S.
With several great ships of war and
hundreds of smaller craft filling the
spacious harbor, with thousands of
gaily dressed naval officers and Wis
| itors thronging the streets, Province
| town is celebrating its greatest day in
connection with the dedication of the
Pilgrim monument.
The total number of warships in
attendance is twenty-one. There are
now sixteen battleships in the heart
shaped harbor, with dispatch boats,
GOLFERS and supply ships. The fleet
will remain until next Monday.
A committee consisting of the pres1-
dent of the Pilgrim Memorial asso-
citation, the governor of Massachusetts
and the chairman Of the selectmen of
Provincetown met President Taft as
he landed at the dock at 10:45 this
morning. There was procession
from the dock to the place of the cere-
mony on Town hill.
The order of exercises at the dedica-
ton was as follows:
Prayer by Rev. James De Norman
die of Boston.
Music, the Hymn of the Pilgrims,
by the Harvard Quartet. Words by
D. E. Griffen and music by Lester M.
Bartlett.
Introductory remarks by j. H.
Sears, president of the Pilgrim Me-
mortal association.
Address by President Emeritus
Eliot of Harvard university.
Address by M. Van Weede, charge
d'affairs of the Netherland legation in
Washington.
Music by the Salem Cadet band.
Transfer of the Pilgrim monument
from the building commission to the
Cape Cod Pilgrims Memorial asso-
citation by Senator Lodge.
Address in reply to Lodge and in
behalf of the Memorial association by
: William B. Lawrence of Medford.
Music. THE Landing of the Pill
grims," by the Harvard Quartet. The
! words are by Mrs. Felicia Hemens.
Address by former Congressman
McCleary of Minnesota.
Address by Governor Draper, in
" PRODUCING President Taft.
p Dedicatory address by the President
! of the United States.
: dwelling the great memorial tablet
by Miss Barbara Hoyt, a tenth gem
Grafton descendant of Governor
n Brewster.
o Address by Henry H. Batan of Hy'
o annis.
!, Music by the Salem Cadet band.
A banquet will be held at the Towr
. hall this afternoon at which time
speeches will be made by Presiden
! Taft, Governor Draper and others.
. The Pilgrim memorial monument i
ESQ feet inches in height. 1t cos
$50 900, of which the federal govern
ment gave $40, 900, the Massachusett
legislature 5000, the town o
o Provincetown $4,000, while various as
sociations and individuals contribute
: the remainder.
e The monument, while being a per
n petual memorial to the first landin
of the Pilgrims, is to serve as bea
k con to sailors as they round tn
er dreaded Cape Cod shoals.
l. The shaft is seventeen feet squar
10 inside from the base to the lanter
= tower platform. This is 210.6 fee
above the base. The top, or lanter
a tower of the monument, is fiftee
&c feet square inside and nineteen out
is side. The tower tapers slightly frol
twenty seven feet at the base
twenty three at the lantern towe
platform.
Inside the light is furnished by elet
by tricity. While the monument is q
feet in height, from the elevation
vn Town hill, on which it is built,
to rises to a height of $40 feet above tt
ng level of the sea.
he Many of the stones of which Il
e. huge pile is made were contributed
raj cities and towns of Massachusetts al
by different organizations.
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