The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-06
TAI g TRIBUTE
To PILGRIMS
President Delivers Address at
Dedication of Memorial to
Pioneer Heroes.
CEREMONIES HELD AT
PR0VINCET0WN, MASS.
Presence of Eight Battleships
of Atlantic Fleet Adds to
the Occasion.

greater duty ever devolvcd on Province
towns two criers. George Washburn
Rcdy and Walter Smith. than their an
nouncement today Of the coming Of Pres
ident Taft and the dedication OF the
granite shaft on Town hill, erected to
the memory OF the Pilgrim fathers,
This old custom OF crying important
events through the streets remains intact
in Provincetown.
was laid August T. 1907, by President
Roosevelt, Its dedication by President
Taft attracted crowd that taxed 10
their tfs limits the narrow streets OF ,ds TINS
blowing straight across the bay from
Beverly to Cape Cod. and. running before
the wind, the presidents yacht. The May
flower. came flying across to be welcomed
by a mighty array Of the nations naval
power.
Preparations for receiving the crowd
pleted last night and before the eXer-
clses today the feet sent ashore a couple
OF thousand of its sailors, who formed
along the streets from the wharf where
the president landed TO the grand stand.
The principal act OF the dedication OF
the monument was the nnveiltng OF
bronze tablet, over the door facing the
harbor. which was given by President
Emeritus Charles w. Eliot OF Harvard.
Pomp and Ceremony.
the Maytlowcr came around the little
white beacon at the end OF the long
point and passed I'm between the lines OF
battleships
Eight of the great vessels were here TO
greet the president. the Connecticut,
Michigan, Mississippi; Idaho. South Car
9Iina, louisiana; Kahsas and md New W
the first gun doomed from the flagship
Connecticut. followed by twenty guns
from all the ships. The sailors manned
the rails and the entire ships companies
stood at attention.
The Mayflower dropped anchor at the
head of the line at ?.30 Il IN. and Presi-
dent Taft Immediately went on board the
Connecticut, where he received the COM
manding officers OF the fleet.
The reception on the Connecticut last
ed for about half an hour and then the
president started Tor shore.
The launch from the Maynower. bear
ing President Taft, reached shore at 1890
o'clock The president was greeted by
Henry Sears, president OF the Pilgrim Me-
mortal association, and others. He was
followed by Secretary of the Navy Meyer,
United States Senators Lodge and Wet
more and Justice White of the supreme
court OF the United States.
President Taft and the other guests
were driven up the Hill to tho grand stand
at the foot of the monument
Holland Represented.
President Emeritus Charles Eliot OF
Harvard university delivered an histori-
cal address and was followed by NJ. Van
Weede, charge d affaires of the Neither
lands legation at Washington, whose gov
ernment was represented on this occasion
because the Pilgrims sailed from Ley
den.
The formal transfer OF the monument
from the government commission which
directed It's construction. TO the Cape Cod
Pilgrim Memorial association was made
by Senator Lodge.
Representatives James Z. McCleary of
Minnesota, who supported the bill In con-
gress for "A governmental appropriation
10 assist in the erection of the monument
was the next speaker Governor Draper
introduced President Taft, who was
warmly apDlauded.
President Taft's opening words In his
dedication speech were descriptive of the
landing of the Pilgrims at Provincetown
and the causes which drove them from
England. He said
Here two hundred and ninety years
ago, a band OF one hundred pilgrims, in
a small crowded and leaking vessel first
saw their new home. Other efforts had
been made on the New England coast 70
found colonies for profit, but this was tho
first attempt made by men seeking po-
litical and religious independence TO Sc
cure an asylum In America.
Typical Pioneers.
They were OF the ycomanry of the
farmer class, Their ministers were uni
yersity bred men, but the rest were
humble, Godfearing persons; who were
avowed non -conformsts and had been
prosecuted as such I'm their homes In the
eastern part of England
President Taft referred in some detail
TO the exposure and privation suffered
by the settlers. and said:
1.-THE spirit which prompted them 10
brave the sea, TO land on this forbiddSng
const in winter and to live here, has
made the history of this country what II
is 1t prompted and fought the Revolu-
tiouary war. 1t welcomed and fought
the civil war and has furnished the
United States the highest ideal OF moral
life and political citizenship.
1T is meet therefore, The president
States. as well as the state OF Massa-
chuse,ts should unite In placing here u
memorial to the pilgrims.
.'rhe warshlps that are here with their
cannon typfy the strength of that gov
ernmcnt whose people have derived
much from the spirit and example OF the
heroic band.
'"rhis magnificent memorial will tit
tingly remind the traveller by sea of the |
beginning of New England and note the
fact that those whose spirit OF liberty |
was Ia persist for centuries. even TO the |
foundation and preservation OF our great
republic here first saw tho land and
here first put foot on the Shore