New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-04

Here for some reason the chauffeur Of q
waiting motor bus dived under the ybus
and turned a crank. and the rest OF the
Rev Mr.. de Normsndy's speech was lost
I'm the medley OF sounds that ensued
Another thing that much distracted the
audience was ladder which four pho
tographers Communicated from some work
men and took turns mounting for snap
shots Of the scene. while the three I'M
mounted ones braced Il from below. No
one, ever knew where that ladder was
going TO appear next. and IL kept tho audi
ence guessing.
First II shot UP from behind Split Rock
Next IL came rusting through the branches
Of tree In the rear. But al last II fell
with a crash and two photographers and
its peregrinations ceased.
Aside from these little disturbances. the
Danes had a peaceful celebration. The
went out from their headquarters al No
los West 10th street. 40 OF them, in motor
buses. and the way did not seem long he
cause they always have so much 10 say
about their ancestors. The sky was blue
The white clouds drifted slowly The tiny
river, named after Anne Hutchinson.
ploughed placidly past the spot where on
that iong-ago night OF carnage her brave
spirit went out
Would IL have pleased her in her lifetime
10 know that some Of the descendants or
those Boston men whose prosecutions
drove her forth into the wilderness were
to do her honor In the year l9ll'
One OF those descendants was j. Edward
Weld. who said in his speech yesterday
that he had been hammering away for SIX
years on the project or tablet 20 Anne
Hutchinson.
II couldn't get anybody 10 listen 70 me
at first" he said. but at last the Colonial
Danes took hold OF it, and then the sun
burst out. That's always the way when
women undertake z thing. This is the
woman's age. We had stone age,
bronze age. a long mans age. and now We
have the wOmans age
Mr.. Yields campaign was q campaign Of
education for the Danes. according to him
They didn't seem 10 know much about
Anne Hutchinson" he observed. "Of ten
Colonial Danes whom 7 approached in one
week two had no idea who she was. four
/ thought she was a witch. and four sup
posed she was burned for QUakeress In
Boston
Mr.. Weld said he used 20 be ashamed ~
being descended from one Of those eigh-
teen judges who oanshed Anne Hutchinson
from Boston. but since discovering that
there were about twenty-five thousand
more OF those Judges descendants. and
that forty ~ them were Colonial Danes
he felt better These descendants OF the
prosecutors were well represented yester-
day. They hocked around the tablet rever-
entally and said hard things about their
ancestors. one Of them, Mrs. \. Weeks
brought bunch OF lilies and presented II TO
Mrs. william Robinson. president Of the
Danes, for the state. and Mrs. Robinson
laid the lilies on the tablet.
In fact. the only person who wasn't COM
pletey down on those old Puri,ans was
former Judge William Hornblower who in
tmated that Mrs. Hutchinson was put out
OF Boston not because OF her religious
opinions. but because she stirred up so
much disputatiOn.
She was probably a very uncomfortable
neighbor," he said.
A statement OF Judge Hornolower that
all that is known Of William Hutchinson
is that ne was Anne Hutchinsons husband