The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-22
NATIONS To UNITE
IN PERRY TRIBUTE
Will Celebrate Centenary Of
i Battle Of Lake Erie.
PRESIDENT WILL SPEAK.

bration Hundred Years After Bat
tie, Marking Century of Peace Be-
tween English Speaking Peoples.
Taft to Be Orator of the Day.
The Perry's victory centennial COM
mission, whose headquarters are at
Cleveland, O., have just announced the
program for the exercises at Putin
Bay, Ohio, Sept 10 and II. This cele
bration will be international in its
scope, as it will commemorate the
equal valor and heroism Of the sailors
of both fleets participating in the bat
tie of Lake Erie, which was fought on
Sept. 10, 1913, and also the fact that
this battle marked the end of naval
warfare on the great lakes and was a
herald of the century of peace between
the English speaking peoples that will
have ensued since the signing of the
treaty of Ghent, Dec. 81, 1914.
Delegations consisting of the COVER
nors and their staffs, state officials,
members of the United States senate
and house Of representatives and other
distinguished citizens from the ten
states participating in this centennial
will be present.
Ten States Represented.
These states are Rhode Island, which
was the birthplace of Commodore Per
ry; Kentucky, which furnished many
of the members of his crew and 75 per
cent Of the soldiers of General Harri-
sons army, which, following the battle
of Lake Erie, won the battle of the
Thames, and the lake states-New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illi-
nois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Mime
sofa, which were most directly affect
ed by this battle, and Louisiana, on
whose soil the last battle of the war
of 1912 was fought. The delegations
from Rhode Island, Illinois, Michigan
and Wisconsin will go to the bay on
special boats chartered for this pur
pose.
The exercises will be opened on the
morning of Sept. 10, at 11:45 O'clock
with a national salute, this being the
hour at which the first shot of the bat
tie of Lake Erie was fired 100 years
ago.
The exercises will be held in the
large coliseum at 'Put-in-Bay. Commo-
dore George II. Worthington of Cleve-
land, president general of the inter
state board of the Perry's victory CEN
tennial commissioners, will call the
meeting to order and introduce Cover
nor Cox of Ohio, who will preside.
President to Speak.
President Woodrow Wilson will
speak for the United States and dis
tinguished Canadian for the Dominion
of Canada. The grafton of the day
will be delivered by former President
Taft, and addresses will also be deliv-
cred by Lieutenant Governor r. B..
Burchard of Rhode Island, represent
ing Perry's native state, and Rev. J. A.
Carey of Chicago, representing the ne
gro race, which did valiant service in
the battle of Lake Erie.
After these exercises the invited
guests will go to Cedar Point, where a
banquet given by the interstate board
will be held. This banquet will be at
tended by the official representatives
of the United States government and
the Dominion of Canada and the rep
resentatives of the ten states partici-
pating in the centennial. The presi-
dent of the Daughters of the War of
1872 and the governor of each of the
participating states will be invited to
respond to the toasts.
The morning Of Sept. IL the guests
will return to Put-in-Bay. On this day
will occur the impressive ceremony of
the removal from their present graves
of the bones Of the American and Brit
fish officers killed in the battle of Lake
Erie to the crypt in the Perry memo
rial, where they will be reinterred with
international honors.
Sailors Buried In Lake.
Following the battle of Lake Erie,
the sailors who were killed in the en-
gagement were buried in the lake. The
bodies of the officers were brought to
Put-in-Bay island, where they were
buried That funeral was described
by Historian George Bancroft as fol
lows:
An opening on the margin of Putin
Bay was selected for the burial place for
the officers who had fallen. The day was
serene, the breezes hushed, the water un-
rufied by a wavelet The men Of both
fleets mourned together. AS the boats
moved slowly in procession the musicians
played dirges, to which the oars kept
time. The flags showed the sign of sor-
row. Solemn minute guns were heard
from the ships. The spot where the
funeral train went on shore was a wild
solitude The Americans and British
walked in alternate couples to the graves,
like men who in the presence of eternity
renewed the relations Of brothers and
members Of one human family, and the
bodies of the dead were likewise borne
along and buried alternately. English and
American side by side and undistin-
Buished.
The exercises on the 18th Of Septem
Der will be conducted by American and