New-York tribune., 1913-09-11
NATIONS AND STATES
PAY HONOR TO PERRY
Join in Celebrating the Centen.
NAL OF His Great Victory
on Lake Erie.
TAFT ORATOR OF THE DAY
Elk President Dwells on the
Hundred Years of Peace That
Followed Governors
and Others Speak.

Cedar Point. Ohio. Sept. lO-The cele-
bration or the centennial anniversary OF
III" battle Of Lake Eric. September 10.
1873 and the commemoration OF one hun
drod years Of peace between Great Britain
and the United States. under the direction
Of the Interstate Board Of the Pcrry's
Victory Centennial Commissioners, began
bore to-day.
Guests Of honor we're ex-Presldent
William II. Taft. Or. John 4. Macdonald
Of Toronto: tho Governors Of Ohio. Penn
sylvania, Michigan. Illinois, Wisconsin.
New York. Rhode Island. Kentucky. In
diana and Minnesota most OF whom we're
accompanied by their staffs: Mrs William
g. Slade president Of the National Society
Of the Daughters Of the War OF 1872:
Lieutenant General Nelson \. Miles
members of the Perrys Victory Centen-
NAL Commission. representing the ma
tlonal government and the ten partici-
pating states and a host Of state officials
and prominent men,
vt . O'Clock this morning the guests
embarked for Put-in-Bay on board special
boats, and at llIj o'clock at Putin Bay.
Just one hundred years from the moment
when the opening gun was fired In the
battle of Lake Erie, the public exercises
began near the site OF the Perry Memo
rial. 4 great audience lad assembled.
George II. Worthington. president gen.
eral OF the Interstate Board. called the
meeting TO order, and introduced Cover
nor James NJ. Cox OF Ohio as master Of
ceremonies. The Rev. Gslbraith II. Perry.
OF Cambridge. y. Y. a descendant OF tho
hero OF the battle Of Lake Erie, delivered
the invocation. and Governor Cox intro
duced Mr.. Taft ds the orator OF the day
IN the retrospection Of one hundred
years wc can weigh its significance said
Mr. Taft Nothing has developed in
these years 10 diminish the courage, pa
triotism and skill of the commander and
his men as they appeared 10 their con-
tcmporaries: but the consequences Of the
battle and the war Of which II was one
OF a few bright spots in a field OF gloom
were strikingly benciiccnt and promise to
grow even more so in the second century
upon which we are now entering
Mr. Taft sketchcd the biography Of
Commodore Perry. from his birth in
Rhode Island on August %. l7sj. TO the
supreme moment of MS career-the naval
engagement OF West Sister Island one
hundred years ago-and TO his sudden
death i'm Venezuela or his thirty-fourth
birthday. Ills youth, the difficulties en-
countcrcd in building and manning his
feet, and his courag, in the crisis which
turned the tide of victory were made the
et,lt.cty ~ NJ ouippt.
I'VE celebrate the centennial of this
battle not IN the spirit of a triumphal
victory OF arms, but I'm the deep gratitude
that one hundred years has not seen its
repetition. No historical review can give
as much satisfaction to him who hopes
for permanent international peace "a the
contrast between the attitude OF the two
people then and now
After the Putin Bay exercises tho party
returned to Cedar Point, where a dinner
was held attended by one thousand guests
and five hundred spectators. representa-
tive Milton W Shrcvc. Of the Pennsyl-
vauia Commission. greeted the diners I'm
behalf Of the Interstate Board and John
H. Clarke of the ohio commission, acted
as POSTMASTER
Addresses were made by Governor Cox
Of Ohio, Governor Ealston of Indiana,
Governor Pothicr of Rhode Island, Gov
ernor Dunno Of Illinois, Governor Tener
OF Pennsylvania. Governor McCreary of
Kentucky. Governor Ferris Of Michigan.
Governor McGovcrn OF Wisconsin, Gov
cruor Sulzer OF New York, Mrs William
Gerry Slade. Lieutenant General Miles.
Or. Macdonald and eN-President Taft.
That part OF tO-days celebration held
at Putin Bay took place on the site OF
the Perry Memorial. which is now in the
initial stages OF erection. The central
motive Of the memorial, as II will be
when completed. will be column 3jD
feet in height which will stand alone
and dominate the surrounding waters and
country. II will be surmountcd by mas
yivc bronze tripod, the bowl of which will
he Illuminated by cluster OF incan-
descent lights.
The architect Of the memorial is j. II.
Frccdlandcr, Of New York City, his asso-
clate being \. u. Seymour, jr., also of
New York.