The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-15
TERCENT NTENARY OF PILGRIMS IS
 MEMORIALIZED
AmbaSSadOr Page Unveils MOn- unsnt In COmmemOFatiOn Of Their Departure From
 England To Amer
 iCa ;

Southampton, Eng, Aug 15.-A me mofaaI in celebration of the tercen- 4enary Of the departure of the Pilgrims from Southampton for America was unveiled here today by Walter Hines Page, she American ambassador to Great Britain
 The ceremonies opened with lunch con in the pier pavilion presided over by the mayor of Southampton. Speech es were made by Dr. William w. Por- tai. Dr. Alexander Hiu, president of Hartley University, Southampton; John Morgan Richards and Percy AL den. M. P. Members of the Alden. fVVtnslow and Brewster families also @poks briefly After the luncheon a s the banners of various societies inter csted in the monument formed and proceeded to the memorial by way of the west gate. through which th6 ships company passed to the May flower in 1920 4 memorial service opened the unveiIing ceremonies con -ducted by the Bishop of Winchester and Rev c. s. s. Saunders, minister Of the Above Bar Congregational Chap eI, Southampton.
 The singing was led by the Free Church Choral union. Ambassador Page dedicated the monument with an ioration in which he quoted James Rus iseu LoweIPs saying that the Pilgrims kWere only coIontsts who went in search iof Cod instead of gold. He continued:.
 They had been kindly enough treat ed in England to make life tolerabfe to ahen, but sttII they wished to be Eng- t1ish subjects The blood, the instftu- lHfons of the Family, the loyalty and the trick of supremacy in the breed were thefrs and should always be theirs. In an the combinations of the races of men and in ali the workings Of cir cuu1stance no other fusion of great forces was ever so nearly invfncfb1e.''
 MT Page conbended that the Ameri- can of today was strong a. believer in his great destiny as were the Pilgrims. Puritan and Cavalier, he said, still preserve something of their differences in the new world, thus giving good llbaIance and variety to life there. He concluded:
 This monument is one of the pillars lof hope of mankind The sons of those men whose immortal achievement it commentaries are drawn nearer to you by this tribute to their fathers and they give you their reverent thauks to-day, and this Is their message. The old impulse of our destiny, which led i1he race to whatever new forms it may have taken with the changing years, is not yet spent. The high, grim spirit of the Pilgrims Stfu lives"
 After the memorial proper had been unveiled by the ambassador, the rep lEeSGnCaIfNS spaneIs which surround the base of the monument The Wins1ow panel was unveiled by Miss Rachel Wins1ow, a smeu1ber of the English branch of the family: thes Alden panel Was unveiled by Vernon A. Field, president of the Alden kindred of America; Mrs Chas. Folsom of Boston. unveiled the panel Monated by the Colonial Danes of Mas nachusetts: Joseph G. Butler, of oungstoyvn. O., performed like ser Fvice for-the Ohio branch; the Brewster isaaneI $ra@ unveiled by a member of 4he Brewster family.
 During the ceremonies, music wac provided by the Borough Police Band imnd a company of Boy Scouts formed .m guard of honor. The monument, de- signed by R. Ad. Lucas, is a column of sBtone with bronze panels representing heroic scenes in connection with the Pilgrims The cost of the monument was defrayed from public subscrfp- fiors in the United States and Eng land ana the bronzc panels were do mated by various Pilgrim societies and fhe descendants Of Pilgrim families. Ii is located on the pier beyond the west gate through which the Pilgrims pass
 ed on their way to the Mayaower. Thit
 spot was famous long before the time of the Pilgrim fathers, for tradition asserts that King Canute sat there when he ordered the sea to retreat and from this pier Shakespeare, who knew Southampton well through his visih to the Earl of Southampton, made the armies of Henry embark for theil triumphant invasion of France
 Crowds of Americans mingled witt tf1e townspeop1e on the pier and among the visitors were many representative ror organization which exist in Americs
 to keep green the memory of the Pill
 grim fathers.
 Last ni-ht in London a dinner wa. s,wiven to he representatives of th' American f1 miles and societies wnic1 have contributed to the various panell of the monument. Percy Alden M. P. Npresfded and the English Mayf1owe