Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-26
S. A. R. PILGRIMS
REACH NEW YORK
IN PATRIOTIC TRIP
UnveiI Tablet and Visit Places
of Historical Interest in
Manhattan.

NEW YORK. June 26.-The group
of Sons of the American Revolution,
who are traversing the route followed
by General George Washington from
Philadelphia to Cambridge TO assume
command of the Continental army, to-
day planned to visit Fraunce's Tav-
ern. Later they were to go on an
extended sightseeing tour of the city,
visiting places made famous by CO.
lonial day celebrities
Tomorrow the pilgrims will unveil
a tablet at Kingsbridge and from
there the route leads to East Chester,
where memorial services will be held.
New Rochelle will be the last stop in
this State
Yesterday the pilgrims unveiled a
bronze memorial tablet erected in
front of the old building at 1875 Hud-
son street. nearly opposite the site
on which stood the Lispenard mansion
where Washington was entertained.
Albert j. Squier, chairman of the
New York committee on arrange
ments, met the tourists in Jersey City,
and David L. Pierson, of East Or
ange, who performed the same func-
to deliver the pilgrims formally into
the custody of the Empire State So
ciety. r. c. Ballard Thruston, of
Louisville, national president of the
organization, said their passage
through New Jersey had been moth
ing short of triumphal progress
Had l been a crowned head he
averred. "I could not have been re-
ceived with greater enthusiasm, but
it was evident that the honor was
evoked. not by the organization, but
by what the organization is commem-
Grating"
The pilgrims are proceeding by the
same stages as Washington and con-
seuuently are breaking no speed rec
ords: but the frequent stops for ora
tory and to unyeil tablets had leIt
their effects, and most of them were
very hot and very tired when they
crossed the Hudson.
The party left New Brunswick yes
terday morning and held services on
the way at the grave of Abraham
Clark. a signer of the Declaration of
Independence. at Railway; at the
First PRESBYTERIAN Church of Eliza
beth. where Rev. DR.. William Force
Whitaker delivered an address, and
at Newark. where they were received
bv 1000 school children waving flags.
Il had been the intention of the New
York members to provide guard oil
honor to follow the automobiles from
the ferry to the site of the first Ger
emony here, but Colonel Oliver H.
Bridgman, of the New York cavalry,
who had been asked to arrange for a
mounted escort, decided that 1t was
too hot. In consequence he got Mo
tcrcycle Pat-olman Eynon and Geld
eman. of Traffic c squad, who MADE
a highly satisfactory escort.
Tomorrow the trip will be taken to
the revolutionary landmarks OF up
town Manhattan and the Bronx, with
exercises at Kingsbridge. East Ches-
ter and New Rochelle. The party then
goes on toward Boston.
A fac smile of the original commls-
sion received by Washington from the
! Continental Congress goes with the
party. David l.. Pierson, historian
| general, received it ct the New Jersey
| border from Pennsylvania ofhcials
and gave it over yesterday to LOUIS
Amin Ames. president of the Empide
State society. Mr.. Ames will take II
to the Connecticut line and give II
over to officials of the sons from that
State. who, in turn, will transfer II
to the Massachusetts delegates 10
take on to Cambridge.