Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-16
ROUTE FOR S. A. R.
PILGRIMAGE FIXED

The route to be taken on the Wash
ington pilgrimage Of the Sons of the
American Revolution of Kew York
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Mas
sachusetts has been announced. The
pilgrimage will be held from june .
to July >, inclusive, and will consist
OF tour over the historic ground be-
tween Philadelphia and Cambridge.
Along the route tablets viii be placed
to mark the march of Washington
and his soldiers.
Following a banquet at Philadel-
phia, Monday, June %, the members
of the society will enter New Jersey
over the bridge north of the railroad
span at Trenton on the morning of
June %, and proceed to the State
House. Governor Fielder Will receive
them at noon, in the Assembly cham
Der and Adjutant-General Wilbur Il.
Sadler, ir, will deliver an address on
Battles of Trenton.
After luncheon, which will be served
in a large tent on the State House
lawn, the pilgrims will participate in
the unYeiling of a tablet at st. Mich
aers Church. The tablet is the gift
of the New Jersey Society, Sons of the
American Revolution.
Princeton viii be visited in the aft
ernoon. On the way a halt will be
made at Stony Brook Cemetery,
where a wreath will be placed on the
grave of Richard Stockton. President
John Grier Hibben, of Princeton, Will
receive the visitors In Nassau Hall.
Later a wreath will be placed on the
grave of John Witherspoon. The trav-
oInr.s taturt1 n frFo0tOn after 8
visit 10 Rocky Hill, General WASH
lngton's headquarters.
Rutgers College will be the first
stop of the tourists at New Bruns-
wick, which they will reach at ~
o'clock Wednesday morning, June "a.
They will be received by President
Demarest and then will go to the
Second Reformed Church to unVeh
tablet.
The battlehelds of Monmouth and
Freehold will be visited in the after
noon. There also will be visit to
Old Tennent Church, where Com
patriot cowart, vice president of
Monmouth Chapter, S. a. r., will de-
scribe the battle of Monmouth. The
soldiers monument at Freehold Will
be the next stop.
Elizabeth and Newark will be Wis
tied Thursday in the order given. AZ
Railway. en- route, the pilgrims will
place wreath on the grave OF Aora-
ham Clark Rev. DIR. William Force
Whitaker. chaplain general of thesS.
\. r., will receive them at the Old
First Church. Elizabeth, and at 10
o'clock the start will be made for this
city
The tourists will spend more than
an hour in Newark, and all the local
members of the S. A. r., with their
families. are expected to participate
i'm the unwilling of the tablet at
Broad and Market streets. Members
will be given information of plans
for the reception of the visitors here
from the society's headquarters, 100
Broad street,
After a visit to the PRESBYTERIAN
church and burying ground at SPRING
field the party will have luncheon
at Washington's Headquarters, Nor
ristoWn. The afternoon will be spent
on the trip to Jersey City. The route
will be through Hanover, Eagle
Rock, Llewellyn Park, Branch Brook
Park to Belleville turnpike and to
Desbrosses street ferry to New York.
New Haven. Hartford, Springfield
and Worcester will be visited en-
route to Cambridge which will be
reached July 2. Thursday night, June
%, and Friday will be spent in New
York. the next two days at New
Haven and one day in each of the
other cities named.