Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-19
Will Travel Over Washington's
Route From Philadelphia
to Cambridge.
SONS OF REVOLUTION
PROMOTE THE JOURNEY
Markers Will Be Erected at I'm
portant Points-Start
June %.

NEW YORK, June 1?.-The route
which Washington covered in his journey
from Philadelphia to Cambridge In 1ti3
to take command of the American army
will be marked by a special pilgrimage
under the auspices of the National So
ciety of the Sons of the American ReVo-
luton. starting from Philadelphia next
week.
THE Gathering cavalcade. which es-
corted Gen. Washington to Cambridge.
and which Irving has said. was the
gaze and wonder of every town and VII
lage," took nine days to make in hur-
~ a journey which could easily be &C
conpHshed by rail today between break
fast and dinner, but the proposed Pill
srimage will be leisurely one by auto
mobile starting. as Washington dld'
June o3, and concluding with ceremonies
at Cambridge, July 3-the day Wash
ineton took formal command of the
army.
II is expected that more than a hun
dred participants will make the ten-day
journey all the way from Philadelphia TO
cambridge and that over local stretches
the party will be augmented TO several
hundred.
II is proposed to make special visits to
historic spots of revolutionary days. and
dedicate some other memorial to Wash
ington.
Origin of the Idea.
The idea was presented by the George
Washington Chapter of Sprinsf1eld.
Mass. at the congress of the national
society in Chicago in May last year,
and it was resolved that it be carried
out, with Henry F. Punderson OF
Springfield as chief marshal of the
pilgrimage. a committee of members
from Pennsylvania, New Jersey. New
York, Connecticut and Massachusetts
was appointed to cooperate.
Washingtons departure for New Eng
land was taken just a week after the
Continental Congress at Philadelphia
had. by unanimous vote June 16, 1I15,
made choice of him to be commander
in-chief of the forces raised and to
be raised in defense of American
liberty" The first skirmishes at Lex
ington and Concord, in April, had been
answered throughout New England by
the dispatch of large volunteer forces
to Cambridge. motley-garbed and
poorly. equipped but enthusiastic and
patriotic army of 10000 men had as
sembled for the siege of Boston.
Washington's commission was signed
the very day that the battle of Bunker
Hill was fought The proposal that he
pay and expenses was adopted by the
Congress. but he contended that he de-
sired no pay. He would keep an account
of his expenses and these only should be
met by Congress.
The night of June - the hurried ar
rangements for Washington's departure
had been completed. and a farewell din
ner was given in his honor at Philadel-
phia. In commemoration of this event
the Sons of the Revolution will hold
banquet at Philadelphia the night of June
-. and start, as Washington did, the
next morning for New York.
Acted as His Escort.
The Philadelphia Troop of Light Horse,
whose standard was the first flag on
which thirteen stripes appeared, en-
blematic of the thirteen colonies, acted
as Washingtons escort. The first nights
stop is believed to have been at Trenton.
where the automobile pilgrimage will also
stop. The dedication of historic tablets
will be part of the exercises here, as it
will be at practically every place where
the party stops.
BY way of New Brunswick and other
New Jersey points the party will move on
to New York. timing its arrival to fit
that of Washington-at o'clock in the
afternoon of June %.
The tablet will be placed at the
site of Col Anthony I.ispenard's resi-
dence where Washington landed after
crossing the Hudson from Hoboken
This is in the vicinity of the present Ca
nal street, in what is now part of the
downtown section of New York, but
which was then outside of the settled
portion of the city.
The New York provincial congress pre-
scented Washington with a very compli-
mentary address, to which he replied.
The reading of these documents will be
part of the celebration which the Sons of
the Revolution will conduct at the sub
treasury. on Wall street, which was the
site OF the meeting place of the provin-
cial congress. Friday, June 26. fea-
ture will also be address by former
President General c. A. Pugsley. ban