Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-23
A PILGRIMAGE
Will Be MADE
FROM PHILADELPHIA OVER
WESTINGHOUSE ROUTE
TO CAMBRIDGE.
nine DAYS TO MAKE TRIP
Pageant viii Pas Through Many
Villages and Towns Little
Changed in 100 Years.

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New. York, June 22.-The route
which Washington covered In ms
journey from Philadelphia to Cam
bridge in 1875 to take command OF the
American army will be marked by 9
special pilgrimage under the auspices
of the National Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution, starting
from Philadelphia next week.
Travel . Slow Business.
'The ~clatterng cavalcade, which es.
corted General Washington to Cam.
bridge, and which Irving has said
was the gaze and wonder of every
town and village" took nine days
to make in a hurry a journey which
could easily be accomplished by rail
today between breakfast and dinner,
but the proposed pilgrimage will be
q leisurely one by automobile, start
Ing as washington did on June 70,
and concluding with ceremonies at
Cambridge on July g. the day Wash
iagton took formal command Of the
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participants will take the Today jour-
ney all the way from Philadelphia to
Cambridge, and that owe local
stretches the party will be augmented
to several hundred.
Il is proposed to make special Wis
its to historic spots Of revolutionary
days, and here and there to place a
new tablet, or dedicate some other
memorial to Washington.
The idea was presented by the
George Washington chapter of Spring
field, Mass, at the congress OF the
national society in Chicago, in May
last year, and it was resolved thatit
be carried out, with Henry F. Funder-
son of Springfield as chief marshal of
the pilgrimage. A committee of mem
bers from Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
New York, Connecticut and Massachu-
sets was appointed to cooperate.
W~ashingt0n's departure for New
England was taken just a week after
the Continental Congress at Philadel-
phia had, by unanimous vote, on
June 16, 1875, made choice of him to
be commandments of "the forces
raised and to be raised in defense of
American Liberty" The first skirn-
isles at Lexington and Concord In
April, has been answered throughout
New England by the despatch Of large
volunteer forces to Cambridge. A
richly CARRIED and poorly equipped
but enthusiastic and patriotic army of
100000 men had assembled for the
siege of Boston.
Whshington's commission was sign
ed the very day that the battle Of
Bunker Hill was fought. The propos-
al that he should he allowed $500 a
month for his pay and expenses was
adopted by the congress, but he con-
tended that he desired no pay. He
would keep an account of his expenses
and these only should be met by con-
gress.
On the night Of June %, the hur-
ried arrangements for WashingtOn's
departure had been completed, and q
farewell dinner was given in his hon
or at Philadelphia. IN cOmmemOra-
ton of this event the Sons of the Rev.
Olution will hold a banquet at Phil
adelphia on the night of June %, and
start, as Washington did, the next
morning for New York.
The Philadelphia Troop of Light
Horse, whose standard was the first
flag on which thirteen stripes appear
ed %emblematic of the thirteen colon
les, acted as W%ashington's escort.
The first nights stop is believed to
have been at Trenton, where the auto
mobile 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 9th
er New Jersey points, the party will
move on to New York, timing their
arrival to fit that of Washington at
4 O'Clock in the afternoon of June
Is.
The tablet will be placed at the
site of Col. Anthony ~Lispenard's res
idence, where Washington landed, af-
ter crossing the Hudson from Hobo
ken. This is in the vicinity of the
present Canal street, in what is now
part o fthe down town section of New
York, but which was then outside Of
the settled portion Of the city.
The New York Provincial congress
presented Washington with a very
complimentary address, to which he
replied.
The reading Of these documents
will be part of the celebration which
the Sons Of the Revolution will con-
duct at the S u%b-treasury on Wall
street, which was the site of the meet
ing place Of the Provincial congress,
on Friday, June 26 next. "A feature
will also be. an address by former
President General C. A. Pugsley. A
banquet will be neld in New York
that evening, to be addressed by the
present president general, Rogers
Clark Ballard Thurston, of Louisville,
Ky.
Washington moved on toward Eos
ton on June 26, as the pilgrimage will
do, presumably over the old post road,
hating for the night at Kingsbridge,
and continuing next day to Fairfield.
The Washington party arrived in New
Haven on June %, and reviewed a
militia company of Yale students on
the Green. Washington lodged that
night "at the house of the late Isaac
Beers" corner Of Chapel and College
streets, at the site of which, now &C.
supied by a hotel, the present pill
grims will dedicate a memorial tab
let.