Arizona republican., 1914-06-20
Special Pilgrimage Under the Auspices of the Sons of the American Revolu- tiOn is Planned for Next Week
BY AUTOMOBILE.
 NOT ON SPEEDS
The Journey from Phila- delphia to Cambri d dge Will Be Made in Leis- urely Stages, Concluding on July 3
rAssoCIArED PRESS pIsPATCH1

| ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATcH1 i NEW YORK, June 19.-The route which Washington covered in his journey from Philadelphia to Cam ] bridge in 1775 to take command of the American army will be marked l by a special pilgrimage under the auspices of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution staI ting from Philadelphia next week. The clattering cavalcade," which escorted 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, journey which could easily be accomplished by rail l today between breakfast and dinner, but the proposed pilgrimage will be leisurely one by automobile, starting as Washington did on June 23, and concluding with ceremonies at Cam bridge on July 3-the day Washing ton took formal command of the army. It is expected that more than hundred 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. It is proposed to make special visits , to historic spots of revolutionaly days, and here and there to place new tablet. or dedicate some other memor- ial to Washington.
 The idea was presented by the of Nrhr- n O field, Mass. at the congress of the national society in Chicago in May Hast year and it was resolved that 1t be carrieed out, with Henry F. Pund- erson of Springfield as chief marshal of the pilgrimage. A committee of members from Pennsylvania, New Jersey. New York, Connecticut and l lMassac chusetts was appointed to CO., operate.
 Washington's departure for New England was taken week after the l Continental Congress at Phlladelphla | had. by unanimous vote. on June It. l1775. made choice of him to be com mander- in -chief of the forces raised and to be raised in defense Of Amerl- can Liberty" The first skirmlshes at Lexington and Concord In Aprl' had been answered throughout New
 England by the despatch of large vol unteer forces to Cambridge. A mote ilv-garbed and poorly equipped but en- thusiastic and patriotic almy or zo'- 900 men had assembled for the siege of Boston.
 1 Washington's commission was signed the very dav that the battle of Bun 1 ker Hill was fought. The propoSdi that he should be allowed $500 month for his pay and expenses was adopted by the congress, but he con l tended that he desired no pay. lie would keep an account of his eX- penses and these only should be met | by congress.
 | On the night of June 22nd, the hur- ried arrangements for Washington departure had been completed, and a farewell dinner was given in his honor at Philadelphia. in commemoratlon of this event the Sons of the ReVolu- tion will hold a banquet at Phlladei- phia on the night of June 22, ana start, as Washington did, the next morning for New York.
 The Philadelphia Troop of Light
 Horse whose standard was the 1lrst
 flag on which thirteen stripes ap-
 peared emblematic of the thirteen | colonies acted as Washington's es- cort. The first nights stop is be-
 1ieved to have been at. Trenton, where the automobile pilgrimage will also stop. The dedication of historic 1 tablets will be part of the eXer-
 cises 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 their arrival to fit that of Washing ton at four o'clock in the afternoon of June 25.
 The tablet will be placed at the site of Col Anthony Lispenard's resi- dence. where Washington landed after icrossing the Hudson from Hoboken
 This is in the vicinity of the present
 Canal 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 provincal congress
 presented Washington with very
 complimentary address, to which he
 replied
 The reading of these documents vii be part of the celebration which the
 Sons of the Revolution will conduct
 at the ub-treasury on Wall street
 which was the site of the meeting
 place of the provincal congress, or Friday, June 26 next A feature vii also be an address by former presi
 dent general, C. A. Pugsley A ban
 Continued on Page Fivel