The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-06-24
To FOLLOW ROUTE
WASHINGTON TOOK
WHEN HE WENT TO ASSUME COM
MAND OF THE CoNTINEN-
Tall ARMY.
BE MADE BY MOTOR
PILGRIMAGE WILL BE FROM PHIL
ADELPHIA TO BOSTON, STOP
PING AT HISTORIC SPOTS
ALONG THE WAY.

New York. June 23.--The route
which Washington covered IN MS
Journey from Philadelphia to cam
bridge in 1775 to take command OF
the American army will be marked
by a special pigrimary under the
auspices of the National Society or
the Sons of the American Revolution,
starting from Philadelphia.
THE gathering 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 a journey whch
could easily be accomplished by rail-
today between breakfast and linner,
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 Hhe
army.
It is expected that more than a
hundred participants will make the
teD-dav tourney all the way from
Philadelphia to Cambridge, and that
over local stretches the party viii be
augmented to several hundred.
1t is proposed to make special visits
20 historic spots Of revolutionary days,
and here and there to place a new
tablet. or dedicate some other me-
mortal 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 that It
be carried out, with Henry f. Punder-
son. of Springfield as chief marshal
Of the pilgrimage. A committee OF
members from Pen nsylvania- New
Jersey. New York. Connecticut and
Massachusetts was appointed TO CO.
operate.
Washlngton's departure for New
England was taken just a. week after
the Continental congress at Philadel-
phia had, by unanimous vote, on June
is, 17T5, made choice Of him to be
comrnander-in chief of "the forces
raised and to be raised In defence Of
American liberty" The first Skin
misl7es at Lexington and Concord in
April had been answered throughout
New England by the dispatch of large
volunteer forces TO Cambridge,
motley CARRIED and poorly-equipped
but enthusiastic and patriotic army Of
20 GOO men had assembly for the siege
of Boston.
Washington's commission was signed
Bunker Hill was fought, The pro-
posal that he should be allowed $500
q 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 expen ses
and these only should be met by CON
gT'ess
Started With Banquet.
On the night of June %. the hurried
r.4,s, -
par-r1re had been completed. and a
farewell dinner was given in his honor
ut Philadelphia In common Grafton
OF this event the Sons of the Revolu-
ton win hold a banquet at Philadel-
phia 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
lag on which thirteen stripes APP
peared. emblematic of the thirteen
colonies, acted as Washington'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 win 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
viii move on to New York. timing
their arrival to fit that Of Washing
ton at o'clock in the afternoon of
June IS.
The tablet viii be placed at the site
of Colonel Anthony Lispenard' resi-
dence, where Washington landed after
crossing 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 Provincial congress
presented Washington with a very
complimentary address, to which he
replied.
The reading ct this address and re-
ply Will be part of the celebration
which the Sons Of the Revolution will
conduct at the subtreasury on Wall
Street. which was the site of the
meeting place of the Provincial con-
gress. on Friday, June ., next. A
feature will also be an address by
former President-General G. A. Pugs-
ley. A banquet will be held in New
York that evening, TO be addressed
by the present President General
Rogers Clark Ballard Thurston. of
Louisville, Ky.
On the Old Post Road =
Washington moved on toward Bos-
ton on June &c as the pilgrimage will
do, presumably over the old post road,
hating for the night at kingsbridge.
and continuing next day to tFair-
field. The Washington party arrived
in New Haven on June IS, and re-