The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-10
Great River and Old Palace Commemorate
 Name of Lawrence

Roman Catholics, ecia1lys those of Spain. will today honor the mem ory of St. Lawrence, as the tenth of August is the feast day of the saint whose name was given to one of the worlds greatest rivers. The males tice Canadian stream, which scien- lists says is the oldest river in the world, was christened by Jacques Cartier, the Breton mariner. While on his second voyage sto the New World Cartier entered a. bay which received the name of St. Lawrence from the saint whose feast it hap pened to be. and proceeded on up the majestic river, past the black and forbidding heights, the great and gloomy portals of the Saguenay. the to Stadacona and Mount Royal, the sites of the future cities of uebec and Montreal. k4A
 Since Cartier discovered the river in 1885 the name of St. Lawrence has become increasingly familiar, aI- uIar knowledge of the third century. saint and martyr. In fact, very lit tie is known of St. Lawrence, al though he is a favorite with Spanish tive of Aragon. St. Lawrence went to Rome and was there put to death. It is said that he suffered martyrdom on 3. gridiron over a slow fire, and even tested with his tormentory tell ing him he was now done on one side, and that it was. time to turn him over. l St. Lawrence's name is connected not only with the Canadian rivers but with the nightly palace of the Els curial, in the mountains near Madrid. l This famous edif1ce was erected by l Philip H. in coTnme enoration of the I battle of St Quintin which was fought
 on the festival of St. Lawrence in l 1857. After his triumph Philip vow 1 ed to build a magnificent temple and l palace in honor of the holy Lawrence. | In carrying out his VOW the King had l the whimsical notion of making4 the I Escurial. resemble 9. gridiron, the in strument of torture on which St. Law renee suffered martyrdom. The l building is a rectangular parallelo- l gram measuring 744 feet in length terior is divided into courts which
 represent the intersections of the
 bars of a gridiron, while projec- ton of 46o feet, representing the chapel and the royal palace. The
 Escurial has suffered much from the
 ravages of time and fire, but it is still T numbered among the architectural wonders of the world.
 FIoary with antiquity as is the
 Spanish memorial sto St. Lawrence, ii
 is as nothing to natures Canadian
 memorial. the nightly St. Lawrence
 which, according to geo1ogists, is the oldest river in the world, and one ot
 the very few stream that did not
 have to make it's own bed What geologists call the Canadian shield is
 believed to be the oldest dry land ir
 existence being the first section. o1
 the earth's crust to rise above the
 surface of the universal ocean. Later the crust of this part of the eartt
 sustained fracture, leaving a gulcE
 along curving northeast and south west ine,@ and into this trench tht l'waters rushed, draining away the in 7 teerior waters to the oceon. Origin ally the channel of the river wound
 out between Newfoundland and Cap,
 Breton before reaching the sea. and i was not until later that a subsidenc, of the coast land cerated the Gulf o | St. Lawrence.
 This is the centennial of the birtI
 of William Henry Fry. famous, as composer and a journalist. He wa
 the author of many musical compost tions and an opera. "Leonora,'' whicl
 was performed in New York in 1858
 As a journalist he was European cor krespondent for several American pa