The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-12-21

OF the Plymouth Plantations establish
merit AM its significance lie Baron Il.
Briggs Who is lean or the faculty OF
arts and sciences % Harvard Cnive-s!tv
as the OFFICIAL poet. will span the years
from 1920 10 1920 in verse. Governor
Gavin Coolidge the vice pres lien t-elect
vii! maze al address appropriate to tho
""raSi"n and singers wi! !ntore again
The breaking waves dashed high" ana
Mrs. Felicia Hemans' stirring hymn.
The exercises which are sponsored
by the Pilgrim Precautionary Commits
sion will be neM In the Old Colony
Theatre a stones throw from Plymouth
Dock. Less than 4 thouSaHi persons can
be prt sent due to the SIZE Of the small
hal that is useI from time to time
AZ motion picture shouse. stock com
Tany thtattr Or dance hall.
Silent Audience.
For the formal obs"-vanc. Of tomor-
row a select audience has been !nyit"l
:nc!Cling the ambassadors OF Great
Britain and OF Holland. renewing the
links IN the chain Of the Pilgrims tray
els. The New England governors ard
members If The judiciary together with
official representatives, Of various pat
r!oiic societies including the S9ciet%
Of MayflOwcr Descendants also were
included ana in most SEES Will attend.
The Descendants as Il body would over
.iOw tho little hall. II all some 20"
persons will be present by :nv!sat ton.
About 200 ot the town folk who will
rnrkc a Holiday while stores close and
mill wheels stop may gain admission
but only in competition win many per-
sons from other places who Plan &c
- .I,,r,
To give the people OF the town a.
large IN opportunity to part!cipat"
more numcrous:y IN the tercsnteHary
celebration a supplemental meeting viii
be held IN the afternoon. Dean Br!geS
is expected to rcrcad his poem and Sen.
alor Lodges scholarly Grafton vii! hr
gwen BY another speaker for second
time.
Those who came here today to he on
hand early for III" formal mect:ng
spent the day for the nloset part II Wis
sling tho Pilgrim shr.n"a. They founi
several in the process Of change. ~
mouth Rock probably fer the last Tim"
was exposed for the act performed BY
tourist thouSa nds Of setting foot on I'll"
famous stone which WAS the. Pilgrim =
landing place. That part OF the rock
that has been long available for tai'
purpose IS 70 be moved 10 the wst"r
line and Joined agx IN with sccori
Part from which l. mas been cleft. tn"
old canopy has bcc1i torn down anil
will BE- replaced by m"w and NOR"
slightly ono IL he erected by the Society
Of Colonial Danes.
To Preserve Coles Hill.
Tho shore line presents an Thkepi
view of cal HOSTS. shaky wharvcs and
Uttered piers but the work OF f"stur-
INK tn. old lines and clearing or IN"
,!-tractin- features - part Of the plan
II observance for when IDEAS are wei
advanced.
Coles I'M. Ia. sit" of IN" old bury
tur ground where tho bnT:icS " many
Of the EureClth":s and their COURAGEOUS
tansortS lie. is 20 hc iIrthc: preserved
to reraE the Pilgrims and IN" iT1"i-
shat we're theirs. The little cemetery on
the hill slope was III" resting place o.
nearly haif Of the colony Of a EundE'c
! nd two persons in the first winter OF
Their greet venture. and The graves OF
many are there.
In Pilgrim, Hall are roles that cnnv"r
ljy-,irr scenes Of tn" co!o-'ys beg!nn-
Inr: 4 clt,ld's cradle carries Win X
the s-u-. Of littlc Prrrrri"c White porn
II SEA rr tnr r%rIlou@ voyage anu rear
"a afn:d the hard$hipH Of H." pihnth-
toms. a crude cooking Gnt"NSl! eN!eh""
the Thought to tho Pilgrim Ir"'h"rS VINO
sustained inc llyrs OF. thHS" G'clrld"rf
on their cro<"r" on Il !.Ii." o.. corn aho
other crude products "f the ~fhh"d'
ing w:lI"rn...i. aHh i cui."h' cph;ur'"
~, inc %,,d.'rfY !.Eur" 81 Captain
Myi"> SiduG.ti:. 'nH'iSfy h''H' III 81
r.Isg!.rn pan: wh0Sa strong ri-ht
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