The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-01
PRES. HARDING At
PLYMOUTH ROCK
HONORS PILGRIMS
Harding, in MayflOWer, Follows
Miles Standish Course.
Plymouth, Mass, in Gala Array
for S0Oth Anniversary.
ENGLAND JOINS CELEBRATION
Pageant Representing Earliest
Day Big Feature.
Many National Figures Take
Part in Program.
Pageant Representing Earliest
Day Big Feature.

Plymouth, Mass, Aug. Another
Mayflower came to Plymouth today,
this one the presidential yacht bring
ing President Harding and an official
party to join in formal observance of
the tercentenary of the landing of the
pilgrims.
The Mayflower's passengers of three
hundred years ago landed on a wild
coast marked only by Indian trails.
Those Of today landed to an official
welcome in scenes that offered strik-
ing contrast with those that faced the
fathers.
Thru the streets of the town
streamed thousands of persons-10O.- =
600 was one estimate-governors
lesser officials, men of high social de-
gree and those of labor, many of them
formed in a colorful parade in which
were direct descendants of both the
first settler and of the friendly In
dians with whom they lived in peace.
Harding Led Parade.
In this parade the president himself
took part both as participant and re-
viewer. b, The parade and other incl
dents served to set the scenes for the
principal feature of the days COM
memorative program, public exercises
beginning at 4 p. m. at which Presi-
dent Harding was to deliver his only
speech of the day and his only set
address of the summer.
For this he had as setting a great
crescent bank of stands seating ten
thousand, facing the open sea, and
with its northerly tip resting almost
on Plymouth Rock in the sea scope,
Pennsylvania, North Dakota and Della
ware, riding in the bay, and the Brit
fsh- cruiser sGamorian at anchor beside
Guerent Point. The Mayflower yacht
anchored today at the port where the
Mayflower bark furled sail three CEN
turtles ago.
1t was 301 years to day from the
time when the Pilgrims set out from
the Dutch port of Delftshaven. This
and other scenes were to be produced
again in pageant form tonight with
President Harding as guest. The old
Mayflower herself reproduced for the
pageant lay along shore within view
of the presidential party on its way
from ship to shore. For this trip. the
submarine chaser 40S was provided,
the presidential yacht heing anchored
in the outer harbor.
Avoided Pioqeers' Dangers.
The presidents yacht had slipped
thru the Cape Cod canal, thus avoid
ing the breakers off the cape which,
three hundred years ago, turned back
its predecessor, the Mayflower bark.
and changed the course of history.
The banks of the canal and the
bridges spanning it were lined with
people who cheered the presidential
yacht as it passed.
A hope that the disarmament con-
ference called by the United States
may bring to the world a new era of
peace and freedom was expressed by
President Harding today in an address
here at the tercentenary of the land
ing of the Pilgrims.
"Face New Era"
Characterizing the international
situation as more than promising,
the president asserted that the seed
of common tolerance and understand
ing planted by the fathers here was
beginning to bear fruit a thousand
fold in the relations between nations.
"a new hope looms today" said the
president. 'We are slowly but very
surely recovering from the wastes and
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