The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-08-01
PRESIDENT Will
BE GUEST AT THE
PILGRIMS PARTY
| male of a Year of Celebration
2 of the Tercentenary Of
the Landing.
! AMY NOTED PERSONS
ARE TO BE PRESENT
Nir. Harding Will Go to Portland
and Later Visit in the
White Mountains.
ley the AasoeIated Pressl

PLYMOUTH, Mass, July 31.-This
colony town, as the climax OF a
ar of celebration Of the tercentenary
the landing Of the Pilgrims has
1T tomorrow apart for the principal
.ercises and is prepared to welcome
its guest the President Of the
nited States.
While the presidential yacht May
lower with President Harding and his
ehcial party aboard was cruising to-
ard this port, where she will anchor
tomorrow morning. Plymouth made
I ady for it's coming. The narrow
reefs were garlanded and arched
ith streamers, the log cabin that first
] 9used the Pilgrim women and chill
rem was reproduced and the graves
tf the forefathers were marked anew
ieavy thundershowers failed to check
the preparations.
Officials, guests from countries con-
ected with the Pilgrim history pre-
ded the president. Isaac Foote,
eputy mayor OF Plymouth, England,
rs received formally by the select
zen. who made him their guest when
] brought the greetings from the
mother town. Jonkheer William de
} eaufort charge d affaires of the
lDutch embassy at Washington, came
might as the official representative Of
folland. In the absence Of the Brit
h ambassador. Captain Sydney r..
liayley, naval attache of the British
mbassy, came to represent him.
When tho Mayflower puts into Ply
mouth bay tomorrow morning she will
nd anchored the battleships Dela-
are, North Dakota and Pennsylvania
nd the British cruiser Cambrian. sent
rom Bermuda. With the presidents
acht will come convoy of five
testroyers.
A submarine tender will bring Presi
ent Harding ashore from the May
lower early in the afternoon, The
avy will relinquish its charge to the
rmy at the docks, where Troop G,
he crack outfit OF the Third Cavalry.
i'll act as his bodyguard accompany
lng the president to his place in a
narade OF floats and marching delega-
Ions.
The president will leave the line of
narch two miles from the start and
ill retrace in a formal pilgrimage the
course down Leyden street, first street
colony, which the forefathers and
heir families traversed on their way
o the church which they built as the
round floor OF their fort.
At a stand at the foot of the street
e will review the parade and then
ttend an informal luncheon at the
iamoset house
Girl Scouts viii have charge of two
irst aid tents, and members of the
cirst National Girl Scout officers
raining Camp at Longpond in this
own viii present n birch bark scroll
4 greeting to Mrs. Harding. who is
Aonorary president of the Girl Scouts
National organization.
Later in the afternoon the president
will return to the stand facing Coles
ILL., there to speak to an audience
eated on its slopes in banked stands
which have a capacity of ten thou
sand persons.
After the speech the president will
attend an informal dinner. His eve
alng will be given over to attendance
&c the presentation of "The Pilgrim
spirit" the pageant prepared by Pro-
lessor George p. Baker, of Harvard
University for the tercentenary.
President Harding will return to the
Mayhower later in the evening to make
the trip to Portland, Maine. en- route
to a short vacation at the summer
lodge OF Secretary Of War Weeks at
Lancaster, New Hampshire.
Presidential Party at Buzzard's Bay.
BUZzARD'S BAY, Mass, July 81
The Yacht AIayflower, bearing Presi-
dent Harding and party to the Pill
grim Terceneniary celebration of the
Plymouth landed today off the Winds
Neck at the western entrance to the
Cape Cod canal The Mayflower will
proceed through the canal early to-
morrow TO its anchorage at Plymouth.
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