The New York herald., 1921-06-15
NEW LIBERTY POLE
ON SPOT OF 1776'
Replica of Original Raised in
City Hall Commons as Flag
Day Tribute.
EXERCISES ALL OVER CITY
AmericanizatiOn Certificates
Are Conferred on Class of
65 Mothers.

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City Hall and Broadway and on the
exact spot where a century and a half
ago stood ''the Liberty Pole on the Com
mons,' a new Liberty Pole was dedi-
Gated yesterday in honor of the Hath
birthday of the Stars and Stripes.
The ceremony at City Hall was part
OF the Flag Day celebration held through
out the city. Patriotic exercises were
beld in all Of the public schools. 5000
Boy Scouts spent the day at Bear Noun
tain on the Hudson, Americanization
certificates were conferred in Crotona
Park, the Colonial Danes. assisted by
school children. danced and sang songs
In front Of the Van Courtandt mansion
in The Bronx and wounded war veterans
were entertained by the Elks and other
organizations.
The new Liberty Pole is duplicate
Of the one Sat was cut down in 1776
by order Of the british governor of New
York In the dark days of liberty, when
Lord Cornwallis's Hessians We're driv-
ing Gen. Washington's little Continental
army across New Jersey and toward
the Delaware River. 1t was presented
10 the city by the New York Historical
Society and the Sons of the Revolution.
Many Societies Present.
Members of these and other societies
met at o'clock at Fraunces's Tavern,
Broad and Pearl streets and marched to
city Hall. escorted by the Veteran
Corps Of Artillery. In the procession
were represented the Society Of Tam
many, Columbia University Sons of the
American Revolution, the st. A,t,rew's
Society, the Chamber of CorTfenArce, st.
Georges Society. Society of the Gin
cinnati, Friendly Sons of St Patrick,
Society Of the War Of 1912. st. Nicholas
Society, Aztec Club, Long Island His
torical Society, the Loyal Legion. Hugue-
not Society. Holland Society. Colonial
Danes. Daughters Of the American Revo-
lution, Society OF the Colonial Wars,
Colonial Order of the Acorn, Military
Order Of Foreign Wars, City History
Club. Scenic Historic and Preservation
Society. Municipal Art Society. Seattle
Chamber Of Commerce, American Flag
Association and the Municipal Art Com
mission.
The exercises began at o'clock with
an invocation by the Rev. Howard
Chandler Robbins, dean of the Cathedral
or St John the Divine. John A. Weekes,
president Of the New York Historical
Society. presented the Liberty Pole to
Park Commissioner Gallatin, who ac-
cepted it for the city. Mayor Hylan also
made a brief speech. Miss Kathryn
3ayard Montgomery raised the flag.
which was unfurled while the band
played the national anthem.
The pole is sixty-four feet high and
surmounted by brass weather vane on
which the word liberty" is cut The
'nainmast came from Oregon on behalf
of the Pacific States through the Seattle
Chamber OF Commerce, and the topmast
from Maine through the kindness Of
Frank c. Deering OF Saco. The pole is
the sixth Liberty Pole that has stood in
me. ground now occupied by City Hall
Park. Tho others were cut down in the
course Of riots between the citizens and
the soldiery. The new pole, like its
predecessors Of 1776. is bound with iron
hoops to a height os six feet to pre-
vent 1t from being chopped down.
Learn English In Year.
One OF the most impressive core
monies Of FlagDay was the comforting Of
certificates of Americanization on sixty
five members of tho Americanization
Class for Mothers, Public School No. 4.
17Sd street and Third avenue, The
Bronx. The mothers, not one of whom
could speak the language a year ago.
" ere grouped under the trees with their
children and as each received her cer-
icate she responded in English.
The city was host to 250 wounded
soldiers at Fox Hills Hospital, taking
them around the bay On the municipal
ferryboat Queens. Mayor Hylan. Grover
=. Whalen. Commissioner of Plant and
Structures. and Deputy Commissioner
OF Police Wanamaker accompanied them
The Boy Scouts picnic left 129th
street on tho De witt Clinton. where
Mayor Hylan was on hand to see them
off. With the party went Lieut.-Gen.
Bullard, Colin H. Livingston. president of
the Boy Scouts: Chief Scout Dan Carter
Beard. James @. Blaine. Jr.. and Barron
.. Collier.
At the base of Martyrs Monument in
Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, 1900 per-
sons cheered Gov. Edward |. Edwards of
New Jersey. who was introduced as "the
greatest exponent of personal liberty in
the country" The celebration was under
the auspices of the Brooklyn Elks.
Dinners dances and other entertain
nents were b~ld In the evening by vari-
GUS patriotic soo,stias.
Flag Day was celebrated also ~ Ma
sonic Tep,ie. more than two thousand
members of Sea and Field Lodge No. !
taking par. Martin w. Littleton. JOB
v. Hedges. Naior-Cen. C. s. Bailey,
y. 8. A.: Paa- Admiral Reynold T. Hall,
y. S. N. and Bishop William T. Man
ming were the principal speakers. Fifty
wounded soldiers from Polytechnic and
Fox Hills hospitals also attended.
In his address Mr.. Littleton talked
about liberty and the pursuit OF nappi-
ness and assaIled the foreigner who re-
fuses to let himself be Americanixed
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