The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-01
HARDING At
TERCENTENkRY
CELEBRATION

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and reviewer. The parade and 9TH
er incidents served To set the scenes
for the principal feature of the
days commemorative program,
public exercises beginning at
D. m, at which President Harding
was TO speak.
Mayhcwer Anchors.
The Mayfiower, yacht, anchored
today at the port where the May
flower, bark, furIcd sail three CEN
turtles ago. 1t was sol years to 4
day from the time when the Pill
grims set out from the Dutch port
of Delftshaven. This and other
scenes were to be produced again
in pageant form tonight with Presi-
dent Harding as guest. The old
Mayliower herself, reproduced for
the pageant, lay alongshore with
in view of the presidential party
on it's way from ship to shore.
The Fourth division of the par
ede, one of floats from each of the
towns and many of the villages OF
Plymouth and Barnstable counties,
the old colony brougnt
the parade TO a brilliant climax.
Plymouth's float reproduced the
landing of the Pilgrims. That IF
Duxbury portrayed the treaty be
tween the first settlers and the IN
dams. The bridgcwaters were rep
resented by a float on which ap-
peared Miss Priscilla Alden, lineal
descendant of John Alden.
Princess kooton ekansuEe, known
nowadays as Miss Charlotte Mitch
ell, a direct descendent of the In
dian chieftain Mascassoit, was q
figure on Middleboro'S first float de-
picting the meeting of Governor
Winslow AMI the chief.
Pembroke recalled by it's float the
signing Dec IS. 1872, at a town
meeting, of the first resolutions, for
) independence adopted in the colon
! les.
/ The Mayfower dropped anchor
Just outside the entrance to the har-
Dor at 1853 a. m. Formal welcome
to President Harding was deferred
until he set foot ashore.
The presidents yacht had slip
ped through the Cape Cod canal
thus avoiding the breakers of the
cape. which 800 years ago turned
back its predecessor, the Mayfower
bark and changed the course of his
tory.
! The banks of the canal and the
bridges spanning it were lined with
people who cheered the presidential.
yacht as it passed.
Ashore, meantime, the Pilgrim
town was fairly damned with peo-
pie. So great was the crush thai
some of the distinguished guests
unidentified by the required insig.
MIA, were hustled here and there
Senator Lodge was taken in hanC
by a provost guard, he insisting or
his identity without success, and
his automobile was directed to {
thoroughfare distant from the piel
where he was to meet the president
Naval officers, who learned of the
incident, scurried about to overtakt
him.
The day was one of brilliant sun
shine, its heat relieved by a breeze
from the north.
! Awards Medals.
/ Thirty Polish, French, Italian
and Portuguese boys and girls re
ceived silver medals from the hand!
] o. President Harding tody, as win
ners in the Fifth annual contes
for excellence in reading Of Eng
i hsh conducted by the New BedforC
Evening Standard. The medals arr
presented each year TO children o
non-English speaking parentage II
the public and parochial schools o
New Bedford for facility in read
ing and understanding the Englisi
language.
i Faced with a population NOR,
than 80 per cent os which repre-
sents foreignborn whites. the Eve
ming Standard determined in 1911
as a matter of public policy TO In
itiate reading contests for chi
dren of the foreignborn. Not onl!
as an incentive to the closer stud,
OF the language of the country b,
its future citizens, but as an ali
TO the creation OF common ideals
the competitions for medals hav,
proved their value.
a Polish, French. Greek, Portu