Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-11-21
RITES TOMORROW
FOR TERCENTENARY
International Program to
Mark ColoniSts' Sailing
in 1888.

With an international celebration.
Maryland and England tomorrow will
observe the tercentenary Of the sailing
from England, on November %. 1888.
of the Ark and the Dove bearing the
first British Colonists to Maryland
shores.
Simultaneous celebrations at Balti-
more and at Cowes, England. will mark
the event, and Gov. Albert c. Ritchie of
Maryland. has proclaimed the day one
for celebration and has urged Mary
landers everywhere to observe the day
with appropriate display of State flags
and exercises wherever possible
Speeches for the ceremony will be
made In this country by President
Roosevelt, from his vacation lodge at
Warm Springs, Ga, and by Gov Richie
at the ceremony at the Baltimore War
Memorial. An international program
from Cowes also will be heard at Balti-
more. Gov. Ritchie's address will go
on the air at 8 o'clock tomorrow aft
ernoon.
viii March to Memorial.
The Baltimore program calls for Gov.
Ritcfie, Mayor Howard w. jackson of
Baltimore. officers of the Maryland
Tercentenary Commission and repre-
sentatiyes of the British diplomatic
service to march in body from the
Baltimore City Hall across the plaza to
band playing, Maryland. My Mary
land"
At the stage beside the War Me-
0rta al 4rs all T.
flags between the portraits of the six
Lords Baltimore, five of which por-
traits were purchased by DR.. Hugh H.
Young from Sir Timothy Eden These
portraits never have been out of the
Calvert ancestral homes In England
and will be shown in this country for
the first time at the tercentenary cele-
bration.
Following the procession, William l..
Marbury, chairman of the Maryland
Tercentenary Commission, viii preside
and Mayor Jackson will make the ad-
dress of welcome. Henry A. Hobson,
British consul at Baltimore, will BE-
another speaker, and the closing re-
marks will be made by j. Alexis Shriver,
director of the Tercentenary Commits
sion. Music will be furnished by the
Baltimore & Ohio Women's Music
Club and by the military band.
Speakers to BE Used.
The Presidents address will be re-
ceiyed by loud speakers at the memorial,
as will the broadcast of the ceremony
at CoweS.
Taking part in the latter ceremony
will be Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Maryland-born member of the British
House of Lords, who will unveil the
tablet; Sir Timothy Eden, Rev. Charles
E. Paterson, vicar of the Holy Trinity
Church, Cowes; S. c. Wadham, chair
man of the Cowes Urban District
Council; the Lord Bishop Of Ports
mouth, Miss Alethia Serpell, who, rep
resenting the Society of the Ark and
he Dove, Will present q gaYel mace
fTeu the old mulberry tree which stood
on the bluff of ST. Msrys C,.y, vha.e
the 1itst Maryland cJlonist- landed,
and United States Ambassador Robel /
Bingham, who will accept souvenir of
the occasion from the Rotary Club of
Cowes, to be presented to the Rotary
Club of Baltimore.
Leander Mccormick Goodhart has
been named official representative of the
British Embassy at the Baltimore cere-
mony.
Inscription on Tablet.
The following inscription Will be on
the tablet unveiled at Cowes:
ION the 22nd day of November, AID.
1888, Leonard Calvert, brother Of Cecil
Calvert, Baron of Baltimore, with his
co-adventurefs. set sail from this port
in the Ark and the Dove, to establish
in America, the Palatinate of Maryland,
under a charter granted by the King OF
England, which conferred upon the
people of Maryland all the Rights Of
Englishmen, to be theirs in perpetuity-
rights which the people of Maryland
have ever cherished their greatest,
most valued heritage. Upon the site
granted by the Cowes Urban District
Council to the Society Of the Ark and
the Dove this tablet is erected, Novem-
Der %, 1888. by the State of Maryland. y
The inscription is topped by deco
rative design executed in low relief OF
the Ark and the Dove.