Evening star., 1934-06-15
OLD ENGLISH RITES
|NMARYLANDFETE.
Transfer of Gates to Trinity
Church Is First Official
Ceremony.
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SnOrLly aICer nOOH UTlIlBIle AChU
200 Marylanders and Washingtonians.
Included in the psrty was Sumner
Welles, Assistant Secretary of State,
who later joined Gov. Ritchie as
guest of the Tercentenary Commission.
Costumed Figures Picturesque.
Costumed figures out of the sew
enteenth century Haunted their an
cient fnery with capes and sabers
over all of Southern Maryland today
before the pageant began.
When the ceremonies got under way
however, they assumed their respective
places in the cast, just as any other
players in a theatrical production.
Nevertheless, gentlemen and ladies
out of the Past appeared on Three
Notch road and the main highways
driving modern automobiles.
The contrast, although ludlcrous,
was in keeping with the spirit here.
Maryland again has become a young
and free colony and Leonard Calvert
rules under the colors of Lord Balti-
more.
Police from Maryland, Virginia, New
York. New Jersey, West Virginia and
Delaware are here and along the roads
leading from Washington and Baltl-
more. In addition, plain clothes men
from Baltimore and Washington are
also here and early today two pro-
fessional pickpockets were taken out
of the jam.
HI. M. S. Dundee Arrives.
When H. M. S. Dundee arrived yes
terday afternoon the Tercentenary
Committee put out from the small
harbor at st. Marys City in the Po-
tomac, owned by the State Conser-
vation Commission to pay the respects
Of hosts.
Capt. w. H. G. Fallowfleld of his
majestys Bermuda fleet greeted the
Free Staters and assured them of the
good will of his government, parent
of Leonard Calverts adventures.
On the boat were r. Bennett Dar
nall, chairman of the Executive Com
mittee Of the Maryland Tercentenary
Commission; J. Spence Howard,
Swephon Earle, Lieut.. Comdr Philip
Van Horn Weems, James Milburn
Bennett and State Senator J. Allen
Coad.
Capt. Fallowheld exchanged the
courtesy today by calling at st. Marys
Academy, where the Marylanders held
open house for distinguished visitors.
A second exchange was that of
Capt. Fallowf1eld and Capt. George C.
Logan, especially detailed here to
meet the British guest. Capt. Logan
and Capt Fallowfleld exchanged
visits. Afterward the officers Of the
two American and one British vessel
went ashore, arm in arm, and we're
guests both at the academy and the
home Of Senator Coad, Porto Bello,
last night.
Minister Visits Ship.
An unexpected turn carried Rev
William Brundrett, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal Church Of Zelie-
anople, Pa, to the Dundee as a pas
senger on the Potomac, guest Of the
commission.
The minister didn't stand on cere-
mony but headed at once for the
Black Gang"-the stokers of the
Dundee. There he met his brother
Harry Brundrett, whom he had not
seen for IL years. The reunion came
when Stoker Harry was stepping out
of his stained dungerees into the for
mai whites" of the Bermuda fleet.
All of today seventeenth century
lords and ladies we're common place
in St. Marys City and all Of Southern
Maryland.
This country is remote, but not toc
remote for the reach of history, and
Leonard Calvert; his younger brothers
Cecil and George, and many Of the
makers Of the Free State became ia.
miliar figures about the soda foun.
tains and bars of Leonardtown anc
the lower end Of the county before the
pageant
"Hi, Your Lordship."
"Hi, your lordship," has been a ia.
miliar flippancy that has combined
the easy attitude of the twentieth cen
tury with the formal feudal lordshir
of the seventeenth, now come to life
again for just two days.
The pageant this afternoon got un.
der way when the Ark and Dove sailec
around Chancellor's Point and up the
st. Marys River. The majestic de-
f1ance Of Mother Nature could no
have been depicted better than to have
boats rebuilt in scale and reproducing
precisely the original vessels that left
Cowes 300 years ago. They looked
like skiffs compared % the modern
craft anchored in the surrounding
waters.
The Ark, Calvert's own ship, wa.
70 feet long and the Dove was 4:
feet long, but the courage of the mer
and women who followed Leonard
Calvert here was reflected in The
establishment of the colony that gave
birth to the commonwealth that pride.
itself upon being a free State.
After Calvert had landed and sem
his colors ashore, the Indians undel
the leadership of the Tayac Of tht
Piscataway Tribes decided to receive
the strange men from the water, anc
as result the only colony in Americs
to be purchased-rather than con
quered-was founded.
Many of Marylands leading citizen!
took part In the pageant, the work ol
Mrs. Kathleen Read Coontz, who ha'
confessed to Climbing a thousand
family trees" to find the facts II
dramatic them.
The same pageant will be producet
tomorrow afternoon.
Southern Maryland is doing a gooe
Job, with the help of visiting police, o.