Evening star., 1934-06-10
MARYLAND READY
FOR HUGE PAGEANT.
st. Marys Unites in Plans
to Entertain $4,000
Over Week End.
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park every car in Maryland" with
out any cost whatever.
Officials Pass on Facilities.
The parking facilities have been in
spected by Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reck-
ord, commanding officer of the Mary
land National Guard, and by repre-
sentatives of the State police, and II
was their report that held the grounds
big enough for every car in Mary
land"
Police from six States and the Dis
trict of Columbia will assist in han
ding the huge stream expected alonf
route No. S to ST. Marys City and at
the scene of the Tercentenary pageant
Details will come from New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware anc
Virginia, in addition to large detail
from Maryland and Baltimore city
Washington is to send down a num-
ber of traffic officers to help patrol tnt
only available highway
Route No. from Washington vii
be patrolled. Grain Highway from
Baltimore also will be guarded. At al
by-roads and intersections police vii
be on duty. From T B Md, to Me-
chanicsville only one paved highway
will be open. Two routes will be avail
able from Mechanicsville to st. Marys
City, one via Leonardtown. Police
however, will be stationed strategically
enough to guide motorists along the
best route. After o'clock at night, or
both Friday and Saturday, police
supervision will end and motorist!
will be permitted to choose for them
selves just what routes to take back te
Washington or Baltimore.
New Road Should Prove of Aid.
From Loveville to Leonardtown
new State road will be opened. Worl
is virtually complete now and the con-
tractor is merely waiting for the con-
crete to harden before removing the
forms and completing the shoulders.
During recent weeks there has beer
q detour necessary in approaching
Leonardtown, but by Tuesday or Wed
nesday that no longer will be neces.
sary and visitors to the pageant Will
have no difficulty whatever in reach
ing the river front under police dlrec-
ton.
Likewise, all the roads to other towns
in the county will be patrolled by po-
lice. Leonardtown, Mechanicsv1ile
Piney Point, Point Lookout and Scot
land Beach will care for most of the
overnight visitors. In addition, &C
commodations for a few will be found
in the villages of Redgate, Beauville
Chingville, Clifton Mills, Great Mills
and Park Hall.
All of next week lower st. Marys
County will be filled with participants
in the pageant. No dress rehearsals
will be held because the costumers
have set a prohibitive price on their
equipment for the extra day that
would be necessary. Members of the
cast, representing every county in
Maryland, will be guests of St. Marys
City from Thursday to Saturday.
Upon the arrival of the county groups
at Leonardtown police escorts will
take them in caravans to st. Marys
City. Mrs. Kathleen Read Coontz,
author and director of the pageant,
explained that the rehearsals will be
held in episodes and that on Wednes-
day the entire program will be en-
acted.
Grounds Prepared Especially.
The pageant grounds have been
loaned by Mrs. j. Spence Howard OF
Baltimore, resident of st. Marys
Manor, and her sister, Mrs. James M.
Bennett of Philadelphia. They also
gave to the State the site Of the copy
of the old State House
The grounds have been prepared
especially as an outdoor theater. A
directors pit has been dug in front
of the stage and hidden by a small
lockwood hedge. From this pit Mrs.
,Conntz will direct the 1,100 particle
pants on the stage and the profess
sional readers, who will read the
spoken parts. The performers in
sight Of the audience Will appear only
in pantomime, but the voices of the
professionals will be heard through
out the audience
Seating has been provided for &c.
900 and in addition several hundred
will be able to see the stage and hear
the lines from the sides and between
the sections of the temporary stands.
Seat prices will range from SO cents
to $1.50. The seats will be the only
cost to spectators at the pageant.
The program proper, which will end
the four months celebration of Mary
lands founding, will begin with the
enactment of the landing of the Ark
and the Dove'on Friday afternoon at
2 o'clock. The same pageant will be
repeated on Saturday and will take
from three to three and a half hours
to complete.
Gov. Ritchie to Speak Saturday.
On Saturday morning at 1920
O'Clock Gov. Richie will be the chief
speaker at the dedication of the re-
produced State House, which has been
constructed at a cost of $25. 1000. and
according to the original specifica-
tlons OF the building. H. c. Crisp. j.
r. Edmunds, jr., of Baltimore and H.
w. Peaslee of Washington, architects
Tor the structure, found the original
plans for the building, and as crude
as they are, comparatively followed
them exactly. G. Walter Toyell of
Baltimore is the contractor and Sam
=. Bleakley supervised its construc-
ton.
All of the materials were taken from
Southern Maryland. Bushwood Manor.
which burned last Winter, supplied
the old bricks. Rosecroft Manor, an
other typical and historic home, sup
piled the stone. The locks, so massive
that the tumblers may be seen if a
light is held at the key-hole, we're
constructed especially to reproduce
the original locks. The doors, made
Of fir and oak. weigh close to $50
pounds each. Special round-headed
nails were used In the doors and hard
wood floors and wooden pegs were
used to construct the staircases. Even
the steps have been shaved to repro
duce the wear that lowered their CEN
ter landings when the early Colonial
officials assembled to the council room.
Maryland plans to store a number
Of early Calvert papers and other his
toric documents in the new building.
and 1t will be dedicated as both a
shrine Of early Maryland freedom and
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