Evening star., 1940-05-26

air, 'Integer Vitae Miss Palmer
then raised the Dutch flag to the
top OF its pole, the band giving the
Dutch national anthem, When
Neerlandsch Bloed';; next the Amer
ican flag-its staff being in the
center and higher than the others
while the band played The Sta,
Spangled Banner and finally the
English flag, while the band rem
dered God Save the Queen the
assembly applauding heartily"
In 1909 the Pilgrims had made
application to the authorities of the
city of Leyden for permission to set
tie there Ito the number of 100, or
thereabouts." On the 18th of Feb
ruary this application was granted
and in the spring following the re-
moval was effected.
Passage Recalled.
Looking at this tablet, next to
the largest bronze marker made in
America up to that time, one could
not possibly help but reflect upon
the perilous passage across the broad
Atlantic and the hardships and suf-
ferings of the Pilgrims during the
early years of their life in New Eng
land.
We today, in peaceful times, hav-
ing every comfort in crossing the
ocean, cannot possibly realize what
this trip must have meant to these
good people, whose greatest desire
was to find a haven where God
meant the same to all of His chill
dren, irrespective of how they pro-
ceeded to worship Him; where they
could govern themselves with min
imum of interference from the
mother country.
The boat in which they left Ley
den for Southampton, about July
%, 1920, was the Speedwell, and the
trip to the English port where they
found the Mayflower and the rest
of the company was made in quick
time, and all being ready, the May
flower and the Speedwell set sail for
the New World on August S.
The Mayhower was a stanch
little square-rigged vessel, double
decked, broad in the beams and
tubby, with upper decks rising
rather high at the stern.
Christopher Jones, her master,
and owner in part of the vessel, was
a good seaman and knew well how
to handle the ship. Fourteen years
before he had made a voyage in
command of the Jason to Bordeaux
and later he was engaged in the
Greenland whale fisheries. He was
fearless and knew his boat to be
stanch, and told the Pilgrims he
knew the ship to be trim and strong
under water. Besides this he was OF
a kindly disposition and was good
shot, and even after their arrival in
this country supplied the sick people
with geese which he had killed.
Ships Departure.
The Speedwell, the vessel which
accompanied the Mayflower from
Plymouth, proved unfit for such 9
voyage, and after much delay ano
several efforts to get her in shape
hgad to be left behind. Such of the
stores as could be placed in the
larger vessel were transferred tt
her, together with some of the pas
sengers, and thus, on September 6
she sailed from Plymouth with TO-
souls-men, women and children
crowded between decks, besides
the master, Christopher Jones; the
ships surgeon, Giles Heale; the two
pilots and the crew.
Famous Courtship.
The ships company also included
five hired men, one Of whom was tht
celebrated John Alden, who wa.
taken aboard at Southampton q!
cooper and was reported as &
hopeful young man." After {
courtship, so beautifully set forth II
Longfellow's poem, 'The CourtshiI
of Miles Standish," he married
Priscilla Mullins, daughter of Will
liam Mullins of Dorking, who diet
on board the Mayflower in the sick
ness of the first winter, when al
together so of the party perished.
Alden was but 81 years Of age
being the youngest of all the Pill
grims, and according to tradition
the handsomest as well. Standisl
was a soldier and a fighter, ant
more or less proficient In the art o
warfare, but very shy at making
love and proposing MARRIAGE
facing the powder" as we nigh
say today. Apparently John Alder
was constituted to the reverse, an,
proved an ardent, successful wooel
history relates.
One of the regulations Of the col
ony was that unmarried person
should live where the authoritie
directed and they were not per
mitted at all to choose their owl
places Of abode. On December "a
1920, Alden was put In the famil,
of Miles Standish. Rose, the wifi
of the doughty captain, died Of
January 20, 1921, and the captain
soon formed an attachment 70
Priscilla Mullins.
Let us try to picture the scene,
says an old story Of the celebrated
love affair: "The pretty Priscilla l
sitting at her wheel, and she doe
not look like one # the Fates VIII