Show by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN 1 I ISCOVE ily WEEK WE E C j boated this summer nt n I 1 i I 1 sault ste morle brought ehl I 1 JF I 1 belated honors to the mem jw ory of etienne brulo brule and am tardy rec recognition lon of ahli clulo to fame as uio tile first white man to see tha th great lakes discovery ol of which has been credited to samuel do de champlain gen sir arthur currle currie commander of tile tho canadian army in france during the world wart war unveiled damemo a memo rial calm cairn to etienne brule and gre nolle adlle his fits comp companion arilon whose first name Is unknown the cour cou eura do de bols bola who round found tho the sault and discovered lake superior years ago moreover tile the indians gave a pageant pa g portraying longwello Long fello fellows ws 61 hiawatha ul a and tile the pageant identified brule and grenoble Gre nolle as the first white men to arrive in the sault country although in the poem tho the white men are not named the indians of tile the garden iziver reserve sm ve on the banks of the jho historic st marys river live in the very heart of the hiawatha country the indians are descendants of those whom the first white man found living along the famous rapids which give the city its name ra or Bowa tIng was tho the old name for the indian village which existed there when brulo brule and grenoble Gre nolle and thelt their immediate successors camp came it was only in 1905 that the indian village on whitefish island in the S st t marys marya rapids within tile tha city limits was abandoned aban donad due to the conw onward ard march of civilization which decreed the construction of additional great lockland locks lock sand and power houses it was a colorful pageant and h followed 1 I strictly the famous poem with the exception of the identification of the first white men as brute brulo and gre nolle miss Waubon osa the minnehaha iia of the pageant Is an indian girl of exceedingly attractive appearance the leading role of hiawatha was taken by a young YO ung I 1 ojibway named chach he Is twenty one years old and comes of a T very cry good of old d in indian dian family he baethe has the looks look sand and the figure for the part there Is no portrait portra it of brule extant and there Is no record of any kind in ills his writing but there are abundant references to him indications are arc that ho he was uneducated impatient e nt of discipline neglectful of his h as religious duties and that he lived among the indians indiana as one ok of them the french priests refer to him as brule brale the interpreter park man in his pioneers of franco france inthe in the new world VII t the historian praises PIM him as the ol pioneer of pioneers but nevertheless CrI credits edits champlain with |