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Show SHAFT AT PILGRIMS' CRADLE Monument Erected at Provincetown, Mass., to Mark the Landing of the Mayflower. Provincetown, Mass. After eighteen years of, toil and effort, battling with disappointment, lethargy and indifference, indiffer-ence, of surmounting the Insurmountable Insurmount-able and now and again snatching oack the project from the very jaws of defeat, Provincetown has a monument monu-ment reared to mark the landing of the Mayflower. Provincetown can well rest upon the laurels it has gained by vgg I ' The Pilgrim Monument. the completion of the magnificent shaft, and with the niche in history the Pilgrim fathers carved for it when, they landed here three centuries ago. The Pilgrim monument is, next to the Washington monument, the loftiest structure of solid construction in the United States, towering 347 feet above the sea level. Three years ago its cornerstone was laid by a president, Theodore Roosevelt, and it was dedicated dedi-cated by another president, Willliam H. Taft. The tablet, inserted in a sunken panel over the south door of the monument, is of bronze. It is intended to replace the one which was above the portal of the old town hall, destroyed de-stroyed by fire in 1877, and which bore this inscription: "In commemoration of the arrival of the Mayflower in Cap Cod harbor and of the first landing of the Pilgrims Pil-grims in America at this place, November No-vember 11, 1620, this tablet is presented pre-sented by the Cap Cod association, November 8, 1S53." For many year3 Cape Cod folk had hoped that Provincetown's claim to be Ihe first landing place of the pilgrims might be made manifest by the erection erec-tion of a monument attesting to the tact, but no successful organized movement was launched prior to the-ineorporation the-ineorporation pf the Cape Cod Memorial Mem-orial association in 1S92. During the first ten years of the corporation the movement dragged, the fund for the purpose reaching only $2,500, but in 1902 the Massachusetts legislature-agreed legislature-agreed to give $25,000 for the purpose, pur-pose, provided the association should have raised a similar sum within three years. Finally a donation of $40,000 was made by the national government. The monument cost in round numbers num-bers $90,000. The design is by Wil-lard Wil-lard T. Sears and resembles the Siennas (Italy) town hall tower, built in 1309. The monument is of rough .aced granite quarried at Deer Isle, itnnmp-tnn Mo |