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Service D the Old Line state M MARYLAND this year Is celebrating Its three hundredth anniversary In March a Stone cross was unveiled un at Saint Clements Clement's now Island In the Potomac Potomac Poto mac river which marks the landing place of ot Leonard Calvert the first Maryland Marland governor On June 10 IA another another an on other celebration will take place nt ot St Sf Marys Marya city site of ot the first Maryland capital near the t southern tip Up of the state Maryland Is a delightful geographic miniature of America Her IIer eastern shore Is II ns as II level leel as all any prairie state and under modern cultivation becomes becomes be be- comes as fertile Southern Maryland romantic with manorial mansions that are centuries old Is III a counterpart of ot tidewater Virginia and arid the old South The rolling green ileitIs fields and forested hills bills of Montgomery and ond Frederick counties remind one of ot the Blue Grass country of ot Kentucky and of ot the loveliest love lon liest hest valleys of New ew York and New ew England while the long climbs of ot Big DIg Savage Sa mountain Negro mountain and Keysers Keyser ridge ha have fe made many ninny a western west ern rn motorist feel that they were ns os high ns nil the Hockles and the Sierra Sierral l Nevada end a. a Her lIer tiny area Is a museum of ot geology geology geol geol- ogy disclosing the most ancient rocks rocks' of ot our globe and others still In the process of ot making and running the scale through every major geologies geological epoch From little St. St Marys Mary's where the Colonists of ot the Ark and the Dove established established established es es- the first community In lu the world where Protestant and ond Catholic could worship In friendship together In an age when Europe was red with blood shed In the name of religion to the mountains of ot western Maryland where here George Washington fighting the tho Indians Indiana gained his first military experience ex er- a 0 continuous panorama unfolds unfolds un un- folds of ot colonial landmarks and scenes sacred and momentous In our national life Ute In this state whose finest tradition Is III tolerance Intellectual giants and big men and women originated notable principles of government and new Ideals Ideall of human society Capt John Smith Was There It Is tl Impossible definitely to fix the date when white men first saw what Is II now Maryland But Dut certainly the Chesapeake bay region was carefully explored by Capt Copt John Smith of ot Jamestown In tn 1008 In that jear ear be he went up one side aide of the bay boy and ond down the other going op up the rivers and Inlets as he pushed onward He lie visited what Is III now the site of and sailed galled up the river lIe He also went up the Potomac as 81 far fur at ot least as Indian lead Head After Arter the rigors of the Newfoundland climate had bad ended his bis hopes of ot establishing lishing a 0 colony there and after Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- ginia had refused to receive re him unI un- un I less he took the oath of ot spiritual al- al I to the tile king of England Sir Siri i George Calvert the first Lord Haiti Balli I more went back balk to London Landon and asked j I I I the king for tor a part of the unsettled regIon region region re re- re- re gion north of the Potomac river I This was wall granted him and also a aI I charter which he wrote himself that I j I entitled him to set up a palatinate with the most ample rights right and privileges privileges ever conferred by a sovereign lIo i of ot J England i I Under It It all that the crown retained i was feudal supremacy Two Indian arrows and a fifth IIrth of ot the gold and silI silver sil- sil I ver produced were the sole lole annual tribute tribute trib rib ribe ute e required as a gesture of ot fealty to the king Ue Ile ond nd that the proprietor tor was given sovereign powers powen and I I the Colonists were to retain all the rl rights of Englishmen j i Impressed by bl the crescent form of ot otI I the southern louthern boundary of ot the tern tory Cory granted him by bl his hili friend Charles I I I. I Lord Baltimore decided de to call It I The rhe king however wanted want ed to honor bonor his LII wife Ite Queen Henrietta Maria Marla and Ind Maryland the colony becs be be- cs came me The first lint Lord Baltimore dying before be be- fore tore he could take advantage of ot his grant the title was a confirmed to his hisson son Ion Cecil Se Seen n From the Water Maryland had bad I Its tl beginnings be be- tween the Potomac river and Chesapeake Chesapeake peake bay and the events e U that t l transpired trans trans- In that peninsula have e had hud such sucha a vital bearing on the destiny of Qt the United States and the course of ot human hu hu- man history that one needs to Journey hither who would understand the role roll of this tine flue old state In the DakIn waking making of ronca I I To resurrect the colonial scene anI and to absorb It Its II atmosphere to best advantage advantage ad ad- vantage one should leave lea his motor motorcar motorcar motorcar car behind and ond wander lInler down the I Potomac Po o tomac and ond up the Chesapeake aboard one of the little trading steamers which wend their way to all the sturdy landings that reach out of ot the colonial past for tor their too not contacts with the Twentieth century world For or while modern Maryland for the most part turns Its bark back on the bay and Its lis tributaries and ond faces the splendid splendid did l highways of It the present which have Ia had to keep kerp Inland to avoid broad unbridgeable tidal Inlets historic his torte Maryland Morland gratefully faced the shore that was Its great highway to the world beyond the sen sea and clung close to It Forty miles In 40 hours hours from from Washington to Baltimore between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning morning morn morn- ing I No lo the steamer 13 U not so 80 unreasonably unreasonably un reasonably slow as OI It would seem for forlis Its lis course must thread n a dozen tidal rivers and ond bays bas to visit the creaking landings that have ha survived Bun the centuries and ond still offer their commerce commerce com coin merce coerce to the outside world During those 40 hours one lives again the life of another age The trip begins as you ou set sail lea leaving leav ing the Capital City astern ostern Presently the frowning bastions of ot Fort Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington appear at ot the mouth of ot away awny creek Upon the site of ot the parade parade pa pa- rade rode ground of ot that fort tort Gov Leonard Calvert held a powwow with the king of ot the as his first act net In establishing friendly relations with the Indians Port fort Tobacco river comes down through the hills bills to meet you with Its memories of ot John Hanson of ot Mulberry Mulberry Mul Mul- berry Grove president of ot the United States In congress assembled liSI- liSI 1782 liS of ot Thomas Stone of ot de tie deVenture deVenture Venture signer of ot the Declaration of Independence and of ot Dr Ir James Craik who saved Washington's life In Dr Braddocks Braddock's Braddocks Brad Brad- d. docks dock's defeat and attended him until hIs bis death Many of ot the fine tine old manor houses survive but the years rears have bave closed the stream to modern modem navigation although although although al al- though It once was deep enough for tor forthe forthe the masted four-masted barques from England and did a thriving trade In tobacco It got Its name not It Is III said from the sovereign weed but from the tribe of Indians who once lived there there the the Home of the King Entertainer Just before reaching Morgantown Mount Republican appears beyond a headline and what memories the walls of ot thin old house bouse could rould relate If It they could I For here lived and ruled history notes Franklin Weems known as os King I I Entertainer of ot Southern Maryland It Is sold said that he had a hundred foxhounds In his pack that he maintained a card game tame which lasted lasted lasted last last- ed forty years that he kept a cellar stock stocked Id I'd with fitly fifty barrels of ot the best brandies and the choicest wines for tor the landed gentry or casual traveler coming com com- ing his way and he so IIO loved 1 youth and happiness about him that he gave gae gaea a party for tor the young people three times a week welk I Late lote In the night Island I known as St St. Clements Clement's Island In co- co lonial days Is picked up by an ing tag searchlight and one can fancy toncy he sees coming out of or the darkness of ot the past the Ark and the Dove bearing the founders of ot Maryland commanded by bl Gov le Leonard nard Calvert brother of ot Sir Cecil Calvert second Lord Balti DalU more Landing of Governor Calvert A landing was 1811 made March 25 21 1634 1034 a huge cross crosB hewn out of ot a tree was erected with lib prayers and ing and solemn and formal possession of ot the land both In the name Dante of the spiritual Christ and the temporal king was taken The rhe waters utE around the Island were I shallow and had to be approached In A boatload of ot womenfolk going ashore to stage Maryland's first wash day was wal overturned Some of ot the women narrowly escaped drowning drown drown- ing and Governor Calvert reported much linen lost Including some lome of ot his hili own which was no small matter In these distant parts St. St Marys though a shrine to which Christendom owes OWlS a 1 pilgrimage Is e. e only a memory that has no place In a steamers steamer's steam steam- ers er's time St St. Marys was the site chosen choson by Leonard Culvert for tor the first settle kettle went Here lItre he bought 30 miles from frolD t the e Indian lIan king with a quantity of or axes axes hoes boes and anti broadcloth and the Colonists Colonists u 20 O gentlemen and UN 0 10 artisans ar nr- half Catholic and half halt Protest Protest- ant ant ant- disembarked ant |