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Show ascitic : t ?-:... ...- PLYMOUTH ROCK LOOMS UP AGAIN City of the Pilgrims Preparing to Celebrate Tercentenary of Landing. ANNIVERSARY CtMES IN 1920 Little City of Plymouth Thinks It's Big Enough to Undertake Job of Fittingly Commemorating Historic Event. Plymouth. Mass. Whnt a frreat throng will lie here If all the good Americans who claim to be descendants de-scendants of the Pilgrim Fathers Visit this, the oldest town In New Kngland. during the tercentenary celebration of the Landing Capital L, please from the Mayflower! The celebration, which might commemorate commemo-rate also the WsSSlng of the new-world new-world with roast turkey and pumpkin pie. will not be held, of course, until lirjO. Hut already the usual placid minds of Plymouth's best and most prosperous dtisens are perplexed by the SjUOStion I BOW can the coining Of the Pilgrims t0 this shore ,'(O0 years ago be celebrated In the most fitting, the most dignified and yet the most brilliant manner? Any New Kngland schoolboy will tell you that the Mayflower first cast anchor In Cape Cod bay, Just within the cape. 00 November 21, KVJ0. T,h!s Is now- the splendid harbor of Prov-InCetOWn, Prov-InCetOWn, the only windward port for many a league where the little lit-tle vessel that bore Miles Standlshand his companions could hnve lain safely. Nearly all the company weid ashore, glad to touch land after the long voyage. They llrst fell on their knees and thanked (iocl for the preservation of their Urea, The water was shallow shal-low and they had waded a -bore the men to explore the Country, the women wom-en to wash their clothes. Chose Landing Place. The spot chosen by a party of explorers ex-plorers for she permanent landing place of the Maytlower's passengers was selected about December SO, 1880, and there New Plymouth was built. From about the middle of December until Christinas day the weather was stormy and the bulk of the passengers passen-gers remained on the ship while some of the men built a rude shelter to receive re-ceive them, On Christmas day most of the Pilgrims went on shore to visit the spot selected for their residence, Then, tradition hath It, Mary Chilton Chil-ton and John Alden, both young, were first to spring on Plymouth Bock from the boat that conveyed them. Small wonder Is It that, with three such central figures as PrlsdUa, Miles gtandisb ami John Alden at hand, so to say, a historic pageant almost certainly will be one of tin- greut features fea-tures of the celebration. There are some dubious ones here who feared that Plymouth Is not big enough for the celebration; that the town of 14,000 people cannot do Justice Jus-tice to the great event. It has been suggested even that Plymouth he reproduced re-produced In Boston, where there Is capacity to entertain thousands of visitors, and that the ceremonies be held In The Hub. Put this proposition proposi-tion has already bejSU dismissed; as well remove Plymouth Rock to Boston Bos-ton Common. Plymouth will be the place; Plymouth Ply-mouth will rise to the occasion and Welcome all America, If need be, to the Wry scene where those w ho risked their lives to give religious liberty disembarked. More than three years remain In which to prepare. pre-pare. Capitalists stand ready to build great hotels here; already the rull-roads rull-roads are planning for the transportation transporta-tion of the Pilgrims of 1080. It is arranged to transport Plymouth Kock from Its bed on the shore, for only a comparatively small piece of It Is visible visi-ble now to the patriotic eye. Plans were made, Ideas were advanced ad-vanced for the trl-centcnnlnl as long as Pi years ago, when the Massachusetts Massachu-setts Society of Mayflower descendants descend-ants and the Pilgrim Memorial association asso-ciation Interested themselves In tilt project Put there Is no need for those Who love to tread historic ground and to otter the .tribute of their presence pres-ence to the forefathers to dluy their visit to Plymouth. A "Live" Town. Old us It is, this Is u "live" and beautiful town, closely dotted with places of Interest. As a shipping post it is second to Boston, In Massachusetts. Massachu-setts. It manufactures products 'worth mors than llfl.000,009 each year. Here one may see the national monument to the Forefathers ami that to Miles gtandisb ; the site of the Common bouse on Leyuen street, the first house to be built, the first street to be laid out in New England ; the courthouse court-house of severely chaste colonial architecture; archi-tecture; the famous Pilgrim hall, with its great collection of relics of the Puritans; Clark's Refuge; old Burial hill, the burial place of many of the Orsl Settlers, and Pilgrim wharf and Haw try Island, where the I'll.. passed their, first Bubbath. |