Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1919 — To Commemorate the Sailing of the Mayflower [ARTICLE]

To Commemorate the Sailing of the Mayflower

The movement to celebrate next year the tercentenary of the sailing of the Mayflower seems attracting far more attention in England than in America. Simultaneous observance is to be had in both countries, but the .English plans, under the direction of a committee of which Lord Bryce is deputy president, have progressed so rapidly as to be announced. The English celebration will give full scope to that liking for pageantry which marks England. The lives of those Englishmen who fled from the mother country for conscience sake are to be reconstructed with fidelity. Notine rely the sailing of the Mayflower* but the whole Pilgrim movement will be commemorated. There will be pageants and moving pictures ami. ceremonies at Austerfield, Serooby, Boston, Cambridge and other places in England where the Free church had its adherents. An American delegation will be invited to attend these observances, and work on the restoration of the ancestral home of Washington, at Sulgrave, is being rushed, in the hope that its formal dedication may take place. Then a combined American and British delegation will visit Holland, “the common harbor of all heresies,” where the Pilgrims sought refuge from 1609 to 1620. Meetings will be held at Amsterdam, Leyden, Delftshaven and The Hague. The celebration will culminate with the sailing of another Mayflower, laden with Englishmen and Americans, from the port of Plymouth, a landing being made on the storied Rock, or, rather, where the Rock was. Other compliments to America .are reported. The Saint-Gaudens monument of Lincoln is to bo installed in Westminster, while the Barnard “Lincoln” will be unveiled at Manchester. The English have established a chair or lectureship (at a cost of $75,000) in American history, literature and institutions, and there has been provided an annual scholarship to give young British scholars an opportunity of one or two years’ research and study in America. <