Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1909 — Attending the Tercentenary Celebration at Crown Point, N. Y. [ARTICLE]

Attending the Tercentenary Celebration at Crown Point, N. Y.

Editor Healey and son George are now at Crown Point, N. Y., and they will have the pleasure of attending the Lake Champlain Tercentenary celebration which began Monday and will last a week. Tuesday the celebration was at Old Fort Ticanderoga. The celebration is being held at historical old Crown Point, where three centuries ago Samuel de Champlain with his Algonquin allies engaged in battle against the Iroquois, a struggle which has been described as one of the cardinal events of American history. The celebration is undertaken by the states of New York and Vermont in celebration of the tercentenary of Champlain’s discovery of the magnificent lake that bears his name. Monday, within the inclosure marked by majestic ruins of old Fort St. Frederick and In the presence of a holiday throng, Governor Charles F. Hughes, of New York, sketched briefly the objects of the celebration. Historical addresses were delivered by ex-Mayor Seth Low, of New York, and Judge Albert C. Barnes, of Chicago, and Clinton Scollard, of Clinton, N. Y., read an original poem. Governor Hughes, after reviewing the historical significance of the celebration, came down to present day conditions and said: “Upon this vantage point have stood French and English, each in its turn bent on dominating the future of this favored land. Each regarded the other as the foe of its ambition and its rival in the scheme of conquest. But destiny would have it otherwise, and amid these ruins of ambition were laid the foundations of the republic under whose banner we meet today, the friend of both France and* England in whose blessings and children of both the ancient rivals share, whose peaceful progress is a boon to all mankind.” Seth Low, former mayor of New York, spoke after the governor. President Taft, Vice-President Sherman, Ambassador Bryce, of Great Britain, and Ambassador Jusserand, of France; Governor Prouty, of Vermont, and members of the New York state legislature are to attend the ceremonies at Fort Ticondaroga today.