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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1889
Page
2
A grand Pilgrim celebration in Worcester featured Governor Long, ex-Governor Breckinridge, and noted figures amid a tented gathering. Speeches praised the Pilgrims, a lanterned procession of orators, and a later armory ball. The program included poems, hymns, libations, and a final choir performance.
At the monument dedication on Aug 1, crowds gathered as Battery A fired a salute and bells rang. The Masonic Grand Lodge conducted rites, opening with Carter's Band, then a choral by John R. Paine and a hymn by R W Thomas Power with music by William H. Gerrish. The Temple Quartet taught the fervent song Hark Hark to the voices exalted.
The procession formed by 11 o'clock advanced in ordered divisions led by mounted police Plymouth Band and military escorts. Chief Marshal William P. Stoddard, Major George B. Russell, and a corps of aides and officers directed the First through Sixth Divisions comprising G A R posts, cadet and civic bands, Masonic lodges, I O O F encampments, Pilgrim Society members, fire departments, and invited guests. The route began at Vernon and Court streets and proceeded through specified streets.
Court records describe the finding of a monument to Cush man near the dinner tent by the railway station. The location is noted as between North and Water streets with nearby Market and Summer avenues and Brewster Water North Main Market Pleasant South Sandwich Water.
A late 19th century Plymouth gathering honors the Pilgrim Fathers at a grand monument dedication. Governor Long presides, with speeches from Oliver Ames Brackett Hoar and others, praising Puritan ideals of faith law and freedom, noting the national scope of the memorial and the Mayflower lineage in American liberty.
The Merrimac Valley and White Mountain divisions list July 1 1889 timetable. Boston to Manchester Concord and Weare stations show frequent morning and afternoon departures including 7 30 8 30 9 exp. and 12 m. times with Sunday services. Also schedules for Nashua Suncook Hooksett Plymouth Laconia White Mountain resorts and Montreal Quebec via Plymouth and Newport. Tickets berths and parlor seats available from Boston Passenger Agency 214 Washington Street corner State Street. Colored names include H C Chamberlin S Up t G P A and N E P A.
Daily train times from New York to Boston to Hartford via New Haven with detailed departures from early morning through late night. Services run seven days a week including Sundays with parlor or seating cars on each train. C T Hempstead, General Passenger Agent, notes through connections and routes via Springfield Worcester New London Providence Willimantic New Haven.
An Old Colony advertisement promotes coastal excursions from Boston to Southeastern Massachusetts including Plymouth South Shore Cape Cod Newport Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket with round trip tickets on sale until October 31st at State House and Kneeland Street stations. It offers a descriptive book for stamps and lists hotels and fare rates, with free issuance at No 3 Old State House.
Timetables show local and through service with trains to Albany and the West from Boston. No. 5 departs 11.00 a.m. with drawing room cars and a Worcester to New Haven dining car. 4.00 p.m. Bailey Limited Express with electric lighting and Worcester to New Haven dining car. 11.00 p.m. daily featuring sleeping cars. Tickets and accommodations available at 232 Washington Street or Kneeland Street station, Boston.
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