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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1907
Page
4
Provincetown readies for a presidential visit with strict Sunday laws suspended. About 4300 residents will host 3000 guests plus thousands of summer visitors for Tuesday events. Train cars are full, hotels booked, and Town Hill’s grand stand is nearly finished for corner stone ceremonies.
Bankers fear President Roosevelt after his Provincetown remarks as a Wall Street campaign intensifies against him. The Amalgamated and St Paul moves, Lawson's fate, and J. S. Bache & Co. criticism illustrate a climate of market panic, distrust of government actions, and calls for business unity to push for policy change.
Crowds gather to see Roosevelt foundations and roped-off sites as Provincetown prepares Pilgrim Memorial events. Admiral Davis sails in aboard Alabama while Admiral Thomas attends ceremonies on the Virginia. Officials and pastors organize processions, hospital setups, and a multi-part Official Programme ending with a grand evening ball.
In Oyster Bay and Provincetown authorities deploy a broad security siege around President Roosevelt. Secret service agents and marines will guard him at the Provincetown monument events. Detectives monitor all arrivals and strangers are subject to inquiry until cleared. He cannot even step onto his veranda unescorted.
Several hundred pilgrims of the United Order of Pilgrim Fathers will attend Provincetown Tuesday in costume echoing 1620 Mayflower voyagers. A five-officer delegation was authorized at an April meeting. Boston members urged broad participation. Local and regional organizers include P J Lane as chairman, Emma A Poole as secretary, with committees on costumes, badges, transportation, and ways and means. Provincetown selectmen grant use of a school house near the Pilgrim monument for the Boston area group.
The party will depart from South station Boston at 7 05 a m Tuesday on a special train stopping at Brockton Buzzard s Bay and other stations to take on delegations. Trustees listed include Edwin O Foster Sr George F Bradstreet Nathan Crary Mahlon D Currier and Henry S Treadwell with many other prominent members of the organization.
Provincetown brims with plans as President Theodore Roosevelt arrives by the Mayflower to lay the Pilgrim monument cornerstone. Locals expect a large guest list and an early morning welcome with naval salutes as the Mayflower nears the harbor around 10 o'clock.
President Roosevelt will ride in a historic coach once used by Grant and Cleveland for a town hill dedication. Masses decorate, cornerstone laid with Masonic rites, Grand Master presides. Governors, ambassadors, and senators speak, banquets and a grand ball cap the day.
Washington dispatch reports the final trial run of the battleship Vermont is fixed for September 8. The test will include firing the full engine and battery to allow the inspection board to verify gun and carriage performance and structural strength under firing shock. The Kansas end-of-trial date is set for October 5.
Intense heat causes children to develop a troublesome rash. The remedy suggested is to keep the flesh wet with X-Zalia to relieve itching and soreness and promote healing.
Reports from Washington state Russia has rearranged its far eastern defenses after the war. Harbin loses role as defense center as Japanese advances along Liao tung peninsula push lines eastward. Russians move base back to Irkutsk with Chita as forward post to protect overland Siberian routes and Vladivostok access.
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