Official Pictorial and Descriptive Souvenir Book of the Historical
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This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com 0 F F I c 1 A L TICTORLQL /YND DESCRPZIIE SOUVENIR BOOK HISTDRICAL OF THE PAGEANT ” j ' PHILADELPHIA.‘ OCTOBER 11:‘ T0 1212' THE LIBRARY l K =1, g *4! .;~w""=r*.1~="‘; in. 4. \. -,4 <P**°'°K'=Ph by Ems) RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG Mayor of Philadelphia OFFICIAL PICTORIAI. AND DESCRIPTIVE II SOUVEN IR BOOK OF THE HISTORICAL PAGEANT October Seventh to Twelfth I9l2 THE HISTORICAL PAGEANT COMMITTEE OF PHILADELPHIA Covraxcar, 1912 by ELLIS PAXSON OBERHOLTZER \ Printed by George H Buchanan Company at the Sign of the Ivy Leaf in Sansom Street Philadelphia W‘?/_5' Z052. iliahlz of qiuntents PAGE Fomzwonn . 5 OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES . 7 O1-‘V1-"1c1-:Rs OF TI-IE PAGEANT . 13 Tm: WORDS 01-" THE PAGEANT . 15 Tm: CONSTITUTION or THE UNITED Sums . 63 PHILADELPHIA IN THE WAR 01-" 1812 . 69 “B1~:LMoNT” . .. 81 CONVENERS or THE Srawmc PARTIES . 84 AUG21 973420 IE1): iéistnrital ifiageant at 1912 I ris, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, James Wilson, Lafayette and Washington, deserves to have its history often told to itself and to the world. Too infrequently do we pause to consider the record of a neighborhood which for interest and impor tance has no peer upon our continent. Four years ago the principal episodes in ‘its life were set forth in the form of an Historical Pageant, which proceeded along the city’s lead ing highway for a distance of four miles. It was viewed by a multitude of people-—as many as could find space to see from pavement, stand or window, on each side of the street from the starting to the dismissing point. Vast labor and a vast sum of money were expended to secure artistic excellence and historical truth in the representation. But all passed and was gone. Only the memory of the event remains. So much appreciation did our pageant win, that I was encouraged to form an association, and with the aid of the Hon. John E. Reyburn, then the Mayor of the city, we obtained a charter under the state laws. For two surmners since, I have viewed and studied the famous historical pageants of England and the time has come, in 1912, in the administration of Mr. Reyburn’s successor, Mayor Blankenburg, for another lesson in the history of this fine old American community. This time, I have wished to cast the principal episodes in the city’s annals in the form of a great play on the greensward among the foliage, and to repeat it day by day so that all that has been done for months and years, by way of preparation shall not vanish in one 2 6 The Historical Pageant passing view. No more lovely field will soon be found for pag eantry than that in Philadelphia’s splendid park at the “Belmont” of Judge Peters, facing the Schuylkill, as it wends its way to the sea, with the city beyond rearing its walls and spires on the dis tant plain which, when many of the figures of the pageant sur veyed the scene, was an open space across which one might often catch a glimpse of the shipping on the Delaware. With this foreword, those of us with whom this work has been the breath and the being for so many months, commit these pictures of the old city to the Philadelphia of this day and to her many friendly guests. ELLIS PAXSON OBERHOLTZER 3» Mia, -14: .7 Y“. I '1~ A , I '._.-.'-~ ' T“ v \ ' I 1- ‘\ ' ,_ 4 w ; ~ . - . _> ';_ ‘I-I V ~ _‘E'= _-. '_ "“.V‘:-T.'V, MEMBERS OF THE HISTORICAL PAGEANT COMMITTEES I Alba B. Johnson (Photograph by Evans) 2 George W. Elkins (Photograph by Evans) 3 John Wanamaker (Photograph by Gutekunst) 4 James McCrea (Photograph by Evans) 5 George F. Baer (Photograph by Gutekunst) 6 Hampton L. Carson 7 Samuel T. Bodine (Photograph by Evans) 8 Daniel Baugh (Photograph by Evans) ae,‘-7. (J, '. -, ".55"? '1':-'..--T, a.‘ I P t ~’-“‘fl%'Z.‘.4.»xt‘I'.'<.l-»~.*.-.~_.» " -. ___r_--<-'r..\. -rt, a .52.-...';'.;: 3Y£~i§%‘-JL’I£'§t5"l§l'fi’I - .'\. 0( _ :"\"€_""Y""‘ . ‘-...5¢"__».’.';; 0 ~ '4 MEMBERS OF THE HISTORICAL PAGEANT COMMITTEES 1 John E. Reyburn (Photograph by Gutekunst) 2 Samuel W. Pennypacker (Photograph by Evans) . 3 Ernest L. Tustin (Photograph by Evans) 4 Cyrus H. K. Curtis (Photograph l)y Evans) 5 Howard B. French (Photograph by Evans) 6 Joseph B. McCall (Photograph by Evans) 7 Edward B. Smith (Photograph by Gntcknnst) 8 J. Howell Cummings Officers and Committees QBffi:2rs ant: Qliommittezs PRESIDENT HON. RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG MAYOR OF PHILADELPHIA VICE-PRESIDENTS JOHN E. REYBURN CI-IARLEMAGNE TOWER JOHN WEAVER CYRUS H. K. CURTIS CHARLES F. WARWICK CHARLES C. HARRISON EDWIN S. STUART GEORGE BURNHAM, JR. SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER W. W. KEEN DANIEL BAUGH HAMPTON L. CARSON A. LOUDEN SNOWDEN GEORGE F. BAER THOMAS DOLAN JOHN CADWALADER EDGAR F. SMITH WILLIAM T. TILDEN JAMES McCREA ISAAC H. CLOTHIER E. T. STOTESBURY RUSSELL H. CONWELL WILLIAM POTTER ALEXANDER VAN RENSSELAER JOHN WANAMAKER TREASURER CHARLES FRANCIS mnxms SECRETARY nus PAXSON OBERHOLTZER GENERAL COMMITTEE PINLEY ACKER J. cup-rou nucx THOMAS F. ARMSTRONG JOHN aunr A. LINCOLN ACKER GEORGE w. novn JOHN ASHHURST GEORGE nunmmu, JR. BERNARD ASHBY c. c. A. BALD! F. WAYLAND AYER HARRY A. nmzwmn R. R. nooos n1ERs auscn n. KNICKERBACKER aovn MORRIS L. CLOTHIER sAuuEL BELL, JR. CYRUS H. K. CURTIS cvnus BORGNER MORRIS L. COOKE JOHN c. BELL B. FRANK CLAPP ALFRED E. BURK GEORGE WENTWORTH CARR MAJOR 1'. 'r. BRAZIER WILLIAM M. COATES MARTIN 0. BRUMBAUGH J. H. CARSTAIRS DANIEL BAUGI-I JOHN CADWALADER SAMUEL T. BODINE J. HOWELL CUMMINGS GEORGE F. BAER RUSSELL H. CONWELL RALPH BLUM ISAAC H. CLOTHIER CHARLES n. BARNEY BISHOP L. J. COPPIN F. I-I. BET!-IELL HAMPTON L. CARSON w. ATLEE BURPEE EDWARD P. CHEYNEY E. 1. BERLET ANDREW WRIGHT CRAWFORD DIMNER BEEBER CHARLES HEBER CLARK The Historical Pageant GENERAL COMMITTEE--Continued G. W. CHAPIN GEORGE W. KUCKER GORDON S. CARRIGAN N. B. KELLY HUGH A. CLARKE A. C. KEELEY WILLIAM J. CAMPBELL SYDNEY W. KEITH CHARLES O. KRUGER THOMAS DOLAN ALBERT KAISER ROBERT D. DRIPPS CHARLES E. DANA SAMUEL D. LIT FRANK MILES DAY HERMAN LOEB THOMAS F. DURHAM LEWIS LUKES THOMAS DEVLIN JOHN LUCAS HENRY DETREUX E. O. LEWIS A. F. DAIX, JR. WILLIAM S. LLOYD MURRELL DOBBINS DAVID H. LANE M. D. LEARNED GEORGE w. mxms E. J. LAFFERTY BURD P. EVANS JAMES ELVERSON GENERAL EDWARD MORRELL w. J. ELDRIDGE JAMES McCREA wuson EYRE JOSEPH B. McCALL THOMAS MARTINDALE R. Y. FILBERT J. HAMPTON MOORE NATHAN '1‘. FOLWELL LAURENCE McCORMICK HOWARD B. FRENCH F. S. McILHENNY CYRUS D. FOSS, JR. J. WILLIS MARTIN J. w. FLANAGAN GEORGE D. McCREARY w. w. FRY JAMES P. McNICHOL s. s. FELS GEORGE McCURDY GEORGE H. FRAZIER RANDAL MORGAN ALBERT E. McKINLEY ELLIS A. GIMBEL D. J. McCRUDDEN JOHN GRIBBEL CLARENCE V. McCOOL WILLIAM A. GLASGOW, JR. LESLIE W. MILLER JOHN MARSHALL GEST JOHN BACH McMASTER GEORGE GIBBS JAMES MacALISTER ALFRED GRATZ THOMAS L. MONTGOMERY JOHN P. GREEN W. L. McLEAN E. SPENCER MILLER FRANK HARDART GLENN C. MEAD M. F. HANSON H. S. MORRIS JOHN C. HUMPHREYS JOHN H. McFADDEN CLEMENT R. HOOPES ROBERT L. MONTGOMERY VICTOR HAMILTON F. A. MlcBRIDE JOSEPH W. HOLTON WILLIAM H. HANSELL GEORGE W. NORRIS A. G. HETHERINGTON JOSEPH S. NEFF CHARLES E. HIRES WILLIAM R. NICHOLSON J. WALLACE HALLOWELL M. W. NEWTON CHARLES H. HARDING THOMAS T. NELSON THOMAS SKELTON HARRISON ELI B. HALLOWELL ELLIS PAXSON OBERHOLTZER GEORGE W. OCHS JOHN STORY JENKS W. B. OLIVER J. R. JONES CHARLES F. JENKINS ELI KIRK PRICE MORRIS JAs'rRow, JR. GEORGE D. PORTER JOHN w. JORDAN HAROLD PEIRCE GEORGE w. JACOBS JAMES POLLOCK ALBA B. JOHNSON SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER C. S. W. PACKARD RABBI J. KRAUSKOPF GENERAL W. G. PRICE GEORGE w. KENDRICK, JR. WILLIAM PERRINE ALBERT KELSEY LINCOLN K. PASSMORI ' ~ §_ I-v~'Z‘P< .' I'M’ VII“? egg ‘ . J Q‘ - ..-.31: -.~.' -*;.:._;.f,{‘ '._'-Q - Q MEMBERS OF THE HISTORICAL PAGEANT COMMITTEES 1 Martin G. Brumbaugh (Photograph by Gutekunst) 2 Charles F. Jenkins (Photograph by Phillips) 3 A. G. Hetherington (Photograph by Evans) 4 Miers Busch (Photograph by Evans) 5 Thomas L. Montgomery 6 Theodore C. Search 7 George Burnham, Jr. (Photograph by Gnteknnst) 8 Morris Jastrow, Jr. (Photograph by Gutekunst) iii?-’,-422’I“"E’ .¢;§F‘-;~ rp=7(3'!-_'# 4., ’ “. Tu; -$.':. E-at ‘<41..1 . .~'..V? . ' '2 '\‘.'\’-P’.v;I.;"- ,~._1-.~Q .&I~‘k"\~\.*:-S"d§,.’$-;3:*;’f-ll’ MEMBERS OF THE HISTORICAL PAGEANT COMMITTEES 1 Marion D. Learned (l’h0t<-graph by Gutckunst) 2 John W. Jordan (Photograph by Evans) 3 J. Hampton Moore (Photograph by Gutckunst) 4 Henry Detreux 5 Charles Heber Clark (Photograph by Gutckunst) 6 Charles F. Warwick (Photograph by Gutckunst) 7 E. J. Berlet (Photograph by Phillips) 8 General W. G. Price (Photograph by Evans) 9 C. W. Summerfield Oflicers and Committees GENERAL COMMITTEE-Continued FRANCIS B. REEVES ALEXANDER VAN RENSSELAER FRANK M. RITER ROBERT VON MOSCHZISKER WALTER E. REX EDWIN H. VARE JOHN E. REYBURN E. A. VAN VALKENBURG JOSEPH G. ROSENGARTEN C. W. VAN derHOOGT J. P. REMINGTON HARRY RANSLEY JOI-IN WANAMAKER HENRY STARR RICHARDSON RODMAN 1.. WANAMAKER JOSEPH s. LOVERING waAR'ron E. T. STOTESBURY 01201202 WOODWARD EDGAR F. SMITH CLARENCE wo1.1= SAMUEL SNELLENBURG JOHN T. WINDRIM COLEMAN SELLERS WILLIAM WEAND EDWARD B. SMITH FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS C. W. SUMMERFIELD E. BURGESS WARREN H.