A Modern Pilgrimage

The University Extensión Society makes no claim of originality in planning the Pilgrimage of 1894. Almost a century ago Jefferson was " eaten out of I house and home " by admiring pilarims, who followed him into retirement at Monticello, invariably accepted his invitation to dinner, and remained over night so frequently that the housekeepers ingenuity was tasked more than once to find quarters for them. Pilgrimages of children as well as adults to Salem, Lexington, Concord, and Plyinouth are familiar enough to New England folk. In an address on June 17, before the Bunker Hill Monument Association, tlie Rev. E. G. Porter, described with enthusiasm the Pilgrimage to Lexington of sonie two hundred foreign-born school lads, wlio on their return wrote essays on our Revolutionary history. Mr. John Russell Young's animal pilgrimage to the battle-field of Gettysburg, has given unspeakable pleasure to those fortúnate enough to be included among his guests. The ])ilgrimage of 1894 had its genesis in a series of excursions made last summer by the students of the "University Extensión Summer Meeting at Philadelphia to the battle of the Brandywine, to Germantown, and to Valley Forge. The large number of letters received by the University Extensión Society and the newspaper commendation of the Pilgrimage idea led to the orgauization of the Pilgrimage of 1894 to follow as closely as practicable the itinerary of Washington. The Pilgrimage was inaugurated at the close of the Summer Meeting in session at the university of Peunsylvania froni July 2d to July 29th, by a public meeting held in Independence Hall on Satimlay, July 28, to commemorate the appointment of Washington to the command of the American arinv. Hon. Hámptem L. Carson and Professor Wiiliain P. Trent spoke, respectivély, concerning the Independence Hall aud the character of Washington, and the Pilgrims then visited the historie spots oear Independence Hall. A unique feature of the Pilgrimage is an address at each place to show the sinificance of the place in our history. e TJnpalatable- Ice jams. ' heailed- Blonde?.