St Nicholas [serial] . ters, Edgar Allan Poe andOliver Wendell Holmes, also were born that city and State of New York also cele-brated the one hundredth anniversary of the be-ginning of successful steam-navigation on theHudson River and the three hundredth anniver-sary of the exploration of that river by HenryHudson. But it must be remembered that therehave been several other important centennial cele-brations in 1909. Among the minor Three-Hundred-Years-Ago celebrations a notable onewas the erection by the Chicago CongregationalClub of a tablet in Amsterdam, Holland, in memoryof the

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St Nicholas [serial] . ters, Edgar Allan Poe andOliver Wendell Holmes, also were born that city and State of New York also cele-brated the one hundredth anniversary of the be-ginning of successful steam-navigation on theHudson River and the three hundredth anniver-sary of the exploration of that river by HenryHudson. But it must be remembered that therehave been several other important centennial cele-brations in 1909. Among the minor Three-Hundred-Years-Ago celebrations a notable onewas the erection by the Chicago CongregationalClub of a tablet in Amsterdam, Holland, in memoryof the Pilgrim Fathers who afterward came toAmerica. It was there three hundred years agothat they decided to cross the sea and begin a newlife in the New World. Governor Bradford thusexpressed it: By a joynte consente they resolved to goe into ye Low-Countries, wher they heard was freedome of Religion forall men . . and lived at Amsterdam. A similar gift by the people of Boston wasmade to the city of Leyden in Holland. 266. ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON.

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