534 F7R36 RICE GLORIOUS GATEWAY OF THE WEST THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES Cbntexmiai Celebration Foirt The Glorious Gateway of the West An Historic Pageant of the Story of Fort Wayne Commemorating the One Hundredth Anniversary of Indiana's Admission to the Sisterhood of States Presented in June, 1916 at Reservoir Park by a Company of over Eleven Hundred Citizens of Fort Wayne CAMf . LIBSAfiK, LQ* Copyright, 1916, by the Fort Wayne, Indiana, Centennial Association. All rights of reproduction, wholly or in part, are reserved to The Stage Guild, Room 917, Railway Exchange, Chicago. Foreword In the year seventeen hundred and ninety-five, at the mem- orable Treaty of Greenville, Chief Little Turtle, wisest of the savages of all times, pleaded with General Wayne to permit the Indians to retain the ownership of the lands on which the City of Fort Wayne now stands. He called it "that glorious gate- way through which have come all of the good words of our chiefs, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West." Wayne, the pupil of Washington, under whose instructions he had established his fort at the head of the Maumee, and who shared with Washington the conviction that "the Miami village points to an important post for the Union," refused the earnest plea of the Red Man. Today, through this "glorious gateway" of civilization pass with kindliness and gentleness to the regions beyond the knowledge of men, the "good words" of the truest type of modern citizenship inspiration, truth, service. These are made manifest in the Pageant. They are its very foundation. The play will pass away. Its spirit will remain to the end of time; for the work here done by willing hearts and hands, can never fade from the lives of those who see and those who do. And coming generations of men will feel the power of an unseen influence of the Centennial year of nineteen hundred and six- teen. 1109137 FORT-WAYNE - CENTENNIAL-HYMN 3) ."Parsons s 1.6rcat LonJ, wliotlcou^h tKc rolling yers 2. Here vrv th< drk-ne of- old time. 3. Qur Hearta to io - Lv-vie* in- cline., J. Rast brought' Thy ser-vants here, The ai - a^e. came to slay; Our aouli to deeds of 5till guard, scvll Thou, who , Thou. A* nou> , a daard mho it wvtKTky midKt-y u>indVni)e now in in- bt. di'dr lead our fth-rs far Oui