The galley which will take a central part in the Technology pageant has reached Boston and is now anchored in the Charles River Basin. It is named the Bucentaur and is patterned after the stately Venetian galleys of old. It was built expressly to take part in the water festival in connection with the opening of the new Massachusetts Institute of Technology buildings next Wednesday.

The 100-foot white vessel with her highly ornamented bow and sides, presented a most unusual spectacle, attracting the attention of everyone along the water front, as she moved up the harbor in tow of the Gloucester tug Eveleth. Off East Boston flats the tug Edwin L. Pillbury relieved the Eveleth and towed the galley up the Charles River, through the drawbridges to the basin where it was moored off the Technology buildings. The bridges on the Charles were crowded with people and another throng watched the odd-looking craft from the North End Park.

The barge will lead the procession in connection with the transfer from the old to the new M. I. T. buildings in Cambridge.