Newspaper Page Text
*-■ 'TUB* z <;?r ‘
jK 1 II (LI Qj
MS?
IN THB ' IN 7 Hr -T-TrFfl,
VO LU MT. ONT.
NO. TH ITT Y-L I G HT.
THE EXPOSITION AT JAMESTOWN
ACH year in a nation’s life should car
ry with it some maik of progress or de
velopment, but it is only when these
years silently form themselves into
vaster periods of lime that we note
what has been accomplished and at
tained. Fortunately, America is young
enough and has achieved enough to
welcome the flight of time and to be
E
glad to maik its passing by extensive celebrations.
The first centennial of our National Independence
was signalized by the first great international ex-
position which our country ever
witnessed, and since that time va
rious other events in our history
have been s : milarly commemorat
ed. But neither the Cotton Cen
tennial Exposition held in Nev
Orleans in 1885, which marked the
hundredth anniversary of the ex
portation of cotton from American
shores, nor the great Exposition
in St. Louis in 1904, which com
memorated the discovery of
America by Columbus, nor even
the splendid World’s Fair in Chi
cago, nor the beautiful Pan-
American Exposition in Buffalo
have had for their object as sig
nificant an event as the exposi
tion to be held on Hampton
Roads, Virginia, during the sum
mer of 1907.
It is safe to assume that the
real spirit of progress, of energy
and of attainment that has ever
characterized the people of Amer
ica was first sown into our na
tional life by our English proge
nitors. Those earnest and honest
patriots who sought to enhance
the glory of their own land by an-
nexing to it the wondrous treas
ure of a New Woild, have been as completely loy
al to the new interests they formed on our shores,
and as nobly devoted to the land of their adoption
as ever they were to the Crown of England, which
was discarded because the American settlers
gradually but positively outgrew its dominance.
And it is the coming of these brave pioneers of
old that their descendants today would celebrate
on the shores of the James River, in the very paths
where those sturdy feet once trod and along the
very lines that would have appealed most strongly
to those souls of the Long Ago. No picture of
that early life in the New World is necessary here
for each phase of it is so well known as to have be
come a part of our national history. But it must
ever be a source of national pride to remember
Marking the Ter-Centennial of the First Fnglish Settlement in America
ft 4. jyaaHwffffW
.. »■ ■ A3'
. x Th
■ i
; 4 ..... ■
- ft 4S||Mr ■
I iL| Alls IBM h
IbP® Wwii »
i •.*■—■■ ifmJH iXt«w ■■
—— y
IRbsß- W - S ~
ATLANTA, GA., NOVEMBER 8, 1906.
that from the struggles and trials and failures of
the past have arisen the successes of the present.
No nation of the earth has in the same length of
time contributed more to the history of art, science,
commerce and invention than has America. With
us, national and civic perfection and progress have
been our beacon light beckoning us onwaid and up
ward—it is but natural therefore that we should
trace with pleasure the sign posts marking our path
way through the years.
Location of the Exposition.
The site chosen for th\s national celebration is
a most fitting one, for although much of the orig
inal settlement at Jamestown has now disappeared,
owing to tidewater conditions, yet the adjoining
site of Hampton Roads, a spot which includes the
cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News and
Hampton, is particularly attractive. These cities
although separate in their municipal government
form really one business center and maritime port,
and while Norfolk is the headquarters of the Expo
sition the grounds themselves are situated on the
south side of Hampton Roads almost equally distant
from the four cities.
These four cities comprise the most extensive
port for seagoing traffic in the world; the very larg
est ships have easy access to their docks and
wharves while to them also lead the great railroads
By S. T. DALSHEIMER.
» ULLucti 91 IL.
of the country, carrying yearly large masses of com
merce and vast numbers of persons.
Advantages of Being at Tidewater.
There are several most decided advantages to an
Exposition situated at the chief harbor on the
Atlantic coast, and these advantages are clearly rec
ognized and eagerly welcomed by the committees
in charge of the great project.
For the first time in the history of America there
is to be given on American shores an international
naval leview which will rival in splendor the navai
reviews of the old world which have for long been
of the splendid searchlights with
which every ship in the naval rendezvous will be
furnished. Our own new battleship Connecticut
will have the largest of these, but each one which
flashes its brilliant finger of light into the darkness
of Hampton Roads will be a revelation of the won
ders of modern science as applied to modern needs.
Foreign Participation.
The participation of foieign nations in an exposi
tion determines in a great measure the commercial
and diplomatic value to the country and to the
world of such an exposition, and it is gratifying to
note that the principal nations of the Orient as
well as of Europe have responded favorably to the
invitation of President Roosevelt to share our great
naval, military and civil display at Jamestown. As
has been said, the naval feature appealed to the
'O DOLL ATS A YLAT.
L CLNTS A COPY.
a feature of every commemorative
exposition abroad. At Jamestown
there is planned a naval meeting
of all nations where each one will
display to the utmost the special
features of her naval warfare.
\merica, with her newly acquired
taval strength, can well compete
vith the older nations of the world
»n this particular, and those
who stand on the shores of Hamp
ton Roads and watch the passing
■>f the great ships of war must
feel a thrill of national pride for
he ship of state which has steer
id our nation into a naval place
equal to that of any in the world.
aval drills, submarine battles,
indulged in by all the nations,
even a perfect imitation of the
historic contest between our brave
Monitor and her gallant adversa
ry the Merrimac enacted in the
very waters that witnessed the
original conflict, will be some of
the great naval features of the
Exposition at Jamestown. Yet
another exhibit which owes its full
est force to the tidewater loca
tion of this exposition will be that