The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-29
MONEY FOR
Exposition.
The. Good Work viii Now. CO. :.
8#5 ForWardV Very Vigorously
4 QUARTER OF a MILLION
None ofthe States Appropriations Await
able Until That Sum Hus Beer
Raised by jamestown SS
Company IaS

Now that the bill nppropriating 100000
to the jamestown Exposition Company
has been passed and the Elk position there
by assured beyond doubt tho work Of sse-
curing subscription 40 the capital stock
rWlllGbe pushed steadily. The company
will sbeJtcap italIzed Mt ono million dollars.
and now that&the Stbto has given such
an Impetus to the movement, 1t Will be
easier to solicit subscript by the
people OF the section contiguous to the
seat OF tho Exposition.
Under the terms of the bill as pass
ed no part OF the States approptia ton
becomes available until after March |.
1904 and then only after the Jamestown
Company can furnish satisfactory proof
that It has raised the sum OF $3.50 zoo IN
actual cash. The remaining $4,000 OF
the states endowment does not become
available until after March l. 1905, and
then only when the company can give
satisfactor assurance that an additional
SEOO, 00O In cash or5its equivalent has been
raised. Thus before the entire sum be-
comes available the promoters Of the
|%t1xposition must raise half a million dol
lars In actual cash.
Already upwards OF four hundred thou-I
sand dollars has been promised In sub
scriptions, and the promoters OF the great
fair bf 1907 are sanguine Of their ability to
raise d round million before the gates OF
the big show on historic Hampton Roads
are opened to the public.
"a meeting Of the directory of the com
pany VII be held soon to formulate plans
for furthering the Exposition movement
General Fitzhnglis Lee Will call the dlrec-5
tors together probably this or next week.
Meanwhile tho work Of soliciting suhscrip-
ltlons Will go right on, Norfolk, Ports
mouth, Newport News Hampton. Norfolk
county and all the points most Interested
having promised to do the handsome.
thing in45the way of putting the EXPO
sltion project on a sound financial basis
IN duo time committees will be consti-
tuted to direct the planning and construc-l
+ ton OF buildings,&to solicit exhibits from
this country and from foreign coun-&
tries and to advertise the great ter-ceil-5
stenary. 1t is assured that ere the gates
Of the Exposition ara swung open ample
hotel and mammoth buildings will rise on
Sewells Point or in the vicinity, and
that when 1907 is ushered In there will be
lacking nothing to make the affair a.
gigantic success. 1t Is too early now to
enter upon these details. Already the
cities and towns within easy touch of
the seat Of the prospective Exposition
have hotel accommodations ample to
house many people, and others will spring
up In such number that rates cannot be
extortionate, however great the crowd.
Three advantages are claimed for this
E8pOSlllOIl Ofel5i1
First, the Exposition buildings will be
reared on land owned by the company.
some three hundred acres Of 1t lying on!
Sewell's Point. on Hampton Roads; Sec
ond, 1t will follow closely upon the great
Louisiana Purchase Exposition at st.
Louis and many Of the exhibits and
buildings from that Exposition will be
removed to the jamestown Fair; third, q
great naval exhibit, not alone by this
country, but by all tho nations OF the
world, in Hampton Roads, is already
reasonably assured 555 nv u ss
Electric railways will be built through
out the historic section contiguous to
the Exposition. jamestown, 1or rlStt'
williamsburg, Hampton. Old Point. Great
Bridge and Craney Island. scenes made
famous In the colonial Or subsequent his
tory Of this country will oil be
easily accessible. and all those
points will feel the impetus Of the
Exposition as a motive power in the d.
rection Of prosperity.