Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-25
Entered At the Newport News. Va.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1905.
NOT ALTOGETHER RETROSPECT.

In commenting upon the fact that
the jamestown Exposition Company
Is now ready to begin active building
operations the esteemed Baltimore
Sun has this to say:
"In yesterdays Sun it was shown
that the surface and sub-surface work
OF the proposed exposition, in 1907, at
jamestown, Va, the birthplace of the
nation, is completed. and that the ercc-
ton of the exposition buildings is
about TO begin. The enterprise cannot
but interest every American patriot.
1t appeals in n special way to broad
minded men of ali sections of the
country as marking the three hun
dredth anniversary Of the first sue
cessful effort of our race to plant It's
civilization on this continent. For
this reason 1t IS fairly expected that
the national government and the pco-
pie generally will join with enthu-
siasm in the coming celebration. We
have had at Philadelphia. Chicago and
st. Louis great cXpositions devoted
chiefly 10 the industrial arts and
looking to The future OF mechanical
industry. They stimulated the intel.
llgence OF the masses and did good
IN the sphere Of our material inter.
estS. RetroSpSction is now in order
IL VIII be profitable to the nation 10
cast It's eye back upon the work acli-
ieved by our ancestors in the colonial
Derlod-Work. which formed the ba-
Sis upon which our present masnifi-
cent political and industrial structure
has been reared. jamestown saw the
inception OF this work and illustrated
admirably i'll its career the difficulties
which the first builders had to cncoun-
ter and overcome. 1t was the first
seat Of empire. The center OF gravi-
~ OF the welghty interests Of the coun.
try has shifted, ii Is true. TO the Tar
west, but the part played by James
Town in the historical drama cannot
be ignored. y generous cooperation
Of the whole union IN the exposition
OF 1907 may, therefore, be reasonably
expected.
The jamestown Exposition natural.
~ turns our attention to the arts and
industries OF the colonial period It's
buildings will be. appropriately. in the
colonial style, and will be furnished
doubtless as far as practicable. with
all classes vi colonial furniture, from
tie rude equipment of the hut of the
lndentured servant TO the elegant art-
Giles that filled the parlor. the dining
room and living rooms Of the planters
mansion. Colonial agriculture. manu-.
featuring and architecture will be il.
Illustrated. To the lover Of colonial
Virginia antiquties'-the
jamestown Exposition will be extreme.
II Interesting. and may prove 10 be
most Pleasantly instructive"
In section which was the birth.
place OF a noble and liberty loving
race oil men and in which every coun.
~ has its cpoch-marking records of
historical events. il would be neither
right nor proer TO forego the oppor-
tuhity to make the exposition largely
retrospective. II should not be for.
gotten, however. that the present is
10 be emphasized and the future sug
gested, especially along the line OF ma.
val and marine architecture. Let us
pay full homage 10 Il glorious and in.
spirins past, but Virginians of today
are ready to seize the opportunities
OF the present ana to build for future
greatness. This exposition will cna-
Die them to present to the world SOM.
thlhg more than an historic past