The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-08-20
MHERE THE OCCIDENT
" AND THE ORIENT MEET.

l once heard President Snyder in a
lelnre on Southern literary effort say
1. AT about ali good things hal ;hrlr
beginnings i'll Virginia. Re that ~ il.
may, L nave Jcec much impressat With
Ii: part played Ey the Old Dnn.i.l Tn
~ making possible this "Xpu"ition
The great Jefferson, VirgIian Sc
cured the Louisiana Territory, with its
vast resources. But this did not satisfy
their far-seeing President. So he
started that historic company, num-
bering forty-four men, composed of
trenchmen, Americans and one negro,
to the far West. At the head were
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark,
both Virginians. They left Washing
ton July 5, 1903, and on November :,
1913, they reached the western limits
OF Sunset-land, where they built the
rude fertilization named Fort Clatsop.
In the Oregon building hangs IN oil
painting of Doctor John Floyd, Viz
ginian, who introduced the first bin IN
Congress for the colonization of the
Oregon Country" Be it remembers
that this country embraced what
IS now Oregon Washington, Idaho and
"a part of Montana. These facts are
enough to indicate the debt OF this
land 10 Virginia, and visit by any
one to ST. Louis and Portland is sui
llClSllI W COllHIIu anew any views
held as to the wisdom Of Jefferson.
Ine Old Dominion did well one nun
dred years ago. But that was only
the beginning. Then the ever-advanc-
ing Anglo-SaXonS were crossing the
>''G~'''"ni ara the Ohio and beginning
to move up the Missouri. This ever
.~.si4iis Seeking after new worlds to
conquer subdued a continent and
gave us the spectacle of today. Very
apt indeed are the words on one of the
tablets on the walls of the Ionic
peristyle leading into the Government
TO the People of the Great West:
building:
Jefferson gave you the country.
Lewis and Clark showed you the way.
The rest is your own course of em-
pire. Honor the brave men
who foresaw your West. May the
memory of their achievements be your
precious heritage
The historical setting of the EXPOSE
zion is good. Equally as fine is the
local setting. Some may rave over the
Willamette, the beck ground of .ir-
clad hills, and the SHOWS of Hood
and Rainier. All that, however, IS
largely poetry. But when attention il
gwen Centennial Park and the gen
erai arrangement of the grounds. ore
meets the actual facts ~ they are.
Gould the critical public wish for finer
grounds and a more compact grouping
81 the exhibits? This IS ne i1ir that
can be seen. There is no need to take
one general view and despair The
who.e is such as to entice one on With
cut the fear of !; physical collapse.
III" Palace Of Agriculture. the
Foreign Exhibits Building, the Orient
al t:uiiding. The Manufactures, the
Mining, the FORESTRY buildings are all
th"is and many y. :" . Nn' ~ fn'i..h
y light be said ~ irh "as = eli written
of a descriptive nature. But this IS
not my purpose I had rather refer
to a few features noted. One is the
unique character Of the Forestry
building. The fact that two miles of
logs five and six feet in diameter, eight
miles of poles, and tons of slabs ard
shingles were used in constructing it,
is enough to attract attention. Indeed,