The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-04-10

town of Fredericksburg The route
by rail- from Washington to The james
town fair is close by the Potomac I'M
til a short cross cut Is made to get into
the valley of the Rappanannock. Then
another cross cnt is made Tor the. wa
tiers of the James. All along the route
tie country Is rich In nistcric inter
est For four years The Federal armies
fought back and forth over this re
Sion in the effort to reach Richmond.
and scarcely a foot of ttst: road from
Warrington to Richmond is without its
~:ory-
Or If the traveller comes TO the
Ja-aestown exposit-or by some othe-
-.:.te he can Sis.:. much of the
cSrniry on which tds battIeItlds CT
tbs rstion are fouri. by a snort jour
ney IN any direc.:1n s ..Itkward is
the sound country which figured in
Tie early naval en.:runters Of the civil
war Down at un.a lower end OF Al
bemarle Sound Raleigh landed his frs:
colony. and there WIS made the. first;
attempt of the English to settle the
new world On the North Carolina
line IS the famous Dismal Swamp, one
tof the wonders of the country The
'samp IS cut by innumerab!c channels,
which permits navigation In many OF
its recesses. II covers miles Of terri
tory, and Is almost as isolated and i'm
penetrable in parts as the heart of
Africa
The jamestown exposition, will be
at the sea. another Indictment TO The
visitors The big exposit:oEs OF this
country have been held at interior
points AT the jamestown fair the
ocean VIII figure, and the naval us
play VIII probably be the greatest thai
has ever been attempted on this side
Of the Atlantic. However. all that Will
be done by the exposition managers
VIII not oifer more OF interest than
VIII be found IN the South Itself wlen
the stranger from the North Comes to
see Virginia IS d Southern State, b;le
what Is no3e to the poict as d matter
OF Iaterst, Virginia. at lest the Nor
io:k :er-it ~. is in the S5uth- Tie
transition from North to South is Srai-
ua1 above the Potomac Alexandria
is the first point reached that really
seems OF the South. jamestown or
the couTy round about old jamestown.
has ali the finger marks
The visitor from the North VINO
would penetrate the South aftec he
has looked around the James river
region can plan any number OF trips
to suit his pocketbook- One that
would not be expensive is out OF Char
lotte. the industrial center Of the ruan-
ufacturing South. which is so rapid
" awakening. Charlotte is live
Southern town. and always worth
visit. A rare Ole type OF the early
days Is CharIestown. South Carolina.
which was a city Of considerable prom
inerce q century and quarter ago.
Charleston is so conservative that it
Is a rare thing for can OF paint 10
go to the place It would change the
appearance Of things. Farther down IS
Florida, and still farther is the whole
GuIk coast, attractive always
In gong west the thing that strikes
the tourist is the resemblance he sees
to things left behind. In going South
it is different. Climate has a hand IN
the change. The man from the Mid
die or the New England States gets
down into Southern Virginia and tae
Carolinas and he finds magnolias and
japonicas blooming. He sees the yell
low jasmine growing wild in the woods
and swamps. Plants that are in the
hothouses where he came from ere
weeds where he goes. He hears the
noisy and persistent hooking bird.
and smells the incense Of burning yell
low pine. It Is in new world WITH
new language and new people
The black man is genial. happy fea-
ture.
When we talk about the James
town exposition it Is to recall the &C.
casion for holding It. Three hundred
years ago jamestown was settled by
handful OF English colonists. In
three hundred years that colony has
spread until here Is a nation Of close
to n hundred million people. 1t has
no parallel in the history OF civilized
countries for rapid or far-reachinS de-