Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-01-07
TeP,CentenRia| 10 be Held in 1907
viii Reflect Americas
Progress.
HEROIC DAYS ARE RECALLED
history CT the First English Settle
mcnt in This Country is the His
tory OF the Early Life and Growth
OF the rlation as Well as tie
state.

on the time Columbus .i:--v
FreG the new world until Spain's sea
power was shaft r::i by the los II
her invincible armada. the Briton
ana the Spaniarh controlled the
oceans and fought almost contin-
uously for supremacy. II was an
heroic age and no land possessed
such a plethora Of adventurers as
ENGLAND.
Tie last half of the sixteenth cen
fury during the reign OF Elizabeth.
was the Augustan age not only CT
Engish literture, but OF English
arna. Spain had invaded the west
eln hemisphere and had established
PROV inces. The English cast their
eyes toward the east as a field for
colonies. The citizens of the two
Nations differed no less than their
purposes in the new world: one was
bent on pillage and the establishment
OF yassalage. the other on settlement
ana independence
jamestown i6o7-t907.
n 1907 the three hundredth ami
vrrsary Of the first permanent Eng
lisa settlement in America will be
celebrated. In 1907 Jamestown, Va,
was 'ounded. Twelve years later it
wa the chief village in the self
governing colony of Virginia. This
wa year and six months before
Rock and 1t is safe to assume that
th. success of jamestown largely
iniue need the Pilgrims to leave Hol.
lend where they were measurably
proaf arous.
OF n expeditions haid sailed from
Eigls nd before the Godspeed, Susan
Constant and Discovery weighed an
cher. The previous attempts had end.
ed in disaster and the cheering thou
sands who lined teh sohres OF the
Thames, wishing the voyagers good
fortune, realized that this possibly was
fual attempt. Public opinion in Eng
land was radically divided on the ques.
Ito nof the eXpediency Of further at
telnpts at colonization.
The colony of Virginia was not
established without heroic sacrifice
and indomitablc courage. INSULT
cheney of food, fevers and other dis
cases and Indian massacros ravaged
the settlement.
Once Was Abandoned.
More than $4,000 people emigrated
froni England to Virginia between
1907 and 1921; yet there was left
in ths whole colony but Oil inhahi-
tants after the terrible Indian mas
sacre of 1922 Twice jamestown
was threatened with desartion and
oi,ce it was abandoned; only the
tilnell arrival of Lord Delaware say
ing from absolute termination.
The tercentennlal of tho first Eng
fish ,ettlement in America Is the
most sentimental celebration ever
planned on the American continent
Situs ed in territory which has
been the battle-ground in all of the
great wars; burnt by savages in It's
early days during the English wars,
ravat ID by foreign foes. 1t was the
theat of the chief struggles of
1851 f5. On the waters of Hampton
Road occurred naval engagements
as IN morable as any OF tho conflicts
whicl took place on Virginia's soil.
rh site chosen is a peculiarly
happ one. because few Americans
born in this country are without
aneeE, ors who have personal inter.
est in this section.
World to Be Represented. =
On this same body OF water in
1892 a fair sized naval Aset was as
sembled in honor Of the four hun.
dredth anniversary of the discovery
of America; in 1907 no nation will
be unrepresented at the tremendous
naval rendezvous which will be held