Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1906-11-14
GREATEST OF EXPOSITIONS.
jamestown Ter-ceutenniaI, Commemorating
Ameaca's Three Hundredth Anniversary,
To Be An Elaborate Exposition.

NAL in 1876, the jamestown Ter-Cen-
tennial to be held on the shores and
waters of Hampton Roads, near the
cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth and New
port News, Va, April 26 to November
80, 1907, is to be the most unique, and
in originality and novelty will COM
pletely eclipse all previous Expeditions.
The celebration commentaries the
most important event in history-the
founding of the first English-speaking
settlement in America, at jamestown,
Va, in 1907, where Captain John Smith
and small party of colonists estab-
lished village from which has grown
America; with nearly one hundred mil.
lion population. The celebratiau will
show the remarkable position attained
by the United States in history and
education, together with the marvellous
industrial development and commercial
expansion during three hundred years.
Contemporaneous with the Exposition
will be held on the waters of Hampton
Roads the greatest naval pageant ever
witnessed in the world, in which every
type of war vessel from the navies of
all foreign nations will participate
Another attractive feature will be the
international military encampment in
which attachments of troops of Euro
pean countries will unite with the SOL
diers of the United States in series of
drills, maneuvers, parades, etc.
The site of the Exposition is located
within twenty minutes ride of the
Tidewater cities of Virginia, rescued
either by trolley or steamer, aud nature
has combined with ingenuity of man in
making a beautiful and picturesque
spot. The grounds cover more than
400 acres, with two miles of water front
facing the greatest waterway in the
world, and commands an unsurpassed
view of innumerable points of national
and historical interest.
The scheme of landscape decoration
will be novel and elaborate, one of the
attractive features being the floral
fence which surrounds the ground. 1t
is made of trumpet vines, trained on
meshed wire, intertwlned with honey
suckle and crimson rambler roses, the
effect being an artistic triumph of
Towering beauty.
More than twenty five exhibit
palaces are now nearing completion
comprising Auditorium, Manufacture
and Liberal Arts, Mines and Metallur-
gy, Marine Appliances, Machinery,
Food Products, Arts and Crafts,
Transportation, Social Economy, etc.,
in addition to the government and
States buildings and pavilions. They
will be of semi permanent construction
and in appointments will excel any
similar group of buildings evel
erected. In architecture they will al
be of the colonial period, forming al
appropriate setting to the natura
beauties of the environment.
Another attractive feature will b,
government pleasure pier extending
1000 feet into Hampton Rords. Al
either end it will be surrounded with
light towers and working exhibit Of
wireless telegraphy. The entire struc-
ture will be illuminated by thousands
of arc and incandescent electric lights,
affording an unexcelled view of the
naval display. Amusements have
been lost sight of, and the "Warpath,
covering more than a mile, will offer
diversified class of original novelties
In assembling the exhibits, especial
those representing the varied indus
tries and the liberal arts the manager
of the Exposition have been careful t
, select only such as show the latest an
best attainments in every line of il
4 dustry. Hence, it will be the frs
'selective" Exposition ever held i
y the United States, inwhich every phas
of commercial and industrial develol
h ment will be displayed so arrange
and classified that visitors may obtai
n an intelligent understanding of I'll
IS history and growth of any specif
branch of the trades and industrie
>. without the necessity of visiting 9th,
# buildings to inspect another part
n the same exhibit
l. Many reasons combine to make th
v celebration the most successful ev
A. attempted, and when President Roost
,r welt touches an electric button April 2
of next year, signifying the form
IT opening of the gates, the thousands
re visitors will not be disappointed in IL
es wonders and attractions of the Jane
town Centennial.
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