Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-09
ANGLO-SAXON EMPIRE
Men Who Laid Foundation in
This Country.
MILITANT AND AGGRESSIVE
Three Hundredth Anniversary to Be
Celebrated at Jamestown.
AN IMPRESSIVE MEMORIAL
Not Merely Historic in Name, but in
Reality, is Design of the
Management.

| The spirit of 1I16 was militant and ag-
| gressive-not less militant but creative was
! the spirit of 1907 The men who early in
the seventeenth century laid the foundation
| of an Anglo-Saxon empire in the new
| world had as formidable battles to fight as
| their descendants and heirs mad later to
| wage with the mother country in the sue
| cessful endeavor to keep the created empire
| for themselves. Next spring the three
| hundredth anniversary of the first perma-
| nent English-speaking settlement will be
celebrated and the form of observance will
| be in keeping with the mood of those whose
| deeds are to be commemorative is to be
| a memorial that will be durahly impressed.
! Near Norfolk, Virginia, on the shores of
| Hampton Roads, n colonial city is now fast
| on it's way to completion. From ne great
| exhibit buildings down through the differ
| ent grades and sizes to the very smallest
| structure on the grounds there is a unity of
| design and a singleness of purpose. The
| architecture is all of type, that style
| which had it's best development in our
| country and reached it's height in the days
| antcdating the Revolution.
| The appeal which Virginia maze to the
| general government and to her sister states
| was to participate in a celebration which
| would be not merely historic in name, but
| in actually. The government responded with
! aid for the exposition and further by in
| auguratng military and naval celebration
| unique in it's conception and worldwide In
| its scope. Hardly less satisfactory to the
Old Dominion has been the action of her
daughters and sisters. Every state whose
| legislature has received q direct invitation
| will be represented at the TerCentc2nial.
Water Front Mansions.
The water front of the exposition site Is
lined with splendid colonial mansions in
various stages of completion. The impress
sive buildings which will serve as headquar-
ters for visiting citizens and house the his
toric exhibits of Rhode Island. Virginia,
Pennsylvania. Ohio, New Jersey, Massa-
| chusetts and Connecticut are almost COM
pleted. Before the winter months have
passed these will be augmented by the
structures 10 be erected by Vermont, Maine,
New York, Delaware, North Carolina
South Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Illinois,
Missouri West Virginia, North Dakota
South Dakota, Oregon, Minnesota, Ne
braska, Kansas, Colorado Tennessee.
Alaska Oklahoma and Arkansas. Several
of these states have already begun their
buildings most of them have laid their
cornerstones and all have selected sites
The historic and sentimental opportunity
which anniversary dates offer haS very
generally been ignored by exposition man
ayers SO the plans of the Jamestown man
agement which magnified the Importance
of the event and its co-relators, even at the
expense of minimizing the industrial fea-
lures. came first as a surprise to the coun-
try, but soon grew popular. Some of the
least important states, judged by lndustr1ai
or population tests, are richest in historic
traditions and accomplishment. The historic
idea, therefore, served to put these on
basis they had not hitherto occupied at
worlds fairs, and it is noticeable at the
colonial city on Hampton roads that some
of the smallest states have the most I'M
pressive headquarters. AS an example,
Rhode Islands building is a veritable tri-
umph of architectural art.
The entire water front is not given up to
state buildings. Several of the large ma
tional orders like the Travellers Protective
Association, the Modern Woodmen, the
knights of Columbus, the Red Men and
others will have splendid headquarters at
the exposition.
Some Permanent Structures.
Several of the states and practically all
of the associations which are erecting
buildings, will have permanent structures.
The exposition company owns the land on
which the celebration will be held, and 1t
sells at a nominal figure, sites to states or