The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-11
THE
MECCA TO MORROW.
Expected That Great Crowd Will
Make Pilgrimage to Spot Of
q vcr-1ncrcasing Interest.
FACTS ONE OUGHT 10 KNOW I,I

Mitch Interesting Data Which
Will Enable Visitors to See the
Island With Understanding.
Many parties are being inado up be-
tween friends to attend the jamestown
excursion Tomorrow.
These excursions arc always notaoie
events Of the May season and are always
we'll pntronized, moro so this year than
ever, MS It is the last before the expo
sition OF 1907. Tickets can be procured
to-day at the Virginia Historical Society,
at Rosemary Library, at Briggs Phar-
macy, Howitzer place, and Tomorrow
morning, at the wharf al
Miss Bette Elyson will have charge
Of the restaurant OH the steamer Pocn-
hohtas, and will furnish an excellent ana
nppetlzlng meal for any and al desiring
II, and especially for those wishing 70
avoid the trouble OF taking lunch
ba sket.
jamestown Island Is full Of the assocla-
that its past holds and will will repay
the trip made to It BY those who know
It, moro particularly by those who have
never before had chance to visit the
site OF the first permanent English settle
lnent In America.
Will Stop at Brandon.
Added to the pleasure Of seeing james
town, Is the pleasure afforded by the OPP
portunity OF stopping at Brandon on the
return trip. Mrs. Harrison has kindly
extended to the a. P. Y. A. and their
friends an Invitation to visit one of the
most historic and famous homes IN
America, one that is especially rich IN
portraits, beautiful colonial silver ana
furniture and one that has remained IN
the ownership of the Harrison family
since the early eighteenth century period.
A check room on the steamer where
parcels may be lett and n large num-
Ter Of seats provided will insure the COM
fort of those going on Saturday with the
"A. p. VA The present outlook promises
that the excursion will be even pleasantcr
than any which have preceded It,
81 There has been OF late so much careful
study Of the history OF colonial Virginia,
that the visitor to jamestown Is now,
usually, much better informed than was
the case some years ago. lie IS not
content to, take a glance at the tower,
and be satisfied with having merely been
tc Jamestown! He now wishes to know
something definite as to localities.
It will. therefore, interest many peo-
PIE, to receiveGa few hints In regard TO
finding the places Of chief historic I'M
pert and the publication may especial
~ be timely to those who 80 to James
town on the A. p. y. a. excursion to-.
morrow. f,,., 4. +eE &. (, Me- n y vi
AS the steamer approaches Jamestown;
the tourists eye is caught by long
white line on the shore. When we come
nearer this is shown to be the massive
sea-wall erected by the United States
government. which is now completed, and
will forever protect the island from FUR
tther ravages of the river.
It will be we'll to seize the few minutes
before the visitor lands to tell him tnat
the loss Of ground by the nroads Of the
river has been chiefly above the tower.
and that there is good reason to believe
that the twenty acres which have been
engulfed were never anything but sort
of suburb OF the little town, and proba-
bly, contained no buildings OF Importance.
On reaching the shore from the wharf
visitors are In the upper end OF the por-
ton of the island. which, from 1923 to
100, was that chiefly coupled by James
City," Here were the homes OF the Gov
ernors and other prominent men Of that
period, and at least one statehouse was
situated on the river bank not far be-
low the wharf
Proceeding up the road from the wharf,
Tourists soon reach the grounds OF the
Association for the Preservation Of VIr-
ginia Antiquities. They contain about
twenty-five acres, the generous gift Of,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward =. Barney, and OF
the State OF. Virginia.
Study Of Jamestown.
II the visitor wishes TO study James
town in chronological order..let him pro-
coed at once up tho river bank or through
the Confederate fort to the FIRST jetty
above. IN the river, about one hundred
and seveny-1ve yards distant, was the
shore line OF 1907, and Mr.. Samuel II.
Yonges Investigations have proved con-
cusively that on this old shore line, at
{. point opposite whese tho visitor IS
standing, must have .heon tho spot on
which tho first settlers landed.
Visitors will now turn back to The
Confederate fort and place themselves
only a short distance away, IS believed
to have been the Eorth basllon of the
triangular pallsaded fort III lC07 II the
visitor, standing at The p0int indicated.
will with his eye mark ont {. line be-
ginning at the rivor bank Mt tho angle
OF tho Confederate fort furthest down
stream. carry It across the fort to n
point on the road between the fort ana
the state-houso foundations, and thrn
return 10 the river not far above ,hn jetty
which has been referred 10, he will (as
far aA It is now ;osslhls to locate The
slte) have included ell that remains above
water Of the site OF the original palisaded
town.
Near where no stands good Parson Hunt
conducted the first lnllgloNs service;
around him tho settlers built their first
cabins. Here lived Smith aud Percy,
Dale and Gates:9 hare Pocuhontag made
her visits OF help and warning and here
was the little church In which she was
baptized and married. Itcre ware eXpe-