The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-20

in and Around the Waters of ITamp-
 ton Roads During the Jamestown
 Exposition.
 Norfolk, Va, Dec. 19.-Parallel to the proverb that Necessity is the mother of Invention is the newer saying that Propositions are the originators of Novel Ideas" The Jamestown Ter r-Centennial Exposi tion to be held on the shores and wa ters of Hampton Roads, near Norfolk in 1907, will be no exception to this rule, as already many attractive and valuable schemes have been perfected that will serve to both amuse and ac- commodate the thousands that will take in this celebration, which is to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of the first permanent English speaking colony in America.
 Foremost among these attractions at the Jamestown Exposition will be the "Water Belt Line" an organized com pany that will maintain a regular schedule of steamers around and about the waters of Hampton Roads and the adjoining tributaries that go to make up the famous 'TideWater Virginia" IA Belt Line on land, with steam or trolley cars, is familiar to almost every city, but "Water Belt Line," operating steamers instead or cars, is indeed novel system pr transLorta ton.
 Owing to the fact that the James, town Exposition will be the first eel ebration of it's kind ever held in this country, on deep water, there will be assembled in Hampton Roads next year, the greatest naval pageant that the world has ever seen. These as- sembled navies of all of She reDresen- tative nations, at anchor in the spa cious harbor in front of the exposition grounds, will include every type of freighting craft, from the smallest and most obsolete gunboat to the largest and most formidable man-of war, af- fording a splendid opportunity for the comparison of the naval strength of the various countries that are to par ticipate, and to note the progress in naval construction from it's earliest stages
 No section of the country is so hal lowed by history making events as that part of Virginia, on Hampton Roads, whose shores are lined with historical points of interest where the James town Exposition will be held in 1907 Foremost among these landmarks is ! Old Point Comfort, so named by the first settlers because of the safe an chorage afforded by it's protected shores for their storm-tossed vessels Here is also located Fort Monroe, the chief artillery station of the United \ States government on the Atlantic coast. With its grim old walls and | winding moat, Fort Monroe is one of the most picturesque as well as fornid- able military posts in the country Yorktown, where Cornwallis surren- dered to the Continental army, is only a two hours ride by either boat ol train from the exposition. Here can bt seen the monument erected by the gov ernment in honor of the great victory of the American forces. The first GUS tom house eyer erected in America is also located at Yorktown. Within 2 stone's throw of the Exposition site can be seen the remains of the earth works thrown up by the Confederate army in their defense against the Un- ion troops in the battle of Sewell's Point. The scent of the famous battle between the Monitor and the MerrimaC is also close by, the fight having taker place only a few hundred yards out ir Hampton Roads, from the grounds oi the exposition
 These and many other points of in terest that line the shores of this re- nowned harbar, together with the va ried water features of the exposition i including not only the naval display ! but motor boat carnivals, yacht races and submarine contests, will make il imperative for visitors to the Ter-Cen- 1 tennial to make this trip around the harbor, that has been laid out by the Water Belt Line," before they car truthfully say that they have seen ev' erything in connection with this at tractive exposition.
 Beside the regular belt line trips. the company will operate daily excursions ] to such places as Jamestown Island 1 the actual site of the first permanent settlement, where nothing remains but ! the old ruined church tower so famil- far in history; Yorktown already spoken of, and many of the other inter- esting places in and about Tidewatel 1 Virginia.