The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-02-21
WEST VIRGINIA
AT JAMES,
Work on the Big Building is Under
Way and Exhibits win Be
Grand and Gorgeous.

CHARLESTON, w. Va. Feb. al
West Virginia viii be more per-
fectly and more completely represent
ed at the jamestown ter-centennial
this year than It has ever been be-
fore,' said a Wheeling travelling
man, who is stopping at the Kanawna
and who just came back from the
grounds where the great exposition
Of 1907 win be held.
Prof. Virgil Lewis, who win have
charge of the history branch of the
exposition, and Mr.. s. W. Moore, Sc
lected to look after the hortlcultur-
al department there. have both re-
turned from Richmond, and the ex-
position grounds where they went
to make final arrangements looking
toward the exhibits for this state.
and the former, in. his Office in the
capitol annex, said that everything
is in fine shape so far as this state
is concerned on the exposition
grounds Quoting him in part:
Work is progressing nicely on
the West Virginia building. Twelve
carpenters were at work there when
| was there and Superintendent
chriss, who is in charge of the work
informed me that the structure will
have been completed and made ready
for occupancy long before the expo
sition opens.
when was there the frame work
was all up and both the sub-fioors
had been laid. The diagonal sheet
ing was being placed preparatory to
Misunderstanding the structure. The
building is nice one, and is sensi-
bly, arranged. 1t excels the one
which West Virginia had in St.
Louis in many particulars.
The site of the building is one of
the most desirable on the entire
grounds, and from the balconies can
be seen the entire extent of Hamp-
ton Roads. In it's entirety it is in
plain view. Directly across the his
toric roads, and about four miles
distant, is famous Point Comfort;
seven miles away, in the same di-
rection is Newport News, and south
about eight miles is the city of Nor
folk. Southwest about the same dis
lance is Portsmouth, one of the sew
eral big ship-building places on the
Atlantic coast, and east of the expo
sition grounds about fourteen miles
is Cape Henry. as well as Ocean
View. Every spot near the EXPOSE
ton place is mentioned in the i'm
portant histories of this country.
Asked about the extent of the
space in the department of history to
the credit of West Virginia, Prof.
Lewis said that in the history palace
West Virginia has a reservation of
5SS feet and $40 feet of wall space
in the booths In addition we will
have two exhibit rooms in the West
Virginia state building, each of
which will be "a IL by so feet.
Mr.. c. W. Moore has secured
ample space for the states horticul-
tural exhibit in which is the center
court of the largest building on the
grounds.
state Superintendent OF Free
Schools Thomas G. Miller has made
arrangements for the exhibit of his
department in the education build
ing, or in fact. in the wing of the
building which is devoted to the ex-
ploitation of public free school edu-
cational matters.
Mr.. Neill Robinson, who will have
charge of the coal exhibit, has pro-
cured space on the banks of willough
by bay at the junction of First street
northeast of the Inside Inn, on viii
loughby avenue. 1t is within $50
feet of the West Virginia building.