Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1907-04-26
PROGRArl OF EVENTS AT
!. JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION

The ceremonies incident to TIT
formal opening Of the jamestown
Ter-Gentennial Exposition on Apri
20, 1907, will be under the direction
Of G.. T. Sheppard, Secretary Of thu
jamestown Exposition Company
assisted by Lieutepant P. H. Bag.
by, 9th United States Infantry
Military attache to the Department
Of the Secretary.
At sunrise on April Goth, the
Norfolk Light Artillery Blues,
stationed at the Exposition
grounds, will fire salute of BOO
guns to usher in the commence
ment Of the day opening the James
town Ter. Centennial Exposition in
commemoratlon Of the three. hun.
dreth anniversary of the first Eng
lish settlement in America.
Upon the arrival Of President
Roosevelt, on the MayAOwer, in
Hampton Roads, a salute will be
fired by the United States and for
eign war ships there assembled.
When the President arrives at
Exposition grounds he will be met
at the end Of the pier by military
escort and will be saluted by the
United States Artillery, stationed
on theExpositIon grounds. Prompt
Ily at the hour Of 11:30 tie Presl-
dent will be escorted to theReview-
ing stand, on Lees Parade, in the
rear Of the Auditorium building,
where the following exercises will
take place.
1. Opening prayer by the Right
Reverend Alfred Magill Randolph,
Bishop Of the diocese of Southern
Virginia.
Address and introduction of the
President Of the United States by
the Hon. Harry st. George Tucker,
President of the Jamesto Expo
sition Company.
3. Address by the Hon. Theodore
Roosevelt, President of the United
States.
4. Opening Of the Exposition by
the President Of the United States.
Wbar PrvoiuonU PIvSees 'n'
GOLD button, starting the machln
ery Of the Exposition in motion, II
will, at the same time, be the sig
nal for the unfurling of more thar
1000 flags on the various building
of the Exposition. The pressin
Of this button will also be the sig
nal for salute to the Union b.
the United States and foreign ship
assembled in Hampton Roads ant
. hv the garrison at Fort Monroe
At the conclusion Of the salute al
Q of the bands on the Exposition
/ grounds will play thc"Star Spang'
ed Banner" at which time all troop
= will salute the national anthem D
r presenting arms and the entlr
: concouise will be expected to un
t cover during the rendition Of tn
ceremonial.
# Immediately thereafter the Pre-
a ident of the United States will r.
/. view the parade, Of which Mao
n General Frederick D. Grant, OF tt
8 Uuited States Army, will be Gral
lie Marshal, which will be participate
in by the soldiers and sailors OF tt
IF United States and foreign COVER
", ments and the National Guar
n. The governors Of the differe
s. states of the Union having militia
,e, representation in the parade "
be participate therein, together WI
es their stats. Boxes on the Revle
n. ing Stand. will be assigned
20, those governors who do not partl
10 pate in the parade.
in On the Reviewing Stand, besI'
ay the President of the United Sta
nd and his Cabinet. will be the Dip
ii. matte Corps, Officers and direct
Ter Of the jamestown Exposition 70
Ter PAW. members of Congress,
TT. General Assembly of Virgin
by United States and State Conn
ere sioners to the jamestown Ter-C
ON tennial Exposition, official rel
AN sentatives from the different sta
me Of the Union. officers Of the CT
it, surrounding Hampden Roads.
lis Should the weather be unfavt
ion BILE these opening exercises vii
the held in the Auditorium Buildl