The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-05
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JAMEsTo WIN EXPOS ITIoN
GROUNDS, May 4.-With almost COM
plete installation OF the government
exhibits at the Jamestown Exposition.
II IS seen that this branch of the great
show is all that the plans outlined. and
even more in one respect-the inter-
esting character of the selections. One
can get fairly accurate view of this
exhibit in half day of genuinely alb
sorbing inspection. Museums are often
tiresome to lay folks becau.>c of their
specialized character, requiring special
knowledge for the simplest apprecia-
ton. This Is not true of the exhibits
selected for the Jamestown EXPOSE
ton. And this does not have reference
to the great government double piers
and beautiful classic group of build
ings with their connecting peristyles.
nor to the mighty fleets off shore, at
night brilliantly Illuminated and out
lined in hull, mast and tunnels in cleo
trio bulbs, nor yet to the military
encampment. 1t refers specifically to
the exhibits themselves.
The Immense Guns.
Inside the first building. the models
of the largest size guns ara seen in
half sections. These guns are of the
twelve-inch type. and their breeches
seem to be about five feet in diameter,
While the length is apparently fifty
feet.
So like in appearance to the real
weapon are the models that one taps
them to make sure. Then he taps an
eisht-inch plate of the Harveyized
kind, and that has been perforated by
several shots from fve-inch guns and
Is surprised to find that it is a genuine
plate, from the proving grounds at
Indian Head. He Is likewise surprised
when he encounters a fourteen-inch,
old time smoothbore and another stub
gun of eight-inch bore that is nothing
less than a real up-to-date mortar.
When he finds himself in a group of
foot and mounted army men he is quite
sure that at least one Is alive and
will presently move, betraying the
fact that he is at work among the
others, but the visitor isn't sure for
some time which uniformed one of
the lot Is real and which a ay-tigure
until he has carefully scanned each
one of the score, expecting at each turn
to find himself laughed at for suspect
ing that particular soldier man or Of
ficer to be wax. They are all wax
and are intended to show the present
day uniforms of the army.
You walk along beside a field ar
tillery outfit, horses mules and ALL
and carefully keep away from the an
imals' heels end ,momentariiy expect
q swish from one of the tails, but they
are only stuffed.
You spend a deal of time among the
score of beautiful models of war
ships; those made famous at Manila
and Santiago, and some OF the many
big fellows built since the War with
spain, and you take a look into the
model dry dock, in which vessel rests.
a feature always interesting to the
traveller from the interior, who per-
haps has never seen q ship In craving
dock.
The models of old ships-those of the
4 caravel type. one of the little fleet OF Co.
> lumbus two OF Viewpoints which brought
John Smith and his party to Jamestown
and there u model OF the Mayllower,
loved of New IInglandcrs, These models
are wonderful pieces of workmanship,
giving the old-type Of rigs in minute de-
decks like steps on which werS glazed the
brass cannon, One can see the old wor-
thies treadng their decks.
Captain John Smith and Party.
The large group showing Captain John
Smith and his party In sn.>>l trading
craft built at jamestown, drawn into a
small stream and barterlng with the
nearly nude natives, bucks and squnws,
who have come alongside in dug out ca
noes, Is so life-like and gives SO con-
vincing n picture of what such scene
must have, been, that this pieceSof work
must surely find place In the National