The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-10
EXPOSITION GOING
RIGHT AHEAD NOW
Many Buildings Going Up as II
by Magic-Grounds Being
BeautiGcd.
PIERS, TOO, WILL BE READY
Transportation Lines Are Doing
a Lot Of Judicious llustling
In These Days.
ESPECIAL to Tho rimes. Dispatch. l

tSpeClui 10 Inc IlInes- DlSpalCH.l
NoIWOLlS, VA, March 9-The pro-
gress that Is being made with the
buildings and grounds of tho James
town Tercentennal Exposition is GER
tainly very gratifying. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that the weather has been
very disagrceable for this latitude for
q month or so, the work has gone
steadily on till now most OF the build
ings are either completed or SO near
completion that there is little more
TO do but put on a few finishing
touches. The States exhibit building
Is completed and some of the exhibits
arc now on the ground and are being
Installed. Many OF the State buildings
are. finished and most OF the others
| are nearing completion.
The grounds, too, arc rapidly being
brought into the state of beautiful com.
| pletion and will soon present the be-
sent the bewildering beauty that VIII
! be presented to the public when the
| gates swing open on the 2Gtll day OF
| April.
| The two great government piers that
| extend 2,400 feet out into Hampton
Roads, each of which is zoo feet wide
! and which are connected by cross
| pier 500 feet long and Of like width
| as the others, lis also rapidly being
completed. These piers will enclose
a forty-ncre water space. in which all
the minor aquatic sports will take
| place.
| Transportation lines are hustllng as
| they never did before to get ready to
| handle the crowds. and from the pres
| ent indications there viii be no conges-
| ton In that line. In TACT, the Water
1 Belt Line, line of elegant steamers
| that Will run a fifteen minute schedule
| between Norfolk and the exposition
! grounds, and an hour schedule on the
rest of the line. which takes in old
| Point Comfort Fortress Monroe, Hamp-
ton. Newport News, Portsmouth Navy
| yard. and other points on this line.
\ The boats on this line will pa ss through
the various naval ileets that will be
| assembled in Hampton Roads during
| the exposition. In fact, transportation
| to and from the exposition grounds
from the various points along this line
Will be pleasure instead Of u bug
bear
The Industrial feature of the exposi-
| ton is proving a factor of far greater
Importance than ii was at first thought
| It would be. The space Yin the States
| Exhibit Building and other general
buildings for that purpose has proven
| inadequate for the requirements, or
| would have done SO but for the fact
| that many of the most important manu-
| featuring industries have erected or
own in which to display and exploit
| their wares
Among the states that have made
appropriations or otherwise provided
for representation 1.-THE exposition are
/ the following:
| Connecticut has made an approprla-
4 ton OF $4,000; District of Columbia,
$4,000; Delaware. $4,000; Louisiana,
! $4,000; Maine $4,000; Florida, $4,000.
l Georgia. $4,000: Illinois, $4,000: * en-
lucky, $4,000 (by popular subserip.
1 uon); Maryland, $4,000 Michigan.
100000; Missouri, 100000; Massachu-
setts. $4,000; New Jersey. $4,000.
S150,oo0; North Carolina, $4,000; Ohio,
$4,000; Oklahoma, $4,000: Pennsylya-
mia, 100000; Rhode Island $4,000;
South Carolina, $4,000; Tennessee, $10,-
coo; Virginia 100000; Virginia coun-
ties, additional, 100000; Vermont. S1t,-
900; Wisconsin 100000; West Virginia
at least $4,000; oregon. Montana, -da-
no. and Washington, Jointly. s25o.ooo
Other States gre now arranging to al
so provide for representation,
The foreign countries that will par
ticipate with either warships or troops
or both, are. Great Britain, France
Russia, Germany, Japan, Switzerland
italy, Belgium Spain sweden, Greece.
Argentina, Brazil, Chill, Costa Isiea
Do!niHEot EctilauOI, Iudtdiiilat -'lcfsi'
co, Nicaragua Porto Rico Panama, Pc
IN, Salvador and others may yet de
eide to seek representation. Many o
these countries are also Represented
commercially,
.lapancse paper announces that the
: / King of siam is about To undertake jprn
nrS around the world. He Will first vis
japan, smiling from thcnse TO this country
aud proceeding home by way OF Europe,