The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1907-05-02
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION
OPEN.
President Reviews Land and Naval
Forces.

Forces.
The jamestown Tercentennial
Exposition was formally opened at
Norfolk Va, April 26, with pomp
and ceremony. At sunrise the GER
emonies were begun by the United
States artillery firing salute of
three hundred guns. The day was
clear and warm.
AS President Roosevelt's yacht.
the Mayfower, steamed into Hamp-
ton Roads, a salute was fired by the
assembled United States and foreign
warships. President Roosevelt re-
viewed from the deck of the May
flower the war vessels anchored in
Hampton Roads.
When the President stepped upon
the government pier jutting out from
the exposition grounds he was mot
At the May, 1907, term of United
States court in Windsor a case was
tried by jury on condemnation pro-
ceedings against 5000 pounds of
wool alleged to have been struggled
into the United States from Canada
and seized at the storehouse of III
A. Perkins & Co. in White River
Junction. The jury found that only
500 pounds of the wool had Eeen
struggled, the remainder reverting
o the owner. The portion belong
ing the government has just been
sold at auction.
by military escort, and immediate
ly the United States artillery sta
toned at the grounds fired salute
to the chief of tie nation. The
President and his part, were then
escorted through the Plaza and be-
tween the great lagoons, into the
Auditorium building, and thence to
the reviewing stand on Lees parade,
just in the rear, at 1870 O'Clock.
Here on this thirty acre plot OF
grass covered ground were drawn up
in line thousands of soldiers Sur
rounding the chief executive were
members of his cabinet, members of
the diplomatic corps, the officers and
directors of the jamestown exposi-
ton, members of Cone ress, the gen.
eral assembly of Virginia, United
States and state commissioners of the
jamestown Tercentennial Exposi-
ton, official representatives. from the
different states of the Union, officers
of the various historical societies !,
and the mayors and municipal Off
GERS of the cities and surrounding
Hampton Roads. Then followed
the ceremonies on the grand stand
before great multitude assembled
on the parade ground. After an
overture by band and sele, ton by
chorus of seven hundred voices,
prayer was offered by the Rt Rev
Alfred Magill Randolph, bishop of
the diocese of southern Virginia
after which the president of the
jamestown Exposition Co., Harry
ST. George Tucker, delivered an adj
dress and concluded by introducing
the President of the United States,
who then gave an address. Roose-
welt was greeted with tremendous
cheers.
Upon the conclusion of his address
the President pressed the gold but
ton which started the machinery of
the exposition in motion. 1t was at
the same time signal for the un
furling of more than one thousand
flags on the various exposition build
ings. The pressing of this button
was likewise signal for salute to
the Union by the United States and
foreign ships assembled in Hampton
Roads.
At the conclusion of this salute all
of the bands on the exposition
grounds and the battleships played
the "Star Spangled Banner" the
troops saluted the national anthem
by presenting arms, and the vast
concourse uncovered.
One of the greatest features of the
exposition is the tremendous fleet of
of warships, selected from the navies
of the world, lying peacefully at an
Choir in historic Hampton Roads,
not far from where the Monitor and
the Merrimac fought their immortal
fight.
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