The Washington herald., 1907-04-26
PAST AND PRESENT
JAMESTOWN'S GLORY
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maker, who once toIled for days over a.
pair Of fine shoes for the gentry, or for
Others. has degeneTated into cobDler
and machines make the shoes.
Ne1v Processes shown.
The iron age is passing and the age OF
steel has come. The iron bands that ersi-
while SPAWNED the continent have been
changed by the Bessemer process into
stronger bands of steel. The hands that
once slowly and labouously shaped metals
now only control million machines that
do the work more quickly and more ac-
curately.
And all these old processes VIII be
shown and practically demonstrated az
the jamestown Exposition in the Arts
and Crafts Village. where skilled work
men viii turn out before the eyes Of the
millions articles in every line of indus
try. in modest cottages in keeping WIZ.
the axe they represent while but "a few
steps away. ip massive buildings h4ea
with modern machinery, the same articles
Will be turned out as the work Is now
done. not only showing the perfection OF
mechanism. but that mechanism in mo-
ton and the finished products. II viii be
school TO look upon which cannot fan 10
inspire every visitor with hope for future
achievement and q desire 10 look tof-
ward and learn more
Necessity IS the mother of invention;
it is the necessity OF ali these things that
puts 10 work the master minds Of our
day and age In the South cotton Is
king. and vet but for the brain of Whit
new. or. had he failed some other brain
that would have grappled with the prob
lem. there would have been no cotton gin,
and cotton would not have been king.
II is only a little more than a hundred
years ago that Fulton gave us the steam
boat. and yet but for that where would
be the glory of old Hampton Roads and
the other waterways of the continent
Where would be the cities that have
sprung UP in consequence Of commerce
Would this continent be bound In
bands of steel to-day and distance ami
hilated if Peter Cooper had not. in 1880
given the world the first crude but prac-
teal locomotive, and only few years
later Bessemer the steel?
American Brains.
Could the vast business OF this world
of to-day be handled but for Davenport
who. in 1885, gave US the electric railway
and Morse, who, in 1889, gave us the cleo
| trio telegraph?
How would the world Of to-day las
| superhuous on the stage Of the universe
/ but for Elias Howe, McClintock, Bell
/ Edison. Roentgen, or Marconi? But the
/ list is practically endless, and each day
some new genius passes across the zenitl
! 4 hp1fT4d a legacy
/ of wealth that cannot be measured II
dollars and cents. Brains cannot b.
/ weighed Yet. with q few exceptions, j
/ is American brains that has set all Thu
( machinery in motion, and American brain
/ and nerve that keep It going.
/ So much has been said of the materia
and technical features of the jamestown
! Exposition that little retrospection ant
/ speculation on the past, present, and fu
| ture is necessary.
The historic and romantic are so closel.
+ interviewer an over udeWater Virgini,
that il is almost Impossible fully TO gras
/ and comprehend the one without catching
the spirit Of the other. Aside from il
material phase, there is something eX
tremeIy interesting and romantic in tn
springing up Of a magic city. Il city O
magnificent colonial structures in a set
work: with winding walks bordered wit
a million shrubs and plants whose yari
cOlored foliage lends euchantment, an
whose flowers I'LL the air with a fragrance
and over an the outspread branches of tn
giant sentinels of the forest primevaL"
Old Days Passed.
Where the exposition grounds ii
bathed in the sunlight of a modfe
Southern winter, or white in the foo
of seldom INSTRUCTED moonlight. 500 year
ago there stood the primeval forest in a
its silent. solemn grandeur The leave
swayed gently TO and fro in answer I
the gentle breeze and in the forest shad
the Indian warrior wooed and won III
maiden of his choice The thud of tn
tomahawk, the swish Of the arrow or tn
dip of the paddle, as the canoe glide
swiftly over the waters of Hampto
Roads, then nameless. were all the SOUND
that broke the stiffness, nor did the den
zens then dream or the medicine me
: prophesy that this sequestered spot shoul