The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-26
THOUSANDS BLOCKING ID OPENING OF GREAT FAIR
FINE WEATHER IN ORDER TO-. DAY FOR JAMESTOWN,S
 WORLDS SHoW.

President Arrives on Fort Monroe Tht.
 Morning and VIII Review the Mag
 nificent Fleet of Foreign and Ameri-
 can Warships--WM Land at 1I
 o'clock. and Soon After Deliver the
 Dedicatory Address Congressional
 Delegation at old Point Comfort.
 Norfolk, Va, April 25.--With Presi- dent Roosevelt as the guest and with diplomatic and military officials from all Of the more important nations of the world in attendance, the James, town Ter-centennial exposition will be thrown open to the public tomorrow. Every steamer and train reached Nor folk tonight brought thousands of visitors and the governor of Virginia all been carefully worked out, the ex, has proclaimed tomorrow holiday. Fair and cool weather is predicted and as the details of the program of land and water ceremonies have all been carefully worked out, the exposition management is looking forward to the opening as forming a notable epoch in the history of tidewater Virginia.
 When President Roosevelt arrives off Fort Monroe tomorrow he will proceed to review the magnificent fleet of for eign and American warships now at anchor in Hampton Roads. This inn posing ceremony, and a brief reception to the flag officers on board the May flower ended, the President will lana on the exposition grounds at il o'clock. He will be driven at once to the re- viewing stand on Lee Parade and will their deliver the dedicatory address of the exposition. He will conclude by pressing gold button as a signal for the formal opening of the finished de- partments of the enterprise The Presi- dent and his immediate party will then receive several hundred invited guests in the auditorium building and after this function will be entertained at luncheon. He will return to the re- viewing stand during the afternoon to witness the land parade of soldiers and sailors, several companies of the lat | ter being landed from the foreign ves- l sells.
 To-day witnessed the arrival of the most formidable of the visiting warship squadrons. The Austrian ship Sankt lGeorg and Aspern and the British cruiser squadron. composed of the Good Hope, the Argyll, the Hampshire and the Roxburg, passed in the capes with in a few hours of each Other, With saluting cannon and dipping flags they Ilcruised slowly up Hampton Roads to I the positions assigned them on the na- val rendezvous grounds. The flagship Connecticut, Of the American fleet, ex- changed salutes with the Sankt Georg and the Good hope, and later Admiral l Sir George Neville, of the British squadron, and Commodore Hermann Plescott, of the Austrian squadron, put out in small boats to visit Rear-Ad- miral Robley D. Evans on the Connect icut. They were warmly welcomed and had hardly gone over the side to re- turn to their own fiagships, when the American commander was in his launch returning the official call of courtesy.
 With dull gray sides and smoky black tunnels, the visiting ships were sharply marked in contrast to the American ships, resplendent in new coats of white paint. The arrival of the Britons and Austrians, who had been preceded two days by the German squadron and the Argentine ship Sar- miento, lent immeasurably to the att tractiveness of the naval display ar ranged for the opens days of the expo- sition, and will make of tomorrow 6 review a notable event of the inaugural ceremonies.
 The steamer Jamestown, from Wash- ington, bearing the congressional delez gation to the expsition, arrived at Old Point Comfort tonight The govern ors of a number of states accompanied by their military staffs, arrived to-day. Many of them were tonight the guests of the governor of Virginia and Mrs. Swanson at a reception given in the Virginia state building at the exposi- ton.