The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-02-23
NEGROES AT JAMESTOWN.
Corner Stone of Mammoth Exhibit
Building Laid.
(Rv Marx n Waters

Corner Stone of Mammoth Exhibit
Building Laid.
(By Mark O.. Waters.)
Norfolk, Va, Feb. 22.-The life of
the negro race in America began at
Jamestown but twelve years otter the
founding of the first settlement at
that place, therefore the colored race
is to have an important part in the
International celebration in CONNIE
moration of that event, a celebration
known as the jamestown Ter-Celten-
NAL Exposition which opens on Hamp
ton Roads, near Norfolk, Virginia
April 26. To this end the jamestown
Exposition Company set aside a
choice tract in the Exposition park
for the negro building purposes and
the general government appropriated
the sum of one hundred thousand dol
lars for the erection of a Negro build
ing and the xpense of collecting.
maintaining and returning exhibits.
IL u bASI liz WOI diiI COIlIIoI lhc
building, concessions, and exhibits. a
Negro Development and Exposition
company was organized under the
avs of the State of Virginia, and this
Company has been hard at work for
months past, creating an interest il
the matter. all over the Union. Sew
eral states have made appropriations
and negro exhibits from nearly all the
States will be displayed in the Negro
building.
February IA, the anniversary of
the birth of Frederick Douglas, was
selected as the proper time for the
ceremony of laying the corner stone
of the mammoth structure, and on
this date a large number of ~represen-
tative men and women of the colored
race assembled with the Exposition
officials at the Ter-Cente1nial grounds
to witness the ceremony. The a
ter of ceremonies vas Secretary
Shepperd of the Jamestown EXposf-
ton. Barton Myers, Governor of the
ways and Means of h Exposition,
formerly rendered the site to the Ne
gro Development and Exposition Com
pany and in conclusion said it was
his hope and belief that the exhibits
displayed in the building would show
to the world a better classification of
the negro race, SO that h entire
body Of colored people may not De cal
led upon in the future, as they nave
/ hnnn in tho ma Of tn hnar tho h19ma
which public opinion attaches to them
on account, of the actions of a degrad
ed element of the race.
After i~nvocations by Rev. A. Binga,
Jr., D. D., of Richmond, the officers
of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Vir-
ginia then placed the stone in po-
sition with the usual ceremonies OF
the order. The stone bears the insert
ption Negro Building. 1607-1907."
Following the Masonic service and
Music by the band from the Hampton
Industrial Institute for cOlored youth
several addresses were made. The
first was by w. Isaac Johnson, presi-
dent of the Negro Exposition Com
pany. Other addresses were made
by Giles Jackson, director general of
the Company on the subject. History
of the Negro Exhibit" Mrs. A. NJ.
| Curtis, fiscal agent on the subject,
Negro Woman's PART" R. T. Hill,
treasurer. on Financing the Exhib-
it," R. Kelser, field agent and gener-
al secretary, on Together we stand"
and Thomas ]. Galloway, the chair
man of the Executive committee on
"What the Negro Will Show"
The negro building which was de
colored architect of Washington, D.
c., is 125 by $50 feet two stories in
height and of colonial design and will
cost abou fifty thousand dollars. 1t
is to be completed in sixty days AID
ready for tle installation of exhibits
which are to be ran by states.
Collections are being made mainly
along the lines of agriculture, horti-
cultural, liberal and fine arts, domes-
tic science, education, investions, pro-
fessions and literature. The exhibit
will be a surprise to many visitors
who have become possessed with the
idea that the colored race is a%ltogeth
er servile and without capabiity of
high intellectual attachments. The
worst side of negro life and character
has been promulgated and paraded
AID his faults laid bare, n it is for
tunate that the jamestown Exposition
offers an opportunity for the al to
present tangible and irrefutable evi-
dence in contradistinction to the mis-
homer.
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