The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1907-11-28
Jamestown Exposition.
The Great Show Now Nearing Its
Close Has Been a Success in
Many Respects Despite Financial
Difficulties Warm Words Of
Praise for Part North Carolina
Took in the Enterprise.
Raleigh News and Observer

haielgh News and Observer
The jamestown Exposition is near
ing its close In many respects il
has been IL success, in spite of it's
financial difficulties. The people of
Norfolk assumed Il financial burden
that no city of less than "a million
population could easily carry. The
financial burden was too great for q
city the size of Norfolk but it has de-
served the highest communication
for the brave manner in which its
leading men have stood by the Expo
sltlOn. From the first North Carolina
has taken the deepest interest in the
Exposition. Governor Glenn and
the jamestown Commissioners put
the people put North Carolina in fine
position at jamestown and "North
Carolina Day" will he remembered as
the red letter day at the Exposition.
1t is gratifying to know that the
Virginia people appreciate the neigh
borly spirit shown bp North Carroll
ma as the following editorial in the
Virginian-PHot shows:
"PRAISE WHERE PRAISE IS DUE.
"HOwever far short of glowing eX-
pectatiOns the jamestown ExpOsi-
ton may have fallen in the matter
of attendance and financial success,
nothing of this is properly chargea-
bic to lukeWarmness or any derelic-
ton on the part of our sister State of
North Carolina The support ac-
corded the celebration by that great
commonwealth as such, and by it's
people, has been intensely loyal and
sustained. leaving little to be desired
in any direction.
North Carolina was among the
first of the States to give official rec
ognitiOn to this patriotic undertake
ing by a liberal appropriation for a
State building and exhibit. The
structure bearing the name Of that
commonwealth, and from which is
dispensed the hospitality for which
the Old North State is deservedly
famous, is among the most striking
of the State buildings-buildings
which, because of their architectural
design and beauty and OF the histOri
D cal associations clustering around
lIlefI hoO Sh'
least pleasing and instructive feature
} of the celebration. In the prOducts
of it's mills and factories, OF its mine:
and fields, the Old North State ha;
furnished an exhibit we'll worthy o
it's many and varied resources an(
of the indomitable energies of it's peo
ple-an exhibit contributing in nt
small degree to the completeness o
q the industrial feature of the EXposi
j ton; while it's historical exhibit
:. constituting connected, illustrated
. story of the States settlement
growth and development, ranks il
Importance second only to that Q
i. Virginia. In the matter OF attend
= ance it is not risking too much tt
I say that North Carolina holds frs
place, having sent to the Exposition
more sons and daughters than an,
| other State in the Union, not evel
! excepting Virginia herself. Nortl
! Carolina Day was admittedly the big
| gest day, from the standpoint Q
| paid admissions, in the history c
} the celebration, barring none, no
even Opening Day, Jamestown Day
N1Fglllld DdF vi any oCllCi SpCIidi w
3 casion; while that State has u1
4 doubtedly furnished it's proportion
ate share of visitors before and since
"a Had all the other States, in the mat
> ter of attendance, stood by the ES
a position as we'll as North Carolina
t. in proportion to their populatlo
% and propinquity, there is no douh
g that the celebration would today b
is as great a success financially as it
in many other respects.
h "To give North Carolina this NEE
It of praise is nothing in depreciatio
is of the interest and loyalty shown tt
Sc Exposition by other States-espe
- ially the original thirteen, OF wha
!, I they have each and all done to col
tribute to the success OF this grei
and patriotic undertaking Firgini
s is deeply sensible and appreciativ
= but to her nearest neighbor on tt
= South she feels that an especial mea
, ure of praise and gratitude is du
North Carolina deserves all pral
. and Virginia accords it fully al
freely