The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-05-07
Colonists Left England in
Three Ships for
Jamestown.
EXPERIENCES
Dinner in Bittan Commemorate the
Sailing and the Exposition the
End of the Voyage.
CBy Mark o. Maters.l

Norfolk. Va, May Three hundred
years ago. or on Dec 19 1907. Captain
Christopher Newport sailed from Eng
land with fleet of three vessels, the
Discovery" "Godspeed' and the "Su-
san Constant" and with one hundred
and five colonists aboard Their OBJ
jective point was the island of Roa-
noke, where Sir Walter Raleigh had
made vain attempt to found per-
manent English settlement some TWEEN
" odd years before. a Cape Hatteras
storm, however drove them north
ward and the first land they deserted
was a point extending from the coast
of Virginia and to this they gave the
name, Cape Henry" and to the oppo-
site point the name Cape Charles -
both names being given in honor of the
kings sons.
At Cape Henry party Of thirty Of
the colonists went ashore and receiv-
ed an unexpected lesson in caution. in
consequence of the assault of five In
dians who crept upon them from the
hills, the first of long series of con-
flicts in the struggle for the survival
of the fittest. Two members of the
party We're wounded by the arrows OF
the terrible muskets which were new
implements of war to the savages.
They dropped anchor for several
days at old Point Comfort and then
proceeded up the river to which they
gave the name, James," for a dis
tance of forty miles, where they land
ed on a peninsula projecting from the
northern shore of the river which al
| that place is about four miles wide
The settlement they founded there they
called jamestown" in honor of their
king.
After three hundred years of sue
| cess, followed by failure and neglect
little is left of this first English set
tlement in the new world but an ivy
covered church tower, few graves
and the resurrected foundations OF
some of the old buildings. Even the
peninsula itself has been cast away
from the mainland and become an is
land which the waters of the might.
river are fast carrying to the sea.
Notwithstanding the ruin and desc
lation of the centuries the idea which
jamestown represented was of sucl
Importance in the history of the worl,
tlement has been so great that tn
world at last realizes the magnitud
of the event and has set about tn
proper celebration of the occurrence.
On Dec. 19, 1903. at the Hotel Savo,
in London, England, a grand Dime
was given in commemoration of tn
three hundredth anniversary of tn
sailing of the little fleet, and man
distinguished citizens of England an
America We're present. The American
charge d'affairs presided and amon
those present were Lord Curzon. lat
viceroy of India; Earl Roberts, ST
Hiram Maxim, Lord High Chancello
Loreburn, General Baden Powell. Ad
miral Rolfe and many others Admira
Rolfe is a lineal descendant of Poca
hontas by her marriage with job
Rolfe one of the early settlers q
Jamestown. General Baden Powell
descendant Of Captain John Smit
and the presence of the admiral an
the general added much to the interes
of the celebration. The English er
thusiasm over the approaching Tel
, centennial celebration on Hampto
, Roads, Virginia, is second only to ths
, of America and the dinner at the s.
voy developed the fact that the peop
of England regard the celebration 9
being one in which they have rigi
to participate and that they expect