Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-05-04
JAMESTOWN EXPO'N'
TERCENTENNIAL SHOW OPENS
this WEEK..
State Buildings Along Hampton Roads
and Command Grand View-Naval
Display Will Prove CroWning Glory
of Expositon-Presiden Roosevelt
to Officiate at Opening.

Norfolk, Va, April 22.-Despite the
energetic efforts of officials and work
men, the James Tercentennial expo
sition will be opened this week UNI
ready. Many of the structures that
are to house domestic and foreign
commercial exhibits and shelter the
achievements in the industrial arts
are incomplete. Yet the sum of what
has been done, as compared with the
unfinished work, forms a satisfactory |
result.
In the beauty of the water show,
with it's amazing gathering of for
eign fleets, representing. the most for
midable types of naval fighting ma
chimes of nearly every power of the
world, and in an opening program
with President Roosevelt in the lead
ing role, with diplomatic, military
and naval representatives of great and
small foreign nations participating,
the public will have it's recompense.
The grounds and buildings at the
exposition are about so per cent fin
ished. Several of the most important
buildings are built solidly of brick,
| C6m6ul dlu liOn dlI lllCoC al z ihtCho-
ed to remain on the grounds as a nu-
cleus of great park.
Regardless of the permanence OF
the work, however, the exterior of
most of the buildings will be ready
when the exposition is formally open
|, ed on Friday.
The inception of the jamestown Ter
centennial exposition sprang from a
desire of a people, many of them de-
scendants from that hardy English
stock that settled among the Indians
here 300 years ago, to teach to its
+ brothers and sisters, and display to
visitors from the older nations, the
+ traditions that have been handed down
by those courageous colonists. When
5 completed it will be almost all that is
: implied in the expression, "a worlds
:. fair" but it will not stop there. Nc
e other exposition has attempted tc
q show the world the life of the colon
/ lists, the hardships Of the pioneers
! who opened a new country after civil
zation had been attained on the sea
n board and the achievements these
Il people worked from raw materials.
n Twenty-Five states will trace thei
q history from their earliest days to thu
O present and the exhibits will b.
sheltered by appropriate buildings
! The state buildings have groupe'
r along the command an excellent view
q Of the navies of the world. 1t is thi
O great naval display that will prov
e the GROWING glory of the exposition
Nothing like it has ever before bee
/ attempted. There are few harbors il
T. the world that could accommodate S
If large an assemblage of warships. TIL
d. fleets will number, in addition to seN
e eral of the best types of each of tn
e foreign naval powers, the Atlanti
is fleet of the United States navy, III
der command of Rear Admiral Evan:
y which is conceded to be the finest o.
IS ganization of fighting machines af1ca
Of The seal of government sponsorshi
or will be set upon the exposition by tn
III coming of the president of the Unite
r States, ambassadors and ministers {
~ foreign governments, the governor
and representatives of states and tie
e. ritories and delegations representa-
v. important civic bodies.
C. On the first day will be fired th
err salute to the Union by the assemble
al warships and the salute to the pres
It. dent of the United States artiller
IS. stationed on the grounds as he steI
9 Oh the government pier from off tn
IN Mayfiower. The fact that the expos
OF ton is so accessible from Washingto
I'd has resulted in an unusually lare
a humber of acceptances by diplomat
R. representatives.
Complete arrangements have bee
IS made for the protection of the visitor
Id to the exposition. Both ~Ae expos
is ton authorities and the police d
m partment at Norfolk have arrange
with detective agency to assist
es the police work. Detectives are beir
On called in from all over the country
ad join in the service.