Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-10
Our Trip to Jamestown.

On the night of Sept. 18th, with
Judge Jones and son of Wayne
County, we left over the Big Four
at $3.50 for jamestown, Va, via
Washington City. Arrived in
Cincinnati at 9:50 Wednesday
morning. We changed cars there
for Washington over the 9. & o.
Arrived in Washington the next
morning at s o'clock. We spent
the day there, looking at the big
government buildings. The libra
ry building is quite interesting,
and it will pay anyone to visit
Washington. The streets are wide
and shady; the parks are beauti-
full. Went to the tower, which is
40 feet square at the base and 500
feet high. They have An elevator
to go up in, but it was out of order
the day we were there.
We left that evening at $3.50 for
Fort Monroe, Newport News and
Norfolk, on the steamer James,
town. There were over 800 pas
sengers on board. We were for
tunate in getting births No. AZ and
43. These rooms are 4x6:8, and
can be turned together for a fami-
ly. The boat was so crowded, at
least one-third of the passengers
had to sleep on the floor, and on
deck with a canvass stretched
over them. I walked up about one
o'clock and looked out. There
was no land in sight, the Chesepeak
Bay being thirty miles wide, and
the waves running high. remark
ed to my friends-''suppose the
boat was to get on fire, what would
become of US and the big fish six
feet long running beside the boat. "
begin to wish l was back at some
mill in Missouri. However, oul
trip was very pleasant. There
we're music and dancing going or
until a late hour.
We arrived at Norfolk the fol.
lowing morning at nine o'clock.
We saw the sun rise on the ocean
1t looked like a big ball of fire
coming up out of the water.
We went direct to the Exposi'
ton grounds on street car--i
being Monday-and heard fin'
! speech from Gov. Jos. Folk. HI
was applauded with yells ant
slapping of hands over and again
He made fine impression on tn
, Virginians.
The exposition, while nothin,
: to compare with our big show a
ST. Louis, the outside attractions
jamestown, Fort Monroe and tn
Ocean beach, made up the differ
I. ence.
| spent Sunday along the ocea,
beach. The street cars run 2
) miles along the beach to Cap
! Henry. There l saw large gu
t boats and two vessels that wer
s wrecked by storms. Twas on tn
!, gun boat, Louisiana, which ha
3 600 men on board! 1t has fou
r stories and the guns are 40 fee
! long. They shoot a shell 16x3'
0 weighing 1000 pounds. 1t take
}, 300 pounds of powder to fire on
g shot. ] also saw the battle of tn
: Merrimac and Monitor fought owe
They claim it was an exact repro
I, duction of the battle they fougf
s during the war. We also witness
9 ed drill Of artillery, cavalry an
d infantry while Gov. Folk was 0
V the stand on the War Path.
9 brought back the bygone days {
}, that civil war.
!, We left jamestown for Rich
q mond on the 25th, and passed til
d historic battle fields of Williams
i burg, and around Richmond th
d earth marks are plain to be seel
o although trees IL inches in diane
ter have grown up on them an
the monuments showing the di
ferent positions of the army. "
spent one day at Richmond.
has improved wonderfully in Il