The Dolores star., 1907-05-03
4 GREAT HISTORIC EVENT


LAST week the fruit of four years
planning and hard work comes to
maturity in the opening of the
Jamestown Tercentenary Exposi-
tion. 1t was right that such an
event a. that Of the planting Of the
first English settlement in the New
World should not be overlooked
among our historical celebrations.
Though the jamestown settlement
In 1907 had far less influence on
our national life than the Puritan
settlement Of 1870. 1t has the claim
of priority, and by that claim alone
h entitled to Tercentennial cele-
bration. The celebration has been
arranged with exquisite taste.
The Exposition is not mere show
Of material products, but care has
been taken to preserve its historic
idea. The scene was the begin
ming Of English life on this conti-
nent. There the FIRST marriage of
English people took place, there
occurred the birth Of the first
Anglo-American; there the first
legislative body assembledj and in
that neighbofhood occurred some
ofthe most important battles that
liberated this county from the
English yoke. These facts give
historic interest to the celebration,
and visitors will be reminded OF
them in the exhibits. The mama
kerl have endeavored to show not
only the nations present wealth
and pfosperity. but the stages in
~ Iong toilsoime journey by which
u tllfse hundrcd years Il has been
STAINED. q ~
The members of the first colony
were bold, hardy adventures. who.
when they first saw the waters Of
the bay, and the shore clad in the
green ofthe spring woods, thought
they had found the land of promise
In Virginia, the new Fl Dorado.
If these same adventurers could
have returned in their high-decked
Galieons to visit the scenes of their
trials and sufferings. they would
have found that their hopes had
came true for their descendants.
WArships of all great nations were
there, the black fnuxzles of their
guns belching salutes in honor Of
dag whose folds Of red. and white,
and blue had been unthought of
for nearly two centuries after the
first settlers came in betweeii the
capes. They would have seen the
shore once green with primeval
forests. now dotted with great re-
sorts and hourishing cities. and at
one side of Americas inpregnable
Fortress Monroe. Straight In front
they would have seen a dream city,
I collection Of palaces that illus
trate the progress of America for
three hundred years. These same
Adventures, if they could have
landed and gone from the Cover
ment Building to the Palace of Arts,
the Palace Of Commerce, the Ralace
Of manufactures, the States Exhib-
It Palace; and then watched the
faces Of the people from over forty
States of the greatest nation in the
Western World, they would have
felt that when they constructed the
first rude block house at jamestown,
and laid the brick of the church
whose ruined tower Still holds high
Its battered crest. they had indeed
built better than they knew.
That the Exposition will be sue
tess is Andoubted, as people from
al over the country, especially
those Of the North, are planning a
trip to Jamestown as part of their
bummer vacations. Those who
cannot attend will follow its for
TUNES with their best wishes and
lad With interest the accounts Of
it, psgeants as they appear 10 the
tolumns Of the daily press. Chris
fian Herald.