The Washington herald., 1907-06-10
READY FOR GEORGIA
Norfolk Filled with People
to Help Celebrate Day.
PRESIDENT SPEAKS TODAY
American Navy Compelled to Break
Time-hOnOred Custom and Fire
Salute on the SRbbath-Secretary
MetcaIrs Arrival Causes Great De-
structiOn of GunpOwder.

Special to The Washington Herald
Norfolk. Va. June 9-ThOusands Of
people who will tomorrow join President
Roosevelt in the celebration of Georgia
Day. at the jamestown Exposition, have
already arrived here. -Four solid train
loads of visitors reached here early to-
day from Georgia, and all during the day
or as fast as trains and boats would ar
rive the number of visitors would be
swelled by hundreds. Trains and boats
arriving tonight brought the greater
crowds.
The march OF soldiers from Norfolk to
Camp John Smith, at the exposition
grounds, has been almost constant during
the day. The entire Seventy-hrst In
fantry Regiment. Virginia Volunteers,
has gone into camp. Many companies
from the two State regiments are there.
and by tomorrow morning the entire
State brigade will have arrived.
Georgin Regiment Arrives.
Brig. Gen. c. c. Vaughan. commander
quarters at the camp. The entire Fifth
Georgia arrived early to-day and marched
from the city to Camp John Smith.
There are about $50 officers and men in
the regiment. They were ready for the
six-mile march as soon as they stepped
from the trains
Other arrivals during the day were the
Richmond Light Artillery Blues, the
cadets from the Virginia Military Acad-
envy. and the Naval Reserves, from Sa-
vannab, Ga.
The naval arrivals to-day We're the mid
shipmen from Annapolis, aboard the
cruiser Olympia. flag ship. and monitors
Arkansas Florida, and Nevada, cOmpris-
ing the squadron on which the midship-
men will go cruising this summer. The
middies were ashore this afternoon on
the exposition grounds.
Navy Breaks sabbath Custom.
An unusual departure from the Amer
lean navy Sabbath-day customs was the
exchange OF salutes by the vessels Of DIFF
ferent nationalities al anchor off the ex-
position grounds The custom was first
broken by the French. and after that
other salutes were fired during the day
The arrival Of Secretary of the Navy
Metcaf aboard the Dolphin was the sig
nal for the first salute As soon as his
flag appeared. the booming of the French
signal gun was commenced. Ausrians,
Brazilians. and Hclianders followed the
example, and the saluting did not cease
until the Americans. compelled to dsre-
gard their custom, had doomed a salute
to their own war minister. The Dolphin
returned the salutes
The Frenchmen burned more powder
this afternoon when Gen. Grant paid a
social call on the commander Of the
French squadron aboard the flag ship
Varese. No sooner had the general set
was run up and the booming COM
menced.
Grounds Cleared ny Volunteers.
The emergency brigade. composed Of
young business and professional men Of
Norfolk and Portsmouth, formed for the
avowed purpose Of making the EXPOSE
ton grounds as clean as a pin I'm honor
Of the coming Of President Roosevelt to-
morrow, was hard AT work to-day and
before operations were discontinued TO-
night the purpose for which the brigade
was organized had been executed.
Editors Are on Hand.
Several hundred members Of the Ma
tional Editorial Association, which will
meet in annual convention at the James
town Exposition tomorrow, are also here
tonight. The editors together with rep
resentatives Of other press associations.
to the number Of nearly 200. will be here
all the week. The Inside Inn or the ex-
position grounds is swarmiug with them
tonight
The programme for the editors to-mor-
row includes a trip through the interna-
tional fleet Of war ships of the exposition
grounds. the review Of the parade from
the reviewing stand. an address by PreSi-
dent Roosevelt in the auditorium. and an
address by Harry St George Tucker,
exposition president