Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-24
SUNDAY, MARCH "a, 1907.
NEWPORT NEWS ADVANTAGES,

NEWPORT NEWS ADVANTAGES.
fla great superiority of transpor.
tatlpn advantages count for anything,
Newport News will attract the people
4 more generally than any other city in
n TideWater, Virginia. If the people
who come to the fair want to make
i their headquarters In city that can
1 be reached from the grounds in the
Glfckest and most comfortable man
nsr, then Newport News is going to
have the crowds. The facilities for
reaching the grounds from Newport
News are so vastly superior to Nor.
folks that there is positively no COM
& pariBon, The service Is not only bet
= teras iar Us carrying the tourists is
{ concerned, but also in comfort. None
n can deny that half.hour boat ride
across Hampton Roads will be great.
preferred to stuffy trip OIL
s trolley Or steam car, with only a
vague, indistinct idea of when the
a tIlpisWiil Oc COlHpieIeu.
Norfolk will have one steamboat
sSlineto tho grounds, relative to which
i nothing has been heard, trolley line
sthst squirts mud In the faces of the
Il passengers II the windows are open,
z and half-completcd steam road.
Newport News Will have five lines of
Il steamers running to the grounds.
will be able to accommodate
40, 900 people n day. There Is the sit
uatlon In Il nutshell and it does not
Z ke q whole lot of bordering to be-
came convinced which Is the better
q City to make your headquarters while
& YOU are seeing the sights of the Elk
position.
While there is no question but that
/ RI Newport News is the best place, too,
2 Tor the tourists to make thdr Sleep
tng room, do the people know that
Ajsucll Is the case? 1t Is doubtful If
they do The city has been, compelled
40 so to work under II handicap to
SHeoure the Exposition crowds, be-
kcause OF the fact that Norfolk has
" Ken an unfair and illegal advantage
10! Newport News by having all mat
h sSSer turned out of the press bureau of
tSst he Exposition dated from Norfolk.
LIN that manner Norfolk has gained a
sEstblicity that the citizens could not
ssi3llaye secured without spending thou.
ends of dollars. The visitors who come
ssE.in the early days of the Exposition
Ssss fS viii learn the true facts of the case.
upon their return to home will
IT. known that Newport News
many advantages over the city
|Bssghicn was so generously advertised
s PIX the Exposition press bureau An.
sss,ther commercial consideration which
sas not generally thought Of is the
~ sreat advantage this city possesses
sNortoik In getting goods to Pine
- 5each merchants and hotel keepers.
rs pef,ence has already taught those
81, ping business at Sewall's Point that
~ ~ Us next to Impossible to secure
u u. Gods from Norfolk within any.
INNS like reasonable time.
|SSellt they calculate that the con-
sions will be much worse
yer the fair has opened The result
ssls that there are great many of
thesn have already made arrange.
!ilseilts TO secure their supplies from
Eewnort News.
'ss hsre Is, however, lesson in this
connective prosperity that should be
ssatsFeasF and that is that 1t is the duty
ssi every man In business in this city
sspee 80 ka greedy It is all right to
1 make Isa hay while The sun shines"