New-York tribune., 1907-10-12
GOVERNOR SIGHTSEEING
Has Busy Day In and around
JameSto10n Exposition.
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Norfolk, Va, Oct 11.-Governor Hughes spent
the greater part Of to-day sightseeing. He and
thirteen friends attended an informal late break
last at the Missouri Building. and later the
Governor made himself additionally popular by
dropping in at the reception given by the
Daughters of the American Revolution at the
Auditorium. His excellency then made the
rounds OF the grounds
1t was suggested by Adjutant General Henry
in the afternoon that the party sail across
/ Hampton Roads to Fort Monroe. General
Grant invited the Governor last night to pay
the fort visit, but the latter declined as it
meant the turning out of the soldiers for an adj
ditional parade. The staff and members of the
commission. a party of about thirty made the
water trip on the tender Walter H Lee. The
party was without a guide and therefore had
all the more fun. Entrance to the fort was
made through a postern gate, the Governor and
General Henry in the Inside, none knew
exactly where to go. Rambling to the foot OF
the stairs in the charting office, the array OF
uniforms scared small boy the stairs so
that he tumhled head foremost to the bottom.
He had the honor OF being picked up and
soothed by the Governor of the Empire State.
Wandering to the parade grounds, where
some of the soldiers We're playing football,
Colonel Selden E. Marvin got n taste of the sport
when the ball hit him in the diaphragm. The
rounds of the fort were made without escort
President Schurman Of Cornell University and
Mrs. Schurman went to jamestown Island driv-
ing afterward to old Williamsburg where the
beautiful old Bruton Episcopal Church claimed
their attention. Some Of the Democratic mem
bers of the New York State commission went
to Richmond to hear William ]. Bryan at the
state fair.
The weather to-day was duplicate Of yester-
day and Wednesday. Overcoats were uncom-
Portable. One of the incidents Of the day on
the Warpath. the amusement section of the
exposition is called. was the venerable Senator
Gates's successful riding of camel. Senator
Gates looks and acts like a Presbyterian elder.
His companions dared him to ride a camel 1t
was a great sight for the irreverent spectators.
who took him for a clergyman.
Senator Cassidy picked up to-day a story of
close-fsted negro who tried TO get the Chesa-
peake & Ohio Railway TO sell him round trip
ticket from Newport News TO Cincinnati for a
corpse "Ah wish TO send nah wife out dab foh
her relations to look at and brung her back SOS
all her poor relations won't come TO her funeral
and board on me foh two weeks" the old
darky's reason for wanting the round trip ticket.
Governor Swanson and Mrs. Swanson gave a
reception for Governor Hughes at the Virginia
State Building tonight 1t was largely at
tended. The Governors party will start for
New York at 755 a. m. tomorrow. crossing to
Cape Charles, and going by special train over
the New York Pennsylvania Norfolk, and
reaching New York about o'clock.
Mrs. Donald Mclean of New York. president
general of the continental congress, Daughters
of the American Revolution presided at the eel
ebration to-day. The national daughters were
welcomed by Mrs. Samuel w. Jameson of Roa-
noke. Va, state regent of Virginia; President
Tucker Of the exposition, and Governor Swan
son. of Virginia. Addresses were made by Mrs.
Mclean. Bishop Potter and ex-Congressman
Cornelius A. Pugsley, president of the Sons OF
the American Revolution.
reception In the Virginia Building was ten
dered TO the National Daughters this afternoon
by the Virginia Daughters.