The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-05-09
~sIsrERHooD OF STATES.

49, -O1S~oo 49,
Beach Boulevard at the Exposition
grounds is lined with buildings repre-
Senting various states of the Union
The general character of the architec-
ture is colonial, and many of the
structures are interesting examples
of reproductions of historic aSsocia-
ton.
In a splendid mansion of the colo
NAL times, Virginia, mother OF the
states, holds sway, like a dowager
looking well after the younger people
clustered near. her.
Pennsylvania independence Hall,
stands stalwart among the trees, a
monument of thes great Declaration of
independence, with Liberty Bell close
at hand.
Maryland is represented by a re-
production of the home of Charles Car
roll of CarrolltOa, whose sprawling
signature on the Declaration of indie
pendence remains to this day a monu-
ment to his integricy and determine
ton.
W~asaington's headquarters at Nor
ristown, where the darkest cloud of
despair of Revolutionary days hung
over him, has been reproduced to
represent New Jersey.
The first stone mansion west of the
AIlSSncHy h1OhlEldlIS, CdllCu AuSLd-
is the rendezvous of the OhiOanS.
Constructed from rough timbers,
taken from Fort Boone in Kentucky,
a reproduction of this military domi-
Gle of Daniel o is where Ken
lucky will dispense her hospitality.
The heroic Talmadge home at Litch
field, Connecticut, is reproduced here.
The DID State House of Boston stands
out proudly, overlooking h sea. and
appears as natural as it does resting
on its own ancient site on State
Street, Boston, and you find yourself
looking for the circle of cobble-stones
which marks the spot on which the
Boston Massacre was enacted.
That rarely picturesque old Lang
tor House at Portsmouth is repro
duced, to represent New Hampshire
home life.
Rhode Islands dainty colonial home
recalls suggestions of a summer spent
at Narragansett Bay, and one can al
most Imagine Roger Williams stand
ing on the threshold and hear his
welcome. what cheer?"
Dainty little Delaware has just a
'cozy, home-like place such as one
would expect to see among the peach
groves of the good old state.
Missouri's home, with all the digni-
ty that has come to it since it had
the Worlds Fair, seems to stand il
careless attitude, reminding the pas
SerS by of what she did i'm those won
derful days when we had our fair"
and still insists with zest hat she
must @be slowa."
West Virginia, the great undiscover
ed state, whose III of recent
years have reawake1ed attention and
exploration in the Alleghenies, has al
hoSDitable %colonia mansion, about
which seem to cluster many of the old
Virginian traditions.
North Dakota has a sized
old-faShiOled gree farmhouse, wnere
you can almost smell the bacon and
eggs frying, and imagine yourself
munching the sweet, wholesome bread
of No l hard wheat.
Louisiana has a building redolent
of the old time creole spirit, suggest
ing the glories of the First Empire
h memory of the great Napol-
On.
A splendid tribute was paid to Pre-
sident Roosevelt by the state of Geor-
gia, in building a mode of the old
Bullock home, in Cobb County, where
the Presidents mother formerly lived
h rooms in this building were fur
nished by the twelve leading cities
of the state, n the building was err
ected by popular subscriptions taken
exclusively in the state of Georgia
These buildings are all on Willough
by Boulevard, and overlook the Will
loughby Spit, and their broad veran-
das invite real Southern hospitality