The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-15
AT HISTORIC JAMESTOWN.
Miss Kate Lilly Blue DescI ibes Scenes
 and Commemorative Exercises.

people. The celebration was held in the Auditorium, the speakers of the oc- casion being former Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson, of Illinois, form CT Speaker of the House of Represen- tatives Warren Keller of Ohio and Jose de Jiego. speaker of the house of delegates of Puerto Rico. In addition to these speakers, short addresses were made by President Tucker of the ex- position and J. Taylor Ellyson, gover- nor of history and education, and a choir composed of two hundred chil- Idren under the direction of Wm. w. Whidditt, superintendent of music at the exposition, rendered many pat riotic songs. On account of the ab- senee of Speaker Cardwell, who was to have presided, President Tucker called the assemblage to order, and after the choir had sung Virginia the Mother of States" and America" |" he introduced Gov. Ellyson, who pres ented the mace which was given the colony of Virginia by King George IL Mir. Stevenson was then introduced, and gave as his subject, "The First Hopseso Burgesses." During the half hour he spoke he was frequently in- terrrupted by applause.
 MT. Kiefer's address was on the same subject, and was both eloquent and interesting.
 Speaker Diego delivered his address in Spanish, which was interpreted so that those in the audience could under stand 1t. This speaker came In for a large share of applause, his address being considered one of the most not able that that has been delivered at the exposition, both for oratory and literary merit.
 The Association for the Preservation n fFafn .ks
 monument to the first. house of bur gesses at Jamestown Island on the same day, the crowd going up from Norfolk, about 500 strong, on the Mt Desert and the Rosedale of the Tide water Navigation Company, and com ing down from Richmond on the reRtl- lar mail steamer The boats left the Norfolk dock at o'clock a. m. and steamed up the river by the Unitedd States naval hospital at Portsmouth, the shipbuilding yard at Newport News, where the new battleships North Carolina and Montana are nearing com pletion; up Hampton Roads through the line of warships which mark the entrance by water to the exposition. These ships, showing the difference between the old way and the new, ride at anchor, grim and majestic. First come the monitors, the old Canonicus ebtio litO llOfW nldHlOHOnOH, ending with the battleships Brooklyn and Texas.
 After leaving the deep water pier at the exposition, we really put out to sea. as it were, and made no more stops until the landing at Jamestown was made at o'clock. Before this the members of the A. P. V. A. had got out. their lunch baskets and boxes and had spread" on the forward deck, NmFta afraTN Ns the far-famed hospitality of the Old Dominion. A very nice lunch was served by the ship, but there were few left to partake of 1t, as the before mem toned hospitality had embraced also "the stranger within the gates"
 On landing on the wharf near the breakwater, which the State govern ment built to prevent the washing away of the island. the crowd scattered to visit the quaint old church. which has recently been restored by the Co., lonial Danes. the old fort, which is overgrown with trees and sod, the handsome new gates erected by the Co., lonial Danes, the monument to John Smith. now in course of erection by the government and the numerous booths where souvenirs are sold.
 At 1:30 the crowd assembled around a little stand. which was draped with buff and white bunting, and upon which were seated the speakers of the day and the officers of the A. P. " A. The audience was seated on comforta- ble benches under shade trees and treated to the following program: Prayer and address of welcome, by Rt Rev. Beverly D. Tucker. Bishop Co., AdJutor of Southern Virginia; "Ameri- ca" sung by the crowd presentation address. by Rt. Rev. Alfred M. Ran dolph. Bishop of Southern Virginia; ad- dress of acceptance, by Major William A Anderson. Attorney General of Vir- ginia; unveiling of the monument, by Susan Zeardley Garret and Tazewell Taylor, Jr
 Susan zeardley Garret. the little girl who drew the veil. is the daugh- ter of Dr. and Mrs. Van F. Garret of Williamsburg and a direct descendant of Sir George ZeardIey. She was born on May 13. three or four years ago. and was chrlstened in the old Jamestown church before 1t was restored. Taze- well Taylor. Jr., a youth of about years, is the grandson of the famous Virginian of that name. and the son of Mir. Tazewell Taylor of Norfolk.
 The monument which is a granite shaft mounted upon a base composed of three steps of granite. Is a very handsome as well as substantial one. It was built by the Nortoik branch or the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities at a cost of $1,- 200 and by them presented to the, As sociation The four sides are inscribed as follows: On the north, "In honor of the first General Assembly of Virginia. Here on the 30th day of July, A. D., 1919, summoned by Sir George Zeardley, Governor General of Virginia, under authority from the London company pursuant to the charter granted by King James l. was convened In the church at Jamestown, the first Gen eral Assembly of Virginia This As sembly composed of the Governor the Council of States and two Burgesses selected by the people from each of the eleven plantations was the beginning of representative government in the colonies of England, the foundation of the liberties of America"
 na the second side: Also in honor of