The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-04-30
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION.

JAMtS IOWN ENPOSI llONs
on December 10, 1905, three small
vessels. whose joint tonnage amount.
ed TO only one hundred and sixty tons
burden. sailed from England to the
coast Of Virginia, with colony Of
one hundred and five men. For six
weeks the vessels were detained by
adverse winds. within sight OF Eng
land and II was not until the evening
Of February /, 1907, that they stood
away for the Canary Islands to the
South. to taken the beaten track
across the broad Atlantic, by way Of
the West indies, to the yet unexplored
land Three hundred years ago, last
Friday, April 90, 1907 these tiny yes.
sells entered Hampton Roads and
came to anchor In the land locked
harbOr.
Twenty-eight days In February.
thirty-one in March and twenty-slx
days in April, In addition to the six
weeks. In all one hundred and seven
teen days from the day they left
home until they arrived at their desti.
nation Naming the cape to the north,
Charles, and the one to the south,
Henry. after the two sons Of the king,
they sailed along until they came to
the mouth of a large, beautiful river,
called by the Indians, Powhltan. but
named by them, James. in honor OF
their king.
Then, were the sealed instructions
given to them by King James, opened
and It was found just who composed
the first council of seven. The name
Of John Smith was one Of these, but
he was excluded from the council and
the six named Edward Wingficld as
president Anchors were raised, and
for fifty miles on up the broad stream
the craft sailed. until on May 10, an
chors were again dropped near a beau
tiful island. where they landed and
made settlement, which they named
jamestown. and here became the first
permanent settlement in the New
World.
From this small beginning has
sprung this great nation Of which we
are part and parcel. and instead OF
three frail vessels of total tonnage
less than one Of the big guns on a
war vessel. the spectacle OF an i'm
mcnse iron fleet will catch and hold
the eye Of the spectator and show to
him just what has been accomplished
by the generations that have followed
in the footsteps Of the men who made
this first settlement.
The jamestown Exposition, which
was opened Friday at noon. by the
pressing Of a gold electric button by
President Roosevelt, is a notable one,
in that instead of being largely Indus
trial, mechanical and manufacturing,
It is. in great measure. historical.
So rich will 1t be In history that It
were well II all Of the school children
Of the land could see 1t. The visitor
will be more than delighted, for II
will be 50 different from all others
that even the old visitor tn World
Fairs will see 50 much that is new.
that ne will wonder how little he
knows Of his own country. and how
little he has seen.
The heroes of those small vessels
have gone. and in nearly every in
stance their names are forgotten, but
SO long as America, time and the ma
tion stands, just so long will James
town. Captain John Smith, and Poca-
hontas be- part and parcel Of our
history, and not forgotten, jamestown
is gone, but America stands The
three little vessels are long ago pass.
ed away. but instead mighty navy
sails over the same waters and looks
upon the same scenery only bcauti'
fled by the hand of man Hail To the
great nation that today celebrates the
coming OF the Cavalier, who blazed
the way for the Western Empire.
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