The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-14

ing plant. club houses and hotels From the Virginia capes to the end of Tide water, war has added interest. Up the James river. are fine examples of colo nial architecture. The special points of historical interest are Old Point Comfort, Jamestown and Cape Henry. Point Com fort, so named because it afforded a Shel- ter and safe anchorage for the home sick and storm tossed wayfarers was their first harbor.
 It was at Cape Henry that Newport's tlotilla first anchored and there now , stands the old light house erected in 1891. Jamestown, then James island, was the final stopping place of the adventur- CTS. It Is at Point Comfort that Fort ress Montro stands sentinel, planned in 1914, fortified few years later, is now the finest fort in America, and chief ar
 tillery station of the United States gov ernment.
 Newport News lies at the mouth of the James river, and it was there that the men from James island saw Lord : Delaware's ships when he first came to | Virginia. At the town of BerlSley on the Elizabeth river, is anchored the United States old ship-Franklin-now used as a training ship where are several hundred sailors The old Monitor stands out in Hampton Roads plainly seen from the boats. Iron-elad first met iron-clad in the battle of the Merrimae and the Monitor during the Civil war. Now, in 1907, we have in Hampton Roads representatives of all the worlds nayies, quite an m- posing scene to inland folk.
 Naturally, you finger longest over Jamestown. The island is two and a half
 miles long and one-half mile wide; is about forty-fve miles from Norfolk. Here Anglo-Saxon civilization first took root in the soil of the new world; here the first Anglo-Sa church was established which was an "old saile" between three or four trees to protect the one hundred and five souls from the weather. The pulpit in this simple church was a bar of wood nailed to two trees, 'the seats un- hewed trees" The Rev. Robert Hunt con- ducted the services, all giving thanks to God for their escape from the dangers of the voyage. Two more pretentious churches followed this one and in 163S a
 brick building ifty-six by twenty-eight feet in dimension, with a tower eighteen feet square, the entrance to the church, was built with the greatest care of old
 red bricks which the old tower now standing. testifies This church was par tially distroyed by fire In 1676, but was
 restored and occupied till 1700 when the capital was removed to Williamsburg The old tower still remains. pathetic
 in it's desolation and as if to shield 1t
 from the rough winds, English ivy came and threw up it's arms around It. The world loves romance, and as you
 wander around the tower you see fin fancy the wedding scene of John Rolfe and Pos cahontas in the quaint little chapel whose columns were shaggy pine trunks. pews of cedar, pulpit and communion table of black walnut
 The beautiful dusky maiden is seen as
 she knelt on the steps before the font
 "hewn hollow between like canoe'-in
 her simple tunic of white muslin. richly embroidered by her own hands. her shape ly arms bare to the shoulder, and on her queenly head, a fllet filled with brilliant plumage of birds holding a heecy veil,