The National tribune., 1907-05-02
VIRGINIA'S GREAT
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upon O small table. and from that van
tage point made an address that a-vuev y
much enthusiasm. The President S
speech was only about 5000 words. He
was introduced in q 13,000-word speech
by President Henry St. George Tucker.
In Conclusion.
The President was entertained at din
ner in the evening by Mr.. and Mrs.
Tucker in the two-centuries-old home
of the Bartons. and on Friday. on the
yacht Sylph. the Presidential party took
a day off and leisurely sailed down or
up the river to the real jamestown. the
mecca of the Daughters of American
Revolution, where little bit of the old
church tower of the jamestown settle
ment is still standing.
There was not a single accident dur
ing the whole trip to anybody.
The Congressional party, with MEM
bers of the Diplomatic Corps, solaced
themselves fer the trouble and diScom-
forts of the Norfolk trip and treatment
by returning to Old Point Comfort
fortress Monroe), where quarters had
been engaged for them at Chamber
lain's, and where they got the only eat
able things while on the trip. / am told
there were drinkables in plenty also.
The things that Congressional party
were saying were a-plenty. They were
the men. very largely. who had secured
the 100000 which the Government
gave as a present to the jamestown Ex-
position, and it was hard work to get
1t. Then the Exposition came at them
again for another 100000 as a loan.
It took tremendously hard work to get
that million, and Speaker Cannon stood
out till the last hour of the Congress
before he would give his consent to let
that item go in the appropriation bill.
The Exposition management was not
very polite, for some of the members
freely criticized "old Cannon for his
"srubbornness," and quite as freely ex-
prest the opinion on opening day that
they thought the "oId man" had a good
deal of cheek to come to the Exposition
after the way he had acted.
Some kind and obIiging friend imme-
diately trotted over and told the Speak
er. who had been tramping down vir-
ginia soil all day, exactly what this en-
terprising Exposition official had said
The Speaker smiled, and went on smok-
ing his cigar. He brought his cigars
with him. Now, the Speaker will have
the last guess and the last smile when
the jamestown Exposition comes back
to Congress with deficit of a million
loan.
The matter of accommodation and
transportation which confronts Norfolk
If people attend the Exposition in any
thing like paying numbers will prove a
tremendous problem. At the present
time the ordinary crowds cannot be
handled expeditiously There is not
power enough, and the electric cars are
stalled half the time. The steamers
n dc 81.
barking and disembarking are matters
Of clumsy manuvering in which wind.
tide and space for wharfage count more
than anything else.
To sum it all up. Norfolk needs down
there some Northern enterprise and
push to make things go. She has bit
Off more than she can chew, and the
quicker she acknowledges it and mends
her ways the better. Hotels. restau-
rants, rooming houses, transportation
companies, markets and general mer-
chandize stores have all run prices away
up out of sight. On Wednesday night
before the opening a room with some
modern improvements cost me 81. On
Friday night that same room cost me
81, and IN each room in that hotel no
tice was tackled up that ION and after
April 26 this room will be SO for one
person each night and $3.50 each for
two in the room Restaurants had all
penciled higher prices on their bills of
fare. Bootblacks had raised the price
of a shine to 10 cents, BARRIERS were
charging from Is to 25 cents for a
shave and one-cent papers were costing
five cents each. I'VE have got to make
money out of YOU Yankees, somehow,
said the dealer to nee.
There isn't room enough. there isn't
food enough in Norfolk to feed crowds
ISABEL WORRELL-BALI..