The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-27

Vast Buildings Nearing
Completion and Debris
Being Removed.
BUSINESS MEN
DEMANDING SPACE
Finding 1t Impossible to Secure
Large Accommodations for
Their Exhibits, Not
Few Are Erecting
Their Own
Buildings.

NORFOLK, VA, January 26.-From
present Indications when the 26th day OF
April comes. the opening of the gates OF
the jamestown Exposition to the public
will disclose something that few, If any,
eXpositions have done. and that will be
a scene of beauty and perfection from
the minutest details of landscape garden
ing to the last finishing touch on the
-niticent palaces as we'll as the final
arrangement of the exhibits.
The delightful weather that has pre-
vailed here all this winter has made 1t
possible for the army OF workmen to
keep steadily to the text with the re-
suit that the 800 acres of ground and the
great white Colonial City are together
emerging from that State of chaos that
must necessarily prevail whore so much
work is being done, to a state of bewil-
dering perfection that is marvellous to
behold
Already many of the principal bud-
ings are virtually finished. and the debris
is being cleared away, while the broad
avenues and pavements are being
graded, and in many instances have all
ready been laid with nsphaltum or gram
olithic. The trees that We're transpanted
last fall or during the early part of the
winter and guyed down to prevent the
wind from loosening the earth around the
roots, give evidence OF life by swelling
buds and some Of the transplanted
shrubbery is almost on the point of BURST
ing into leaflets, tho welcome harbingers
OF spring.
The perennial plants are also showing
life, and the beds are being prepared for
the bulbous plants and flowers and for
the bewldering array of foliage plants
that will form gorgeous borders or centre
pieces for the flower beds or borders for
the walks
The. picturesque Canoe Trail that winds
its way for about two miles through the
most romantic part of the grounds, close
ly followed part or the way by what Is
known as Lovers Lane, is nearing COM
pletion.
Need More Space.
While the States. exhibits and governs
ment buildings are being rapidly rushed
to completion. the applications for space
in the Industrial departments already
fled, call for more space than Is at the
command of the department., and Major
Wheeler who is chief of the department.
says that it is now a question of selec-
ton only. AS it was the original inten-
ton of the management of the EXPOSE
ton to make this a selective exposition
rather than Il promiscuous one, the OBJ
iect of selecting only the best In each
line has ever been kept In view
1t Is a lamentahle fact that the North
and West are much more alive to tho
magnitude OF the Jamestown Exposition
than the South, as the applications for
exhibition space plainly shows. The fact
that within twelve hours ride from the
Jamestown Exposition Grounds there Is q
population of 2i,OOoO0o people and within
Il twenty-four hours rid there are 30
100000 people, apd that there are plenty
of transportation lines TO bring them
here should make 1t apparent TO any one
of ordinary acumen that as an adver-
Using medium the Jamestown Exposition
is a valuable factor to every line of In
dustrS The larger manufacturers and
commercial concgrns We're nor slow TO re-
cogni2e this, and have demanded more
space than 1t was possible TO give them.
and not to be cut short in tho space
they think necessary 70 properly exploit
their lines, many of them are eretcne
buildings OF their own OF such propor-
tions as to astound esen the most sam
gune. One INSTANCE alone may be cited
that viii show to what extent many trims
and corporations are preparing 20 ex-8
plot their business. The baldwin Loco
motive Works Is erecting a building OF
its own l25x225 feet in which 10 display
its transportation machinery. Ia this