Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-05-30
MEMORIAL DAY At
EXPOSITION GROUNDS
Flags Will be Half-mes|ed and
National Salute Will
be Fired.
TODAY PATRICK HENRY DAY, 100
William Jennings Bryan Speaks at
Reviewing stand on Taxation
Without Representation ls Tyran.
ny"-Dinner at Big Tent Pavilion
Tercentennial News Notes.
(Trom a Staff Correspondent.)

(F'rom Staff Correspondent
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION, May
29.-Tomorrow being Memorial Day,
there will be no drills by the United
States regulars stationed at Camp
John Smith. At recille the flags will
be raised to half mast and remain
there in honor of the day until IL
o'clock, when they will be raised to
the top of the flag staffs, while tho
band plays national airs and n nation
al salute will be fired. The
other military exercises OF the day
will be the drill of the Marysvile
College cadets from to 10 a. M, thu
usual guard mount Mt 1880 a.. M,
and the dress parade at 8 p. m.
MIR. Bryan Guest of Honor.
Hon. William Jennings Bryan will
be the guest of honor at the Exposi-
(, tom tomorrow. At IL o'clock this
morning he will deliver an address
at the reviewing stand on Taxation
Without Representation Is Tyranny"
and this evening he will be enter
Stalned Mt a dinner in the big tent
pavilion.
Mr.. Bryan passed through Newport
News tonight and went to Norfolk
Tomorrow is Patrick Henry Day, as
we'll as Memorial Day, at the Exposi-
tion, land an elaborate program has
laen arranged for the occasion,
The GOO or more cadets who are
now visiting the Exposition attract
]. great attention. During their daily
drills on the parade grounds and
while sightseeing around the grounds
they are the cynosure of all eyes.
There will be, either military or semi
military organizations here from now
until the close of the fair.
Gathering of Aeronauts.
Next Saturday will see at the ok
position gathering of distinguished
areonauts the like OF which has never
been seen in this country before. The
National Geographical Society, three
hundred strong, and the Aero Club OF
America will attend the dedication
ceremonies at the grounds, of the
neronautic builing. Both organiza-
lions have been also invited to wit
ness the first official flights of Prof
Eugene Godet, the French aeronautl-
cal scientist who has come ito this
country and to the Exposition to DEM
onstrate to the United Safes govern
mant as he has recently done in
France, the excellence of his equip.
,ment for practical aerial navigation.
Tho French government has under
way a plan to equip the army with
machines to be used in actual warfare,
and 1t is said that the American
military authorities have for some
time been on the watch for practi-
cal machine to he used by the United
States army, and IL found to be salts
factory, by the United States navy
MS we'll. 'is
Prof. Godet has with him a ma
chine which Is the latest, and the in
ventor thinks the best air ship vet
constructed The machine is a d.
rigible balloon, carrying a powerful
motor and with a bow propeller.
me french inventor will make q
number OF flights of from two to sew
en- hours at time, thus proving that
his machine will stand the test of
long distance flights. All of the as.
tensions will be started and termI-
mated at the Exposition grounds.
Maryland Officers sHere.
A number of the officers of the
Fifth Regiment, Maryland, National
9 Guard, which will spend a week at
the Exposition, beginning July 70,
were the guests OF Lieutenant Harry
N. Cootes yesterday.
The Fifth Regiment of Infantry is
the pride of Maryland. II mas been
recruited from the best families or
the Oriole State, and they expect to
make n fine showing at the Exposf.
ation, as they do everywhere they 20.
The following officers were here to
day: Maj. John Hinkley, Capt. It. w.
Clarke. Capt. George 8. jackson and
s Capt E. B. DuVal "