The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-04-07
Contest to Decide Winners
For This Privilege Begins
Today and Will Continue
Until June /.
GREAT EXPOSITION AND
MOST INTERESTING TRIP.
Successful Candidates to Get
The Best of Board and See
Everything Which lanes
town Has to Offer

The Palladium and Sun-Telegram' s
lar man and woman school teacher'
the most popular man and woman
factory employe and the most popular
saleslady or woman clerk and sales
man or man clerk, is on and commenc-
ing with tomorrow all contestants
should provide themselves with the
coupon vote books furnished by this
newspaper The fortunate winners IN
this contest will be sent to the James
TOWN exposition at the expense of this
paper. Their railway fare both ways,
their hotel expenses and the cost OF
admission to all the concessions on
the War Path will be paid by the
Palladium and Sun-Telegram.
Trip Would Cost 500.
The trip as planned could not be
made by a fair goer for less than SlOo.
II is splendid offer and well worth
trying for.
The contest will close on the even
ing of June /, and in next days pal
ladium and Sun Telegram the names
of the winners will be announced.
The six lucky winners will see one
of the finest expositions that has ever
been given in the United States. The
jamestown exposition's object is to
celebrate the foundation of the first
l. fGh al
ment in America which was laid at
jamestown, Virginia, May 10, 1907.
Roosevelt to Open Fair.
President Roosevelt Will be the fea
ture of the opening day at the expo
sition which is April 26. The presi-
dent will reach the exposition grounds
at 1880 o'clock, after passing on the
Mayflower. through columns OF salut-
ing foreign and American warships In
Hampton Roads. He will be escorted
to the reviewing stand on Lees par
ade, in the rear of the auditorium
building The speechmaking feature
of the program will begin at once and
in the open air, should the weather
permit An invocation by the Right
Rev. Alfred Magill Randolph. bishop
of the diocese of southern Virginia
and a brief Introductory address by
Harry ST. George Tucker, president of
the exposition company. will precede
The Presidents remarks.
Will Press a Button.
When the President has concluded
he will press gold button and inn
mediately the machinery of the great
show will be in motion, thousand
flags will be unfurled on the exposi- !
tion buildings and salute to the ma
tion will be fired by the foreign and
American ships in the roads and by
the garrison at Ft. Monroe. At the
conclusion of the salute the exposi-
tion bands will play THE Star-Spangl-l !
ed Banner the troops will present /
arms and the throng will stand with |
uncovered heads.
Description of the Exposition.
The exposition site contains approx |
imately four hundred acres of land |
space. a forty acre enclosed water ba- |
sin and the one hundred and sixty |
square miles of water surface of
Hampton Roads. The exposition site /
has frontage of two miles on Hamp-
ton Roads and one-half mile on Boush |
Creek. The exposition is great /
white and red city-Corinthian col /
umns thanking walls. In the exhibit /
buildings of the exposition wifi be
gathered the choicest selection of in
dustrial arts. of transportation devices
and of historical displays. Twenty
foreign nations will participate in the
exposition by sending representative
fleets from their navies and crack
regiments from their armies These
foreign warships combined with the
great navy Uncle Sam will send. will
form one of the largest collections of
warships ever before seen in one har-
Dor. And Hampton Roads offers an
ideal harbor for so large a fleet. be
sides offering an additional reason in
that the first battle between iron clad
ships took place in its waters. when
during the Civil war. the little Mont
tor defeated the Nerrimac repro
duction of the great battle between
the doughty little Monitor and the
Nerrimac viii be one of the features
of the exposition
Prize Worth Working For
Besides these there will be hund-
seds of other features. too numerous
in fact 10 mention But those who
have followed the newspaper reports
of this great exposition well know
that it will be worth the while of con-
testants to turn To and work with a
will TO land the prize of a free trip to
The jamestown exposition and a stay
of week there at the expense of this
navspaper.