Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1907-03-15
JAMESTOWN WILL
Be PALACE OF
EDUCATION
Instead of Being Merely Naval
and Military Display, Com
ing Exposition viii Be Highly
instructive.

AFTER SO many unkind remarks
were made during the last session of
congress in regard TO the jamestown
Exposition's being nothing more than
military and naval display, we
come now to a brief statement
Of the principal and more important
measures of the jamestown Exposi-
tion company. intended to give promI-
nence TO the civic history of our
country, commemorative, educational
historical and patriotic. Nearly ali
the buildings are illustrative of archi.
lecture OF the Colonial period, with
many reproductions either exact or
upon reduced scale The principal
building. the Auditorium, with its an
neXes of historic art, and Of educa-
ton, fronts upon Raleigh Square.
which will be a floral design and
overlooks Hampton Roads. The Audi
torium is provided for the use OF
numerous congresses, or conventions.
of which. up 10 the middle of Febru-
airy. one hundred and nineteen had ar
ranged their program of attendance
and work. A hall of congress
will be provided with a seating capac-
ity for 5000 persons. This hall is
grounds and it will be used for reli-
gious services. morning and evening
during the entire period of the expo
Sftion. The conventions represent
many associations and lines of en-
ddayor, Industrial. educational. pro
fessional. commercial. technical frater-
nal. religious, historical and patriotic.
The Tide water Ministerial Union is
ARRANGING regular eyangelistic services
at the exposition. Perhaps the most
prominent of the conventions win be
historical end fraIernal. f-~' ~
The exposition exhibit buildings in
cludes:
Manufactures and Arts, $50 feet
long, $50 feet wide.
Machinery and Transportation. $50
feet long and $50 feet wide
States Exhibit. 600 feet long. 300
feet wide.
States Exhibit Court, $50 feet long
80 feet wide.
Mines and Mekallurgy, $50 feet long,
100 feet wide.
Mines and Metallurgy Annex, 100
feet long. 100 feet wide.
Food products, 300 feet long, $50
feet wide.
Marine $50 feet long, 80 feet wide.
Power and Alcohol (denaturedD 800
Sec. long. $50 feet wide.
Graphic Arts, $50 feet long, $50 feet
wide
Agricultural Implements, $50 feet
long, 100 feet wide.
Transportation, $50 feet long, 200
feet wide.
Transportation. 200 feet long, 100
feet wide
Foods. 100 feet long, 100 feet wide.
Forestry 100 feet long. O5 feet wide.
Manufactures. 100 feet long, 100 feet
wide.
Virginia Mines and Timber, .25O
feet long, 100 feet wide.
u There is under construction an adj
ditfonal fireproof building, 800 feet
long by 80 feet wide, which has been
found necessary to house the exhibits
of historical arts. Arts and crafts,
-four buildings). Educational (col-
lege and university, Education (pri-
NARY and ondary)-buildings of
incorporated companies and individ-
uals for special purposes. Thirty
states have appropriated money for
buildings, for the use of their citi-
zens and for historical exhibits. Eigh-
teen of these state buildings are built
or building.
Congress. by act of June so, 1906,
provided for exhibits at the James
town Exposition from the Smithson-
ian Institute, the National Museum
and the library of congress, of such
articles and materials of a historical
nature as will serve TO impart a
knowledge OF our colonial and ma
tional history, from the War and Navy
Departments, the Life Saving Service,
the Revenue Cutter Service, the Army,
the Navy, the Light House Service,
the Bureau of Fisheries, and an exhib-
1t from the Island of Porto Rico.
The Bureau of American Republics
was invited 10 make an exhibit Illus
trative Of the resources and interna-
tional relations of the American re-
publics, in the Government buildings.
Twelve American republics have ac-
cepted invitations to participate more
numerous representation than ever be-
fore. The act further directed the
erection at the exposition OF suitable
buildings for the government exhibits,
a suitable building for the exhibit of
the Life Saving Service, a fisheries
building and aquarium, building for,
use as a place OF rendezvous for The
Soldiers and. Sailors OF the United
States Army and Navy and of foreign
armies and nayies participating in
the celebration, and similar render
vous for army and naval officers PAR
ticipafing (seven buildings in alb.
The act further provided for two
piers. extending from the exposition
into the waters Of Hampton Roads,
forming a basin or harboT. The piers
are in course of construction giving
location to the exposition names. Sur
san Constant Pier, Godspeed Pier,
Discovery Landing, and Smith Harbor.
The act also provides for the erection
Of permanent landing pier at James
town Island.
The act further provided an appro-
priation Of 100000 in aid of the Ne
gro Development and Exposition COM
pany Of the United states Of America
to enable 1t. to make an exhibit OF the
progress of the negro race in this
country at the exposition.
The amusement section Of the ex-
position will be similar to that of pre-
vicus expositions. like the Midway OF
the Pike. with many novel features.
The lamented General Fitzhugh Lee.
first president Of the exposition, sug-