Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-24
FACILITIES ARE AMPLE
Statement Regarding Trans
portation to Jamestown Fair.
RAIL WAYS AND STEAMSHIPS
Lines With Schedules Which Will
Meet Peoples Convenience.
THOUSANDS OF MILES COVERED
Exhibit Made by Those Directly In
terested in the Tercentennial
Exposition.
THOUSANDS OF MILES COVERED

There has been an interesting discussion
as to the efficiency of the transportation
facilities connecting the locality wherein
the Jamestown tercentennial exposition is
to be held with the country at large. 1t
has been shown by exhibits made by those
interested directly in the exposition that
these facilities will be ample. The predic-
ton Is therefore made that this celebration
on the southern shores of Hampton Roads.
concentrating the 3OOth anniversary Of
the first permanent English-speaking set
Element in America, will be one of the
most popular expositions in point Of at
tendance that has ever been held in this
country.
Norfolk, often called the gateway Of the
south, while not a city Of the population
of Chicago. Philadelphia, Buffalo or St.
Louis, where previous expositions have been
helG. is nevertheless more advantageously
located, for within twelve-hour radius
Of the city there live 100000 people, and
within twenty four-hour radius 100000,
or more than half Of the population of the
entire country. Connected with the north,
south and west by eight or ten railroads
and as many steamship lines, there is every
assurance that the daily throngs coming to
and returning from the tercentennial will
be afforded ample transportation accommo-
dations.
The term Transportation" formerly en-
ployed to denote railroad and steamboat
traffic, has gained such wide significance
Of late years to keep pace with the won
derfui strides of science and invention along
the lines of aerial and submarine naviga-
ton that it has become extremely difficult
to define Accepting the more general def
n.tion, however, the following statistics are
complete, in that they give all the railroad
and steamship lines that connect with Nor
folk and Underwater Virginia"
Facilities Enumerated.
III foo in plepifnda
and variety of distances and localities are
given herewith:
The Southern railroad, with It's northern
terminal at Washington. extending Its
1000 miles Of track into Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Florida and Mississippi, is preparing to car
ry thousands of visitors to the exposition
from these southern states.
The Atlantic Coast Line with its $500
miles Of track, also operates through the
south, touching at Wilmington, Charles
Augustine, Palm Beach and Montgomery,
and will bring Its share Of the great south
ern exodus to the tercentennial.
The Seaboard Air Line controlling 3 600
miles of track, passing through North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Ala
bama, will be another popular route to the
exposition.
The Chesapeake and Ohio system, operat-
ing its 1900 miles Of track through the
middle west, connects the cities of West
Virginia. Kentucky and Ohio by direct
route with Norfolk and the exposition.
The Norfolk and Western railroad, 1880
miles of track, also connects Norfolk with
the middle west. The great coal piers of
this railroad, the largest in the world: 10
Gated at Lamberts Point, on the Elizabeth
river, export annually between SIX ana
eight million tons of coal.
Latest Addition.
ton to Norfolk's transportation facilities,
will operate from the Ohio river to Ches-
apeake bay. opening up the great coal fields
of West Virginia for direct shipment to the
Atlantic coast.
| The Norfolk and Southern railroad, 45O
| miles of track, passes through sections of
| Virginia and North Carolina which are
| sure to respond most heartily to the his
| toric associations that are embodied in the
| exposition.
The New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk
| railroad a branch of the great Pennsyl-
| vania system, connecting New York with
| the south by way of the Eastern shore
| and Cape Charles. while 1t only owns some
| 200 miles of track, Is one of the most i'm
portant roads that enter Norfolk, for ii
| gives direct communication from the north
and west, through New York, the greatest
| railroad center of the world.
| The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Poto.
mac railroad, or Richmond w ashingtor
line, connects at Washington with the Penn
| sylvania and the Baltimore and Ohio rail
| roads, while at Richmond it connects with
the Chesapeake and Ohio, the Norfolk and
| Western, Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard All
Line and the Southern railway.
| The Canadian Pacific railroad, with lines
| reaching from. Vancouver, Seattle and the
northwest makes connections at Moose
| Jaw and Winnipeg with the Minneapolis
ST. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railroad from
| Minneapolis and St. Paul, and its line from
Halifax, st. John, Quebec, Montreal ant
Toronto makes connections at Buffalo witt
the Pennsylvania lines to Norfolk over thu
Cape Charles route.
The Minneapolis. ST. Paul and Sault Ste
| Marie lines reaching from Moose Jaw, Win
nipeg and Sault Ste. Marie, connect at st
Paul with the Chicago, milwaukee and st
Paul railway for Chicago and the east. =,
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul rail-