The Morris County chronicle., 1907-10-15
NOW IN FULL SWING,
Jamestown TercentenniaI Expo
sition Complete In All Details.
BEAUTIFUL COLONIAL CITY.

A Veritable DreamIand to the Visitor.
In the Matter of Interesting Features
Jamestown Leads All Other Exposi-
tions-Army and Navy Display.
Never before in the history of the
country has there been held an expo
sition with so many attractive fea-
lures as the Jamestown Tercentennial,
now in full swing on the historic wa
tiers of Hampton Roads. The Tercen-
fennial is now complete in all of its
details and presents to the visitor
veritable dreamland.
Within an hours ride by either boat
or train are such places as Yorktown,
where CORVALLIS surrendered to the
Continental army, and jamestown is
land, the "cradle of America" where
now remain only the old ruins of the
first church in America. Just across
the waters of Hampton Roads are To-
Gated Old Point Comfort and Fort Mon
roe, the strongest and most important
artillery station ON the Atlantic coast,
whose grim walls and winding moat
make 1t one of the most picturesque
spots in the country. These and many
other places of historic interest give an
appropriate setting to the Jamestown
exposition, which commentaries the
three hundredth anniversary of the
first permanent English speaking set
tlement in America, the most important
event in the history of modern times.
Owing to the fact that the James
town Tercentennial is the first celebra-
fion ever held on deep water in this
country, there has been going on al
most continually grand naval spec
facle of kind such as America has
never seen before.
The army as well as the navy is well
represented at the Tercentennial, and
daily parades by crack regiments of
United States troops are to be seen on
Lees Parade, one of the largest and
best equipped drill plains in the coun-
try. Stationed at the exposition grounds
at present are the entire Twenty-third
regiment of United States infantry, the
Second squadron of the Twelfth Unit
ed States cavalry and d battery of the
Third field artillery Several regi-
ments of the national guard of vari-
Gus states, besides numerous military
and semimilitary organizations, are
encamped at the exposition from time
TO time.
The government exhibits, housed in
four handsome structures on the water
front of the exposition, comprise one
of the most complete and compre-
hensive displays of the work of the
various departments of the government
ever assembled. The individual states
have also come forward at this eXposi-
ton with their heartiest support and
cooperation, and twenty of them have
erected buildings to represent them at
the Tercentennial, while practically
every state is represented in exhibits
historical, educational or industrial.
These state buildings are located on
Willoughby Boulevard, grand avenue
paralleling the water front, and on
the broad piazzas of the state struc-
lures visitors may rest and view the
magnificent and historical harbor
whereon the vessels Of the world might
rest at anchor. In the Immediate front
appear the great white men-of-war of
our own and ofttimes foreign ma
tion's, and yachts, sloops, schooners
and merchant vessels of every kind.
The Illumination at night is scene
in itself worth a journey of thou
sand miles to witness, and, with all
the outlines of the buildings aglow,
the paths of the Canoe Trail and Low
ers' Lane twinkling with the myriads
of little lights, the War Path blaze
of electricity, the many powerful
searchlights playing the heavens with
their mysterious messages and fifty
miles of shore lines dotted with the
lights of dozen cities and nesting
towns, what spectacle more sublime or
beautiful could be imagined?
On the amusement section of the ex-
position, called the War Path, there
is every conceivable amusement and
diversion, where the visitor to the ex-
position can relax and let himself drift
with the pleasure seeking from one
amusement to the next on this "Great
White Way" where the lights ever
twinkle and the noise of the oriental
music is ever in the air.