Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-22
SHOW IS NEARLY READY
Buildings at jamestown 80 Per
Cent Complete.
GROUNDS ABOUT FINISHED
To Be One of the Finest Expositions
Yet Arranged.
WONDERS OF THE WATER SHOW
All Has Permanent Look-To Be
Made Park After the Show
is Over.
GROUNDS ABOUT FINISHED
WONDERS OF THE WATER SHOW

! splendid efforts of a corps of energetic eff
| Client, panstaking officials and thousands of
carpenters. masons, cement walk bui ders
| and landscape gardeners. the jamestown
I ter centennial exposition will be opened this
week unready. Many of the magnificent
! structures that are to house domestic and
| foreign commercial exhibits and shelter the
! achievements of the industrial arts are in
| complete. Yet while this is acknowledged
by the directors of the exposition with keen
| regret, it is with the satisfaction that the
| sum of what has been done, as compared
| with the unfinished work, forms a result
of which they are justly proud.
| In the beauty of the water show, with Its
! amazing gathering of foreign fleets, repre-
senting the most formidable types of naval
| fighting machines of nearly every power of
the world, and in opening program with
| President Roosevelt in the leading role,
with diplomatic, military and naval repre-
| sentatives of great and small foreign ma
| tons participating, the public will have its
| recompense. So vast and complete Is this
| program that exposition visitors will not
| have time to take notice of the unfinished
| state of the buildings and grounds. The
opening day will be crowded from sunrise
| until dusk with the ceremonies of for
may launching the enterprise and paying
| fitting tribute to the distinguished visitors.
Nearly Finished.
| The grounds and buildings at the EXPOSE
| ton are about so per cent finished. AL
| though hasty glance over the grounds
| would lead the uniformed to doubt this,
| closer observation and the opportunity of
| examining the great mass of boxed EXHIBITS
! waiting to be installed would convince the
| early visitor. No exposition ever before has
\ presented such permanent appearance,
| and this, in great measure, is responsible
| for the delay. Several of the most i'm
portant buildings built solidly of brick,
| cement and iron, and these are intended to
| remain the grounds a nucleus of a
| great park. Regardless of the permanency
| of the work. however, the exterior of most
| of the buildings will be ready when the
| exposition is formally opened Friday next.
| The unfinished state that annoys the eye
| unsghtly debris of all kinds with which the
| exposition grounds Is strewn. No effort
has yet been made to clear away surplus
building material, but hundreds of wagons
and men will be engaged tomorrow and
continue through the succeeding days and
nights until Friday, when assurance is
given that there will not remain trace of
unnecessary debris.
Inception of Fair.
The inception of the jamestown tercen-
tennial exposition sprang from a desire of
a people, many of them defendant from
that hardy English stock that settled
: among the Indians here 800 years ago to
!. teach to its brothers and sisters and dis
, play to visitors from the older nations the
traditions that have been handed down by
those colOnists. 1t was intended that the
expos. ton should be histoical, but it has
grown beyond the dream of it's originators.
When completed it will be almost all that
| is implied in the expression "a worlds
| fair but it will not stop there. No other
exposition has attempted TO show the world
the life of the colonists, the hardshps of the
| pioneers who opened country after
civilization had beeen attained on the sea-
hns1 DrNI hn unhI ,x-a onyNtc
worked from raw material. Into all this has
been thrown touches of the romantic. in
which students and all history lovers of the
revolutionary period may revel. Twenty
five states of the Union will trace their his
, tory from their earliest days to the present,
and the exhibits will be sheltered by appro-
pirate buildings.
For instance, the Virginia state building
is modelled after ideal colonial mansion
Kentucky presents a replica of Fort Boone
= Ohio shows "Adena," the first stone house
erected west of the Allegheny mountains;
Connecticut reproduces the Talmadge home
the first colonial mansion erected in that
t state where Gen. Washington held many
= of his councils of war; and other states
have displayed equally good judgment in
| their selections of designs.
: Should Friday come with the sun shining
there will be presented picture long to be
: | remembered by every vsiter. 1t will be d
l. | picture of art and industry united to pro-
o duce a marvellous display of the wealth
n and resources of the country. of charming
landscapes Swallowed by the imposing
s domes of luxurious palaces, of a broad eX-
Q panse of placid water on which riding
= peacefully the war crafts of a dozen naval
e powers, of military encampment and pa
, Iades by United States and foreign troops
!. Of all branches of the armies. and all will
= be combined in a spectacle of human enter
IT prise unrvaled in the world
The Presidents Part.
'r To the lasting picture that has been
81 drawn should be added something of the
marvels of the ceremony of placing the
c. great seal of government sponsorship upon
N the exposition. This will be done by the
/ President of the United States in the pres
II. ence of the joint committee of Congress
ne ! the ambassadors and ministers of foreign
~ governments who are coming as the guest.
IN of the nation as well as the exposition
ne management, the governors and represen
III tatives of states and territories and dele
cations representing important civic bodies
&c ON this first day will be fired the salut,
n 10 the Union by the assembled warshp
~ and the salute to the President by tn,
~ United States artillery stationed ON TN,
te grounds as he steps on the government
pier from off the Mayfiower. The program
will then follow in the order of its prepare
ton. There is much In this event that Wis
itorS Will see that cannot be put in a pub
m lished program. There will be the foreign
~ | delegations with their -prodga display o
. gold lace and bright decorations in gilt
lie tering contrast to the staid, somber attir
s. | of President Roosevelt and other digni
| taries of this government which alone
" something that cannot be seen in this coun
IN try except in the nations capital when
President is inaugurated or on an occasion
similar to that which will take place her
on Friday. The fact that the exposition
so accessible from Washington has resulte
| In larger number of acceptances by diplo
ed matte representatives than has bee
nv known in connection with exposition cere
!, ! monies.
H. Complete arrangements have been mad
nd for the protection of the visitors to the ex
, ] position. Both the exposition authorize
n and the police department at Norfolk hay
III arranged with the Pinkerton detectiv
!, agency to assist in the police work. and de
he tectiyes are being called in from all owe
the country to join in the service.