The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-26


Turks: how he travelled in Russia, Ger
many. France, Spain and Morocco. to
return to England i'll 1904 a knight
and a famous man at the age OF 20 |!
They felt they must needs fear SO
capable and powerful man.
When the sails of their storm
tossed ship finally beat their way be-
tween two sbeltering arms of land one
spring morning. and passed a friendly
place where the winds and the waves
were kind to them, they called the
place Point Comfort, and it is still so
named. One evening, some days later,
they swung forty miles up strange
river. and dropped anchor by a long
fat island that lay midstream. A few
adventurous souls sprang ashore to sec
the wonderland whose breath of spring
flowers was waited to them through
the evening shadows, and whose green
trees they could see crowding close TO
the river bank. The men feasted their
sea-weary eyes on the gorgeous spring
blossoms along the shore The dog
wood, honeysuckIe and judas trees we're
in bloom. 1t was "the Moon of Straw
berries" and the hungry adveuturers
found the lucious wild fruit clustered
thick on the river bank. Captain Smith.
in glow of joyous enthusiasm, ex-
claimed; "Heaven and earth have
never agreed better in making place
for mans habitation. -
! The original landing place was about
| 1900 feet to the west OF the present
! wharf. and WAS swept away bv tbe lap
ping waters of the river many wears
/ ego. The rest Of the island lies today
very much as it did then. According
to Ralph uamor, an early secretary Of
the colony, it was two and three
] f.N,1N he
to one and one.fourth miles wide. 4
neck of land at first connected it with
the mainland, but this was washed away
IN the succeeding years and left "the
Island of James Cittic' rs we now
see it. They were religious, these
early settlers, and one of their first
acts on landing was TO stretch an old
sail cloth on tree and give thanks
10 God that they had at last reached
this paradise Of their dreams. The com
paDy included ffifty-four gentlemen,
four carpenters and twelve laborers.n -
When they landed on the island. Nav
13, 1907, few knew how TO work. nor
. cared TO, until Smith required that All
who ate must earn their food Govern
ment was at first a difficult matter, for
King James. with ever a love of mys-
terry, had put the names of the Council.
lors IN a sealed box, which was not to
be opened until the new land was
reached. All those named proved fail
ures except Smith, and on the work of
this man, and the charity of the little
Indian princess, Pocahontas, the cor
ner-stone of this great nation may be
safely said to have been built,
A triangular fort was built to guard
the approach over the neck of land
/ 70 mi aud 4
! teen feet high protected the log cabins
and church that made up the village
Over on the opposite bank a glass fac
tory was III operation as early as 1908
That same year few more colonists
came over, among them being Mrs. For
rest and her little fourteen wear old
maid, Anne Burrus. Women were glor-
lous beings to the homeless, wifeless
men. and Immediately John Laydon pro-
posed marriage to little Anne The
wedding IN the log church was the first
Episcopal marriage service in the new
world. The next year the first Episcopal
baptlsmal service was said over little
Virginia Laydon. John Rolfe adopted
the idea of cultivating tobacco from the
Indians and sold his first crop In Lon
don for $3.50 a pound. Shortly after
ward it became form of currency in
the colony and before the century was
out the women went trading followed
by a cart of green tobacco in charge
of their servants.
AS the colony prospered, better houses
were built. A larger church followed
the first one, and when my Lord Della
ware came over in 1910 to take the
goyernship he came to church in great
state attended by relocated guard
or honor, and sat on velvet chair with
velvet cushion to knecl upon He
had pews, pulpit and windows of cedar
and every day fresh flowers were placed
on the altar. Ii was here that Poca-
hontas was married TO John Rolfe,
proceeding that caused King James
some alarm, for as the heiress of King
Powhatan and her children might in
herit the kingdom of Virginia, and so
jeopardizc the English kings interest
there. Perhaps he was a far-seeing
monarch, for among the Randolphs, de-
scendants of Pocahontas, the new ma
tion found good leaders in after years.
One of this American .princess's de-
scendants is Harry St George Tucker,
president of The. jamestown exposition.
In 1919 came those two great contra
dictory influences into America, the gen
cral assembly by which the people could
be represented and the introduction of
negro slaves. In the same year. also,
Cdlns lDc sup lOdu Oh D1dlutHS VINO were
sent as wives for the settlers. The
price for each was l20 pounds of to-
bacco. which was equivalent to $50. For
awhile the good minister was kept busy
with marriage ceremonies. because tho
maids were honorable and attractive
and were quickly chosen More single
girls came over after this, and the
stern governor had to make law that
no maiden should he engaged TO more
than one suitor at time. With the
women came the love Of home. The
men were allowed so many acres of
land for home-stcading, and soon the
colony spread out across the river into
the forests and plains beyond, Times
were so prosperous for awhile that it
is said the town cow-keeper was "ac-
eoutred in fresh flaming silk" Dale s
law required each man to labor from six
TO ten III the morning, and from two
to four in the afternoon, and to at.
tend church twice daily.
But the early colonissts had much
trouble. All the while the King and the