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Show THE JAMESTOWN EXP0SITI0 N. The show down in Virginia which is being held to celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the first English settlement in territory now the United States, may lay claim to the oldest lineage of any-of any-of our great expositions from that at Philadelphia, celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of our independence in 1S7H. to the present, with the great: j Chicago fair, commemorating the discovery of ! America by Columbus, the only exception. Although the Jamestown fair is some distance from the place that furnishes its name, so situated to give desired geographical accommodations to some of its features, the original settlers have raised no objections, so we of a younger generation should not quibble. The event the exposition com- ( memorates is still of enormous importance in that it marks the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon domi-. nation of the North American continent. About the settlement of Jamestown there cluster many ' traditions and historical facts as romantic as it is possible to imagine which will live in our history to the end. Not only will the exposition rehabilitate rehabili-tate these early events in North American history, but it will show by comparison what has been accomplished ac-complished in three hundred years by the energy, intellect and genius of a great people in a country, which was unknown and which furnished more hardships than luxuries to the pioneers and settlers. set-tlers. That the public display of these accomplishments accomplish-ments will stimulate the ambition of all who view them and that the fair will be the means of broadening broad-ening the intellect of all its visitors is evident. In no other way can the progress and advancement of the world he so well shown.' and in no rdace can such funds of information be secured by the student stu-dent as at an exposition which gathers the best from ail the world and places it to be viewed and studied for a mere pittance. The attendance upon the fair by Utahns wiil probably be proportionately as great as that of any state at an equal distance from the Atlantic seaboard. sea-board. The official representatives of the commonwealth common-wealth were at the opening, and there will hardly be a day pass without some visitor from Utah being be-ing among the throngs at the exposition. While not yet entirely completed, the pres3 dispatches dis-patches say the show is meritorious. It opened under un-der favorable auspices, with the president and representatives rep-resentatives of foreign nations present," and the. greatest naval display in Hampton Roads the world has ever known. In so far as it commemorates the settlement of; Jamestown, the exposition should appeal to the na- tive pride of Americans; in its exhibition of thj arts and mechanics of present day civilization it should attract the favorable notice of the world. |