Show ff 9 ME a W ll 11 it y I 1 I 1 ill y I 1 Y P OP I 1 of NOR wh U E fil 9 M 0 L 1 h I 1 crowd so great and enthusiasm at such a high pitch that the danger of a crush was only averted by the presence of mind of the t president who made an eloquent speech I 1 10 I 1 I 1 I 1 h norfolk va april 26 the jamea town centennial tercentennial ter exposition a land j and water vater display anch as neve was t pt attempted tempted in this country or on foreign shores wag was opened today with that pomp and ceremony which always attend an event whre the president of the united states Is central figure and diplomatic representatives of foreign nations governors of states and like dignitaries are honored guests and participants the day dav of the inaugural ceremonies opened cloudy loudy loud y but by 8 oc loelf the sun shone forth and a strong breeze I 1 frosi from the southeast soon drove tho the cloud banks beyond tho the horizon leaving I 1 clear sky the breeze sweeping across hampton roads also tempered the heat which had a tinge of midsummer mid summer in it by the time tho the president landed upon the exposition grounds the cd ed streets wore were deep in dust which made mado the grass covered ground from froin which the inaugural function was viewed by tho the populace a welcome ref refuge uge incident to tho the opening president roosevelt reviewed from the deck dock of the mayflower the war vessels anchored in ili ll hamiton ampton roads ho he reached the battery landing having been boon transferred in a naval launch from his yacht shortly before noon and amid applause from the thousands of guests gathered gath ored to voice olce choir welcome ho to was received by the exposition ExposIt lop roani mani then followed the program for opening to the public tho the enter commemorating prise the three hundredth I 1 anniversary of the first english settlement in america which program included an address by harry st george tucker president of we exposition and one by president dept Roos roosevelt evolt singing by tho the exposition chorus of trained voices tho the pressing of tho the gold button by y president roosevelt Roos evolt which marked athe the and a review by assembled Alli military tarY forces ij at sunrise the ceremonies were bogun by the united states artillery firing a salute of guns to usher in the day this was a signal for the trend of humanity to railroad trains street cars and boat lines which from that moment poured people into tho the grounds A distinguished gathering received the tho president and his party pay at discovery landing I 1 it included president tucker and all of the general officers of the exposition rear admiral P F harrington in charge of the naval program and major general j fred P grant who arranged the military attraction after nn an oxe exchange bange of greetings during which the lianda bands played patriotic selections the party proceeded in carriages to the me grandstand tho cheering crowd pressed the outsiders andi and surged after the line of carriages which took the most direct route around the maim auditorium ilium building to the scene of tho the inaugural tho the procession was a triumphal ono one for the president but it was equaled later by the welcome wo 1 corn 0 given him hini as he entered the reviewing stand bowing to the right atwil to the left his ac of tho groat great acclaims reclaims spurred tho the crowd to renewed efforts the gathering in front of the mod grandstand stand had started as soon as the choice olce vantage points had occupied at tho the water front and when the ceremonies opened the audience extended over tho the parade parado grounds far beyond the reach of the ap speakers eakers voices the formal program opened overture by the bands jamestown dixie which was composed especially I 1 for the thi occasion followed by a so oo 1180 tion by the exposition chorus and Pra prayer yerby by the rt rev nov alfred magall 11 randolph bishop of the diocese of southern virginia after the chorus had bad sung the official opening hymn a beautiful anil and appropriate prop work by Wilbor wilberforce force G owl president tucker faced tho multitude A spontaneous outburst af pf d cheering 0 ring greeted greated him as a testimonial of approval by the people to th the gli I 1 gatoc work that hud bud been dono done in st ruction of ono of the tile most import imp olt ant events in the history iff dt the nation W ww of virginia sir mr tuckers address Us ta of a historical and chronology chrono chronological log ical character president pr adent roosevelt began his ad draca at 1206 that he might h help be beseda seen and heard ho lie mounted a j ys table which held him high Above the hotd d of his he was vas great I 1 ly concerned by the danger in the crowd to women and children to discourage enthusiasm spasm he said at tho the outset that he should ask the aud audience lenco to mako make the avrech as ilici a monologue as possible speaking directly alre atly to tho the crowd crowd which stretched across the parade grounds the president Preal dent at the top of his voice earnestly requested that the people refrain from crowding ho called attention to the fact that there were women and ancl children in front and said sald if there Is one thing that marks a body of americana americans and espee especially Jally a body of virginians it Is that they tako take good caro care of women and children this had bad the effect lit vf stopping tho the danger for a time but it was not long before the peoples enthusiasm again swept away all semblance of order and general grant sent a squad of cavalry out la in tho the throng this move it Is believed Is all that saved the immense gathering from breaking through the ropes and lines of guarda guards in which event thero there must have been many casualties A boiling sun poured down dow upon the distinguished guests seated in ili the front row of the grandstand grand stand and the president commanded them to keep their hats on member of the diplomatic corps all uncovered in the presence of the president this attracted ills attention and singling out the french ambassador he said put your hat on air josserand I 1 will mill not have you get a sunstroke As the audience laughed the president joined in and remarked that he was obliged to take cro of tho the hygienic conditions the president spoke an follows follow gi at the outset I 1 wish to say zay a word of special greeting to the represents elvea of 0 tho the foreign governments hero here I 1 present they havo have come to assist 1 us in celebrating what was I 1 truth the ahli nation for at it was here that the colonists first thit settled I 1 whose incoming whose growth from their own loins and by tho the addition I 1 of newcomers newcomer from abroad was to emko ka the people which one hundred and sixty nine years later assumed the solemn bi it ties and weighty duties of complete independence in welcoming all of you I 1 must say ay a especial word first to the representative of the people of great britain and ireland the fact that so many of our people of whom as it happens I 1 myself am one have lint but a very small portion of english blood in our veins in no way alters the other fact that this nation vms founded by englishmen by the cavalier and the puritan their tongue law literature the fund of their common thought made an in bori tance which alt all of ua iks share and marked deep the lines along which wo have developed it was the roon men of english stock who did most in casting the n mold jold into which our national char actor wag was run lot me furthermore greet all of you the representatives of bf tho the people of continental europe from almost overy nation of europe we have drawn bome acme part of our blood some part 0 of f our traits this mixture of blood h ahna gone on from the beginning and with it has gone on a kind of development unexampled among people of the tile stocks from which we spring and hence today we differ sharply from and yot yet in some ways are am fundamentally akin alian to all of the nations of europe again let lot mo bid you welcome representatives of our sister republics of this continent in the cargor aspect your interests and oura ours are identical your problems and ours aro are in large part the same and as we strive to settle them I 1 pledge you herewith on tee part of this nation the heartiest friendship and anti good will finally let me say a special word of greeting to those representatives of the asiatic nations who make up ahat east which la Is yet the most ancient east the east of time immemorial in particular lot me we express a word of hearty welcome to the representative of the mighty island empire of japan that empire which in learning from the west has bas shown that it had BO 80 much so 90 very much to teach the west in return to all of you here gathered I 1 express my thanks for you ou coming and I 1 extend to you my earnest wishes for the welfare of your your several nit nations ions the world has moved so far that it la is no longer noces necessary gary to believe that one nation can rise ilse only by thrusting another down all farsighted states men all true patriots now earnestly wish that the it leading nation of mankind as in their several ways they struggle constantly toward a higher civilization a higher humanity may advance hand in hand united only in a generous rivalry to see which can beat best do its allotted work in the world 1 I believe that there Is a rising tide in human thought which tends for righteous international peace a tide which it behooves us to guide through ration I 1 al channels to sano sane conclusions and all of us its here present can well afford april to take toc to heart beart st SL pauls counsel it if it be possible as much as ileta in you live peaceably with all men vc have met today to celebrate the opening of the exposition which itself commemorates the first permanent settlement setU ement lement of men of our stock in virginia tha first of what has since become ahn mighty republic three hundven yearb ago a handful of I 1 english adventurers who had cro crossed ased the ocean in what wo we should now call cockle boats as clumsy as th they e were 0 trail frail landed in the great groat wooded woo zd nar wilderness dei der ness ness the indian haunted waste wt which then stretched down to the waters edge along the entire atlantic coast they were not the first men man of european race to settle in what la 1 no now the united states for there were already spanish settlements in florida and on the headwaters headwater a of the luo rio grando grande and the french who at almost the same time were struggling up the st lawrence were likewise destined to form permanent settlements on the great lakes and in the valley of the mighty mississippi before tho people of english stock wont westward of the alleghenies moreover both the dutch and the Siv swedes eders shortly to found colonies between the two beta set of english colonies those that grow crew up around the potomac and those that grew grow u up on what Is now the new england oftay nevertheless this landing at jamestown possesses for us of the united states an altogether peculiar significance and this without regard to our several origins the men who landed at jamestown and those who thirteen years later landed at PI plymouth all of english stock and the their fr fellow settlers who during the next few decades streamed str earned in after them were ere those who took the lead in shaping the life history of this people in tho the colonial and revolutionary y days it waa was they who bent into definite shape our nation while it was still young enough moat most easil easily most readily to take on the characteristics which were to become part ot of its permanent life habit yet let us remember that while this early english colonial stock has left deeper than all others upon our nation al life the mark of its strong twin in divi dualities the mark of the Ca cavalier andoe the tho puritan puri tan nevertheless this stock not only from its environment I but also from the presence with it of other stocks almost from the beginning began to be differentiated strongly from any european people As I 1 I 1 havo have already said about the tile time the I 1 first english settlers sett lors landed here tho the frenchman and the spaniard lard the swede and the dutchman Dutch mun also came hither as permanent dwellers who left their seed behind them to help shape and partially to inherit our national life the ge german rma n th the 0 I 1 irishman ris and the scotchman came later but still in colonial urges defore before the outbreak of the revolution the american people not only because of their surroundings physical and spiritual but because of the mixture of blood that had already begun to take place represented a new and distinct ethnic type this type has never been fixed in blood all through the colonial days new waves of immigration from time tiffie to time swept hither hitter across the ocean now from one country now from another the same saine thing has gone on ever eyer since our birth as a nation and for the last sixty years the tide of immigration has been at the full the newcomers are soon absorbed into our eager national life and are radically and profoundly changed thereby the rapidity of their assimilation being mar relous Telous but each group of newcomers as it adds ita its blood to the life also changes it somewhat and this change and growth and development have gone gono on steadily gener generation generate by generation throughout three centuries the pioneers of our people who first landed on these shores on that eventful day three centuries ago ag obad had before them a task which during durina the early years was wao of heartbreaking danger dangar and difficulty the conquest of a new now continents continent contin entIs 33 iron work people who dwell in old civilizations and find that therein so much of human itys lot Is hard are apt to complain against the conditions as being solely due to man and to speak as if life could bo be made easy emy and simple it there were but J a virgin continent in which to work it Is true that the pioneer liti alf was simpler but it was certa certainly inIX not emler As a matter of tact fact the first work ot or the pioneers in taking possession of a lonely wilderness Is so rough so hard bard so dangerous that all but the strongest spirits tall fall the early iron days of such a conquest search out alike tha the weak in body and the weak in soul in the warfare against the rugged sternness stern of primeval nature only those can conquer who are themselves unconquerable it Is not until the first bitter years have passed that the life becomes easy enough to invite a nias of newcomers and so great are the risk hardship and toll of the early years that there always exists a throat threat of back from civilization the history of the pioneers ot of jamestown Jamss town of the founders of virginia 1 illa illustrates strates the truth of all this famine and pestilence and war menaced the little band baij of daring men who had planted themselves alone on the edge of a frowning lug continent moreover as men ever find whether in the tiniest frontier front cr community or ITI in tb the vastest and mst m st highly orean I 1 izod iced and complex civilized society their worst fees were in their own bosoms dissension distrust the in irl ability of some to work and the unwillingness willing ns of others jealousy ar ax and an denvy eav folly and laziness in short all a the shortcomings W with I 1 t h which we have to grapple now were I 1 1 I 1 faced by those plo pioneers Users and at moments I 1 threatened their whole entea prise with absolute win it was some solis time before the ground on which the y had landed supported them in salto of its potential fertl fertility litY and 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