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Title: New York at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26 to December 1, 1907
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Commission, Jamestown Exposition, 1907
Subjects: Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907) New York (State)--Exhibitions
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : J.B. Lyon Co.
Contributing Library: Virginia Beach Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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Corresponding with this room and located in the east wing,was the dining room or banquet hall. There the columns wereperpetually decorated with festoons of southern flowering vines, andeach of the numerous tables added its share of decoration by thevases heaped with magnificent bouquets, the sparkling glass cutwith the State arms, and fair linen. The cuisine in charge of an experienced chef, Mr. Bayno of themetropolis, was without exception the best upon the grounds, whichaccounts for the great number of State dinners given there by Expo-sition and various State executives, and by visitors from all over theUnited States. Here were feted the most prominent of the foreignguests at the Exposition, including Prince Wilhelm, of Sweden,and high officials of other governments in the branches of army andnavy, or connected with the embassies at Washington. Generals,governors, admirals and the like, might be found seated here at onetime. Judges, prominent physicians, widely-known educators and
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oo z OPa. UJ U uJ0£ New York State Building 201 men prominent in every walk of life frequented the place. It wasmade exclusive by the strict regulation that any one wishing to dinethere should apply first at the office of the secretary for a card entitlingone to the hospitalities of the building. The stairway left the hall at the rear, and by winding ascendedto a balcony which surrounded the rotundas base. From thisvantage point one could gaze down upon the scene below. Thesecond story was devoted to suites of twelve bed-chambers, withbath. The furnishings were homelike in their appointment, andanybody favored by an invitation thoroughly enjoyed the honor ofbeing a guest in this beautiful State building. Electric fans, maidsand pages furnished conveniences, and best of all, the genial hostess,Mrs. Nelson H. Henry, was ideal in her social capacity, so that everyState function was as properly carried out in every detail of appoint-ment and the proper social requirements as a banquet in

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