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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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ss,enunciating the original aims of the Exposition and voiced the senti-ments of hundreds of thousands who had been there and commendedit. He spoke of the effect the fair had had on the Nation as a whole,and feelingly reiterated that those connected with it most closelyconsidered thay had striven hard for success and had attained it,as results, he affirmed, could not be measured by financial receiptsalone. When the clock in the high tower of the Virginia State Buildingsolemnly tolled, as a knell, the hour of midnight, President Tucker,leading the large assemblage, walked out upon the front portico, andfacing the resplendent Raleigh Court, aglow with a myriad of lights,stood bareheaded there while the music from a bugler sent the strainsof taps upon the air, in a quiet, reverential manner he slowly turneddown the lights, until all had been extinguished for the last time,and the Exposition of 1907 was left for the army of despoilers, yet,despite of all, to remain a most pleasing memory.
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