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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
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ce sweeps the world aroundOn viewless steeds, by Fultons folly bound! With Fultons folly in their steely heartsMajestic move the squadrons to their marts;Bearing the winds of heaven bound about,They move disdainful of the blast without. Thus are the nations — yea, the world — renownedIn folly, and by Fultons folly crownedThe world is wise,— in folly, proud to claimThe share of folly which is Fultons Fame! Small need to gild his glory, tis revealedIn every flame that lights the foaming field;Would words avail — to abler pen than mineReluctantly the task I must resign. Mrs. McLean Speaks The toastmaster introduced Mrs. Donald McLean in the follow-ing happy manner, and it is unfortunate that her eloquent address wasnot preserved. We have heard a great deal during this Exposition aboutgenerals and admirals — sea fighters, land fighters, and even Exposi-tion Kilkenny cat fighters, and we have heard also here and elsewhereabout the man behind the £un. So remembering: that a woman
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-IDoa,o >-< QZ o C 0 r u O O JS « 3X Fulton Day 409 named Pocahontas had something to do with the settlement at James-town, we propose to-night to have from the President-General of themost patriotic womans organization in the country, a report inbehalf of the girl behind the man behind the gun. No woman, of course, may ever become President of the UnitedStates. But to be in this country elected President-General of theDaughters of the American Revolution, among the ladies, has beenequivalent, in a way, or at least as far as possible, to being electedPresident of the United States, among the men. Indeed, to worthilyand efficiently lead an army of fifty thousand women, of the classthat compose that splendid, patriotic and powerful organization,representing fifty thousand of the best and most representative oldfamilies in America, with such an attendant responsibility as restsupon that truly high office, the responsibility of holding the elderlyAmerican citizens to the lofty stan

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