New York at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26 to December 1, 1907 . oors were thrown open. Borough President Bird S. Coler had previously expressed anintention of being present for the purpose of presiding; but becauseof his absence, Dr. St. Clair McKelway took his place and made afelicitous address. Commissioner Bassett opened with a cordial greeting, saying:Brooklyn salutes Jamestown. Here English speech and Anglo-Saxon determination first took hold on this continent. Here wasplanted the seed that grew into Virginia, and here began the proudcivilization of the South. Ther
New York at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, April 26 to December 1, 1907 . oors were thrown open. Borough President Bird S. Coler had previously expressed anintention of being present for the purpose of presiding; but becauseof his absence, Dr. St. Clair McKelway took his place and made afelicitous address. Commissioner Bassett opened with a cordial greeting, saying:Brooklyn salutes Jamestown. Here English speech and Anglo-Saxon determination first took hold on this continent. Here wasplanted the seed that grew into Virginia, and here began the proudcivilization of the South. There is a peculiar fitness in the messagethat we bring from Brooklyn. Brooklyn stands for the American she embodies the old and the new. Hollandand New England were the warp and woof of the old migrations ofstrong races from across the sea, and accessions of the thrifty andhome-loving from all America make up the new. Her people desireparticipation in every noble or useful American enterprise. Webring to you the commendation and good will of brothers whom HON. ST. CLAIR McKELWAYBrooklyn Day Orator Brooklyn Day 479 Frank H. Fields Remarks Mr. Frank Harvey Field delivered an eloquent address, speakingin part as follows: Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen. — We bring toyou, Mr. President and officers of the Exposition, the greetings ofBrooklyn. Brooklyn is not in itself a city, hut it forms no meanpart of the imperial City of New York. When Brooklyn, some yearsago, became a part of New York City, it surrendered its city charter;but it did not surrender its civic spirit, a quality that seems to growstronger as the years go by. The citizens of Brooklyn are proud inthe belief that it contains the most independent electorate in America,an electorate that forms one of the most potent factors in the develop-ment of Americas greatest community. Nowhere in America doespolitical chicanery receive prompter or more severe rebuke than inBrooklyn. Many of our ci
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