t TIlE SALT LAKE HERALD MONDAY AUGUST 2 1909 ij

I GLIMPSES OF THE GREAT SEATTLE EXPOSITION I

The greatest log house ever built The Forestry building of the AlaskaYukonPacific exposition made entirely of logs

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Lookng up the Pay Streak The side shows of the AlaskaYukonPacific exposition are a popular diversion Looking theup Cascades toward the main Government building The beauties of landscape decoration at the Seattle fairBY H H MDONALD-

T ny or Seattle claiming normal-i f ulation of 300000 people is Just

IIA making hay while the sun is shii-lg in its direction Its numbers aresnE1d I by an influx of people until Itsstreets savor of Ncw York and Chiago at their busiest hours Hotels andoonint houses are filled to overflowing

amyll ut is a wise visitor who has madeArrangements before coming that willIrsuro accommodation Citlaens ofvery state in the union and of every

province in the Dominion of Canadarowd every boat and train arriving at> Puaet Sound city Of these Utah isu rushing her full proportion HunfcN itrim the Bee Hive state registerav it the unique little building which

fiuf s heri exhibitIt th rinds of many of the visitors to

iif AlaskaYukonPaciflc expositionbo HS Mitt replaces the famous Totemtoll a the emblem of the city Whilemuii the glad hand and displayrz ry courtesy to the strangersihin the gates the people oi the cityere taking away all of their substancejfiey om conveniently appropriate Hot > r ming houses and restaurantsarc increased prices until they are ai-

m ° stt a par with those which graspng r tJ trusts have imposed upon thepPJ of Salt Lake There is nothing

Cd p r than at home and the generalile f prices has advanced for the fairfury nethird This is also true of the

of itin grounds where exorbitant1arg are made for curios for refresh-

ments and for goods sold thereThis k almost the only criticism that

dn be truthfully made of the A Y Pird the city where it is held The exrrMtion is one of marvelous beauty and

Priative attractiveness While noti large or comprehensive as some oftie other great fairs its 350 acres of

srounds its 160 buildings and its multitudinous amusements exhibits andPeoples gathered from all lands ands flop make it International and unit rsaJ ant its specially unique featuresPrmit of comparison with the very best

1 1the big shows that the country hasrun

Beauty of Environment1Ini general beauty of environment the

Y P excels them all Built on thehnres of two beautiful lakes Washinghn erd Union which define the boun1lf > of the grounds with a margin of

ther are cleancut views of ther = d Olympic mountains to the WESt

II and the gracefully rounded Cascades tothe east while Mount Rtuiier prime ofpeaks towering almost 15000 feet intothe sky to te south is the convergingpoint of a remarkable scenic vistaAdded to this rre the beauties of Pugetsound one of the Pacifics most grace-ful

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arms lapping the very edges ofthe teeming city of Seattle throbbing-and pulsating with life

The landscape gardeners who laid outthe grounds have left its natural beau ¬

ty untouched where possible TallDougiass firs swing their rugged limbsnext to ornately classic architectural-art There is but one large formal gar¬

den with sundials spherical mirrors andset geometrical beds Elsewhere aboutthe grounds flowers shrubs and treesbeautifully varied have been permitted-to grow in riotous profusion and In realhomey fashion The usual freak flow-

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beds with names and designs are notpresent In their places are banks ofnatural flowers which line the walksand buildings There are spouting foun ¬

tains and tumbling cascades but thewhole is a studied disarrangement andpart of a caretullyprepared scheme of

Jetoration Simplicity and purity havebeen aimed at by the artists with theresult that the visitor gasps and rubshis eyes at the wonderful beauty burst-ing

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suddenly upon him after passingthe gates

Grouping of BuildingsThe arrangement of the buildings and

their grouping is also calculated toplease The center of the scheme isthe United States government buildingwhich is the largest and most ornate ithas yet erected at any fair and in front-of this ig the graceful Alaska monu ¬

ment a tall shaft at the base of whichare grouped three female figures per ¬

sonifying the sections of the continentembodied in the threefold title of thefair To the right and left are the Alas ¬

ka and Hawaii buildings under the pro ¬

tecting shadow of the government buildIng and avenues in all directions leadin semicircles to the other homes ofexhibits

Cascades which at night are rainbowblazes of light tumble down toward theCourt of Honor and the Geyser BasinThe banks of these are lined with rose

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Looking up the Court of Honor toward the Government buildingPlacid waters and terraced lawns add to the scenic beauty of the ex ¬

position

bushes in full bloom and the basin issurrounded by pansy beds Flovers ofall kinds line the bases of the buildings-and the asphalted walks

Grouped about the government buildIng are also European agriculturalmanufactures and mites buildingswhich are all of classic design and thecolor of old ivory Greek Roman andFrench Renaissance types of architec ¬

ture prevail hereOf ah the beautiful buildings eight

have been substantially built and at theclose of the fair vll be handed over tothe University of Washington whichloaned its campus for the show Theseare the auditorium fine arts machineryforestry Washington tate good roadsArctic brotherhood and womens build ¬

ings This means a gift of several mil ¬

lions of dollars to the universityThe Forestry Building-

The most interesting of these if notone of the most interesting of the wholefair is the forestry building which issaid to be the greatest log house everbuilt In front of this Is a colonade ot-a hundred log pillars each five feet indiameter Its contents are equally in ¬

terestingForeign countries represented by dis-

plays¬

which are in various of the struc-tures

¬include Great Britain FranceGermany Russia The Netherlands-

Chile China Colombia Costa RicaEcuador Formosa Korea French EastIndies German colonies GuatemalaHonduras British India Mexico DutchEast Indies Nicaragua New ZealandPanama Peru Slam and SalvadorThese and their quality prove the inter¬

national character of the fair The ex ¬

hibits are of a peculiarly representativeclass though there is much of thecurious and unique

Canada has done wonders at this ex-position

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She has tntered heartily intothe spirit of the fair and has rightlyconsidered it to a great extent hershow Her mining exhibit is pro-nounced the finest collection of miner ¬

als yet gathered together for any fairand her rat resources are displayed-in most aitraotive fashion It is hard-to escape fon the Canadians at thisfair fQr sh s one miss anything Inthe beautui anudian building he Isliable to v iLr into it at the greatdisplays th1 ° OnacHan Pacific andGrand Tumi rihviys elsewhere In-vitations

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t t i it Van ouver the newmetropolis of tine ncutern province ofBritish Columbia face the visitoreverywhere Iii the city also on one of

tine leading streets the people of Van-couver

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have erected a stately classicarch extending to visitors that cityswelcome to the west Lectures givendaily in the Yukon department of theCanadian building with moving picturrs of scenes in the north haveproved one of the attractive features ofthe fair

The Alaska building has somethingstriking In its center in the form of amillion dollars in gold carefully guard-ed

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There is also shown the largest cop¬

per nugget in the world here Besidesthe great mastodon and relies of theancient north are exhibits calculated-to show that Alaska has resourcesequal to any part of the countryEverywhere it is impressed upon thevisitor that the climate is no more se¬

vere than that of New England-The Orient is well represented The

government has seen to it that thePhilippines shall appear to advantageand the display is calculated to give abetter idea of the Iland possessions Inthe Hawaiian building too is a model-of the islands with educational fea ¬

tures showing the wonderful progressof the country in recent years

The fine arts hold high places at this

fair and the building especially devot-ed

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to them contains paintings so val ¬

uable that they are Insured for 1500000On

the ground is a large natural am ¬

phitheatre where exercises are held amonster stadium for athletic events amodel government life saving station amodel farm a wild cat stilt and a stockfarm There was a daily newspaperbut mismanagement put it into thehands of a receiver and last week itsuspended publication

There is especial interest in the homedisplays of the northwest which ofcourse is specialty exploited Wash-ington

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Oregon California Idaho andour own state of Utah have buildingswhile some of the counties of the stateof Washington have their own struc ¬

tures British Columbia is well caredfor in the big Canadian building TheCalifornia display stands out pre ¬

eminent among these for the arrange-ment

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of its fruits and showing of thewonders it can accomplish The north¬

west generally shows wonders in thefruit line

Other state buildings are those ofNew York and Michigan These likeIdaho have made no display but de

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The Arctic Brotherhood building The hospitality of the Frozen North at Ij

this building is said to equal that of the Sunny South

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Vote all their space to entertainment-and contain rest parlors and receptionrooms Colorado and Montana are notrepresented at alL The Idaho home te-

a neat building near Its neighboringstate of Utah It has charming hosteases and its hospitality Is unstintedThere has however been some disap-pointment

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state that no display of the resourcesof the state has been made

The Utah Building-Utah is the only intermountain state

exhibiting that has attracted much at ¬

tention during all of the fair The ca-rious

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building draws visitors to a closerexamination and the highly creditabledisplay is an advertisement of incalcu ¬

lable value to the state There havebeen different opinions regarding tINtbuilding many Utahns visiting it ex-pressing

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disapproval of the curiouspueblo structure as calculated to labelthe state as a curiosity rather than tocall attention to her position as an en-terprising

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and progressive common-wealth

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regarding the high quality of the dis-plays

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withinThere are dosens of educational ex¬

hibits in various buildings at the fairand none of them approaches within aconsiderable distance that on the sec-ond floor of the Utah building Thisdisplay has aroused much favorablecomment not unmixed with surprise-and it has received high praise fromevery writer who has visited the showthe Seattle papers containing speciallycommendatory articles Hung aboutare large photographs of the schoolbuildings of Salt Lake and of manythroughout the state which beer favor ¬

able comparison with similar picturesor those in any other state The work

T the pupils which Is attractively disjd ttvcd is more comprehensive than In-

jiy other such exhibit and the groundsnd visitors are prone to linger here

F N Poulson educational director ofie ttah exhibit has especial chaffof this feature and is at special

qJ explain the superiority of the schoolsr his stateThe Utah commission has been ape

lally fortunate in Its officials MrsI H Stevenson 1Is an admirablehostess and her tactful manner of dis-pensing

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the hospitality of the state hasmade her one of the most popular ofthe hostesses on the grounds These la-

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from the various states haveformed an association and the social

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