Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-08-16
DESERVES TO succEED.
Indications Are7That the Interstate Fair
Will be a Grand Anair.

TACOMA, August THE Northwest
Interstate Fair, to be held here from
August Is to November /, is to be a
great big exposition. That is fact OF
which the people of the Northwest have
been but lately convinced. To such an
extent did the strikes and floods set back
the enterprise that many feared it could
not be held at all. Notwithstanding all
the difficulties that they found in their
way, the business men of Tacoma, who
have the project in hand, determined
that the fair should be held, and that,
too, on big scale. The past two weeks
has shown that they are capable of
carrying out what they promise. The
very best amusement enterprises to be
had in the United States have been
secured the influential business men OF
the commonwealths the fair aims to
represent have become interested; an
exhibit OF the resources OF the entire Pa
cific Northwest on grander and greater
scale than ever before attempted has
been secured; counties and States are
vying with one another to have the best
exhibit at the fair, and last, but not
least, there is enough money already on
hand and in sight to open the fair as
advertised, August Is, without one cent
of debt. All this requires work, and lots
OF it, but that work is going on with a
rapidity and vim that is astonishing.
As an example, one week ago the con-
cessionaire who is to exhibit the great
cyclorama of the battle of Lookout
Mountain broke ground for his building
To-day the structure. which is circula'
in shape, 123 feet in diameter and 81
feet high, is almost completed. Hardly
less rapid has been the work on the Ori-
entail village, which is to be an exact
the accessories of donkeys, donkey boys
camels and Arab drivers. The fair build
ings proper have all been completed, but
many concessionaires are hurrying their
work with marvellous rapidity. Decora-
tor German is now about TO begin his
work OF decorating both the fair grounds
and the interior of the buildings. There
is ample scope for him to exhibit his re-
nowned artistic ability, for more beau
tiful site for fair ground than the fifty
Jwo-aCre park on which the Interstate
Fair is located could not be found. Mr.
German will expend $4,000 on draperies
flags, bunting and streamers. Blue
yellow and white are the colors he has
selected to prevail! in the decorations
These will be known as the Interstate
Fair colors. Already they have become
a fad here in Tacoma. Gentlemen weal
them in their button-holes; ladies weai
them in their gowns. Blue, yellow and
white sunshades are becoming popular
in fact, one can go nowhere without see.
ing some patriotic citizen Haunting them
At last the officers of the Fair Associa.
ton, those gentlemen who have devoted
SO many long, weary months to making
the project come up to their ideal, ant
that, too, without any hope of compen.
sation, are happy. The success of the
enterprise is assured From August II
to November l the people Of the grea
Pacific Northwest will see a fair such al
was never before seen in this section o
the country. 1t is their fair, and in i
they may well feel pride.