The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1898-09-29
A Pleasant Place to Live In-Good
Water, Good Streets and Handsome
Ho,nes-The Coming Exposition.

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Water, Good Streets and Handsome
Homes-The Coming Exposition.
Portland, Sept. 19.-(To the Editor
When Joe Meek and Lishe Apple
gate and Christopher Columbus pre-
dicted that the Northwest was going to
develop into a rich and productive
region and that cities and towns were
going to spring up all over it, they
earned medals for veracity that we're
never awarded to them. But the peo-
ole who came after them are enjoying
the fruits of their predictions, and will
throw flowers on the graves of those
prophets.
For the Northwest has developed
and is developing, and Portland is one
of the prettiest places on the coast. It
was wise forethought on the part OF
her pioneer people to plant shade trees
along the sides of the streets. for now
they add beauty to the landscape, and
in no city of the world do they show
to better advantage. Portland's streets
are we'll shaded by day and we'll light
ed by night, for the wonderful electric
current is everywhere and ever ready to
aid. humanity.
Portland's business streets are we'll
paved and full of life, and her business
houses contain everything needed for
the use of man. Her homes are neat
and tasteful and in many cases elegant,
and stand in spots where not many
years ago flouirshed the fir forest.
Portland people are enterprising.
and invite the people OF the whole
Northwest to come and visit them this
fall, and to entertain their guests they
have arranged to hold the Oregon In
dustrial Exposition from September %
to October %. Portland people have
subscribed $4,000 in hard cash to pay
the expense of this exposition, and it
will be one OF the grandest events that
ever occurred in the Northwest.
1t will contain everything to make
it attractive. interesting and instruc-
tive. There will be the band concerts
every afternoon and evening by Ben
nett's full military band of 80 pieces,
and it will be the finest music ever
heard in the Northwest. The wonder
full Hegelmans have been engaged, and
they will amaze the audience with
their great aerial acrobatic feats. All
sorts of new and attractive amusements
will be given in connection with the
exposition, and there will be repre-
sentation of Southern plantation life,
and free cooking lectures, and baby
show and children's carnival and a
lady's department, and school ex-
hibit and manual training scohol in
operation every day. Everything will
be on a magnificent scale throughout,
and every person who visits the exposi-
ton will find something new and novel,
to interest, instruct OF amuse them.
One of the special features will be the
wedding in public, which is open free
to all couples, and the newly-married
ones are generously remembered with
wedding presents.
Your correspondent was at the Expo
sition building today and saw the ar
engagements being made for the great
fair, and noted that there was going to
be a big display of all the fruits,
grains, grasses. vegetables and CONNER
cial timber produced in the Northwest,
and good, solid gold medals costing
$40 each are going to be awarded for
the best exhibits
The exposition building Is an i'm
mense structure 200x400 feet, suitably
divided of. The grand music hall is
100000 feet and three stories high,
with an arched glass roof. The build
ing cost $3.50. 900, and it is convenient
" located being within easy walking
distance of the hotels and business
part of the city, or reached from any
part on fve-cent fare on street-cars
that pass its doors.
All the railroad and steamboat lines
are going to make special low rates to
the exposition from all parts Of the
MOI Invest, and the admission fee is
only going to be % cents, children 10
cents. People who attend will remem-
Der 1t as one Of the pleasant events OF
their lives. r.