Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-11-23
FOR WORLDS FAIR
WASHINGTON STATE EXHIBIT NOW
BEING ASSEMBLED.
Many of Them Are Already Com
pIete--Counties and Sections Pre-
pairing Separate State
Building to BE Completed Early
In January.

Tacoma, Nov. 19.-Elmer f.. john
ston, executive commissioner OF the
worlds fair, was in the city last even
ing on his way to Vancouver and coun.
ties of Southwestern Washington. He
ie now getting together the forestry ex-
hibit for the exposition and some of the
best portions OF this exhibit will be
contributed by the southwestern coun.
ties. In long interview Mr.. John
ston stated that thu agricultural and
horticultural exhibits of the state are
practically complete.
Seventy per cent OF the mining ex-
hibit is already put together. The
commercial and manufacturing ex-
hibits of the state are collected, and
the fisheries exhibit is collected up to
date. The fish running in the waters
of the state between now and the open
ing of the exposition remain to be
caught and preserved. All of the ex-
hibits collected are stored in different
portions of the state, with the excep-
tion of one carload of fruit, which has
been shipped to St. Louis. and is in
cold storage there.
Mr.. Johnston has received notihca-
ton from Contractor Farmer that the
Washington building at st. Louis will
be completed by January I. The ex-
hibits, however, will not begin rolling
towards St. Louis until along in March.
The exposition does not open until May
/, which gives ample time and the op-
ton of allowing the cold, wintry wealth
or to diseipate before running any
risks of exposing exhibits.
The counties of the state. according
to Mr.. johnson, are taking up the mat
ter of individual or sectional exhibits
with will. King county, Whatcom,
Chelan, Yakima and Snohomish will
each be represented by comprehensive
exhibits of the resources peculiar to
their sections. The Inland Empire has
devoted $l4,0 for an exhibit from
that quarter of the state A marble
staircase will be constructed with :por-
ton of the money, and the rest expend-
ed in grouping the East side resources
around this staircase. The $4,000
which King county has set aside for an
exhibit lie exdected to make very
creditable and elaborate showing of the
resources of Seattle and vicinity.
What the southwestern counties will
do toward individual exhibits has not
yet been definitely determined, and
Mr.. Johnston will probably collect data
on this subject during his present trip.
Mr.. johnson says there will be space
in the building for each county of the
state to make special exhibits, and he
is waiting for them t. come forward
with them. The classified exhibit,
which Mr. Johnston is collecting. and
which will be placed in competition
with the exhibits from other states and
from the different nations of the world,
in the main building, built by the
Worlds Fair Company, viii! be the
most representative ever taken ont Of
the state for exhibit purposes. The
season has been unusually propitious
for the work of collecting an exhibit,
and the fullest advantage has been tai
en- OF natures partially.
Every advertising opportunity this
state has ever had,' said Mr.. Johns.
ton "pales into insignificance before
the chances we have at this. the great
est exposition of this or any other age.
We have the advantage OF placing our
exhibits where all the world will pass
to and fro to inspect them. l am glad
to see that many of the counties of the
state are alive to this fact, and are
making strong efforts in preparing for
good exhibits, and are also preparing
to maintain local representatives. at
the Washington building to do what
the representatives of the state in
charge of the classified exhibits in the
main buildings cannot do"
Notehing has yet been done by Pierce
county towards a county exhibit at the
St. Louis fair. The chamber Of com.
merce has announced meeting for Fri
day afternoon, when lhe matter will b.
considered Expressions by prominent
business men indicate that Tacoma and
the county at large will be better rep
resented than at any OF the previous
fairs of national character.