The river press., 1904-12-07
LEWIS And CLARK FAIR
Features of Exposition to Be
Held at Portland, Ore.
SUPERB SITE FOR THE BUILDINGS

William e. Curtis Says They Will BE
Erected On Hills-The View Almost
| Without Parallel For Beauty and
| Grandeur-Ten Exhibit Buildings to
| Be Erected-''The Pike" a '.Bridge
Of Pleasure"
The Lewis and Clark exposition, cele-
| brating the only acquisition of territory
by the United States through discoy-
cry, will open at Portland, Ore, on
June /, 1905, writes William E. Cur
| tbs, the Chicago Record Herald's spe-
cial correspondent at Washington.
Compared with the st. Louis fair
Portland will be a miniature, but it
will equal those Of Buffalo, Omaha,
Nashville, Atlanta and Charleston. 1t
| Is to be million dollar exposition.
Five hundred thousand dollars has
been contributed by the state and
$500,00O by citizens Of Portland Of
every class and quality. There are
more than 5000 stockholders. Half a
million will be spent in buildings,
about $350,O0O in the improvement Of
! the grounds, and the remainder will
| be working capital.
The site Of the exposition is about
two miles from the city-twelye min-
utes by trolley cars from the center
| of things. The fence incloses 1876
acres Of land and $50 acres Of water
lake with an island which furnishes
| key Of the landscape scheme. Sur
rounding the lake is a group Of low
hills, the foothills of the mountain
range tllit embraces Portland, and
upon them the buildings will be placed.
! 1t is superb location. The view
| from any part Of the grounds is the
| same as that from the Mountain park
| of Portland, almost without a parallel
| for beauty and grandeur. Nine snow
| capped peaks bound the horizon.
The Olmstead Bros. Of Boston laid
out the grounds and allotted fifty acres
| for buildings, twenty acres for conces-
| sions ten acres for Il sample farm un-
! der the management Of the Oregon Ag-
! ricultural college, sixty acres for the
live stock show and sixty acres upon
| the island in the lake for Indian vii
| lagos and amusement grounds, wild
| west shows, war dances, Indian sports,
| cattle roping, broncho riding, cowboy
races and other features of outdoor life
peculiar to the plains and mountains of
the United States. Another exhibit
from the Philippines similar to that at
st. Louis will be made there. The $50
acres Of water furnish ample opportu-
| nifty and material for carniyals, regat-
tas and other aquatic sports, and the
| electrical experts are now engaged in
| planning elaborate and novel illuri-
| nations. They propose to surpass those
at Buffalo and st. Louis. They think
they have material and environment
surprising that Of either city,
| Portland is called the Rose City, and
| you would know why if you could take
! only Il short walk through it's beauti-
| full streets. The exposition grounds are
| to demonstrate the claim to that title,
| for 5000 rose bushes have already been
planted, and many more will be. There
are 400 different varieties of trees and
600 varieties Of shrubs on the grounds,
| and annexed to them will be a garden
| where all the staples OF tie state will
| be growing side by side. The land
scape scheme has been SO arranged
| that it can be overlooked from a ter
| raced hillside
Ten exhibit buildings are being erect
| ed, as follows:
| Liberal Arts, 100 by $50 feet in size;
| Foreign Exhibits, 220 by $50 feet; Agricul-
ture, zoo by $50 feet; States building, 200
by 450 feet, allotted to the exhibits Of the
several states; Mining building, 100 by $50
feet; Electricity and Machinery, 200 by $50
feet; Forestry building, 2OG by 1O2 feot,
which will be constructed of rough logs
of tremendous size in order to show the
| giant timber of Oregon. Four tinbecs.
each 10 feet long are set on end to make
a DOME and the Intel of the main en-
trance will be q log thirty feet long and
nine feet In diameter. The Horticultural
building will hc constructed Of similar
material, colossal logs flfty-four feet in
length and five and six feet in diameter
being used.
The United States government will have
building similar to that at St. Louis.
now being erected at cost Of "a quarter
Of a million dollars and 1t will shelter
practically the same exhibit that has ex-
cited SO much interest and inquiry there.
A fraternity temple will furnish head
quarters for the members of the secret
and benevolent societies of the country
and a meeting place for congresses and
conventions that will be held In Portland
next summer, they were held in St
Louis this year.
Public ceremonies will be held in
Festival hall, 395 by 125 feet in size,
with a stage seventy-1ive feet square
and a seating capacity of 1000. The
only permanent building, 94 by 1G9
feet in size. viii BE erected Of firoproof
material as |; library for the State His
, torical society and will be known as
the Lewis and Clark Memorial hall.
The buildings are all Of the Spanish
renaissance, iar!uolI;ou5 in design
The Midway plaisance, Or "the Pike"
at Portland, will be the ''Bridge of
Pleasurc,' low viaduct Of brick arch
es LOGO feet long and 50 feet vide
which will extend from the mainland
across the lake to the island One
side Of II will he omen fO tha In ka nc q