The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-06-15
SEE ST, LOUIS
VERY EASILY
THE STARS ART PORTFOLIOS
WILL GIVE THE BEST IDEA OF
THE GREAT EXPOSITION.

Those who have not visited the Louisi-
ana Purchase Exposition, which opened
April 30th at st. Louis, may perhaps
wonder how so great a sum as eighty
millions Of dollars could be spent in
developing the idea and carrying out
it's details.
Those however who stand at some
point of vantage and look over the ire
mendous sweep of stately palaces, gid
ed dOmes minarets, vistas, plazas, la
goons and waterways those who enter
these buildings and note the marvellous
diversity of the exhibits there display
ed; those who note the wonderful scope
covered in the departments devoted TO
science discovery and invention; those
who gaze with interest upon the diver
sfed assemblage of humankind,
brought from all quarters OF the globe
to eXemplify the types, costumes and
occupations of the worlds people; those
who thus observe and fully appreciate
the marvellous comprehensiveness of the
enterprise, will be able to understand
that the large sum of money before
mentioned has not been an extrava-
CANT expenditure.
The observer will also become fully
sensible of the fact that it win be alb
| solutely impossible for any one mind,
however keen and receptive to note
and retain even a small portion of all
that is to be seen at this stupendous
/ Exposition.
| A great man once said that available
| knowledge did not consist so much in
actually knowing things as in knowing
just where to find them and therein
/ lies the value of works of reference
which are so useful along educational
/ lines.
/ AS far as this Great Worlds Fair is
concerned those will be most fortunate
| who are successful in fixing in their
minds even the great salient features
of the spectacle.
The exposition authorities, early in
the enterprise, were deeply sensible of
the fact that the beautiful and i'm
| pressive scenes must soon vanish. and
that the interest and instruction ex-
hibts gathered together with so much
care and at so great an expense. from
! the uttermost parts of the earth, must
| be scattered, never again to be as
| Sembled.
! They, therefore, took the best possi-
bic precaution by turning at the very
I inception Of the Fair to the wonderful
art of photography thus enabling them
to preserve a permanent record Of all
that is best and most worthy OF re-
membrane,
Ever since ground was first broken
a busy corps of expert photographers
mas been recording the changing scenes
and noting additions, improvements
and progress, as the work went on.
Manythousand of negatives have how
been made, and many most admirable
and striking photographs have beer
secured. The best results so far at.
tanned and the best secured during the
life of the Exposition are to be re-
produced in the magnificent publication
aptly styled, The Forest city Art
Portfolios" The work is to be ISSUED
in thirty weekly parts, covering every
feature of the fair.
As before stated, the Star has beeI
fortunate in securing the excIusiv,
right of distribution in this territory
and our readers may be well assure,
, that the work will constitute beauti
tul and permanent record for presen
instruction and entertainment and T.,
future preservation. The first portfoli
consisting of sixteen views, will h
ready next Saturday. Everyone VIII
wants to gain an idea of how the Fai
: looked during the progress of constru,
ZION and what happened at the dedica
tlon and since, should send in nronntI
for this first issue.
These superb reproductions. wbic
VIII constitute a complete reflex an
record Of the Exposition are nor al,
ulDuleu by the Star as a matter of mr.,
mt, but rather to please its readers an
TO furnish instruction, education an
inspiration, especially to the Young
NIlhOuSh the regular price of eoc
Portfolio is % cents the Star Mac,
the entire series within the reach ,
every reader at only ten cents for ea,.
part to cover cost of wrapping. mai
lnE addressing, etc.
simply cut out the little counon +
De found in the announcement nrint,
IN page two of today's Star ana son
same with ten cents, and the FIRST issu
VIII be mailed to you Saturday Send il
each week for the then current port
ioio and you will be kent in clos
touch with the mighty Exposition al
'housh you may not be able IN visi