The Saint Paul globe., 1905-04-16
ORIGINALLY
OF THE
PORTLAND FAIR

attended the Chicago fair went with
determination to admire it and to brag
afterwards about having seen it. It
was as novel and delightful as tooth
ing ring is to a cross baby. The fairs
since Chicago's have suffered by COM
parison with it. At Chicago the mil
lions marVeled at a statue that was pre-
sumed to have been made of solid sill
yer. Show a man who has seen the
Chicago worlds fair a real, genuine,
''sure enough silver statue in place of
the false one exhibited there and nine
times out of ten he would sniff and
say, cav, [ saw it at Chicago" And
since Chicago there have been Buffalo.
Omaha, San Francisco, Charleston,
Atlanta and st. Louis, and now there
will be Portland
The Lewis and Clark exposition will
be in some ways like previous worlds
fairs. This is inevitable There will
De exhibits from states and from for
elgn governments, housed in buildings
OF wood and staff, and there will be
displays by manufacturers and other
things everyone knows about includ-
Ing very noisy, very popular amuse-
ment street, which, in this instance,
Will be called the trail. But the ex-
hlbits will be live exhibits, intended to
show processes of manufacture rather
than mere collections of finished prod
ucts, and the buildings, while still for
an individuality of architecture that
distinguishes them from the palaces of
previous fairs, while the amusement
street will have new setting, entirely
original and unique, and there will be
new shows to see, better shows for the
same money than those at earlier ex-
positions.
But, laying aside these considera-
tions, the exposition will offer many
attractions not possible at earlier ex-
positions. These attractions will be so
different as to place the exposition in
a class distinctly by itself They will
make the western worlds fair, which
cannot compare in size with the
worlds fairs held at Chicago or ST
Louis, more attractive to most people
In many ways than were these earlier
gigantic enterprises.
The fame of the Lewis and Clark ex-
POSITIONS forestry building has spread
as far as the fame of the exposition.
Lawrence DOrsay, the great English
actor who visited the exposition the
other day, confessed to an ignorance
OF the nature of the fair, but had heard
much of the forestry building. The
building is at once an exhibit palace
and an exhibit.
Built of huge logs cut in the Oregon
forests, the structure is typical of the
forest wealth of the PACIFIC northwest
The forestry building is 209 feet long
Dy 1U0 WIue, large enough 10 cover naIf
city block, and is extreme height is
rs feet. The building, while construct
ed entirely of the raw products of the
forest, is an architectural triumph. It's
immense solidity is in keeping with
its nature, while its location on the
edge of the grounds, with the virgin
woodland of the foothills as a back
ground is most appropriate.
Only a reduction of the description
to the hard reality of figures and facts
can impress one with the bignesS of
the structure. In its construction two
miles of five and six foot logs, eight
miles of poles and tons of shakes and
cedar shingles were used. One of the
monster logs, no larger than many 9TH
ers, was found to weigh 80 tons. If
one of the base logs, 50 feet long by
feet through, were cut into standard
size flooring, the flooring boards, placed
end to end, would reach over thirteen
miles. To figure it another way, one
of these logs contains enough lumber to
build one story cottage, 40X40 feet
in size, with a fence around it, and
board walk to lead up to it; and
then there would be enough wood left
to kindle the fire in the CRATE for many
months.
While in a general way the building
looks like mammoth log house, the
details of the structure distinguish it
and give it a stateliness of appearance
In keeping with the general archi-
tectural excellence of the other expo
sition palaces. The upper half of the
building is constructed of cedar bark
shingles, laid eighteen inches to the
weather; the ends are gabled, and two
balconies are set into the ends, one
above the other.
Every great exposition has had some
sort of a water feature, generally arti-
ficially produced at great cost. In
closed within the Lewis and Clark ex-
position fence is natural body of
water, 220 acres in extent called
Guilds lake. Guilds lake is by far the
largest body of water ever situated on
an exposition site, and the circum-
stance has made possible feats in land
scape gardening not possible at earlier
fairs.
The principal exposition palaces nes-
tie among the trees at the crest of a
slight elevation, overlooking the lake,
and the sloping lawns leading down to
the water have been terraced and made
beautiful by artistically laid out flower
beds. Across the lake from the MAIN
land, on a peninsula which to the eye
appears to be verdure covered island,
are situated the United States govern
ments buildings, magnificent struc-
lures characteristic of Uncle Sans
generous participation in worlds fairs
From the peninsula or the mainland
the view is equally entrancing. The
water features will be made the most
of at the Lewis and Clark exposition
Here for the first time people may ride
in seductive gondola, picturesque
Indian canoe, or a comfortable electric
launch, on a real lake. The tour Of
the shore will embrace two miles of
riding.
Another unique feature of the west
ern worlds fair will be the lake shore
esplanade, a board walk over half a
mile long, which differs from other
board walks in that it is built over
the water, on piles, like bridge The
lake shore esplanade follows the shore
of Guilds lake from the boat landing
at the foot of the grand stairway to
the American inn, in the extreme west
ern portion of the grounds 1t will be
the most popular promenade both day
and night.
Guilds lake is spanned by the bridge
OF nations, an ornate structure of wood
and staff built in imitation of solid
masonry, which Is more than two
thousand feet long-the longest bridge
of it's kind ever constructed
The trail, which is the name given
the amusement street of the western
worlds fair, has a location entirely
unique, one not possible at earlier ex-
positions. It is located on the land
ward end of the bridge of nations,
which, for distance Of 500 feet is con-
rrt.