Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1905-05-25
OPENING OF FAIR.
Everything at Exposition Now
Complete

The Lewis and Clark Exposition a
Portland will open next Thursday morn
ing at eight O'Clock. At noon the pres
ident's signal, flashed from Washington
will set in motion the chimes in the tow
ers of the United States Goyermen
Building, and the pealed strains o
| "America" will declare to the world
that the Western Worlds Fair ls for
mally opened.
The Fair might have opened las
week and been more nearly ready thar
other fairs have been on opening day
and when the gates are thrown open on
Thursday, there will be a sense OF COM
pleteness about the enterprise which
will gladden. the hearts of the Oregoni.
ans who have stood by the project with
money and good cheer. and who have
very great hopes for it's success.
The exposition takes it name from
two hardy explorers, Captains Meri-
wether Lewis and William Clark, who,
with. little band of followers. pierced
the wilderness hundred years ago and
discovered an overland route to the
Pacific Ocean, hereby adding by right of
discovery and exploration territory of
307, 900 sqnare miles of holdings of the
United States on the American CONT.
nent. The event is certainly worthy of
gu table mmemoration by a centennial
exposition, and a fair worthy of the
ev Mt. While smaller than the expos-
tions at Chicago and St. Louis, this ex.
position is by great odds the biggest
thing ever attempted in the Pacific West,
md there arc many things about it
which make it we'll worth transcontl-
mental trip. Its worlds aspect is secur-
ed by participation by many foreign
countries, while state participation is
extensive, and the United States Gov
ernment has display of buildings which
an expenditure of 100000
The Fair has cost $5,OOO,OOO so far,
and its exhibit palaces contain displays
worth five times as much.
On alighting from street car, one
wa k along short street where the
sandwich man, and the ice cream man,
with the vendors of peanuts and fruit,
clamor for nckles. At the entrance one
encounters the familiar turnstiles, and
within is the Administration building.
it. window stills lined with telephones
and stenographers, who peer around at
the crowd. without ceasng the monot-
onous clickety.clck, which is waited |
out upon the mild spring air.
Connecting the Administration, which |
tanks the left, and the Fire Department
It the right, q stately colonnade With
parapet bears the convinc
ng legend. Westward the Course OF
Empire Takes Its Way" 1t was IN
ended originally that the entrance
,ates should be between pillars of this
ol ,nnsde, but the FAIR outgrew the
,lans.
Beyond the Colonnade, the Exposi.
ion sire tches out to the right and left
nd forward, but the principal build
ngs stand close together, like six
orse team, facing a lake which lies
erhaps q quarter OF a mile beyond the
A court. called Columbia
'ourt, forms the central feature, corre-
ponding to the wagon tongue. except
nat it is far more slightly, for the court
ontains two beautiful sunken gardens,
nd some really creditable statuarv.
10 either side of the court are the big
uildings-European Exhibits. Oriental
xhibits, and Forestry to the left, and -,
griculture, Varisd Industries and ,
lines and Metallurgy to the right