The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-11
PORTLAND EXPOSITION
 IS A SCENIC WONDER
Samuel c. Blythe in Portland Dispatch to New York World

Samuel G. Blythe in Portland Dispatch
 to New York World.
 T,HERE are two facts that must be
 established before all else in con
 nection with the exposition the people of Portland and Oregon opened on Thursday:
 First-The exposition officially known as the Lewis and Clark exposition was not so named in honor of J. Ham Lewis and Champ Clark.
 Second-Vice-P President Fairbanks sen ators and representatives, governors of states and many other dignitaries as- sembled to add eclat to the occasion, but the greatest tribute was paid by John l.. Sullivan. Mir. Sullivan appeared at o'clock in the morning in his evening clothes and wore them all day, much to the admiration of the multitude and , greatly to the glory and increment of
 the show
 I They have spent some five millions of
 dollars building this fair, and they have
 made the prettiest fair, scenicaly, the 1 country has ever had. It is not large. l One of the buildings at St. Louis would l have held nearly all the buildings here. 1 It is not too ambitious. The object of
 the show is the exploitation of the Pa | ciflc coast, and especially Oregon and l Washington. It is not awe-inspiring. l The buildings are arranged around d
 plaza. They are not glaring white as they were at St. Louis. The Buffalo idea has been followed. There are red and green roofs, with tinted walls and col ored pillars and gables.
 l Still, the buildings are a small part of | the show They must necessarily be like the other buildings at other fairs in their general characteristics. What the Port | land people have done Is to take advan- ] tage of the ever green grass, the trees 1 and shrubs, the flowers, and best of all, ! the sparkling water of the river. They l have made it a landscape of surpassing
 beauty. No spot that could be improved with a touch of green has been neglected. | Even the great water towers have been
 covered with vines and the fences are
 festooned with growing hops In addi-
 ton to the great vines that were grow
 ing on the hllsides when the work of converting the grounds began. hundreds 1 of small trees have been set out It is | fair in a forest surrounded by for ests and looked down upon by the great
 mountains that lay back of the city.
 The lake is the best on the landscape | scene. From the fndl1 tHidHCe Il DIOdu
 plaza skirted by the foreign exhibits and the varied industries buildings, leads
 to the terraces that run down the slope
 to the waters edge. The broad prome-
 made to the government building bisects | the lake. The Trail, which is the Mid
 way of this fair, runs along the shore of the lake and out over the water for a space There are winding gravel paths up the hillsides and thorugh the groves, ! The buildings are well grouped around the plaza The whole effect is beautiful | There has been no attempt at those 1 great groups of staff sculpture that en- cumbered the St. Louis fair. A repro duction of Remingtons cowboys faces the main entrance. There are heroic statues of Lewis and Clark and one or two groups that are typical and emblem attic of the west. Instead of using plaster and whitewash, the men who built this fair have used grass and trees and flow CTS. and they have made scene that. if compared with the artificial and absurd cascades and their surrounding buildings at the St Louis fair. would make that attempt at creating beauty look lame indeed.
 The most notable structure Is the For estry building It is made of gray cedar and fire logs, with the bark or1' and is