Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1905-05-25
OPENING OF FAIR.
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yor outiiders, there are the Machinery,
Eipctricity and Transp ,rtation build
irg; the Auditorium, which seats three
housand people; the Museum of Arts,
several manufacturers pavilions, half
ioz restaurants, the state buildings OF
Oregon, Massachusetts, California,
Washington, New York. Idaho, Utah
Colorado, Illinois and Missouri. the pa
,ilion OF Coos county, Oregon, the
Young Women's Christian Association
Building and several smaller structures.
These buildings are on the mainland
Guild's Lake, the Expositons's sur
passing water feature, which includes
l20 acres, IS crossed by a handsome
bridge of staff and wood, built in imita-
non of solid masonry, nearly half a
mile long. The Government buildings,
ave in number, occupy pennsu a
which iuts into the like, and are ac-
cessible bv way OF the bridge or by
various water craft which ply the placid
waters. Twin towers on the main
structure, 26) feet high, pierce the sky
rno. The near end of the bridge is 200
ieet wide, and is called the Trail the
fr end, fifty feet wide. is C led the
Bridge of n ,tion The Trail is the Ex-
POSITIONS amusement street, and it
promises to be hummer. The gaudy,
picturesque tn satres and similar struc-
ture, crowd one another on each side OF
" de avenue, aud spread out at the land
and, where they line the shore OF the
AXE. A broad walk. over the water,
called The Ike Shore EIplanade, >tarte
ia the extreme east of the grounds and
ii oWs the AXE shore. p.i5si z the band
+, nd at the foot If the Grand S airway
which l.. DIS t; Columbia Court, inter.
Sc ting the B il-e Of N atoms at the
place where the I al. ends. and ending
/ ally at the American Inn, in the ex
creme western porti N of the grounds.
Such, rou hly, is the geography oi
she fair. The ara cement Of the bnild-
@,gs, close together yet not crowded, is
{ d nirable, as it makes it possible to see
the fair with ut the long weary miles OF
walking tlat will be remembered SC
sividly BY the visitors to earlier exposi-
lions.
In making the fair a panorama Ct
beautiful things, rather than a catalogue
OF things for sale and things that
"everyone ought to see," the NJ ,nagers
Willingly give Nature more than bali
the credit. Visitors at the Exposition
g. Ii b. incl ned to credit the builders
with rare good taata, and will see in the
finished whole an txpositon OF wo der
tul attractivonels There is about it an
air OF tyanq I'll restfnluess, which SENS
II most iacong uou3 in a busting west
srn litv like Portland.
The main exhibits buildings cllstet
at he crest OF gentle s'ope whic'. |
leads from the lake shore. Gravel |
va ks intefseCt grass plots which sepi-
x'e ihe bull !inrs, and on the hillside
Na vivid green of the grass contrasts
,tligh,fuliy with the pink and red and |
slow f the f7ver beds which lie like
soika-dots on the bosom # the slope |
7he tall towers of the main Government |
are rehecte! pl 4asing'v in the |
!. acid lax, while il the near distance |
les the slverv Willamette, and hall |
sundl ed miles father four sno x.capped |
ountain--Hood, Raner. 81. Helens
md Adams-pierce the skv. To the
eft he east-the 70 thi!ls of the Cas-
,ades, clothed in shrubbery, with an
secession 1Hl tall fir tree, reach down to
he waters edge. In the western pa,t
# the grounds. there are experimental
'ardens in a canyon which separates
he grounds proper from the foothills,
nd on the slope leading to the canyon
re natural woodland has been main
aimed, except that here AMI there a