The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-10-15
1jdg Sum Of $500 Raised h
Seattle.
INsuREs ALAsn-rukoA EXPOSITION
Department JUST
COMPLETES COMPILING HUN.
DRIED OF SUBSCRIPTIONS.

SEATTLE, Oct. 15.-There is $780,
900 in the treasury Of the Alaska
Yukon Pacific exposition, and the fair
is nearly three years away. If more
money is needed, there will be plenty
available.
The $65O,000 was raised by citizens
Of Seattle in one day, October 2, and
the accounting department has just
completed figuring out the total. Oc-
tober was made a legal holiday in
Seattle, by order of the mayor, and it
was great day.
Will H. Parry, chairman of the ways
and means committee Of the EXPOSE
ton, was held responsible for the rails
ing of the money. Everybody Helps"
said Mr.. Parry, and in the two words,
adopted as slogan, were emblazoned
on street cars, automobiles and de-
livery wagons, in shop windows and
wherever people gathered. Mr.. Parry
labored hard and his we'll directed staff
were the principal helpers.
Wants a Half Million.
Mr.. Parry set out to raise half
million dollars and the total was a
quarter more. The people would have
bought million dollars worth Of stock
if it had been necessary.
Never before has a city as a unit
come forward so spontaneously and
generously for similar enterprise.
The wage-earner stood shoulder to
shoulder with the capitalist in buying
stock. Although subscription commit
tees canvassed the city, a majority of
the subscriptions were brought vol
unfairly to the exposition headquarters.
1t is already apparent that the fair
of 1909 is to be big show, bigger than
that given last year by Portland. or to
be given next year in Jamestown. The
state Of Washington probably will be
called upon to appropriate 100000 to
the enterprise, and the legislature is
expected to vote this amount If the
fair management thinks it necessary.
The republican and democratic state
conventions recently held made expo
sition appropriation clauses important
planks in their platforms.
Fair Grounds Selected.
The fair site has already been chos-
en-, slightly tract of 355 acres COM
posing the grounds of the Washington
State University. Situated pictur-
esqueTy on the shore Of Lake Washing
ton, within twenty minutes ride of the
city, the location could not be improved
upon. When the fair is over, most of
the buildings will be converted into
recreation halls and dormitories. Ear
lier fairs have found their stately pal
aces worthless after they had served
the purpose for which they were con-
structed.
The exposition is to be held primari-
ly for the purpose of attracting the peo-
pie of the east and middle-west to the
Queen City, And when the thousands
arrive, they will be shown the marvel
GUS natural advantages of the Pacific
northwest and Alaska and the Yukon
country, and the surprising possibili-
ties Of increased trade with the Orient.
Interest in the country it was held to
exploit, rather than in the fair itself,
brought $4,000 people from the east
and middle west to Portland last year,
and the attendance beyond the Rocky
mountains at Seattle's fair is sure to
be much greater
Major II S. Clarkson, an expositionist
of large experience is now touring the
middle-west in the interest of the fair.
Every state visited by him has signi
fed its intention Of participating.