The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-12-01
ALASKA PEOPLE ARE
TO HAVE EXPOSITION
Great Preparations are Being
Made for Elaborate Fair in
Yukon Country.
Plans for Grounds are Being Laid
Out and People There Ex-
pect Large Attendance.
Special Correspondence.

OPSNAa1
SEATTLE, Nov. 29.-At the pre-
sent time much interest is. conferred
here in the work Of creating the AL
aska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition, which
Will be held in 1909, opening June l
and closing October u.s.
Although three years remain before
the fair will be opened to the public.
the management is hard at work per-
fecting and carrying out plans to
make the enterprise worthy of the
purposes 1t will accomplish.
Beginning with the idea of making
the new western worlds fair original
In every possible way the manage
ment has succeeded admirably up to
the present time, and if the financing
Of it, which broke all exposition re-
cords, can be taken as "a criterion of
the manner the plans already out
lined will be carried out, there is no
room for doubt as to the originality
that will characterize the 1909 fair.
On October 2, last, five monthe af-
ter the incorporation Of the exposition
company, which was effected Nav 7,
the people of Seattle were called upon
to finance the enterprise by subscribe
ing In one day to its capital stock of
$5oO,OOO. In a generous and public
spirited manner they over-subscribed
to the extent Of $150,0O0. No other
such a feat. Seattle spirit" for
which the people Of the Queen City
are noted, was responsible for, this re-
markable achievement More than
a half million dollars in one day is a
10 - :,
in a city Of 100000 inhabitants. The
slogan adopted by Will H. Parry,
chairman of the ways and means COM
mittee was, Everybody Helps and
everybody did help with the result
that an average Of more than SO was
subscribed for every man, woman and
child in the city.
AS soon as the capital stock had
been subscribed, John C. Olmsted, the
noted landscape artist of Brookline,
Massachusetts, who laid out the Chi
cago and Portland expositions, was
called to Seattle and he is now busily
engaged in designing the grounds and
arranging the buildings. He has pro-
NOunced the site as, scenically the fin
est ever utilized for such a purpose.
alton, is now busily engaged in maxi
arrangements for the states to part
cipate. He has Major r. S.. Garrison
special commissioner, in the field
visiting the governors of all the COM
monwealths. So far Major Clarkson
has men with unprecedented success
Every governor he has talked with has
signit1ed his intention of Recommend
ing liberal appropriation for a build.
ing and exhibit. Mr. Reed is also
carrying on an extensive campaign to
secure the 1909 meetings Of national
conventions.
The executive committee of the ex-
position has appropriated 100000 fol-
the live stock show, which will be on
an extensive scale, and from present
indications promises to be the most
successful ever held.
The management is receiving letters
from all over the country endorsing
the object of the exposition, and
pledging support from different local
tiles. ~,
The primary purpose of the fair is
to exploit the resources and poten-
tialities Of Alaska, Yukon and the Pa
sif1s Northwest, and to make known
and foster the vast Importance of the
trade OF the Pacific Ocean and of the
countries bordering, upon it. Differ
ent from other fairs, the Alaska Yu-
kon- Pacifi Exposition will not cele:
brate any particular event. The
awakening Of the Pacific, the wonder.
full achievement IN all lines of effor
i. = =
thereon. and the important; role the
commerce Of the great ocean plays II
that part of the world, are the mos
noteworthy things the fair will
celebrate. It will be q great interna
tional exposition. Historical senti.
ment will not be depended upon tt
arouse interest and induce -participa.