Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-19
FLOOD OF GOLD
 FOR THE FAIR
Seattle Raises $650.OOO for Alaska. YukOn-Pacific Exposition in
 One Day.

Seattle, Oct 1S.-There is $650,000 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,O00 was raised by citizens of Seattle in one day, October ?, and the accounting department has just completed figuring out the total October } was made legal holiday in Seattle, by order of the mayor, and it was a great day.
 Will H. Parry chairman of the ways and means committee of the exposition, was held responsible for the raising of the money. Every body helps said MT. Parry, and the two words, adopted as slogan, were emblazoned in crimson letters on the dead walls, on street cars, automo- piles and delivery wagons, in shop windows and wherever people gather ed. Mir. Parry labored hard and his 'well-directed staff were the principal helpers.
 MT. Parry set out to raise half a 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 unit come forward so spontaneously and generously for a similar enterprise. The Wage-earner stood shoulder to shoulder with the capitalist in buying stock. Although subscription committees canvassed the city, a majority of the subscriptions were brought voluntarily to the ex- position headquarters.
 It 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 James town. The state of Washington probably will be called upon to ap- propriate $1,0o0,000 to the enterprise, and the legislature is expected to vote this amount if the fair manage ment thinks it necessary. The Re publican and Democratic state con- ventions recently held made exposi- ton appropriation clauses important blanks in their platforms.
 The fair site has already been chos- en- slightly tract of 355 acres, con- posing the grounds of the University of Washington. Situated pictures quely 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 convert ed into recitation halls and dormito- res. Earlier fairs have found their stately palaces worthless after they had served the purpose for which they were constructed,
 The exposition is to be held prl- marily for the purpose of attracting | lne DeOple Ol tue east ana middle WeSt to the Queen City. And when the thousands arrive they will be shown the marvellous natural advantages of the Pacific northwest and Alaska and the Yukon country, and the surprising l possibilities of increased trade with the Orient Interest in the country it was held to exploit, rather than in the fail itself, brought l2o,000 people from the east and middle west to Portland last year, and the attendance from beyond the Rock Mountains 10 Seattles fail is sure to be much greater
 Major T. s. Clarkson, an exposition ist of large experience, is now touring the middle west in the interest of the fair Every state visited by him has signfied it's intention of participating