Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-27
BOOST FOR THE NORTHLAND

City of Seattle Plans to Hold Great I International Exposition in 1908.
 Seattle, Oct 27.-Alaska, neglected except by fortune hunters since it's discovery by Vitus Boring 165 years ago, Is at last come into its own. It IS to have advertising such as no sec ton ever enjoyed before; its name stands first of three in the three deck cognomen of the next great worlds fair of the Pacific Northwest, the Alaskan Yukon, Pacific exposition, | 1909. l Nearly three years before the open- ing or the exposition, the citizens of seattle distinguished themselves by raising In single day the greatest sum ever secured for any enterprise The falr management wanted S3GO,- ooo and Will H. Parry chairman of the ways and means committee, set about to secure it. The end of the day. October ?, showed S65O,O in the exposition company's coffers. The people would have subscribed mil lion if they had been asked to do so.
 The fair is already being exploited as S1O,OO0000 show, and the figure probably is none too large They do things in the far west on scale of 1 blgnesS not dreamed of in the east Seattle's 100000 people gave to the fair project $350 apiece. It was a glorious achievement, but it is already almost forgotten. Three dollars and 1 fifty cents in Seattle and three dollars l and fifty cents in an eastern city of the same size are quite different amounts.
 Now the legislature of the state of l Washington is sure to make gener- ous contribution, probably million dollars, equal to more than dollar i for every man, woman and child within the boundaries of the state The neighboring western states, which profited by the successful ex- l position held in Portland in 1905, are certain to make even bigger showings in 1909. Major T. s. Clarkson, on e,S positiOnist of wide experience, is even now touring the east and middle west to feel the public pulse. He has met encouragement at every side, and i the assurance in every state he has ! visited that the state would erect q building and make display.
 The national government. always a l generous patron of expoSitions, will l hn sl, aI lsln t. hn1, ,In 1 the fair of 1909 and is certain to make a big appropriation. Men prominent in national affairs, from President Roosevelt down, have expressed their appreciation of the educational value of exposltions as broadeners of public knowledge, and the proposition to take the western enterprise under 1 the nations wing is sure of enthu- siastic support from nearly every | quarter.
 The exposition has advanced through the periods of financing and choosing of location, and has entered upon that of construction. The site selected is slightly tract of 355 acres composing the grounds of the Univer- sity of Washington. John c. Olmsted, a landscape architect of national rep utation, has laid out the walks and drives and planned the location of the principal exhibit palaces, and work under his direction has already been begun. The time will he none too long to complete the elaborate scheme for decoration laid out by the archi- tect.
 A factor which had largely to do th, en1antfnn nf tho rnIlnUn pus for the fair was the circum- stances that after the exposition majority of the buildings might be used for recitation halls and dormi- tories admired during their hey-da were worthless after the gates had closed ou the last day. and Seattle profited by this knowledge. The states of the east and middle-west. some of which are tired of tempor- ary exploitation, welcome the oppor- dunity to erect monument Of per manent Importance.
 While the Alaska -Yukon-Pacific exposition, as its name suggests will aim primarily to tell the world what there is to see and to dig from the | ground in Alaska. it will have as a secondary object of prime signifi-
  canoe the bringing of the two shores of the Pacific together in trade. That | this may be accomplished through an interchange of intelligible exhibits | seems reasonably certain. Asia and | Oceanica support a population ten | times that of the United States. This vast throng of nearly billion people | uses comparatively little of Ameri- | can wares. and its vast products are comparatively unknown in the Ini- ted States. Promotion of an inter- change of products will be in some respects the most important accom- plishment of the 1909 fair.
 And besides these objects cnumer- ated the show will advertise It's own neighborhocd. the Pacific northwest, and the city of Seattle, which depend upon one another for their mutual prnsperity. Seattle is the gateway to the world of 2oo000.ooOoo feet Of humber. and of vast agricultural and