Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-08
SeattIe's Coming Exposition.

It's Onclal name Is TO De the Alaska
Yukon Pacific exposition. but for every
day purposes it will be known as the
Seattle exposition. and there is every
prospect that when it is held in 1909 it
will be the success that is to be ex-
pected of anything undertaken by the
great and hustling Northwest. There
are so many expositions being held and
projected in these times that it is hard
to keep track of them all. They are
held upon the slightest historical or in
dustrial excuse, or without any such
excuse at all. The exposition at Seat
tie will not celebrate any particular
event but, according to it's promoters,
its primary purpose is to exploit the
resources and potentialities Of the
Alaska and Yukon territories in the
United States and the Dominion of
Canada, and to make known and fos-
ter the vast Importance of the trade of
the Pacific ocean and Of the countries
bordering upon it,
incidentally, it is expected TO give
booming history. From the record of
growth it is making Seattle does not
appear to need any greater stimulus to
growth than it already possesses.
Where it had a population of $4,000 in
1900, it has now passed the 100000 mark
and any Seattle man will bet you his
last dollar that it will be over $50, 900 in
1910. But the more boom it has the
more it wants-hence the exposition.
The spirit in which the city is going at
it is indicated by the fact that when a
local committee started out to raise
$500 900 it gathered in s65O,OOO in a
single day and this sum is in the
treasury of the exposition company as
q starter. The state of Washington
will add 100000 more and Oregon
$3.50, 200. No help will be asked from
the national government-this is a
welcome variation of the usual EXPOSE
ton OVERWHELMINGLY llistt II VIII NC
asked to participate as an exhibitor,
and this it will doubtless do with
pleasure.
The exposition will represent an ex-
penditure of approximately $lO,OOO,OOO,
when the gates are opened on June l.
1909, and all the lands bordering on the
Pacific are expected to participate. 1t
will occupy $50 acres of the campus of
tho University of Washington, adjoin-
ing one of the many beautiful residence
districts of Seattle, on the gentle slopes
and terraces overlooking Puget Sound,
Lake Washington and Lake Union.
The lakes are natural fresh water
bodies, Washington having an area OF
3S,a square miles, and Union an area
of 1-3 square miles. They are sep
arated from Puget Sound by the land
upon which Seattle stands, and will,
by the time the exposition opens, be
connected with the salt water by ship
canal, now under construction. Inc
grounds are 20 minutes ride by electric
car from the business center of the
city.
The exposition company is fortunate
in the representative whom it has sent
to the East to interest the states OF
this section in the matter. He Is Prot.
+. s. Meany of the University OF
Washington. one of the best known
and best beloved men in all the North
west, not only in educational matters
but in all that pertains to the up
building of that great region. lie Is
the leading authority on the native
races of America and on the history of
the Northwest and his books in TINS
field Of research have won him recog-
milton in Europe as we'll as IN TINS
country. Prof. Meany was in Au-
cus,a this week and while he pressed
no appeal for an appropriation by the
present Legislature he made many
friends for the project and inspired in
all he met an ambition to visit Seattle
in 1909. At present there is the call
OF the jamestown exposition to be held
during the coming summer, and Seat
tie car be attended to by the next
LEGISLATURE if Maine deems it wise to
ioin the other eastern states in being
represented there.
Surprising Geography.