The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-18
EDITOR Of NOME
PAPER At FAIR
w. A. Steele, one of the Most
Interesting Newspaper
Men in the World.

jamestown Exposition, June 18th
Representing newspaper interests
farthest distant from the scene Of the
convention VIII a. Steel, Of Nome.
Alaska and Seattle, is at the James
town exposition attending the annual
gathering Of the National Editorial
Association OF which he is the treasur-
err Mr.. Steel travelled thousands OF
miles to the jamestown exposition ana
his newspaper property Is located
couple Of thousand miles beyond MS
starting point. He came direct from
Seattle where officers for the Nome
News are maintained the year around
TO care for business accommodating dur
ing the six months q each year when
the ice OF Behring Sea shuts in the
great gold camp OF the North and com
nunication except by telegraph and
infrequent malls, is suspended.
Mr.. steel is a regular attendant at
gatherings OF the National Editorial
Association and unique figure in its
deliberations. Not so many years ago
he began newspaper work as a report
er in the anthracite regions OF Penn
sylvania Going to the Pacific Coast
he was identified with Seattle news
papers until the discovery of gold in
the Klondike attracted his activities
to Dawson City. Here he established the
first newspaper having surmounted the
tremendous difficulties of those early
days in transportating a printing plant
over the sea and snow-clad mountain
passes and down the river to the new
camp.
The Dawson News was sold, at Klon-
dixie prices, at the very height of Klon-
dike's prosperity and notoriety. Mr..
Steel and his brother. Harry G. Steel,
who has always been his business as
sociate went on down the Yukon to it's
mouth and located at Nome, whose
golden beach was the second mighty
magnet Of the North. The Nome News
began publication as soon as the equip
ment could be brought from Seattle 1t
has since been the principal newspaper
of western Alaska, and now that gov
eminent cable, land wires and wireless
system give direct communication with
Seattle, publishes daily the gist of the
worlds news
Aside from his newspaper interests
Mr. steel is an exposition enthusiast.
He has attended all the great fairs of
recent years and was Seattle's com
missioner at the Lewis and Clark Ex-
position in Portland.
Nothing that / have seen has equal
led the attractiveness of Jamestown"
he declared. The natural advantages
of the location surpass those of any
exposition ever held in this country.
The grounds are charmingly arranged,
the buildings are distinctive and the ex-
hibits and features excellent There
is every reason to expect a splendid
attendance throughout the year.
Undoubtedly many Alaskans will Wis
It Jamestown during the season. Those
who wintered in the north will be com
ing out within the next few weeks
and those going in for the summer
work will be out early in the fall.
Thousands of both classes viii come
eastward and few OF these are likely
to overlook such an attraction as is
offered here.
The people of Alaska and the Pa
cifc coast generally are intensely in
terested in the Alaska Y ukon- Pacific
exposition to be held in Seattle in 1909.
They will visit jamestown TO study
conditions and methods here and to
profit by the experience of others in
making their own big fair a world wide
success You cannot find anyone in the
west to admit a doubt on that score
now and 1 am glad to say the same
confidence IN Seattle's enterprise and
energy is expressed everywhere 1 have
been in the east"
Mr.. Steele will spend the week with
other members OF the association at
tho exposition. He will visit New
York and his old Pennsylvania home
before returning 10 Puget Sound.