The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-12
MONEY WAITING
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Hawaiian exhibit to Seattle to place
the resources of the Territory in plain
view of millions of the American peo-
pie nothing but good can be expected
The sundry civil expense bill making
appropriations for expenses for the
Government for the year ending June
thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine,
as approved on the 9th of May last,
says in part, that the Secretary Of
the Interior is hereby authorized and
directed to aid the people of the Dis
trict of Alaska and of the Territory
of Hawaii in providing and maintain
ing appropriate and creditable exhibits
of the products and resources of Alas
ka and Hawaii at the said Alaska
Yukon-Pacific Exposition, and that for
that purpose he is authorized to APP
point one or more persons to supervise
the selection. purchase, preparation,
transportation, arrangement, installa-
ton, safekeeping, exhibition, and re-
turn, of such articles as may be ex-
hibited from said Territories at said
Exposition. Provided that the total
expenditure for said exhibit for the
Territory of Hawaii on the part of
the Government shall not exceed the
sum of twenty-five thousand dollars,
IHdl sum OF So much thereon as may
be necessary is hereby appropriated
out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated" THAT the
Secretary of the Treasury shall cause
suitable buildings to be erected 70" the
Government exhibit also buildings for
the exhibit of the district of Alaska,
the Territory of Hawaii and the Phil
ippine Islands. Said buildings shall be
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pervising Architect of the Treasury
Department to be approved by the
Secretary of the Treasury who is au-
thorized to contract for the building
and equipment of the buildings, but
the cost of the buildings when COM
pleted must not exceed the sum of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
That the allotment of space for exhibit
tors in the building or buildings erect
ed under authority of this Act for the
use of the district of Alaska, the Ter
ritory of Hawaii and the Philippine Is
lands, shall be done and performed
without charge to exhibitors by the
Government Board created by this
Act"
Further, under the Act the Secretary
of Commerce and Labor is authorized
and directed to place an exhibition in
connection with the exhibit of his de-
partment, in such building or aqua
rum as shall be allotted for this pur-
pose, complete exhibit of the fish
and fisheries of the United States, pay
ing special attention to the fish and
fisheries of the Pacific Ocean with a
view to demonstrating in the fullest
manner possible the economic value of
such fish and fisheries and the sum of
two hundred thousand dollars is allot-
ted for the purpose.
The coming visit of the Secretary of
the Interior will certainly be a splen-
did opportunity to interest him in the
proposition to exploit the Hawaiian Is
lands at Seattle. He will be much bet
ter able to judge the relative value of
a Hawaiian exhibition after his visit
to the islands than he would have been
had he not visited us. While it is true
that Alaska has had the sum of one
hundred thousand dollars appropriated
for her exhibit, the Philippines have
had but twenty-five thousand given for
their show while Arizona and New
Mexico have not been remembered at
all in the BILL
The AIaska-Yukon Exposition will
represent an expenditure of approx
mately ten million dollars when the
gates are officially opened on the 1st
day of next June. 1t will occupy two
hundred and fifty acres of the campus
of the University of Washington. The
grounds are twenty minutes ride by
electric car from the center of the city
and have been pronounced by compe-
tent authority as scenically the finest
exposition site ever laid out.
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