Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-15
TEACHERS LOSE
ADVANTAGE OF
SPECIAL COUPON
ONE HUNDRED VOTE BONUS
CEASES HEREAFTER
SEATTLE TRIP CONTEST GROWS
MORE EXCITING
Big Pacific Exposition Covers zoo
Acres and VIII Bring Worlds WIS.,
itors to Oriental Gateway
Next Summer

After this date none of the nominees
in The Heralds Seattle trip contest
for school teachers will have the ad-
vantage of a bonus of 100 votes granted
by using the special coupon printed ~
the Sunday issues. The coupon Will Ho'
be repeated.
Hereafter each coupon must be de-
tached separately or the coupons must
be accumulated by obtaining CASH
paid-in-advance subscribers. one OF
these paying $3.50 for a year In al
vance Yields 1000 votes instantly Tor
some lucky teacher, hence all energies
should be spent in that direction by
earnest workers. Nominations may
however, be made any time. -,
The latest to be enrolled on the 1UO-
bonus arrangement are Miss mae
Elnendorf and Miss Zulika Guiberson
OF the Twenty eighth street school
both of Los Angeles city, and two
Iordsburg teachers, Mrs. Leonora NC
Donald and Miss Elizabeth M. Harris
Next Summers Event
The Alaska Pacific exposition,
which will be held during the summer
of 1909, at the city of Seattle from
June / to October 10, on Puget SOUND,
one of the great commercial ports OF
the world, will be an important inter-
national exposition.
A STUDY u Tic pan civ
the exposition will give one salts
factory idea of the great dement's II
will confer upon the world at large,
Included in the primary purpose OF
the exposition are:
First-To export the resources ano
potentialities of the Alaska and YUKON
territories in the United states and the
Dominion of Canada.
Second-To make known and foster
the vast Importance of the trade OF the
Pacific ocean and of the countries DOR
dering thereon.
Third-To demonstrate the marvellous
progress of western America, where,
within a radius of 1000 miles of Seattle
1890. 900 persons live who are directly
interested in making the exposition the
true exponent of their material wealth.
and development.
viii Cover $50 Acres
The exposition will represent an ex-
penditure of approximately $10,OO0'OO
when the gates are opened on June l.
1909. 1t will occupy $50 acres of the
campus of the University of Washing
ton, adjoining one of the many beau
tiful residence districts of Seattle on
the gentle slopes and terraces over
looking Puget sound, Lake Washing
ton and Lake Union. The lakes are
natural fresh water bodies, Washing
ton having an area of 3S15 square miles
and Union an area of 1 1-3 square
miles. They are separated from Puget
sound by the land upon which Seattle
stands.
The unsurpassed stretches of water
front on both lakes afford great oppor-
tunities for aquatic features, the like
of which no other exposition ever pos
sessed
The grounds are twenty minutes ride
by electric car from the business CEN
no
nounced by competent authority as
scenically, the finest exposition site
ever laid out.
The snow-clad Olympic and Cascade
ranges of mountains are in plain view
from ali points of the grounds.
Mount Rainier the highest peak in
the United States proper, rises to a
height of 1926 feet, and Mt. Baker
another formidable peak of the Cas-
cades, towers 1000 feet.