The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-03-10
SEATTLE MAN IS
HERE TO WORK
UP GOOD EXHIBIT
Wants Hawaii Well Represented in the Yukon
Alaska Exposition at the Northwestern
Metropolis of Plans.

CHOW that the jamestown Ter-Cen-
tennial Exposition has closed, eyes are
turned toward the next great world i
fair, the Alaska Yukon Pacific Expdsi-
ton which will be held at Seattle
Washington, opening June l, and
closing October Is, 19o9, said Col
Joseph R. Mclaughlin, of Seattle, who
is stopping at the Young.
'.This exposition will be held in a
section of the country where world s
fairs are new and for that and many
other reasons it is expected to be q
success, benefcially, educationally, ar
tistically and financially. The Alaska
Yukon-Paeifc Exposition will be the
second world 5 fair ever held west of
the Rocky Mountains, the Lewis and
Clark exposition at Portland, Oregon,
being the first.
"Work on the grounds and build
ings of the exposition is well under
way and the management is determined
to have everything in readiness by
opening day. This has been said about
all expositions in late years, but the
promise has never been completely full
filed. The officials of the Alaska
Yukon Pacific Exposition, however,
have started out with completed-on-
opening day idea above everything else,
and if they do not carry out their
plan it viii not be because western
energy has not been expended in the
task.
.'The Alaska Yukon-P Pacific EXPOSE
ton promises to be different from
former world s fairs in many ways, but
one policy stands out so far above any
of the rest that the entire press of
the country is commenting favorably
about it. No money viii be asked from
Uncle Sam to carry on the work. That
policy must be conceded as original
with the Alaska Yukon-Pacifc EXPOSE
tion.
All the management desires is for
the United States Government to par
ticinate in the same manner as foreign
countries and the different states, by
erecting buildings and installing there
in exhibits. Former expositions have
been aided by the government IN many
different ways Outright gifts OF large
sums of money have been made by
Congress to some worlds fairs, while
others have negotiated loans from Uncle
Sam some of which were paid back
and some of which were not. Some
axnositions have received both dona-
4;ons and loans. As stated before the
Alaska Yukon-Pacifc Exposition will
ask for neither. A clause pledglng
this policy has been inserted IN the
Congressional bill n liking provision for
participation only, by Uncle Sam.
"since the United States Govern
,nent began to patronize expositions
,7o,,n RI the. jamestown fair, Congress
bas concentrated total of $28,152'2ol
for worlds fairs. Only $4S5ooO OF TINS
,,,onav has been spent west OF the
pool,v Mountains, the Lewis ana
clark exposition, one of the most sue
cassful ever held. receiving the oehehe
of that amount.
..rha hill that has been introduced
ar the present session of congress
,,rov;des an appropriation OF $1oo'ooo
onabla Uncle Sam to take adVan-
80 of the opportunity for effective
advertising. It has passed the 0en-
a+o and will soon pass the house'
for the following bulldings'
Alaska, HaWall, FAiAip-
mines, Fisheries. a -
..on Tnne / last. before a crowd oh
ee+aa, thousand persons, 9roul l
-, Irino, ceremonies were held. win
- prominent men making ad-
I .,,s among whom was Hon Jolll
r,-o++ director Of the 1ntefnaaolial
20 -, of American Republics, repre-
President Roosevelt. r rom
- 43+a tn the present time, WORK mas
49,, ,oins on rapidly upon the eApo1
ei+ian grounds The grading anu
olearing has been finished All OF ,ne
,,rincipal roadways, avenues, ei ne,
- aa - rlazas have been completed 1ne
!, ,1,,,;ristrat ton Building mas ool
ted and occupied by the eNecutIte
saros for several months Con a.
800 heen let for the construction o.
80, large buildings and seNerai s'li'iA
lo"a Among these are the Manulac.
t ol,e building, Auditorium Palace ~, "
80 ~ Arts and Machinery Hal Inc
+hrsa latter buildings will De peItH% EN-
a IN structures, built Of pun 0I In
l l,s terra Gotta trimmings. i ir
Up, as it is sometimes eaiieo IL
saottIe viii differ again from some
ssor,,er fairs in that some u 40
80 PALACES will be permanent ST. ~
t t-, The grounds are located Oh tll0
e -La Is, Of the washington OhlNer-
li+1t state institution, and aLlel liz
SLY, is over the PERMANENT ,iis
6niIdings and those substantially a,Is oui III
pa,,>'l he taken over by the college 10
VIZ ~ l,,-3ffan9l purposes.