Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-09-03
The Alaska : Pacific Yukon
Show VIII be Ready for
Big Crowds on the
Opening Day.
MANY BUILDINGS
ALREADY FINISHED
The Ten Months Intervening Be-
fore the Opening Day Will be
Busy Ones for the Officials
The Pay Streak viii
Have Numerous Shows.

Seattle, Sept. 3.-Activity Is the
keynote of the Alaska
exposition at the present time. From
morning till night more than a thou
sand men are busily engaged in the
huge task of creating the Pacific
worlds fair. With the work already
finished and the rapidity with which
work under construction is being car
ried on, every indication points to a
completed exposition on opening day,
June /, 1909.
With still ten months in which to
toll the management is taking advant-
age of every day, hour and minute.
Every department Is wide awake to
the fact that a completed on the
opening-day exposition Is the end for
which they are striving. The people
and the business interests of Seattle,
which will have more or less to 10
with the success of the 1909 fair, are
included in this hustling spirit--in
fact, determination to be ready and
waiting permeates the entire city.
The work has progressed so far
that a visitor can begin to obtain
some idea of the way the exposition
VIZ look a&en ali of the buildings
| are finished.
A portion of the campus of WASH
ington university, the exposition
grounds are ESQ acres in extent,
| twenty minutes ride from the heart
of the city, and have been pronounced
by competent authority as, scenically,
the finest ever used for such a pur-
pose. Set between two beautiful fresh
water lakes, Washington bordering on
the east and Union on the west, the
grounds present unsurpassed stretches
of water front, and tall, stately giants
of the forest, enhancing vistas, gentle
| slopes and commanding terraces add
to the beauty of the picture. The
principal thoroughfare, Rainier ave-
nue., is on a direct line with that
white-cloaked sentinel, Mt. Rainier,
| 1926 feet in height, whose perpetual
snow-capped peak looks down on the
exposition grounds the year around.
on the west are the snow-covered
Olympics, while on the east Mt. Baker
towers over the white-capped Cas-
cade range.
All of the work is well in hand.
| Taking the exposition as a whole, it
Is about sixty-five per cent completed.
Experienced exposition men who have
visited the grounds state that no other
exposition was further advanced and
in better shape so far ahead of its
| opening than is the big fair at Sc
attic. All of the grading and clear
ing of the avenues, plaZas, circles.
etc, have been completed and the
| landscaping work is far advanced.
Most of the large and important
| buildings are under construction or
finished, and others ready to start.
Applications for exhibit space are
pouring in by the thousands and
about thirty large attractions have
been secured for the Pay Streak. the
name of the amusement boulevard
corresponding to the Trail at Port
land.
The Manufactures palace, a large
| structure fronting on the east side Of
the Court of Honor, was the first to
| be completed. A twin structure, the
Agriculture building. acrss tn
court, was the next exhibit palace to
have its finishing touches applied.
Then the Machinery hall. a perma-
nent brick building, had its windows
washed and its doors locked to await
the arrival of exhibits. Right here
it may be as well be explained that
the Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition
includes in It's plan the erection Of
permanent structures. There will be
at least four large ones and many
small ones. The largest will be the
Machinery, Fine Arts Auditorium and
Forestry. The first three are being
built under the direction of the board
OF regents OF Washington university,
upon the grounds Of which the expo
sition is located. Under the act OF
Washington legislature appropriating
$1,000, 900 for the 1909 fair. it was
provided that 5000, 900 was to go into
permanent buildings for the use Of
the exposition during its period and
after that for the use OF the state
institution OF learning The Forestry
building will be erected Oy the Wash
ington state commission which has
the remaining 100000 to spend on
the Evergreen states participation.
This structure will be built OF huge
logs in their virgin state, along alto