The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-07-08
(star Special Correspondence.J

| Yukon-Pacific exposition at Seattle
Landscaping around some of the fin
ished buildings and the plazas aud gar
dens has been started which makes a
great improvement on the beauties of
the site.
The work that has been one in this
| line recently demonstrates to the lay
man in exposition construction that y
takes very little time to put the
grounds into shape after the buildings
and roadways are completed. Gener-
ally the visitor to the grounds who
has never seen an exposition grow
cannot see how everything can be put
in shape on time. With a large nur-
sery and an experienced force of gard
eners, like the Alaska Yukon Pacific
exposition maintains, there will be lit
tie time lost in putting on the finish
ing touches. There are MILLIONS of
plants and shrubs now being cultivat-
ed in the 1909 fairs nursery and these
are being set out at the proper time.
James Dawson, of the firm of Olmsted
Bros, OF Brookline, Mass, the famous
landscape artists, is in charge of this
work. Mr.. Dawson is one of the best
men in his line in the country.
The Cactus Dahlia ID flower that
blooms more profusely around Puget
Sound than any other section of the
Pacific Coast. has been selected as the
official flower of the exposition. In APP
pearance this plant resembles the
chrysanthemum, the blossoms being as
large as that flower and the petals
curling in the same manner. 1t blooms
prOfusely in many colors from June
till the frosts of autumn. The land
scape department is taking advantage
of the beauty of the official flower by
providing unique forms of beds, with
which to decorate the grounds.
Two of the largest temporary build
ings are finished, the Palace of Agri-
culture and the Palace of Manufac-
lures. The first ceremony held in any
of the exposition buildings was the
commencement exercises of the Uni.
versity of Washington on June II and
II. Other buildings completed are
Machinery Hall, Emergency Hospital
and the Fire Station. The oregon
building will be completed within \
few weeks, while the Auditorium, a
permanent structure, has its steel work
in place and the brick work finished
up to the second story. Tha Mines
building is being enclosed aud it will
not be long before the staff decora-
lions will be put on. The Fine Arts
palace is rising from it's foundations
and the Fisheries building has been
begun. California and Missouri will
break ground for their buildings about
the first week in July, and Utah and
New York are expected to begin oper-
ations soon afterward.
The lighting system of the grounds
and the decorative illumination of the
buildings is being worked out by ]. r.
Thompson, electrical engineer, who de-
signed the lighting effects of the Lewis
and Clark exposition. The central
fountain court and the four surround
ing buildings, the agriculture, manu-
facture, fisheries and miLes, will carry
thirty thousand elec4,c lignts, outiln-
ing the main architectural liles in
string of fire. No colored lights will
be used, as experience mas shown that
plain white light is by far me more
artistic. Red and other colors in cleo
trio globes will only be permitted on
the Pay Streak, the gaiety boulevard.
New studies are being worked out
for the cascades, one of the principal
| features, and the geyser fountain. Sub
marine and spray illumination will be
used on these decorative features. The
fountain will not be like other cleo
trical fountains at former fairs; it will
be as near as possible an exact repro
duction of a huge geyser, with the
water colored by new method upon
which Thompson is now working.
| Along the bottom of the geyser basin
will be electrical bulbs encased in wa
| ter tight receptacles, and one looking
| down will be enabled to see the fish
swimming about
The drops of the cascades will be
treated in an entirely new way The
electrical effect of the cascades at the
st. Louis exposition was one of the
features of that fair, but the 1909 eX-
position will excel it in every parti
cular. An attempt will be made to uti-
lie the primary colors of the prisma-
tic scale. By the use Of a specially
prepared varnish of different cOlors
applied TO the drops Of me cascades II
is hoped to secure a unique effect
Looking at each fall one will be able
to see the spray Illuminated in the diff
ferent colors of the prismatic scale
Thompson has been playing streams
of water on fire to produce this effect
The Pay Streak will be a blaze OF
different colored lights, each conces
sionaire having his own individual il
Eliminating to conform with the gen
eral scheme. An approach of totem