The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-08-22

PROGRESS
MANY OF THE ALASkA-YUkoN-
PACIFIC FAIR BUILDINGS ARE
NEAR COMPLETION.
In a Few Weeks Six Of the Large
Buildings Will BE Turned Over to
the Exposition Manaaement-Water
System Almost Finished-Laying Of
Electric Wires Soon to Begin.


six large buildings now under construc-
ton on the Alaska Pacific ex-
position grounds is such that few
weeks will see nearly all the buildings
now under way completed and ready
TO be turned over to the management.
Louis Baeder, assistant to Frank p.
Allen, director of works, gives the fol-
lowing estimate of the progress of the
work on the various structures:
Oregon, 80 per cent completed; Cali
fornia, rs per cent completed: mines,
80 per cent completed, fisheries, 30
per cent completed; auditorium, 80 per
cent completed; fine arts, 20 per cent
completed.
Buildings already finished are: Ag-
ricultural, manufactures, administra-
ton, machinery, emergency hospital
and fire station.
There are about eleven miles of gut
tiers and curbs in all to be laid. Sew
enty-five per cent of this work is COM
pleted and the remaining portion will
be finished in about month. The
water system consists of six and half
miles of fire protection pipes and
about three miles of drinking water
pipes. This work also is three-quar-
tiers completed and is being advanced
daily.
Will Soon Finish Wiring.
When this work is completed the
only remaining work requiring exca-
vations will be the putting in of the
conduits for the electric wires that
supply light and power to the exposi-
ton. The Seattle Electric Company
has craftsmen at work at present in
the works department planning three
conduits, and as soon as the plans for
the three miles of underground wire
ducts are ready the work will be start
ed. The electric company has given
the exposition assurances that this
work will be entirely completed by
November l. AS this work proceeds
the exposition will have gangs of men
following close behind the electric
company's men laying the top coating
of the streets, circles, plazas and
squares. At present 80 per cent of the
street work is done and just as soon
ias the excavation is completed the top
coating upon the six miles of streets
will be laid.
Several of the Pay Streak conces-
sionaries have gangs at work clearing
and leveling the sites of their amuse-
ment buildings. Many of the conces-
sion plans have already come before
the division of works and have been
approved.
Supplying Government information.
The force of the division of works
has been busily engaged this past week
in answering questions and supplying
such information to the United States
government as is necessary in order
that the plans for the six government
buildings be completed. The finished
drawings for these buildings will prob
ably reach Seattle in week or two at
most While the division of works
will not have anything to do with the
carrying out of the plans, in all proba-
bility the government architects will,
as soon as the plans are completed,
furnish a complete set to the exposi-
ton.
Specifications are now ready for the
finishing of the Rainier and the Alaska
avenue subways, and bids will be ask
ed this week.