The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-06
BIC WORK IS
BEING DONE
Promise That the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific Exposition
Will Be Completed on the
Opening Day Will Be
Realized.
Special to The Journal.


Seattle, Wash, Nov. o.-One of the
! first day of June, 1909, the gates OF
! the Alaska-Y u11on-Pacific exposition at
Seattle will open. Every building
will be finished, every seaaonable eX-
libit will be in place, every road will
be paved. every path laid out, every
garden will be radiant with flowers.
| If the visitor comes on the last day, or
| in August or on the opening day, he
or she will find things the same. The
promise of the officials Of the exposi-
ton to break all previous records and
thus establish a precedent will be re-
allied Seattle men feel that they
must live up to the reputation Of the
city as a place that does big things
and they are acting with characters
tic promptness, energy and enterprise.
month ago the gates of the eX-
position were closed to free admis-
sion. The day was celebrated by a
vast meeting of the stockholders held
on the steps of the huge Manufactures
building The director general pre-
scented figures showing that the eX-
position was more than 20 per cent
complete, eight months remain for the
finishing touches.
Three of the great permanent
buildings which will be turned over to
the University of Washington at the
close of the fair are finished. a
fourth will be completed Dy January
1st. The two main exhibit palaces,
the Manufactures and Agriculture
buildings, have been finished for sew
eral months The mining palace and
the fisheries building are ready, the
hospital and the fire station have
been in use for months. The power
plant is ready to start up. Oregon
finished her palatial building in Sep
TENDER California will have her big
building completed by January Ist
The Washington state building which
viii be permanent, is going up rapidly
Contracts have been let with d time
limit of February for the Arctic
Brotherhood. Forestry All Women's
buildings. The United States govern
ment commissioners are prepared to
rush work and have the buildings
ready two months before the opening.
The other buildings to be erected can
be run up In two to three months
The site, $50 acres of virgin forest,
has been cleared and graded. Roads
and paths have been laid out The
central court of honor with its beau
tiful cascade and geyser basin is COM
plete. Acres of lawn are coated with
heavy turf of refreshing green. The
Sunken Gardens ares finished.
electric conduits have been laid, all
permanent work for the University.
Contractors will soon start laying as
phalt over the eleven miles of streets
and walks. Several miles of cinder
paths winding through the virgin for
est, through beautiful glens and shady
hooks are ready.
The green houses which have been
in operation for two years have over
million plants including 100000 rose
bushes ready for transplanting. The
decorative features of the exposition
will be one of the most distinctive
parts of the brilliant show. The roses.
the rhododendron banks, the hover
beds of the sunken gardens, the fes-
toons of vines that are found every
where, the acres of green lawn, the
giant frs and ced2rs will rest the
eyes and visitors will not wonder that
Washington is called the Evergreen
state.