Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-14
Brief HISTORY OF The ALASKA
YUkON.PACIFIC EXPOSITION
Work Progressing Rapidly and Everything Will Be Ready
for Its Opening June |, 1909

PSAooi1o otSSiAAOu thC uSlu
in the national amphitheatre and
when President Chilberg turned the
first spadeful Of dirt the pent up en-
thusiasm of the crowd burst forth
in wild cheering at the Inauguration
of physical work on the grounds.
Since that date up to the present
time much progress has been made
in all divisions of the exposition. The
exploitation work has resulted in the
participation of many states and the
United States government. The fol
lowing are the state appropriations
in addition to Washington: Oregon,
$100,000; California, 100000; New
York, SIS, 900; Missouri, $4,000; with
a supplementary amount this coming
session; Nebraska, $4,000; Pennsyl-
vania, $4,000; Utah, $4,000, which
will be added to this coming winter.
Other states will come into line early
in 1909. ..<
The United States government made
its appropriation May %, 1908. 1t
calls for the expenditure of $500, 900.
Of the total $780, 900 will be used for
the erection of the following build
ings:: Main government, Alaska,
Hawaii, Philippines, and the fisher
les. The remaining $35O,O0O will be
expended for exhibits as follows
Government, 100000; Alaska, $780,
900; Philippines, $4,000, Hawaii,
500, 900.
Assurances have been given the
management that many countries of
the Pacific will have displays, espec-
tally the nations OF Japan and China.
Commissioners are now working in
European countries with success.
Work on the grounds and buildings
of the exposition is we'll advanced
and the management is determined
to have everything In readiness by
opening day. This has been written
about all expositions in late years,
but the promise has never been COM
pletely fulfilled. The officials Of the
Alaska ukon-Pacific exposition how
ever, have started out with COM
pleted on-opening-day idea above ev-
erything else, and If they do not car
ry out their plan it will not be be-
cause western energy has not been
expended in the task.
A rumor that the exposition would
be postponed gained circulation
right after the financial depression.
This self-same rumor is always in
evidence before every exposition that
has ever been held. It comes along
at its regular time, just like the
Snowman and fair followers-pop up
when they realize that there will be
something doing. There is no valid
reason for the exposition to be post
.poned, no excuse to offer, except for
a few persons who desire it for their
own: personal gain. The rest Of the
takers of postponement are simply
talking to hear themselves talk,
something like the man who knows
all about running an exposition, but
who has never had any experience
in the profession, for it is a profes-
sion now days. @
The executive committee put Itself
on record when it passed the follow
ing resolution: 1T is the unanimous
sense of the members Of the execu
tive committee that the Alaska-Yu.
kon-P Pacific exposition be held at the
place and time hitherto planned
Seattle, U. S. A., from June / tx
October Is, 1909" That ought tt
settle the matter.
The grading and clearing has beer
! finished. All Of the principal road
ways, avenues, circles and plazas
have been completed. The admins
tration building has been erected anl
occupied by the executive force since
August, 1907. The manufacturer
and agriculture palaces. twin struc
lures and two of the largest on th,
grounds are finished 8E.
Different from former fairs thu
i Alaska-Y ukon-Pacific exposition in
4 cludes in its plan the erection o
permanent buildings. The ground
4 being located on the unused portion
OF the campus of Washington uni
yersity. after the fair is over mos
Of the structures will be turned owe
to the state university.
i About twenty large concession
have been let for the Pay Streak, th
4 amusement boulevard, out Of a pos
sible thirty in ALL. Besides thes
Il there will be many small ones.
n 8s5fsa 81 1900
i It will repay You to visit The Fai
"A Store during their July clearance sale