The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1908-02-13
FAIR WILL BE
HELD IN 1909
WORK IS PROGRESSING RAPIDLY
Fair viii BE Held Next Year, Wheth.
er Congress Makes an Appro-
priatipn or Not.

Seattle, Feb 10 Owing to a slight
rumor that the Alaska Yukon Pacific
Exposition is going to be postponed
caused by the recent financial fur
ry, the executive committee OF the
1909 fair has passed the following res
olution:
ut is the unanimou ense of the
members OF he Eek ,,e committee
that the Alaska Yuk H. Pacific Expo
sition be held at the place and time
hitherto plannsd-Seattle-f June
to October 10, 1909"
The contract for another large ex-
hibit palace, the agriculture. building,
has been let for SsI, $50. Six ot the
main buildings will soon be we'll un
der way. The manufacturers build.
ing Is progressing rapidly.
The executive committee announces
that there is plenty of money ON hand
with which to carry on the work and
that money for stock is coming in all
the time.
Word was received from Washington,
ID. O., from Vice President John Ii.
McGraw, Director OF Exploitation
Henry Il. Reed, aud indicates that
congress is looking with favor on the
exposition. The appropriation bill
will soon come up for consideration
The government has asked for mcIe
ground space than was originally al.
lotted to 1t.
The management of the exposition
has secured the services of Col.
Henry x. Dosch, OF Portland, Oregon,
as director Of the division of exhib-
its. The exhibits department. is be-
ing organized and prospective exhib-
itors can now receive information in
regard to space by applying to Col.
Dosch. Already many large firms
Throughout the country have applied
for space.
Col. Dosch represented the state OF
Oregon as commissioner at New
Orleans, Chicago, Omaha, Buffalo,
Charlestown and at the Fifth lnterna-
tional Exhibition held at Osaka, Ja-
pan, In 1903, he was commissioner
from the state Of Oregon and Lewis
and Clarke Exposition. The direct
ors Of the Japanese exposition recog-
nized Col. Desch's ability as an EEK
POSITIONS" and placed him in
charge of all foreign exhibits. His
services we're recognized by the en-
peror of Japan, who decorated him
with the medal of the chevalier of
the sacred treasure. Col. Dosch was
also given a diploma of merit for his
services at the Osaka Exposition. 1t
hears the signature of the mikado
and the royal seal. Col. Dosch was
also commissioner general to the Lou
isiana Purchase Exposition for the
Lewis and Clark fair.
That successful exposition Can be
held on the Pacific coast, that the
Alaska Yukon PacificExposition which
will be held at Seattle In 1909, has
every chance of being an artistic, ed
ucational and financial success is in
dioated by the comparison OF the at
tendance 1gures of the Lewis and
Clark exposition held at Portland,
Oregon, in 1905 with those of the
jamestown exposition held ut Nor
folk, Virginia, In 1907.
The official statement Of admissions
to the jamestown exposition for the
exposition period shows total of g.
844, 452 people who clicked the turn
stiles. Portland's total attendance
was 2,554, 84S or 289, less thar
Jamestown's. But Portland's paid
admissions we're l,5SS, 1858 against
Jamestown's l,40l, 400, or 1S7,449
more. Portland only had 65, 800 free
adm issions, whereas Jamestown had
l,443, ,043.
When the size, cost and population
OF the surrounding country In which
the two expositions we're held are ia
ken into consideration, 1t can be
easily seen how successful the western
exposition was over the eaetern one.
Portland was comparatively small
worlds fair as compared to Chicago
and st. Louis, yet IL drew about l20,-
600 persons from east of the Rocky
mountains. Principally, most of
these people came west to see the
country and incidentally the Lewis
and Clark show, which was the mag
net The Alaska Y Yuk on Pacific Ex-
position will have the same drawing
card behind 1t. The cost OF the Port
land exposition was far less than that
of jamestown. The government build
ing and exhibit at Portland were val
ued at about SS00,000 The govern
ment spent about 81, GOO, 900 at James
town.
The most startling thing about the
success of the Lewis and Clark expo
sition was the fact that 1t only had
about J, 300, 900 people within radius
uf 500 miles from which, to draw it's
attendance, whereas Jameqtown with
In q radius OF 525 miles had about
80, 0O0, 900 people. Also Portland ran
for only four and a half months,
while jamestown was open for seven
months.
Portland was able to pay back 20
per cent to its stock holders and was
entirely out Of debt by the middle of
the exposition. jamestown will not
pay back anything and Is hopelessly
In debt to the United States govern.
ment. si,ea
The management of the Alaska Yu-
kon-Pacifie Exposition figures COR
servatively from the example get by
Portland, that the paid attendance
at the 1909 fair will reach $500, 600.
which will make 1t one of, If mot the
most, successful exrositions ever
held.