The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-01

Ijichi, l. ]. NJ, and Col. T. c. Wood
bury, u. S. A.
A toast to sour Canadian Neigh
bors," will be responded to by Hon..
C. w. Cross, attorney general of Al
berta Then follows toast to Rail-
roads," and a response by H. c. Mutt,
general manager of the western d.
vision of the Northern Pacific. The
toast, Alaska will be responded to
,by Governor W. B. Hoggatt of Alaska.
Bower of Beauty.
Like the birth of royal child the
Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition was
rshered into the world. Its home is
that of grandeur and royalty 1t is
HOUSE in palaces and surrounded by
gardens, sea, forest, mountains and city.
1t is representative Of new empires put
recently risen from a wilderness, and
Tits promise of future greatness is more
than attested by the wealth and va
riety of it's products. Wrested from
an untried waste of forest, pain and
mountain, it's making has developed a
family of men and women whose vigor
and energy has brought to completion
an exposition more finished and beau
tiful than has ever before been accom-
plisfeG
It's throwing open to the world marks
the most important day in the COM
mercial history of the great northwest
and the lands of the Pacific. If at
times during the several years of its
making, difficulties and discourage
ments have been met with, the fulfill
ment of the promises of the exposition
offer ample recompense. That these in
sufficiently appreciated lands have been
placed right before a competitive gath
ering of the very best the world con-
tains, and that they have justified
every claim to Importance, is now real
, lied
The opening of the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition showed an inter-
1eingling of cosmopolitan life unusual
in exposition history. In the North and
West of the American continent moth
ing legitimate is considered strange
Men whose best years have been spent
among the eternal glaciers and desc
late wilds of Alaska and Yukon look
with no surprise on the people whose
life has been spent among shelves of
books and elaborate Offices 1t is but
differ Mt way of adding to the world $
advancement. The Orient is today no
more than step from the Occident,
and the men from each of these lands
are close neighbors Slsds and tObog
gans drawn by why Malamute dogs
and driven by fur clad Alaskan Indians
worked their way through crowds of
foot travellers, rickshaWs sedan chairs
and automobiles. Igorrotes, Esquimos,
Negroties and Moros rubbed elbows
with beautiful women whose gowns
were made in Paris and millinery crea-
tions from the most aristocratic shops
wed in peculiarly of design with bas-
ket and headache wafer effects from
the Philippine islands.
On the opening day of the expo
sition one lived in the heart of the
world 1t showed the richest treas
ures of art from the hands of masters
old centuries ago, and close beside
were productions of art, worked in
strange and weird device from the
crude hands of people untaught or I'M
y hampered by form and rule. Machin-
cry and mechanical devices represent
ing the very highest and most perfect
of mans inventions stood side by side
with machines in use for four thousand
years, and equal attention was attract
ed by both.
About the Court of Honor, the Cas-
cades and the Formal Gardens the
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The rush and roar of the angry waters
as they poured over the precipitious
/ lodges, the spouting of "Old Faithful
geyser as it sent high in the air it's
huge volume of water, and the many
bands, made a picture not to be for
gotten A great charm was found in
the exposition itself; its magnificent
buildings, the gorgeous floral and nat
ural surroundings made it a spot of
indescribable beauty and attractivenesA
the mixing of vivid hues in costume
and the ever moving and restless
throng of cosmopolitan humanity surg
ing through the avenues and byways
of the grounds that demanded greatest
attention.
Seattle's most important claim for