The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-09-23
OUR WESTERN TOUR
No. 4. The Seattle Exposition.

this weeks letter, / would not be-
little various other points of intense
interest. Since my last, Mrs. Dodge
and l have travelled fully 500 miles
by rail In the wonderful diversified
state of Washington. II the Father
OF his Country" with prophetic eye
could have chosen for a namesake
state which by its wonderful growth
should honor his memory, he could
not have done better than to select
the one In which we have passed the
last ten days. We have reveled in
the beauties about the falls Of the
Spokane. We have seen the largest
orchards Of our lives, at Wenatchie.
where orchard land has been sold for
over two thousand dollars an acre.
We have crossed the Cascade Noun
tains, going by turns In the direc-
tion Of all points of the compass,
along rushing torrents and lovely wa
terfalls. some times looking far down
upon the track which our train had
traversed long before. We spent q
day In a steamboat ride from Seattle
by Victoria and return and in not
ing the oddities of that Capital City
of British Columbia, where drivers
of teams turn to the left and where
an apparently veracious informant
stated that stores close at noon, for
an hour, to enable the clerks TO
take a nap In concert with the rest
of the city. In Spokane we visited
Mrs. Dodge's only living uncle Byron
Lamson, who spent five days at Be
rea in 1906. We took a special trip
to Deer Park and spent six delight
full hours with Rev. Perry F. Shrock
and wife, formerly our dear Lucy G.
VanHorne. In their three years there
they have brought about the cree
ton of an institutional church cost
ing $1,000 though the town now has
only one thousand people. II has
reading room separate rooms for the
Sunday school classes, and is the
feature of the town At the EXPOSE
ton we met Rev. Hills, whose daugh-
ter Joy formerly attended Berea Col
lege, now a resident of Seattle. AS
l write this on the train about TO
cross the line into Oregon, Mrs. Dodge
is having her part Of the pleasant
visit which it is our good fortune to
have with Elizabeth Marsh, who goes
to Portland on the same train with
us.
All of the above scarcely pertains
to my subject. AS a whole the Seat
tie Exposition is a success. attend
ed the ones at Philadelphia, Chicago,
st. Louis, and Buffalo. All except
tho last named were larger than this,
but none of them can be accounted
more successful, as regards the end
in view. l am able to recall thirty-two
public buildings which / visited Of
course some of them quite hastily. On !
the west side OF the grounds, along
the so-called PAY Streak" there are
forty or fifty special attractions de-
a special fee, many OF |
which I would not think it worth while /.
to visit even II money and time were
plenty. We patronized not more than /
a half dozen. Neither to those who /,
have never attended a great EXPOSE |
ton nor to those familiar with their
general features, would a detailed l
description be profitable. There is /
a whole university in such fair,
with a course many times exceeding /
In length the duration of any human /
life. Some single buildings afford |
for investigation beyond |
the power of one man to accomplish. |
Only by having a special preparation |
and by possessing a peculiar native /
could one master certain |
departments at all. For instance none
but a trained machinist is prepared 4
to gain any substantial good from an
inspection of the multifarious ma
chimes with which Machinery Hall
Is crowded.
If l were to fill the columns Of
The Citizen witt brief references to
things which challenge attention, !
should give but a poor conception of |
the scope of the Exposition. There |
Is the tireles5 fountain throwing wa
ter forty feet In the air. The cas-
cades consist o. six distinct water |
falls symmctrically arranged. In the |
Government Building are cannons 60 |
feet long. cut in lengthwise to show
the interior. There is the old wagon
which served Gen. Thomas as a sort
Of headquarters during the war. We
find in wax 80 life-size figures show
Ing the garb and ACCOMPLISHMENTS of |
those who serve in different ranks
and arms of the government military
service, each with his individual ia
cial expression. Back of the Forestry
Building lies a hewn timber four
and half feet square and eighty feet
Iong. Another near by is twenty /
inches square and one hundred and
eighty feet long. In another place is