The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-05-31
THE FAIR THAT KEPT A PROMISE
1Rv Melford Reatnnll

Seattle, May 30-On Tuesday thirty
| minutes after the stroke of noon, Pres
| ident William H. Taft. in the White
, House at Washington, will press a
jeweled telegraphers key and flash
to Seattle the message that will open
to the world the Alaska-Y Pacific
exposition.
The exposition is ready, and Seattle
awaits the signal, for the northwestern
metropolis has made good. For tle
first time In the history of worlds
fairs there will be presented finished
| exposition on the day announced. The
music, speechmaking. the big festivl-
ties whion the northwest has planned
for the opening day will not be pune
tuated with the rap of the hammer or
marred by the voice OF the tuneful
saw
Seattle is filled almost to the point
of overflow vita sightseerS awaiting
the initial event By far the larger
part of the crowd has gathered from
Washington and neighboring states.
but there are thousands of tourists
from the Atlantic seaboard and the
middle east who have been attracted
not only from their homes but from
the various points of interest in Cali
fornia and Canada.
The city itself is dressed for the car
nival as never before. The canyon
streets are festooned with electric
lights and everywhere there Is bunt-
ing, picked out with the exposition
emblem, Even the boats In the har
Dor are decked out in the exposition
colors and the Japanese and American
fleets are keeping open house to all
visitors
Now that the exposition is spread
and Seattle has had a chance to look
it over, 1t Is realized for the first time
just how big show 1t is. There have
been some large. sounding claims made
for it in advance and a good bit of
boasting tnat may have sounded full
some, but it is fact that there Is
everything here that has been an
nounced and a whole lot more that
none knew anything at all about un-
boxes and the exhibits revealed.
AS an industrial exhibition 1t Is the
last word. Process, rather than prod
ut. is shown. and the result IS that
the manufacturers building is filled
"lIu WIFI ing machinery, demonstrate
ing the way of making instead of the
things made. From top to bottom the
huge liberal arts palace is jammed
with miniature factories turning out
their wares in full view of the passing
crowd
The same Is TO be said on the agri-
cultural and horticultural side. In the
palace of agriculture Is the story of
the real resources, developed and un-
developed, of the west and all of fruit
full Canada 1t is laid out by the
couny. state and province and there
is pure food show demonstrating the
things to eat that may be made OF the
raw products shown in the other de-
partmentS.
All that any other exposition has
had to show of these things the Alas
ka-Yukon-Pacific has to show. The
manufactures are different only in
that they are down to the minute
and more than ever before they are
shown In their evolution. The agricuI.
tural exhibits are the same as other
agricultural exhibits have been except
That there are more of them and lands
are represented that were never
shown before
1t Is In It's Alaska exhibits. It's show
ing from the Orient its pageant of
wonders from the south seas. the
Straits settlements and the whole