Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-07-28
SEATTLE FAIR
MAKES MONEY
A. Y. P. EXPOSITION SPELLS
SUCCESS
Scenic Surroundings and Variety oil
Exhibits Combine to Offer Num-
beress Surprises TO Visitors
at Display

SEATTLE, July 27.-The Alaska
Yukon-Pacfc exposition at Seattle has
spelled success. The first month at
this latest Of worlds fairs was proof in
itself that the marvel of the Portland
exposition was to be repeated here-a
great Industrial advertisement was to
turn out a money maker.
Until the Lewis and Clark fair Of
1905 came to upset all calculations by
paying dividends it was only to be eX-
pected that fortunes should be lost n
making an exposition success from
the artistic, Industrial and educative
standpoint. The idea of financial sue
cess was not even considered. But the
exposition of today is now proving to
be a good investment.
With an average attendance Of
around $4,000 persons daily the Alaska
Yukon Pacific fair is not worrying over
finances. It's courts, its ways, its eX-
hibit palaces and it's amusement places
are never uncroWded and every prom
Use is being made good The west has
accomplished its boast of unusual en-
terprise, and Seattle may rank with
Chicago, Paris, Buffalo and st. Louis
as exposition cities.
Fair Really Interesting
The greatest surprise to many Wis
itors has been the really interna-
tionaI character of the show. There
have been a few really great fairs in
the past and a host of others that were
important only locally. Many have
looked on the Seattle fair as one Of
provincial scope. To find instead n
great international circus, so many
ringed as to be bewildering, embrace
ing displays from every part of the
globe and bringing together the half
naked savage of the tropics, the fur
clad Eskimo of the Arctic circle, the
Turk, the Japanese, the Chinese, the
Cossack and the American Indian,
with many others Of all nationalities
and creeds, was an unexpected sight
to those who had not thoroughly ac-
quainted themselves with the objects
of this latest worlds congress.
In the Oriental and European build
ings are housed displays from the for
eign countries, including those of Eu-
rope, Asia, Africa and South America.
Japan has a striking structure of her
own, and Canada houses her wealth of
interesting things in an edifice that is
most attractive in appearance. In
these buildings are shown the best that
alien lands have to display, and their
educational value alone makes it well
worth while to visit the INTELLECTUALLY
housed.
Government Display Large
The United States government has
here made it's most comprehensive dis
play. Five buildings, the main govern
ment, the Hawaiian, the Alaskan, the
fisheries and the Philippine structures,
represent Uncle Sam, and in them is
housed a wealth of exhibits, historical,
instructive and novel, admittedly the
greatest governmental display that has
yet been made at an exposition.
AS the purposes of the fair are par
ticularly to exploit Alaska, the Orient
the northwest and the Pacific, these
sections have the lions share in the
displays. Alaska is proven to be q
land Of great agricultural possibilities
as we'll as a gold mine and a source
OF great fishery wealth. The world is
disillusioned as to it's climate, which
is proven to be no more severe than
that of the New England states.
Hawaii and the Philippines are eX-
plotted as never before, and the north
west is brought before the world as
one of the twentieth century giants
Washington, Oregon, California,