Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-04
PAY STREAK IS THE
A.Y.P. ATTRACTION
AT SEATTLE'S FAIR
EXPLANATION OF SEVERAL
FEATURES GIVEN
For Originality, cIeanness and General
Interest This Midway of Exposi-
tons Outclasses Previous
Efforts

To use q racing expression there is
more "class" on the PAY Streak OF
the Alaska Y ukon-Pacif1c exposition
than there was on the Midway at chi
cago. the Pike at St. Louis or the war
Path at jamestown. The number OF
attractions is not as great as at either
Chicago or st. Louis, but the standard
of quality, cleanliness and educational
value is higher than at any exposition
| ever held.
So far as individual features of the
| Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition are
| concerned the Pay Streak is the biggest
thing at the fair. The whole exposition
is predicated upon the many times
demonstrated principle that when the
world turns out to make holiday 1t
is fun it is looking for Life, action,
color a lot of music, the unique and
bizarre are desired above dignity and
the sober side, wherefore has the world
been combed and three-quarters of
million of Seattle money invested In
the newest and most effective fun pro-
dueing features that were To be round
There is a sermon to be read, II one
cares to read it, in Captain A. M. Ba-
ber's village of Siberian Eskimo. There
is education in their history. valuable
information in the trinkets they made
and have for barter, and fun in guam
tity in their dances, their play and their
own amusements. 1t is new in every
feature and always intensely interest
ing.
The same may be said of the Igorrote
village. 1t is the first view, close at
hand, that the west has had of its
brown head hunting little brothers
from the Philippines, and there is an
afternoon of fun and study in the
bunch Of them.
Ezra Meeker has crowded the earl-
est, tensest history Of the northwest
into his reproduction of the Oregon
trail. 1t is a ride behind the ox-team
that crossed the continent under Mr..
Meeker's goad, the hospitality of a
pioneers cabin, the life as it was when
the patriarch of the concession him
self came into the west and helped to
make it.
q. w. McConnell's huge cyeloramas,
the Monitor and Merrimac and the
battle of Gettysburg, reproduce with
absolute faithfulness the two mighty
incidents of the Civil war. Veterans
of both battles have declared that
every movement is historically correct.
and so realistically are they presented
that every minute inside the big build
ings is a thrill.
Thompson's scenic railway has been
one of the best bets at every worlds
fair. On the Pay Streak he has put
up the biggest structure he has ever
built, and it leads by devious ways and
mysterious caverns of much beauty
and startling effect, overhead and I'M
derground.
Almost next to it on the streak is the
mountain slide, an all-fun attraction
that was so good it nearly closed Coney
Island. 1t is just what it's name Inn
plies.
N. salih has spread the largest
Streets of Cairo" and Turkish Viii
! lage" that has ever been shown at any
exposition. He employs more than $50
people, many of them the highest
priced Oriental dancers and performers
every brought to the country. A herd
/ of elephants and another of camels
kneel in the market place when the
muzzein calls the faithful to prayers.
are part of the equipment, and there
are, besides the bazaars, cafes the
aters and a mosque.
/ The baby incubator is always inter-
/ esting, but on the A.-Y.-P Pay Streak
/ it will also be of great utility, for, be-
] sides the many incubators, there is a
! splendidly equipped nursery at which
4 tired mothers may leave their little
ones in the care Of trained nurses who
have at their command every scientific
appliance and sanitary arrangement to
guarantee health and freedom from
danger of whatever kind. 1t means the
! tour of the fair made easy for the
women with mo one to leave with the
children"