The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-03-19
The Orient at the Fsir

list OF industrial exhibits designed for
the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition
which opens in Seattle on June LIST,
makes it evident that Uncle Sans
manufacturers are wide awake to
the fact that it is in the Orient and
Alaska that the campaign for Ameri
can trade extension IL to he conduct
ed during the years that are and are
to come.
The present and future needs OF
China, Japan, the Straits Settlements
and Oceanica and the very rapidly
growing and widening demands OF
Alaska have been consulted, not ex-
clustvelv. but for the major part, in
assembling the tremendous displays
which are now being brought by
trainload to the exposition city.
AS an instance, there are places in
the Orient where the trunk of tree,
with rude)y fashioned share, still
does the work of IL plough, but, with
out much in the way Of exploitation.
China is showing an increasing de-
mann for American farm implements
Of every kind. Japan is using them
in larger measure and, strange as it
may seem to those who still consi1,
Alaska a shOaled Iceberg, ploughs
and harvesting machinery generally
are coming into demand as tha mar
velOus productivity of Alaska's soil
is developed.
Acknowledging these conditions
the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
! will present one of the most exhaus
tive exhibits of farm machinery and
farm transportation facilities, includ-
ing even harness for the horses, that
has ever been made at any fair.
China is ais user of lamps and
can lies. 1t has awakened to the ad
vantages of electricity and gas but
at the present rate of development,
1t will be century before it tceases TO
be an "il-burning nation. Again
! grasping opportunity, one of the
largest lamp manufacturing concerns
in the world is ine falling an exhibit
which will bring oil lighting down
to the minute. This same exhibit
will be of equal interest to the thous-
ands of Alaskan "sourdoughs" and
merchants who will be present at
what they term "their exposition"
American crafts, such as art cabi.
net work. pottery making, interior
decorations, art brass and other
metal work, has attained higl
standard, hut at the exposition it
will he compelled to complete for ad.
miration with the marvellous work
OF Japanese and Chinese craft men
artisans. But there will never be
better opportunity to persuade China
that it Is no longer to have a century
In which to do peice OF work that
American machinery will turn out in
day. OF such machinery, Machin-
cry Hall is already Dearly supplied,
yet other exhibits are being hurried
across the continent.
The Orient, excepting Japan, clings
tenaciously to it's "roots and YARDS"
as it's sole medicaments, bnt Is send
Ing young men to American and Eu-
rOpean medical schools where they
learn to put aside spider leg prescrip--
lions and take up modern surgical
| tools and the tools of dentistry.
When they return to the Celestial en-
pire with their diplomas, they at
once become American trade mission
aries and as result, the barbai GUS
methods that have been used since
| the time of Confuscius are gradually
being put aside, and China is learning
| the art of amputating hinese limb
with an American knife and an
American nesthetic This fact
| would seem to be sufficient to account
for an exceptional show Of American
| surgical instruments in the Manufac-
lures building and another OF Euro
pean Instruments i'm the Foreign En-
hlbits Palace.
Photography has attained Won
deful development in the Northwest,
due to the unparalleled scenery nf
both the mainland and the thousand
islands of Puget Sound and the in
side passage to Alaska. Probably
no exposition has had so comprehen-
sive display OF every Photographic
appliance as will be represented at
the Seattle Fair.
These specific items are merely
checked out of a long list OF imple-
ments, crafts and varied industries
and pursuits that will be shown
when the big fair opens on June l.
Seattle does not claim for its ex-
position that 1t will be larger show
than st. Louis gave the world, but
1t will go beyOn that iu will show a
wider range of things, people and
products that are little known, than