The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-06-04
Mr.. PRESIDENT TAFT
PERSECUTION AND
THE GATES OPENED
YukoN-PAcIFIc EXPOSITION IS
NOW UNDER FULL
SWING.
Big CROWDS ARE PRESENT
Alaskan Exhibits Are Splendid And
Novel-The Orient, With all its
Gorgeousness, Fittingly Represent
ed-Eastern Atmosphere.

SEATTLE, Wash, June lon Il
day, thirty minutes after the stroke Q
noon, President William H. Taft, Il
the White House at Washington
pressed a jeweled telegrapher's Ike.
and flashed to Seattle the messag
that opened to the world the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific exposition.
Seattle is filled almost 10 the poin
Of overflow with sightseers. BY IA
the larger part Of the crowd has gath
cred from Washington and neighbor
ing states, but there are thousands Of
tourists from the Atlantic seaboart
and the middle east who have been
attracted not only from their homes
but from the various points of interest
in California and Canada.
The city itself is dressed for the
carnival as never before. The Canyon
streets are festooned with electric
lights and everywhere there is bunt-
ing, decked 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 chance to look
it over, it is realized for the first time
just how big show it is. There have
been some large sounding claims made
for it in advance and a good bit Of
boasting that may have sounded full
some, but it is fact that there is
everything here that has been an
nounced and whole lot more that
none knew anything at all about until
the covers were of the packing boxes
and the exhibits revealed.
AS an industrial exhibition 1t is the
last word Process, rather than prod
uct, is shown, and the result is that
the Manufacturers building is filed
with whirring machinery, demonstrate
ing the way of making instead Of the
things made. From top to bottom the
huge Liberal Arts palace lie 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
he resources, developed and undevel-
1ped, Of the west and all of fruitful
Canada. It was laid out by county,
Itate and province and there is pure
God show demonstrating the thing %
'at that may be made of the raw prod
lets shown in the other departments.
All that any other exposition has !
lad to show Of these things the Alas l
,a-Yukon-Pacific has to show. The {
are different only In I
hat they are down to the minute and
1ore than ever before they are shown L
a their evolution The agricultural c
xhibits are the same as other agricul- t
Iral exhibits have been except that ?
here are more of them and lands are
epresented that were never shown Fl
efore. f,
1t is in it's Alaska exhibits, its show "
lg from the Orient, its pageant of p
onders from the south seas, the c
traits settlements and the whole a
luatorial sink that the Seattle fair le
ads its greatest excuse for being. d.
Never before at an Occidental port NJ
Is there been so mixed a gathering OF
strange people; nor has any worlds
ir had them to show. There are pl
'zens of strange races and almost as at
any different religions. 1t is safe to &C
" for matter of fact, that no ex- &C
sition ever held has had so much to
Ter of the picturesque and the
range; certainly none has ever Of -
red educational value of so high a
lndard.
The exposition atmosphere" is dis
Ictly Oriental. The flags OF the Ora
n and the Rising Sun make it so, T.
: Japa nand China have taken ad- ws
ntage to the full of the opportunity da
express their friendship for Uncle ME
m and their appreciation of the Pa tn,
les trade possibilities. japan has of
e huge building in beautiful wood We,
section of the grounds and a whole SUI
lage down by the shore of Lake ov,
ion, where the whole romantic life the
the race Is lived. lou