The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-05-28
SEATTLE NEWS LETTER
A.-Y.-P. Exposition VIII Open on Schedule
Time-Attracting Unusual
Attention

more people Will VISIT the RACINE
northwest this year than in any previous
five-year PERIOD" says Jas. A. Wood
director Of exploitation Of the Alaska
Yukon-Paciic exposition. My predic
ton is fully justified by the returns from
our press-clipping bureaus, the letters
receive and the reports from the trans
continental railroads and their connec
tons. St. Paul and Minneapolis news
papers declare that more than million
travellers destined for Puget Sound and
the Pacific northwest will pass thru the
Twin Cities. The probable extent o.
the movement is greatly increased by
reports from all the other big cities Of
the United States. More publicity has
been given the A.-Y.-P. exposition
during the past five months than was
given any exposition held in this coun-
try since Chicago. Eastern railroad
Offices report more general inquiry
than was made concerning any other
exposition. The movement is already
on. 1t is estimated that fully 100, 900
new people have come into Washing
ton, Oregon, Idaho and British Column
bia since March IS, largely drawn
hither by the attractive homeseekers
rates. But the big movement begins
with the first day of the exposition
rates.
In all our work of exploitation we
have put the Pacific northwest to the
front with the exposition as a great
feature of a trip this year. Not one
visitor in hundred who comes to the
exposition should be lacking in general
information concerning conditions and
opportunities in this and the bordering
states and the province to the north.
This work has been most effectively
advanced by the publicity and passen-
ger departments of the railroads, and I
want to say that the northwestern rep
resentatives of the various lines are the
most active, energetic and helpful
bunch of men that ever got behind any
sort of project.
The exposition is complete and
ready. Attention has been drawn from
every quarter of the globe. The Wis
itors and homeseekers are coming by
the tens and hundreds of thousands
and it is up to the people of all parts Of
the Pacific northwest to give them a
welcome worth while
This newspaper rejoices in Mr..
Clark's honor, but it regrets his ap-
pointment, for we lose truthful, faith
full and able correspondent. Alaska
gains a good governor.
The Post-Intelligencer closed an ed
itorial with the foregoing comment de-
voted to Walter Clark, the Washington
newspaper correspondent who has been
named governor of Alaska by President
Taft. Slowly but surely the down
trodden newspaper man seems to be
coming into his own. Clark has for
years been the Washington correspond
ent of the Post-Intelligencer and the
New York Sun. While Clark has never
resided in Alaska he has visited the
country a number of times and has
made close study of conditions there.
Local Alaskans who frequent Washing
ton City say that while in the national
capital Clark's office is always their
headquarters.
1t is stated that while Senator Piles
offered no opposition to Clark he was
in no sense overjoyed with the appoint
ment. But Senator Piles does not ap-
pear to be having things his own way
these days. Secretary OF the Interior
Ballinger, for instance, is much closer
to the presidents ear, and Ballinger
and Piles have no great love for each
other. When Ballinger went back to
Washington as commissioner general OF
the U. S. land Office under Roosevelt
it is said that Piles passed him up"
Now Ballinger is on top of the heap
and is not straining any points to show
the senator from Seattle any courtesies.
The forces OF equal suffrage in Lon
don seem divided into two sets, the
suffragists and the suffragettes. The
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