Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-22
MACHINERY TO
BE EXHIBITED
ALASKA-YUK0N-PACIFlC FAIR
TO SHOW INDUSTRIALS
instruments and Surgical Tools Will
Be Attractive Features of Great
Exposition to Open at
Seattle June

SEATTLE, March 21.-Careful exam
ination of the long list of industrial ex-
hibits designed for the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition, which opens in
Seattle June 1. 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 American trade extension is to be
conducted during the years that 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-
clusively, but for the major part, in
| assembling the tremendous displa VS.
which are now being brought by train
loads to the exposition city.
| AS an instance, there are places still
| in the orient where the trunk of a tree,
with rudely fashioned share, still does
the work of q pillow, but, without much
in the way of exploitation, China is
showing an increasing demand for
American farm implements of every
kind. Japan is using them in larger
measure, and, strange as it may seem
to those who still consider Alaska
shoaled iceberg, plows and harvesting
demand as the marvellous productivity
Of Alaska's soil is developed.
To Exhibit Farm Machinery
Acknowledging these conditions, the
Alaska Pacific exposition will
present one of the most exhaustive ex-
hibits of farm machinery and farm
transportation facilities, including even
harness for the horses, that has ever
been made at any exposition.
China is also a user of lamps and
candles. 1t has awakened to the adj
vantages of electricity and gas, but at
the present rate of development it will
be a century before it ceases to be all
oil burning nation. Again grasping OPP
portunity, one of the largest lamp man
ufacturing concerns in the world is in
stalling an exhibit which will bring oil
lighting down to the minute. This
same exhibit will be of equal interest
to the thousands of Alaskan sour
coughs" and merchants who Will be
present at what they term their eX-
position"
American crafts, such as art cabinet |
work, pottery making, interior decora- |
tons, art brass and other metal work. |
has attained a high standard, but at
the exposition it will be compelled to
for admiration with the mar
velous work of Japanese and Chinese
craftsmen and artisans. But there will
never be a better opportunity to per-
suade China that it is no longer to
nave century in which to do a piece
If work that American machinery will
urn out in a day OF such machinery
machinery hall is already nearly sup
1lied, yet other exhibits are being hur
led across the continent.
CIings to Roots and "Yarbs"
The orient. excepting Japan, clings
enaCiously to it's roots and YARDS" as
is sole Inducements. but it is sending
is young men to American and Europ-
AN medical schools where they learn
o put aside spider leg prescriptions and
AXE up modern surgical tools and the
ools of dentistry. When they return
o the CELESTIAL empire with their di-
,lomas they at once become American
rade missionaries, and as a result the
,arbarous methods that have been
lsed since the time of Confucius are
-radually being put aside and China is
earning the art of amputating a
'hinese limb with an American knife
nd an American anesthetic. This fact
would seem to be sufficient to account
or an exceptional show of American
urgical instruments in the manufac-
urers' building and another of Europ-
an instruments in the foreign exhibits
alace. {
Photography has attained wonder ,
III development in the northwest, due r
D the unparalleled scenery of both the t
lainland and the thousand islands of 9
'uget sound and the inside passage to
laska Probably no exposition has s
ad so compr extensive a display of ,
very Photographic appliance as will be t
spresented at the Seattle fair. :
These specific items are merely
hecked out of n long list of imple-
tents, crafts and varied industries and :
Irsuits tn, will be shown when the I
ig fair opens on June 1.
Seattle does not claim for it's expo !
tior that 1t will be a larger show
nan St Louis gave the world but il
Ill! go bond that it will show a wider
ange of things peoples and products
nat are little known then ever did any
Xoosition