The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-06-01
TAFT STARTS THE
BIG EXPOSITION

| Washington, June 1.-President TAFT
in the White House at three o'clock
6his afternoon pressed the telegraph
key of Alaska gold and sent the spark
| across the continent that put in motion
| the AlasKa-Pacific-Y Yukon exposition,
! and loosened the waters in the fount-
aims, unfurled the banners and started
the bands playing, released showers
| OF daylight fireworks, called out sal
| uting guns from the American and
Japanese fleets and set all the steam
ers in the harbor and engines in the
railroad yards berlowing and shrek
ing and brought forth rejoicing from
all Seattle, which, for years, has been
toiling for this day. The exercises at
| the grounds began with a military
procession at the Presidents signal.
The exercises were held in a vast nat
ural ampitheatre sloping to the waters
Of Lake Washington.
Seattle, Wash, June 1.-The Alaska
Yukon, Pacific Exposition cost $4,000
900, and was built in two years. The
grouping OF buildings is much Inherent
than at other expositions. The struc-
lures are compactly placed there IS
no long tiresome walk from one exhfb-
1t to another. After entering the main
gates. two buildings standing In a
cluster of trees to the left, first meet
the eye. One ia where the admins
tration OF the exposition is eentered
and the other che Auditorium. a brick
and steel building OF imposing archi-
lecture
To the right and across Puget Pla-
"a, is the Fine Arts Palace. This build
ing contains a valuable art display
loaned from famous collections all ov-
er the world. A few steps lead to the
intersection of Olympic place and Al
aska Avenue. To the right is view
down the PAY Streak" the exposi-
ton amusement way, and to the LEFT
a front view of the Auditorium and
the University OF Washington, in the
distance.
The PAY Streak is also reached by
the following thoroughfare to the right
just inside the main entrance gates,
and on past the rest headquarters Of
the Women's League and the Masonic
Swedish and other buildings.
Crossing the Olympic place and
walking to q point of vantage in front
of the main government structure the
beautiful picture Of the fair is unfold
ed. To the right the alaska building,
to the left the Hawaiian building, and
ON either side OF the Cascades the ORR
entail, Foreign, Manufactures, and Ag-
riculture Palaces. In the distance are
the Masonic Pavilion, the buildings of
Canada and Japan, and, completing
this picture, Mt. Rainer. the highest
mountain peak in the United States.
Various avenues and streets branch
off in every direction. On every thor
oughfare is something of interest.
Buildings stand out everywhere in this
forest OF frs. Natural beauties are
on every hand.
The Fine Arts building is not for
from the entrance to: the grounds. 1t
is permanent structure OF concrete
and brick. Next In line comes the
government building. with its mas
sive dome, the architectural climax OF
the fair. In this structure are the ex-
hibits of the various departments at
Washington In a separate building
is the wonderful display OF live Ash,
and in another wing the biograph
room, where moving pictures illus
trate how the United States mails are
handled, the rural free delivery and
| many other things OF interest.
| The Philippines. for the first time,
are represented and Hawaii too, occu-
pies building directly In front of the
main building and across the street Is
| lhe Alaska building. The Alaska
building, with exhibits OF the varied
resources of the northland, Is a fea-
| ture OF the fair Alaska, Hawaii and
the Philippines are represented at
Seattle On a scale NOT contemplated
| when the exposition was suggested.
The general scheme OF architecture
OF the fair is in the French Renais-
sance This is noticeable in all the
larger buildings.
The first county exhibit building on
Dome Circle is the handsome struc-
ture built by Spokane County and III
rectly adjoining It is the Chehalis
county structure. Nearby are the
Utah and idaho state buildings and In
the distance ihe log cabin OF the Arc
tic Brotherhood. an Alaskan fraternal
organization From this point in
looking across the natural amphithea
tire where all open exercises are held
is the first vista OF Lake Washington
Directly across the Spokane building
As Californfa's home in Spanish mis-
sion architecture. THIS building con
ftains exhfbits from every county and
is the most complete display OF the
twunderfui resousces OF the Colder
Estate ever assembled Gway from home
IN the rear n shs CaHfoFnia building
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