Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-01-02
NEW YEAR OPENS
WITH TEACHERS
FRIENDS MANY
ALL EAGER TO WIN TRIPS TO
SEATTLE EXPOSITION
ALAsKA's RESOURCES WILL BE
SHOWN AT BIG FAIR
Surprise in Growth of Churches and
Schools ShoWn-Indian Basketry
and Other Work to Be
on View

With a rest for all contestants yes
terday the race for the winning cou-
pons will be resumed today in The
Herald's trip to Seattle exposition
contest.
Not much effort is needed to get 1000
for favorable teacher-merely a
years subscription in advance OF
the thousands of persons who take
year after year little argument need
be used to induce them to pay up III
advance and thus throw big bunch of
credits to one of the contestants.
Much of the interest at the big show
centers in the Alaska features.
Alaska has as many churches and
school houses, according to population,
as any section of the United States.
Juneau, with a population of only 1900,
has six churches and it's school facili-
ties are as good as any town in the
United States of the same size.
Churches and Schools
Pictures and maps showing every
school house and church in Alaska will
be shown in the Alaska building at the
Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition. The
attendance at both schools and
churches will be shown and the course
of study at the schools. The schools
will be segregated as native and white
institutions and the line of industrial
work given the Alaska Indians will
also be demonstrated.
The churches will be divided in the
same manner, the missions being made
a special feature. Every known reIig-
iOuS denomination has churches in
Alaska and each will be represented.
Six reindeer used in connection with
the schools will be exhibited in this
department. Reindeer heads, record
specimens, six of them worth 100000,
will be used as the decorative feature
OF the schools and church room.
In this department daily lectures will
be given on Alaska. A number of lee
turers have been secured to carry on
this work during the entire time of the
exposition, and two illustrated lectures
will be given each day.
Alaskan Handiwork
Carving ivory, in all the curious
styles known to the natives of Alaska,
basket work and the weaving of In
dian blankets. The Alaska fair COM
mission has arranged to have carvers,
basket workers and weavers from all
of the Alaska Indian tribes in Seattle
during the exposition and the manner
in which the northern curios are made
will be fully shown.
One collection of baskets that has
been secured is valued at $4,000 and
consists of 1900 pieces. This is known
as the famous Thlingit collection after
a tribe of Indians now rapidly disap-
pearfng. The Attu, Yakutat and
Thlingit basket makers will also make
many of the baskets on the grounds
going through the entire process as it
is done in the native villages
Most of the baskets are made from a.
fine fiber that is found on spruce roots.
The roots are scraped and parboiled
after which they are placed in pans Of
water and soaked for two or three
weeks. Then the fiber is loosened from
the root and scraped until it has a
smooth, glossy appearance, when it is
ready to be made into baskets.
The Alaska natives also fashion
many queer styles of silver bracelets.
and will make many kinds Of iewelry
out of gold nuggets.